Application of the regional water mass variations from GRACE satellite gravimetry to large-scale water management in Africa

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 7379-7405

  Ramillien, Guillaume ^a,b   Frappart, Frédéric ^b,c   Seoane, Lucia ^b,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Groupe de Recherche de Geodesie Spatiale   (France)

^c Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

Author keywords

African monsoon; GRACE satellite mission; NWSAS drought; Regional water mass solutions; Water resource management

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GRAVITATION; LAKES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; SURFACE WATERS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

AFRICAN MONSOONS; CENTRAL AFRICA; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; GRACE SATELLITE GRAVIMETRY; GRACE SATELLITES; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; WATER MASS; WATERRESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 84997530114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6087379     Document Type: Article

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