Modeling multidecadal surface water inundation dynamics and key drivers on large river basin scale using multiple time series of Earth-observation and river flow data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 1251-1269

  Heimhuber, V ^a   Tulbure, M G ^a   Broich, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

flood modeling; floodplains; GAM; Landsat satellite; Murray Darling Basin

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BIODIVERSITY; DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; FLOW OF WATER; LAKES; RAIN; RIVERS; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE WATERS; TIME SERIES; WATERSHEDS;

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; FLOOD MODELING; FLOOD-PLAINS; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; INDIVIDUAL MODELING; LANDSAT SATELLITE; MULTIPLE TIME SERIES; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

FLOODS;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOODPLAIN; HYDRODYNAMICS; LANDSAT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; RIVER BASIN; RIVER FLOW; SURFACE WATER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

EID: 85012969689     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016WR019858     Document Type: Article

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