Divergent trends of open-surface water body area in the contiguous United States from 1984 to 2016

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 115, Issue 15, 2018, Pages 3810-3815

  Zou, Zhenhua ^a   Xiao, Xiangming ^a,b   Dong, Jinwei ^c   Qin, Yuanwei ^a   Doughty, Russell B ^a   Menarguez, Michael A ^d   Zhang, Geli ^a   Wang, Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d LINKEDIN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Trend; Variation; Water body area

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED STATES; WATER STRESS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 85045101147     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1719275115     Document Type: Article

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