Water Budget Analysis in Arid Regions, Application to the United Arab Emirates

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Gonzalez, Rocio ^a   Ouarda, Taha B M J ^a,b   Marpu, Prashanth R ^a   Allam, Mariam M ^c   Eltahir, Elfatih A B ^c   Pearson, Simon ^d  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d ENVIRONMENT AGENCY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

GRACE; Groundwater; Remote sensing; UAE; Water budget

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AQUIFERS; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE MODELS; DESALINATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; PRODUCTIVITY; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER STORAGE; HIGH RATE; POPULATION GROWTH; REMOTE-SENSING; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; WATER BUDGET; WATER BUDGET ANALYSIS; WATERS RESOURCES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 85125348407     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/W8090415     Document Type: Article

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