Flood inundation prediction

PD Bates - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Every year flood events lead to thousands of casualties and significant economic damage.
Mapping the areas at risk of flooding is critical to reducing these losses, yet until the last few …

A review of remote sensing applications for water security: Quantity, quality, and extremes

I Chawla, L Karthikeyan, AK Mishra - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
Water resources are critical to the sustainability of life on Earth. With a growing population
and climate change, it is imperative to assess the security of these resources. Over the past …

Amazon hydrology from space: scientific advances and future challenges

AC Fassoni‐Andrade, AS Fleischmann… - Reviews of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As the largest river basin on Earth, the Amazon is of major importance to the world's climate
and water resources. Over the past decades, advances in satellite‐based remote sensing …

Inroads of remote sensing into hydrologic science during the WRR era

DP Lettenmaier, D Alsdorf, J Dozier… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The first issue of WRR appeared eight years after the launch of Sputnik, but by WRR's 25th
anniversary, only seven papers that used remote sensing had appeared. Over the journal's …

A physically based description of floodplain inundation dynamics in a global river routing model

D Yamazaki, S Kanae, H Kim… - Water Resources Research, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Current global river routing models do not represent floodplain inundation dynamics
realistically because the storage and movement of surface waters are regulated by small …

Understanding global groundwater-climate interactions

CE Ndehedehe, OE Adeyeri, AO Onojeghuo… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Global warming is emerging as an important predictor of water availability and future water
supplies across the world through inducing the frequency and severity in hydrological …

Large‐scale hydrologic and hydrodynamic modeling of the Amazon River basin

RCD De Paiva, DC Buarque… - Water Resources …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, a hydrologic/hydrodynamic modeling of the Amazon River basin is presented
using the MGB‐IPH model with a validation using remotely sensed observations. Moreover …

Amazon River carbon dioxide outgassing fuelled by wetlands

G Abril, JM Martinez, LF Artigas, P Moreira-Turcq… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
River systems connect the terrestrial biosphere, the atmosphere and the ocean in the global
carbon cycle. A recent estimate suggests that up to 3 petagrams of carbon per year could be …

GRACE, time-varying gravity, Earth system dynamics and climate change

B Wouters, JA Bonin, DP Chambers… - Reports on Progress …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Continuous observations of temporal variations in the Earth's gravity field have recently
become available at an unprecedented resolution of a few hundreds of kilometers. The …

Large scale hydrologic and hydrodynamic modeling using limited data and a GIS based approach

RCD Paiva, W Collischonn, CEM Tucci - Journal of Hydrology, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a large-scale hydrologic model with a full one-dimensional
hydrodynamic module to calculate flow propagation on a complex river network. The model …