The role of space-based observations for groundwater resource monitoring over Africa

A Springer, T Lopez, M Owor, F Frappart… - Surveys in Geophysics, 2023 - Springer
Africa is particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts, which threatens food security,
ecosystem protection and restoration initiatives, and fresh water resources availability and …

Short-term trends in Africa's freshwater resources: Rates and drivers

M Ahmed, DN Wiese - Science of The Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
The freshwater resources in Africa are vulnerable to natural variabilities as well as
anthropogenic interventions. In this study, temporal (April 2002–June 2017) Gravity …

Monitoring groundwater storage changes in the Loess Plateau using GRACE satellite gravity data, hydrological models and coal mining data

X Xie, C Xu, Y Wen, W Li - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Monitoring the groundwater storage (GWS) changes is crucial to the rational utilization of
groundwater and to ecological restoration in the Loess Plateau of China, which is one of the …

Multi-objective validation of SWAT for sparsely-gauged West African river basins—A remote sensing approach

T Poméon, B Diekkrüger, A Springer, J Kusche… - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
Predicting freshwater resources is a major concern in West Africa, where large parts of the
population depend on rain-fed subsistence agriculture. However, a steady decline in the …

Assessing freshwater changes over Southern and Central Africa (2002–2017)

I Kalu, CE Ndehedehe, O Okwuashi, AE Eyoh - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
In large freshwater river basins across the globe, the composite influences of large-scale
climatic processes and human activities (eg, deforestation) on hydrological processes have …

Assessment of the impacts of climate variability on total water storage across Africa: implications for groundwater resources management

TC Resende, L Longuevergne, J Gurdak… - Hydrogeology …, 2019 - insu.hal.science
The links between climate variability, depicted by time series of oceanic indices, and
changes in total water and groundwater storage are investigated across nine large aquifer …

Reconstruction of GRACE mass change time series using a Bayesian framework

A Rateb, A Sun, BR Scanlon, H Save… - Earth and Space …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment and its Follow On (GRACE (‐FO))
missions have resulted in a paradigm shift in understanding the temporal changes in the …

[HTML][HTML] A novel Slepian approach for determining mass-term sea level from GRACE over the South China Sea

Z Ma, HS Fok, R Tenzer, J Chen - … Journal of Applied Earth Observation and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Treatment of land-to-ocean leakage is crucial in modeling the mass-term sea level
(MSL) using the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite gravity …

Computationally efficient multivariate calibration and validation of a grid-based hydrologic model in sparsely gauged West African river basins

T Poméon, B Diekkrüger, R Kumar - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
The prediction of freshwater resources remains a challenging task in West Africa, where the
decline of in situ measurements has a detrimental effect on the quality of estimates. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term total water storage change from a Satellite Water Cycle reconstruction over large southern Asian basins

V Pellet, F Aires, F Papa, S Munier… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
The total water storage change (TWSC) over land is a major component of the global water
cycle, with a large influence on the climate variability, sea level budget and water resource …