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 …

An integrative conceptualization of floodplain storage

E Wohl - Reviews of Geophysics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Floodplains perform diverse functions, including attenuation of fluxes of water, solutes, and
particulate material. Critical details of floodplain storage including magnitude, duration, and …

How much inundation occurs in the Amazon River basin?

AS Fleischmann, F Papa, A Fassoni-Andrade… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Amazon River basin harbors some of the world's largest wetland complexes,
which are of major importance for biodiversity, the water cycle and climate, and human …

Ecological risk of mercury in bottom sediments and spatial correlation with land use in Neotropical savanna floodplain lakes, Araguaia River, Central Brazil

LC Monteiro, LCG Vieira, JVE Bernardi… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Araguaia River floodplain is an important biogeographic boundary between the
two largest South American biomes: the Cerrado (Brazilian Savanna) and the Amazon …

Amazon floodplain hydrology and implications for aquatic conservation

JM Melack, MT Coe - Aquatic Conservation: Marine and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The amplitude, duration, frequency, and predictability of runoff and inundation of aquatic
habitats are key hydrological characteristics linked to aquatic ecosystem functioning and …

Dissolved methane concentrations and fluxes to the atmosphere from a tropical floodplain lake

PM Barbosa, JM Melack, JHF Amaral, S MacIntyre… - Biogeochemistry, 2020 - Springer
Large uncertainties in estimates of methane (CH 4) emissions from tropical inland waters
reflect the paucity of information at appropriate temporal and spatial scales. CH 4 …

Carbon dioxide fluxes to the atmosphere from waters within flooded forests in the Amazon basin

JHF Amaral, JM Melack, PM Barbosa… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Inundated tropical forests are underrepresented in analyses of the global carbon cycle and
constitute 80% of the surface area of aquatic environments in the lowland Amazon basin …

Retrieving total and inorganic suspended sediments in Amazon floodplain lakes: A multisensor approach

D Maciel, E Novo, L Sander de Carvalho, C Barbosa… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Remote sensing imagery are fundamental to increasing the knowledge about sediment
dynamics in the middle-lower Amazon floodplains. Moreover, they can help to understand …

[HTML][HTML] Expressive fluxes over Amazon floodplain revealed by 2D hydrodynamic modelling

AC Fassoni-Andrade, RCD de Paiva, S Wongchuig… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Water fluxes in the Amazon River floodplain affect hydrodynamic and ecological processes
from local to global scales, but they remain poorly understood due to difficult accessibility …

Seasonal and interannual patterns and controls of hydrological fluxes in an Amazon floodplain lake with a surface‐subsurface process model

X Ji, LFW Lesack, JM Melack, S Wang… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Floodplain lakes represent important aquatic ecosystems, and field‐based estimates of their
water budgets are difficult to obtain, especially over multiple years. We examine the …