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 …

Observed and projected hydroclimate changes in the Andes

JD Pabón-Caicedo, PA Arias, AF Carril… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The Andes is the most biodiverse region across the globe. In addition, some of the largest
urban areas in South America are located within this region. Therefore, ecosystems and …

Global river hydrography and network routing: baseline data and new approaches to study the world's large river systems

B Lehner, G Grill - Hydrological Processes, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Despite significant recent advancements, global hydrological models and their input
databases still show limited capabilities in supporting many spatially detailed research …

Real‐time flood forecasting based on a high‐performance 2‐D hydrodynamic model and numerical weather predictions

X Ming, Q Liang, X Xia, D Li… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A flood forecasting system commonly consists of at least two essential components, that is, a
numerical weather prediction (NWP) model to provide rainfall forecasts and a …

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 …

Projections of climate change effects on discharge and inundation in the Amazon basin

MV Sorribas, RCD Paiva, JM Melack, JM Bravo… - Climatic change, 2016 - Springer
Climate change and its effects on the hydrologic regime of the Amazon basin can impact
biogeochemical processes, transportation, flood vulnerability, fisheries and hydropower …

Comparison of new generation low-complexity flood inundation mapping tools with a hydrodynamic model

S Afshari, AA Tavakoly, MA Rajib, X Zheng… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
The objective of this study is to compare two new generation low-complexity tools,
AutoRoute and Height Above the Nearest Drainage (HAND), with a two-dimensional …

A full-scale fluvial flood modelling framework based on a high-performance integrated hydrodynamic modelling system (HiPIMS)

X Xia, Q Liang, X Ming - Advances in Water Resources, 2019 - Elsevier
Full-scale fluvial flood modelling over large catchments has traditionally been carried out
using coupled hydrological and hydraulic/hydrodynamic models. Such a traditional …

Toward continental hydrologic–hydrodynamic modeling in South America

VA Siqueira, RCD Paiva… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2018 - hess.copernicus.org
Providing reliable estimates of streamflow and hydrological fluxes is a major challenge for
water resources management over national and transnational basins in South America …

[HTML][HTML] A multi-sensor approach towards a global vegetation corrected SRTM DEM product

FE O'Loughlin, RCD Paiva, M Durand… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
We develop the first global 'Bare-Earth'Digital Elevation Model (DEM) based on the Shuttle
Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) for all landmasses between 60N and 54S. Our new …