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 …

Construction of a high-resolution gridded rainfall dataset for Peru from 1981 to the present day

C Aybar, C Fernández, A Huerta… - Hydrological …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A new gridded rainfall dataset available for Peru is introduced, called PISCOp
V2. 1 (Peruvian Interpolated data of SENAMHI's Climatological and Hydrological …

MGB-IPH model for hydrological and hydraulic simulation of large floodplain river systems coupled with open source GIS

PRM Pontes, FM Fan, AS Fleischmann… - … Modelling & Software, 2017 - Elsevier
Large-scale hydrological models are useful tools for water resources studies, however, river
network flow routing is generally represented using simplified methods, which may lead to …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of bias correction methods for APHRODITE data to improve hydrologic simulation in a large Himalayan basin

X Ji, Y Li, X Luo, D He, R Guo, J Wang, Y Bai… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - Elsevier
Gridded precipitation products have the advantages of wide spatial coverage and high
spatiotemporal resolution compared to conventional rain-gauge data, and have been …

Evaluation of the latest satellite–gauge precipitation products and their hydrologic applications over the Huaihe River basin

R Sun, H Yuan, X Liu, X Jiang - Journal of Hydrology, 2016 - Elsevier
Satellite–gauge quantitative precipitation estimate (QPE) products may reduce the errors in
near real-time satellite precipitation estimates by combining rain gauge data, which provides …

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 …

Deforestation impacts on Amazon-Andes hydroclimatic connectivity

JP Sierra, C Junquas, JC Espinoza, H Segura… - Climate Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
Amazonian deforestation has accelerated during the last decade, threatening an ecosystem
where almost one third of the regional rainfall is transpired by the local rainforest. Due to …

Understanding the influence of orography on the precipitation diurnal cycle and the associated atmospheric processes in the central Andes

C Junquas, K Takahashi, T Condom, JC Espinoza… - Climate dynamics, 2018 - Springer
In the tropical Andes, the identification of the present synoptic mechanisms associated with
the diurnal cycle of precipitation and its interaction with orography is a key step to …

[HTML][HTML] Inter-comparison of rain-gauge, radar, and satellite (IMERG GPM) precipitation estimates performance for rainfall-runoff modeling in a mountainous catchment …

P Gilewski, M Nawalany - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
Precipitation is one of the essential variables in rainfall-runoff modeling. For hydrological
purposes, the most commonly used data sources of precipitation are rain gauges and …

Climate Change according to Ecuadorian academics–Perceptions versus facts

T Toulkeridis, E Tamayo… - … Revista de Ciencias …, 2020 - scielo.senescyt.gob.ec
El cambio climático se ha convertido en uno de los temas principales en las agendas en
diferentes países. Los efectos actuales requieren de acciones climáticas efectivas ya …