Satellite remote sensing for water resources management: Potential for supporting sustainable development in data‐poor regions

J Sheffield, EF Wood, M Pan, H Beck… - Water Resources …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Water resources management (WRM) for sustainable development presents many
challenges in areas with sparse in situ monitoring networks. The exponential growth of …

A review of remote sensing based actual evapotranspiration estimation

K Zhang, JS Kimball… - Wiley interdisciplinary …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Evapotranspiration is a major component of the global water cycle and provides a critical
nexus between terrestrial water, carbon and surface energy exchanges. Evapotranspiration …

Uncertainty in evapotranspiration from land surface modeling, remote sensing, and GRACE satellites

D Long, L Longuevergne… - Water Resources …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Proliferation of evapotranspiration (ET) products warrants comparison of these products. The
study objective was to assess uncertainty in ET output from four land surface models (LSMs) …

A drought monitoring and forecasting system for sub-Sahara African water resources and food security

J Sheffield, EF Wood, N Chaney… - Bulletin of the …, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Drought is one of the leading impediments to development in Africa. Much of the continent is
dependent on rain-fed agriculture, which makes it particularly susceptible to climate …

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 remotely sensed global terrestrial drought severity index

Q Mu, M Zhao, JS Kimball… - Bulletin of the …, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Regional drought and flooding from extreme climatic events are increasing in frequency and
severity, with significant adverse ecosocial impacts. Detecting and monitoring drought at …

Ensemble prediction and intercomparison analysis of GRACE time‐variable gravity field models

C Sakumura, S Bettadpur… - Geophysical Research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Precise measurements of the Earth's time‐varying gravitational field from the
NASA/Deutsches Zentrum für Luft‐und Raumfahrt Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment …

Drought indicators based on model‐assimilated Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) terrestrial water storage observations

R Houborg, M Rodell, B Li, R Reichle… - Water Resources …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) twin satellites observe time
variations in Earth's gravity field which yield valuable information about changes in terrestrial …

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 …

Trends in water balance components across the Brazilian Cerrado

PTS Oliveira, MA Nearing, MS Moran… - Water Resources …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We assess the water balance of the Brazilian Cerrado based on remotely sensed estimates
of precipitation (TRMM), evapotranspiration (MOD16), and terrestrial water storage (GRACE) …