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 …

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 …

Rivers and floodplains as key components of global terrestrial water storage variability

A Getirana, S Kumar, M Girotto… - Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This study quantifies the contribution of rivers and floodplains to terrestrial water storage
(TWS) variability. We use state‐of‐the‐art models to simulate land surface processes and …

[HTML][HTML] Acute water-scarcity monitoring for Africa

A McNally, K Verdin, L Harrison, A Getirana, J Jacob… - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
Acute and chronic water scarcity impacts four billion people, a number likely to climb with
population growth and increasing demand for food and energy production. Chronic water …

Towards a soil moisture drought monitoring system for South Korea

HC Jung, DH Kang, E Kim, A Getirana, Y Yoon… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Korea Land Data Assimilation System (KLDAS) has been established for
agricultural drought (ie soil moisture deficit) monitoring in South Korea, running the Noah …

Hydropower dam operation strongly controls Lake Victoria's freshwater storage variability

A Getirana, HC Jung, J Van Den Hoek… - Science of The Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
River impoundments strongly modify the global water cycle and terrestrial water storage
(TWS) variability. Given the susceptibility of global water cycle to climate change and …