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 …

Infiltration from the pedon to global grid scales: An overview and outlook for land surface modeling

H Vereecken, L Weihermüller, S Assouline… - Vadose Zone …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Core Ideas Land surface models (LSMs) show a large variety in describing and upscaling
infiltration. Soil structural effects on infiltration in LSMs are mostly neglected. New soil …

Contrasting North–South changes in Amazon wet-day and dry-day frequency and related atmospheric features (1981–2017)

JC Espinoza, J Ronchail, JA Marengo, H Segura - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
This study provides an updated analysis of the evolution of seasonal rainfall intensity in the
Amazon basin, considering the 1981–2017 period and based on HOP (interpolated HYBAM …

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 …

Extreme water deficit in Brazil detected from space

A Getirana - Journal of Hydrometeorology, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Extreme droughts have caused significant socioeconomic and environmental damage
worldwide. In Brazil, ineffective energy development and water management policies have …

[HTML][HTML] Variability of Trends in Precipitation across the Amazon River Basin Determined from the CHIRPS Precipitation Product and from Station Records

VH da Motta Paca, GE Espinoza-Dávalos, DM Moreira… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Amazon River Basin is the largest rainforest in the world. Long-term changes in
precipitation trends in the basin can affect the continental water balance and the world's …

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 …

Assessment of terrestrial water balance using remote sensing data in South America

AA Moreira, AL Ruhoff, DR Roberti… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study investigated the potential of assessing the water balance in South America, at
multiple scales, using satellite remote sensing precipitation and evapotranspiration datasets …

Intercomparison and uncertainty assessment of nine evapotranspiration estimates over South America

AA Sörensson, RC Ruscica - Water Resources Research, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the uncertainties and the representations of anomalies of a set of
evapotranspiration products over climatologically distinct regions of South America. The …

Impacts of future deforestation and climate change on the hydrology of the Amazon Basin: a multi-model analysis with a new set of land-cover change scenarios

M Guimberteau, P Ciais, A Ducharne… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2017 - hess.copernicus.org
Deforestation in Amazon is expected to decrease evapotranspiration (ET) and to increase
soil moisture and river discharge under prevailing energy-limited conditions. The magnitude …