Areal extent of vegetative cover: A challenge to regional upscaling of methane emissions

JM Melack, LL Hess - Aquatic Botany, 2023 - Elsevier
Given the influence of aquatic plants on methane production and emission and the
challenges of regional upscaling, advances in remote sensing capabilities for mapping …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a roadmap for space-based observations of the land sector for the UNFCCC global stocktake

O Ochiai, B Poulter, FM Seifert, S Ward, I Jarvis… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Space-based remote sensing can make an important contribution toward monitoring
greenhouse gas emissions and removals from the agriculture, forestry, and other land use …

Increased floodplain inundation in the Amazon since 1980

AS Fleischmann, F Papa, SK Hamilton… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Extensive floodplains throughout the Amazon basin support important ecosystem services
and influence global water and carbon cycles. A recent change in the hydroclimatic regime …

[HTML][HTML] Expressive fluxes over Amazon floodplain revealed by 2D hydrodynamic modelling

AC Fassoni-Andrade, RCD de Paiva, S Wongchuig… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Water fluxes in the Amazon River floodplain affect hydrodynamic and ecological processes
from local to global scales, but they remain poorly understood due to difficult accessibility …

[HTML][HTML] Weekly mapping of surface water extent in the intertropical wetlands using spaceborne GNSS reflectometry

P Zeiger, F Frappart, J Darrozes, C Prigent… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
As of today, the uncertain distribution and dynamics of inundations in the tropical wetlands
cause large uncertainties in the quantification of the world's methane emissions. Long-term …

Monitoring extreme floods and droughts in the amazon basin with surface-water-based indices

M Parrens, A Al-Bitar… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Extreme droughts and floods in the Amazon have great implications for ecosystems and
societies. Over the last decade, the region has undergone major extreme events with no …

The Andes–Amazon–Atlantic pathway: A foundational hydroclimate system for social–ecological system sustainability

CF Beveridge, JC Espinoza… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The Amazon River Basin's extraordinary social–ecological system is sustained by various
water phases, fluxes, and stores that are interconnected across the tropical Andes …

Hydrodynamic modeling of stratification and mixing in a shallow, tropical floodplain lake

W Zhou, JM Melack, S MacIntyre… - Water Resources …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Floodplain lakes are widespread and ecologically important throughout tropical river
systems, however data are rare that describe how temporal variations in hydrological …

Linking biogeochemical and hydrodynamic processes to model methane fluxes in shallow, tropical floodplain lakes

M Guo, JM Melack, W Zhou, PM Barbosa… - Journal of Advances …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Floodplains lakes are abundant in the Amazon basin and are important methane sources to
the atmosphere. Existing biogeochemical models require modifications and inclusion of …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of pluri-annual and decadal changes in terrestrial water storage predicted by global hydrological models in comparison with the GRACE satellite …

J Pfeffer, A Cazenave, A Blazquez… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2023 - hess.copernicus.org
Abstract The GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment) satellite gravity mission
enables global monitoring of the mass transport within the Earth's system, leading to …