Water resources in Africa under global change: monitoring surface waters from space

F Papa, JF Crétaux, M Grippa, E Robert, M Trigg… - Surveys in …, 2023 - Springer
The African continent hosts some of the largest freshwater systems worldwide, characterized
by a large distribution and variability of surface waters that play a key role in the water …

Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change

Y Pokhrel, F Felfelani, Y Satoh, J Boulange… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Terrestrial water storage (TWS) modulates the hydrological cycle and is a key determinant of
water availability and an indicator of drought. While historical TWS variations have been …

Surface water storage in rivers and wetlands derived from satellite observations: a review of current advances and future opportunities for hydrological sciences

F Papa, F Frappart - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Surface water storage (SWS), the amount of freshwater stored in rivers/wetlands/floodplains/
lakes, and its variations are key components of the water cycle and land surface hydrology …

Modeling global water use for the 21st century: The Water Futures and Solutions (WFaS) initiative and its approaches

Y Wada, M Flörke, N Hanasaki, S Eisner… - Geoscientific Model …, 2016 - gmd.copernicus.org
To sustain growing food demand and increasing standard of living, global water use
increased by nearly 6 times during the last 100 years, and continues to grow. As water …

Global flood risk under climate change

Y Hirabayashi, R Mahendran, S Koirala… - Nature climate …, 2013 - nature.com
A warmer climate would increase the risk of floods. So far, only a few studies, have projected
changes in floods on a global scale. None of these studies relied on multiple climate …

Global modeling of withdrawal, allocation and consumptive use of surface water and groundwater resources

Y Wada, D Wisser, MFP Bierkens - Earth System Dynamics, 2014 - esd.copernicus.org
To sustain growing food demand and increasing standard of living, global water withdrawal
and consumptive water use have been increasing rapidly. To analyze the human …

State of the climate in 2015

J Blunden, DS Arndt - Bulletin of the American Meteorological …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2015 Page 1 Special Supplement to the Bulletin of the American
Meteorological Society Vol. 97, No. 8, August 2016 STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2015 Brought …

Comparison of groundwater storage changes from GRACE satellites with monitoring and modeling of major US aquifers

A Rateb, BR Scanlon, DR Pool, A Sun… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
GRACE satellite data are widely used to estimate groundwater storage (GWS) changes in
aquifers globally; however, comparisons with GW monitoring and modeling data are limited …

A physically based description of floodplain inundation dynamics in a global river routing model

D Yamazaki, S Kanae, H Kim… - Water Resources Research, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Current global river routing models do not represent floodplain inundation dynamics
realistically because the storage and movement of surface waters are regulated by small …

Global economic response to river floods

SN Willner, C Otto, A Levermann - Nature Climate Change, 2018 - nature.com
Increasing Earth's surface air temperature yields an intensification of its hydrological cycle.
As a consequence, the risk of river floods will increase regionally within the next two …