Assessment of environmentally sensitive areas to desertification in the Blue Nile Basin driven by the MEDALUS-GEE framework

A Elnashar, H Zeng, B Wu, TG Gebremicael… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Assessing environmentally sensitive areas (ESA) to desertification and understanding their
primary drivers are necessary for applying targeted management practices to combat land …

Estimating actual evapotranspiration at field-to-continent scales by calibrating the CMRSET algorithm with MODIS, VIIRS, Landsat and Sentinel-2 data

JP Guerschman, TR McVicar, J Vleeshower… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Actual evapotranspiration (ET a) can be estimated using optical remote sensing and
meteorological data. Herein we calibrated and applied the CMRSET (CSIRO MODIS …

[HTML][HTML] Remote sensing in hydrology: A systematic review of its applications in the upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia

YG Mekonnen, T Alamirew, AD Chukalla, DA Malede… - HydroResearch, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Upper Blue Nile basin is important for sustaining millions of livelihoods in
Ethiopia and downstream nations. However, there are very few hydroclimate observatories …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of runoff estimation from GRACE coupled with different meteorological gridded products over the Upper Blue Nile Basin

K Alghafli, AM Ali, X Shi, W Sloan, AAA Obeid… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Study Region The Upper Blue Nile (UBN) basin, Ethiopia. Study Focus In efforts to
accurately close the water balance equation for the UBN basin using remote sensing …

A framework for separating natural and anthropogenic contributions to evapotranspiration of human-managed land covers in watersheds based on machine learning

H Zeng, A Elnashar, B Wu, M Zhang, W Zhu… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Actual EvapoTranspiration (ET) represents the water consumption in watersheds;
distinguishing between natural and anthropogenic contributions to ET is essential for water …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal variation of water cycle components in Minjiang River Basin based on a correction method for evapotranspiration products

M Zheng, X Chen, W Ruan, H Yao, Z Gu, K Geng… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Study region Minjiang River Basin of China. Study focus This paper aimed to study
the spatiotemporal changes in water cycle components including evapotranspiration (ET) …

[HTML][HTML] Remote sensing assessment of available green water to increase crop production in seasonal floodplain wetlands of sub-Saharan Africa

S Ayyad, P Karimi, M Langensiepen, L Ribbe… - Agricultural Water …, 2022 - Elsevier
Producing more food for a growing population requires sustainable crop intensification and
diversification, particularly in high-potential areas such as the seasonal floodplain wetlands …

Estimating Vegetation Greening Influences on Runoff Signatures Using a Log‐Based Weighted Ensemble Method

Q Huang, Y Zhang, N Ma, D Post - Water Resources Research, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Vegetation greening profoundly impacts the water cycle, and recent concerns about
greening impacts have focused on various hydrological cycle components. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Inferring reservoir filling strategies under limited-data-availability conditions using hydrological modeling and Earth observations: the case of the Grand …

AM Ali, LA Melsen, AJ Teuling - Hydrology and Earth System …, 2023 - hess.copernicus.org
The filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) started in 2020, posing
additional challenges for downstream water management in the Blue Nile River in the …

Evaluating the accuracy of gridded water resources reanalysis and evapotranspiration products for assessing water security in poorly gauged basins

E Nkiaka, RG Bryant, J Ntajal… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2022 - hess.copernicus.org
Achieving water security in poorly gauged basins is critically hindered by a lack of in situ
river discharge data to assess past, current, and future evolution of water resources. To …