Measuring, modelling and projecting coastal land subsidence

M Shirzaei, J Freymueller, TE Törnqvist… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Coastal subsidence contributes to relative sea-level rise and exacerbates flooding hazards,
with the at-risk population expected to triple by 2070. Natural processes of vertical land …

Hidden vulnerability of US Atlantic coast to sea-level rise due to vertical land motion

LO Ohenhen, M Shirzaei, C Ojha, ML Kirwan - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
The vulnerability of coastal environments to sea-level rise varies spatially, particularly due to
local land subsidence. However, high-resolution observations and models of coastal …

Space-time evolution of land subsidence in the National Capital Region of India using ALOS-1 and Sentinel-1 SAR data: Evidence for groundwater overexploitation

H Kumar, TH Syed, F Amelung, R Agrawal… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Land subsidence due to groundwater extraction is increasingly becoming a major scientific
and societal issue. In this study, ALOS-1 (2007–10) and Sentinel-1 (Nov. 2014–19) datasets …

Post‐Drought Groundwater Storage Recovery in California's Central Valley

S Alam, M Gebremichael, Z Ban… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Groundwater depletion is a major threat to agricultural and municipal water supply in
California's Central Valley. Recent droughts during 2007–2009 and 2012–2016 …

Recovery of aquifer-systems in Southwest US following 2012–2015 drought: Evidence from InSAR, GRACE and groundwater level data

C Ojha, S Werth, M Shirzaei - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract During the drought period 2012–2015, some of the major metropolitans and
agricultural hubs within the Southwest US, including Phoenix and Tucson in Arizona, San …

Seasonal and long‐term groundwater unloading in the Central Valley modifies crustal stress

G Carlson, M Shirzaei, S Werth… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in terrestrial water content cause elastic deformation of the Earth's crust.
This deformation is thought to play a role in modulating crustal stress and seismicity in …

Variational bayesian independent component analysis for InSAR displacement time‐series with application to central California, USA

A Gualandi, Z Liu - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The exploitation of ever increasing Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data
sets to monitor the Earth's surface deformation is an important goal of today's geodesy. In …

Characterization of changes in groundwater storage in the Lachlan Catchment, Australia, derived from observations of surface deformation and groundwater level …

M Razeghi, P Tregoning, M Shirzaei… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Global Positioning System (GPS) deformation measurements were combined with
groundwater level data to examine the spatiotemporal variability of groundwater storage in …

Rapid drought-induced land subsidence and its impact on the California aqueduct

MM Miller, CE Jones, SS Sangha… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Central Valley in California is characterized by a semi-arid climate prone to
droughts, a variable surface water supply, and immense agricultural areas dependent on …

[PDF][PDF] Remote Sensing of 21st Century Water Stress for Hazard Monitoring in California

G Carlson - 2022 - vtechworks.lib.vt.edu
California has experienced an unusually dry past two decades punctuated by three intense
multi-year droughts from 2007-2010, 2012-2015, and 2020-2022. A portion of the water lost …