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 …

An integrative conceptualization of floodplain storage

E Wohl - Reviews of Geophysics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Floodplains perform diverse functions, including attenuation of fluxes of water, solutes, and
particulate material. Critical details of floodplain storage including magnitude, duration, and …

Hillslope hydrology in global change research and earth system modeling

Y Fan, M Clark, DM Lawrence… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Earth System Models (ESMs) are essential tools for understanding and predicting
global change, but they cannot explicitly resolve hillslope‐scale terrain structures that …

Large‐scale hydrologic and hydrodynamic modeling of the Amazon River basin

RCD De Paiva, DC Buarque… - Water Resources …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, a hydrologic/hydrodynamic modeling of the Amazon River basin is presented
using the MGB‐IPH model with a validation using remotely sensed observations. Moreover …

Amazon River carbon dioxide outgassing fuelled by wetlands

G Abril, JM Martinez, LF Artigas, P Moreira-Turcq… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
River systems connect the terrestrial biosphere, the atmosphere and the ocean in the global
carbon cycle. A recent estimate suggests that up to 3 petagrams of carbon per year could be …

Large scale hydrologic and hydrodynamic modeling using limited data and a GIS based approach

RCD Paiva, W Collischonn, CEM Tucci - Journal of Hydrology, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a large-scale hydrologic model with a full one-dimensional
hydrodynamic module to calculate flow propagation on a complex river network. The model …

The role of groundwater in the Amazon water cycle: 1. Influence on seasonal streamflow, flooding and wetlands

G Miguez‐Macho, Y Fan - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Observational studies across the Amazon report a common occurrence of shallow water
table in lowland valleys and groundwater‐surface water exchange from small headwater …

How much inundation occurs in the Amazon River basin?

AS Fleischmann, F Papa, A Fassoni-Andrade… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Amazon River basin harbors some of the world's largest wetland complexes,
which are of major importance for biodiversity, the water cycle and climate, and human …

Modeling suspended sediment distribution patterns of the Amazon River using MODIS data

E Park, EM Latrubesse - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2014 - Elsevier
Patterns of surface sediment concentration distribution in rivers are significant for
understanding fluvial morphodynamics and environmental characteristics of the rivers and …

The hydro-geomorphologic complexity of the lower Amazon River floodplain and hydrological connectivity assessed by remote sensing and field control

E Park, EM Latrubesse - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Hydrological connectivity processes along the lower Amazon River floodplain at Lago
Miratuba Floodplain (LMF) were analyzed based on remote sensing and field …