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 …

[PDF][PDF] Extreme seasonal droughts and floods in Amazonia: causes, trends and impacts.

JA Marengo, JC Espinoza - International Journal of Climatology, 2016 - researchgate.net
This paper reviews recent progress in the study and understanding of extreme seasonal
events in the Amazon region, focusing on drought and floods. The review includes a history …

Improving the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth System Models

MP Clark, Y Fan, DM Lawrence… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Many of the scientific and societal challenges in understanding and preparing for global
environmental change rest upon our ability to understand and predict the water cycle …

Global hydrology 2015: State, trends, and directions

MFP Bierkens - Water Resources Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Global hydrology has come a long way since the first introduction of the primitive land
surface model of Manabe (1969) and the declaration of the “Emergence of Global …

[PDF][PDF] Hyper‐resolution global hydrological modelling: what is next? “Everywhere and locally relevant”

MFP Bierkens, VA Bell, P Burek, N Chaney… - Hydrological …, 2015 - opensky.ucar.edu
Background Between 15 and 17 March 2010, a workshop was held at Princeton University
entitled 'Meeting a Grand Challenge to Hydrology: The Global Monitoring of Earth's …

Contrasting North–South changes in Amazon wet-day and dry-day frequency and related atmospheric features (1981–2017)

JC Espinoza, J Ronchail, JA Marengo, H Segura - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
This study provides an updated analysis of the evolution of seasonal rainfall intensity in the
Amazon basin, considering the 1981–2017 period and based on HOP (interpolated HYBAM …

Projections of climate change effects on discharge and inundation in the Amazon basin

MV Sorribas, RCD Paiva, JM Melack, JM Bravo… - Climatic change, 2016 - Springer
Climate change and its effects on the hydrologic regime of the Amazon basin can impact
biogeochemical processes, transportation, flood vulnerability, fisheries and hydropower …

Construction of a high-resolution gridded rainfall dataset for Peru from 1981 to the present day

C Aybar, C Fernández, A Huerta… - Hydrological …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A new gridded rainfall dataset available for Peru is introduced, called PISCOp
V2. 1 (Peruvian Interpolated data of SENAMHI's Climatological and Hydrological …

Advances in land surface modelling

EM Blyth, VK Arora, DB Clark, SJ Dadson… - Current Climate Change …, 2021 - Springer
Land surface models have an increasing scope. Initially designed to capture the feedbacks
between the land and the atmosphere as part of weather and climate prediction, they are …

Trade-off between tree planting and wetland conservation in China

Y Xi, S Peng, G Liu, A Ducharne, P Ciais… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Trade-offs between tree planting programs and wetland conservation are unclear. Here, we
employ satellite-derived inundation data and a process-based land surface model …