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WATER STORAGE  

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  • Monitoring water storage and its variations is impor-tant to understanding local hydrological processesand the global water cycle, which sustains all life onEarth. The development of satellite remote-sensingtechniques has benefited the retrieval of terrestrialwater storage and its variations, which has emerged asa new discipline. Focusing on terrestrial water storage,this chapter describes three major retrievalapproaches: the water-balance-based approach, thesurface-parameter-based approach, and the GravityRecovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)-basedapproach. Accurate estimates of terrestrial waterstorage and its variations are still being developed. (en)

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  • 2020-05-07 14:41:36.0 [tstevens] Insert Concept add broader relation (WATER STORAGE [bdfa3404-c00d-45fe-a3c1-31389a831ffc,560029] - WATER MANAGEMENT [14555831-70ae-4650-8983-956d65595575,85065]);
  • 2020-05-08 08:39:19.0 [tstevens] Insert Concept add narrower relation (WATER STORAGE [bdfa3404-c00d-45fe-a3c1-31389a831ffc,560029] - ICE STUPA [73a50bfa-6a0a-4a36-ace4-2c424db05ab8,560069]);

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