III: Remote Sensing of Precipitation and Storms
9 Drought Monitoring Based on Remote Sensing
9.1. INTRODUCTION
9.2. PROGRESS IN RS‐BASED DROUGHT MONITORING
9.3. CASE STUDY
9.4. CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK
REFERENCES
10 Remote Sensing of Vegetation Responses to Drought Disturbances Using Spaceborne Optical and Near‐Infrared Sensors
10.1. INTRODUCTION
10.2. DROUGHTS AND THEIR ECOPHYSIOLOGICAL IMPACTS ON ECOSYSTEMS
10.3. REMOTE SENSING OF VEGETATION RESPONSES TO DROUGHTS
10.4. CASE STUDY IN YUNNAN PROVINCE, CHINA
10.5. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
REFERENCES
11 Recent Advances in Physical Water Scarcity Assessment Using GRACE Satellite Data
11.1. INTRODUCTION
11.2. MATERIAL AND METHODS
11.3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
11.4. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
REFERENCES
12 Study of Water Cycle Variation in the Yellow River Basin Based on Satellite Remote Sensing and Numerical Modeling
12.1. INTRODUCTION
12.2. STUDY AREA
12.3. METHODS
12.4. RESULTS
12.5. SUMMARY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
REFERENCES
13 Assessing the Impact of Climate Change‐Induced Droughts on Soil Salinity Development in Agricultural Areas Using Ground and Satellite Sensors
13.1. INTRODUCTION
13.2. GROUND AND SATELLITE SENSOR APPROACHES FOR MEASSURING/MAPPING SOIL SALINITY
13.3. IMPACTS AND IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON SOIL SALINITY DEVELOPMENT: WESTSIDE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CASE STUDY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
REFERENCES
11 Index
List of Tables
1 Chapter 2Table 2.1 Summary of satellite and reanalysis precipitation data sets used ...
2 Chapter 4Table 4.1 Summary of data sets and their sources used in this study.Table 4.2 Summary of the model‐simulated and satellite‐detected inundation ...Table 4.3 Potential flooded areas with different water depths for three flo...
3 Chapter 5Table 5.1 Summary of characteristics of the precipitation products in this ...Table 5.2 Summary of the statistical evaluations of county‐averaged and gri...Table 5.3 Four extreme precipitation events collected in Texas. The Bill, C...Table 5.4 Summary of hydrological simulation of Spring Creek.
4 Chapter 6Table 6.1 Parameters of lumped CREST model.Table 6.2 Parameters of HyMOD model.Table 6.3 Pseudocode and description of database queries.
5 Chapter 7Table 7.1 Models’ performance.
6 Chapter 8Table 8.1 Crustal movements observed at the four stations located in the st...Table 8.2 Details of the nine severely damaged or collapsed bridges in the ...Table 8.3 The obtained difference (d) and correlation coefficient (r) value...Table 8.4 Error matrix for all the target bridges using the threshold value...
7 Chapter 9Table 9.1 SPI‐based drought severity categories.
8 Chapter 11Table 11.1 Thresholds/indicator for WSI.Table 11.2 Summary of major water stress/scarcity indicators. Most of the i...Table 11.3 Sources and information about the utilized data sets.Table 11.4 WSI and PAW indices for 48 African countries using Falkenmark’s ...
9 Chapter 12Table 12.1 Main abbreviations used in this chapter.Table 12.2 Evaluation of the reconstructed ET over the YRB (unit: cm/year)....Table 12.3 Elasticities of naturalized streamflow in seven sub‐basins of th...Table 12.4 Summary of modeling approaches for the effects of vegetation cha...
10 Chapter 13Table 13.1 Apparent soil electrical conductivity (ECa) protocols for mappin...
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 Structure and organization of this book.
2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 (a) Spatial distributions rain gauges in China and (b) DEM and th...Figure 2.2 Topographical map and locations of flash flood events from 2011 t...Figure 2.3 Spatial distributions of KGE' on the daily scale from 2000 to 201...Figure 2.4 Boxplots of five metrics at the daily scale from 2000 to 2018 bas...Figure 2.5 Taylor diagrams on the daily scale from 2000 to 2018 for differen...Figure 2.6 Performance diagrams on the daily scale from 2000 to 2018 for dif...Figure 2.7 Spatial distributions of snowfall from 2000 to 2018 for (a–d) CGD...Figure 2.8 CC and RMSE of CGDPA, ERA5, MERRA2, and IMERG according to the tr...Figure 2.9 Snowfall trends of CGDPA, ERA‐Interim, MERRA2, and IMERG from 200...
