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How are the wetlands over tropical basins impacted by the extreme hydrological events?

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Wetlands play a crucial role in tropical basins and still many questions remain unanswered on how extreme events (like El-Nino) impacts them. Answering these questions is challenging as monitoring of inland water surfaces via remote sensing over tropical areas is a difficult task because of impact of vegetation and cloud cover. Several microwave based products have been elaborated to monitor these surfaces (Papa et al. 2010). In this study we combine the use of L-band microwave brightness temperatures and altimetric data from SARAL/ALTIKA to derive water storage maps at relatively high (7days) temporal frequency. The area of interest concerns the Amazon, Congo and GBH basins A first order radiative model is used to derive surface water over land from the brightness temperature measured by ESA SMOS mission at coarse resolution (25 km x 25 km) and 7-days frequency. An initial investigation of the use of the SMAP mission for the same purpose will be also presented. The product is compared to the static land cover map such as ESA CCI and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) and also dynamic maps from SWAPS. It is then combined to the altimetric data to derive water storage maps. The water surfaces and water storage products are then compared to precipitation data from GPM TRMM datasets, ground water storage change from GRACE and river discharge data from field data. The amplitudes and time shifts of the signals is compared based on the sub-basin definition from Hydroshed database. The dataset is then divided into years of strong and weak El-Nino signal and the anomaly is between the two dataset is compared. The results show a strong influence of EL-Nino on the time shift of the different components showing that the hydrological regime of wetlands is highly impacted by these extreme events. This can have dramatic impacts on the ecosystem as the wetlands are vulnerable with a high biodiversity.
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hal-04528347 , version 1 (01-04-2024)

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Al Bitar Ahmad, M. Parrens, F. Frappart, F. Papa, Y. H. Kerr, et al.. How are the wetlands over tropical basins impacted by the extreme hydrological events?. AGU 2016, AGU, Nov 2016, San Francisco, Californ, United States. ⟨hal-04528347⟩
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