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|Title: ||Cooperative satellite-based flood detection, mapping, and river monitoring in near real time|
|Authors: ||Brakenridge, Robert G.|
Nghiem, Son V.
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
|Issue Date: ||21-Jun-2004 |
|Publisher: ||Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2004.|
|Citation: ||India-US Conference on Space Science, Applications, and Commerce, Bangalore, India, June 21-26, 2004.|
|Abstract: ||The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the Pacific-North American (PNA) teleconnection pattern, and the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) combine to influence the planetary wave structure over the northern hemisphere. Floods and droughts are associated around the world with ENSO through such teleconnections, and improved flood prediction relies on understanding them better. The scientific study of floods, and consistent measurements thereof, are needed in order to allow “Greenhouse warming” predictions about flooding to be tested, and the hydrologic effects of other phenomena such as ENSO to be evaluated. The needed tasks are: 1) detection/warning of flooding, 2) flood magnitude assessment, 3) flood inundation mapping, and 4) preservation of the record of flooding. Accomplishing these same tasks provides direct local societal benefits as well: they can save lives and reduce economic loss. We emphasize that the basic science observations need not be divorced from the immediate practical applications: both can occur together, and just as is the case for meteorological remote sensing.|
|Appears in Collections:||JPL TRS 1992+|
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