Cooperative satellite-based flood detection, mapping, and river monitoring in near real time

• Main Authors: Brakenridge, Robert G., Nghiem, Son V.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2004. 2006
• Subjects: flood; river gaging; Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM); QuikScat; AMSR; MODIS; ASTER; Flood River; Pacific; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2014/39078

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 teleco...