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The application of multi-mission satellite data assimilation for studying water storage changes over South America by Khaki, M., Awange, J.

“…Constant monitoring of total water storage (TWS; surface, groundwater, and soil moisture) is essential for water management and policy decisions, especially…”
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Improved remotely sensed satellite products for studying Lake Victoria's water storage changes by Khaki, M., Awange, J.

“…Lake Victoria (LV), the world's second largest freshwater lake, supports a livelihood of more than 42 million people and modulates the regional climate…”
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The newly merged satellite remotely sensed, gauge and reanalysis-based Multi-Source Weighted-Ensemble Precipitation: Evaluation over Australia and Africa (1981–2016) by Awange, J.L., Hu, K.X., Khaki, M.

“…The Australian and African continents, regions prone to hydroclimate extremes (e.g., droughts and floods), but with sparse distribution of rain-gauge that are…”
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Assessment of the Performance of CORDEX Regional Climate Models in Simulating East African Rainfall by Endris, Hussen Seid, Omondi, Philip, Jain, Suman, Lennard, Christopher, Hewitson, Bruce, Chang’a, Ladislaus, Awange, J. L., Dosio, Alessandro, Ketiem, Patrick, Nikulin, Grigory, Panitz, Hans-Jürgen, Büchner, Matthias, Stordal, Frode, Tazalika, Lukiya

“…This study evaluates the ability of 10 regional climate models (RCMs) from the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) in simulating the…”
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Understanding the global hydrological droughts of 2003–2016 and their relationships with teleconnections by Forootan, E., Khaki, M., Schumacher, M., Wulfmeyer, V., Mehrnegar, N., van Dijk, A.I.J.M., Brocca, L., Farzaneh, S., Akinluyi, F., Ramillien, G., Shum, C.K., Awange, J., Mostafaie, A.

“…Droughts often evolve gradually and cover large areas, and therefore, affect many people and activities. This motivates developing techniques to integrate…”
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Understanding the association between climate variability and the Nile's water level fluctuations and water storage changes during 1992–2016 by Khaki, M., Awange, J., Forootan, E., Kuhn, M.

“…With the construction of the largest dam in Africa, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) along the Blue Nile, the Nile is back in the news. This,…”
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Water storage changes and climate variability within the Nile Basin between 2002 and 2011 by Awange, J.L., Forootan, E., Kuhn, M., Kusche, J., Heck, B.

“…•TWS of independent sub-basins within the Nile Basin are extracted.•Ethiopian Highlands shows an overall declining trend in its rainfall during 2002–2011.•Lake…”
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Uncertainties in remotely sensed precipitation data over Africa by Awange, J.L., Ferreira, V.G., Forootan, E., Khandu, Andam‐Akorful, S.A., Agutu, N.O., He, X.F.

“…ABSTRACT Quantifying the amount of precipitation and its uncertainty is a challenging task all over the world, particularly over the African continent, where…”
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Separation of large scale water storage patterns over Iran using GRACE, altimetry and hydrological data by Forootan, E., Rietbroek, R., Kusche, J., Sharifi, M.A., Awange, J.L., Schmidt, M., Omondi, P., Famiglietti, J.

“…Extracting large scale water storage (WS) patterns is essential for understanding the hydrological cycle and improving the water resource management of Iran, a…”
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Testing a knowledge-based approach for inferring spatio-temporal characteristics of groundwater in the Australian State of Victoria by Hu, K.X., Awange, J.L., Kuhn, M.

“…Groundwater spatio-temporal characteristics are important information for groundwater development and management. However, such information is usually…”
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Exploiting a texture framework and high spatial resolution properties of panchromatic images to generate enhanced multi-layer products: Examples of Pleiades and historical CORONA space photographs by Saleem, Ashty, Awange, J.L., Corner, R.

“…Remotely sensed high spatio-temporal resolution panchromatic images have been extensively used globally to visually detect and interpret changes in landscape…”
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Consistency of agricultural drought characterization over Upper Greater Horn of Africa (1982–2013): Topographical, gauge density, and model forcing influence by Agutu, N.O., Awange, J.L., Ndehedehe, C., Mwaniki, M.

“…[Display omitted] •Terrain, gauge density and model forcing influence on drought characterization explored.•Gauge density inversely related to uncertainties in…”
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Spatio-temporal groundwater variations associated with climatic and anthropogenic impacts in South-West Western Australia by Hu, K.X., Awange, J.L., Kuhn, M., Saleem, A.

“…South-West Western Australia (SWWA) is a critical agricultural region that heavily relies on groundwater for domestic, agricultural and industrial use…”
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An evaluation of high‐resolution gridded precipitation products over Bhutan (1998–2012) by Khandu, Awange, J. L., Forootan, E.

“…ABSTRACT Several global and regional high‐resolution precipitation products have been released over the past decade by combining precipitation estimates from…”
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GRACE-derived groundwater changes over Greater Horn of Africa: Temporal variability and the potential for irrigated agriculture by Agutu, N.O., Awange, J.L., Ndehedehe, C., Kirimi, F., Kuhn, M.

“…Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) is projected to face negative impacts on per capita food production due to dwindling nature of water resources forced by climate…”
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Efficient basin scale filtering of GRACE satellite products by Khaki, M., Forootan, E., Kuhn, M., Awange, J., Longuevergne, L., Wada, Y.

“…The Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission provides time-variable gravity fields that are commonly used to study regional and global…”
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On the possibility of using CORONA and Landsat data for evaluating and mapping long-term LULC: Case study of Iraqi Kurdistan by Saleem, A., Corner, R., Awange, J.

“…Modern land development is regarded as having begun in the 1960s and since then the pattern of land cover has changed considerably in many parts of the world…”
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Exploring hydro-meteorological drought patterns over the Greater Horn of Africa (1979–2014) using remote sensing and reanalysis products by Awange, J.L., Khandu, Schumacher, M., Forootan, E., Heck, B.

“…•Identification of 4 statistically independent regions facing hydro-meteorological droughts.•Hydrological and meteorological droughts are highly correlated…”
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Inference of the spatio-temporal variability and storage potential of groundwater in data-deficient regions through groundwater models and inversion of impact factors on groundwater, as exemplified by the Lake Victoria Basin by Hu, K.X., Awange, J.L., Kuhn, M., Nanteza, J.

“…Groundwater is an important resource for supporting domestic water use for people's livelihoods and for maintaining ecosystems. Borehole observations provide…”
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Assessing data assimilation frameworks for using multi-mission satellite products in a hydrological context by Khaki, M., Hoteit, I., Kuhn, M., Forootan, E., Awange, J.

“…With a growing number of available datasets especially from satellite remote sensing, there is a great opportunity to improve our knowledge of the state of the…”
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