How much inundation occurs in the Amazon River basin?
2022
Fleischmann, Ayan Santos | Papa, Fabrice | Fassoni-Andrade, Alice | Melack, John | Wongchuig, Sly | Paiva, Rodrigo Cauduro Dias | Hamilton, Stephen | Fluet-Chouinard, Etienne | Barbedo, Rafael | Aires, Filipe | Al Bitar, Ahmad | Bonnet, Marie-Paule | Coe, Michael | Ferreira-Ferreira, Jefferson | Hess, Laura | Jensen, Katherine | Mcdonald, Kyle | Ovando, Alex | Park, Edward | Parrens, Marie | Pinel, Sébastien | Prigent, Catherine | Resende, Angélica | Revel, Menaka | Rosenqvist, Ake | Rosenqvist, Jessica | Rudorff, Conrado | Silva, Thiago S.F. | Yamazaki, Dai | Collischonn, Walter | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul [Porto Alegre] (UFRGS) | Laboratoire d'études en Géophysique et océanographie spatiales (LEGOS) ; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) ; Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP) ; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) ; Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | IRD Brésil | Bren School of Environmental Science and Management ; University of California [Santa Barbara] (UC Santa Barbara) ; University of California (UC)-University of California (UC) | Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE) ; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ) ; Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) | W. 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Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) ; Michigan State University [East Lansing] ; Michigan State University System-Michigan State University System | Stanford University | Observatoire de Paris ; Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL) | Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA) ; École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) ; Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris ; Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY) | Centre d'études spatiales de la biosphère (CESBIO) ; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) ; Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP) ; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) ; Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | UMR Espace-Dev Guyane ; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Avignon Université (AU)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Université de Guyane (UG)-Université des Antilles (UA)-Université de Montpellier (UM) | Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) ; Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies ; University of Wisconsin-Madison-University of Wisconsin-Madison | Mamirauá Institute for Sustainable Development | University of California [Santa Barbara] (UC Santa Barbara) ; University of California (UC) | City College of New York [CUNY] (CCNY) ; City University of New York [New York] (CUNY) | California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) | Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais [Sao Paulo, Brésil] (CEMADEN) ; Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação | Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) ; Nanyang Technological University [Singapour] | Dynamiques et écologie des paysages agriforestiers (DYNAFOR) ; École nationale supérieure agronomique de Toulouse (ENSAT) ; Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP) ; Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP) ; Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditérranéens (CEFREM) ; Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo (USP) | The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) | solo Earth Observation (soloEO) ; soloEO | University of Stirling | ANR-18-MPGA-0008,AMANECER,Connexion Amazone - Andes(2018)
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Mostrar más [+] Menos [-]Inglés. The Amazon River basin harbors some of the world's largest wetland complexes, which are of major importance for biodiversity, the water cycle and climate, and human activities. Accurate estimates of inundation extent and its variations across spatial and temporal scales are therefore fundamental to understand and manage the basin's resources. More than fifty inundation estimates have been generated for this region, yet major differences exist among the datasets, and a comprehensive assessment of them is lacking. Here we present an intercomparison of 29 inundation datasets for the Amazon basin, based on remote sensing only, hydrological modeling, or multi-source datasets, with 18 covering the lowland Amazon basin (elevation <500 m, which includes most Amazon wetlands), and 11 covering individual wetland complexes (subregional datasets). Spatial resolutions range from 12.5 m to 25 km, and temporal resolution from static to monthly, spanning up to a few decades. Overall, 31% of the lowland basin is estimated as subject to inundation by at least one dataset. The long-term maximum inundated area across the lowland basin is estimated at 599,700 ± 81,800 km2 if considering the three higher quality SAR-based datasets, and 490,300 ± 204,800 km2 if considering all 18 datasets. However, even the highest resolution SAR-based dataset underestimates the maximum values for individual wetland complexes, suggesting a basin-scale underestimation of ~10%. The minimum inundation extent shows greater disagreements among datasets than the maximum extent: 139,300 ± 127,800 km2 for SAR-based ones and 112,392 ± 79,300 km2 for all datasets. Discrepancies arise from differences among sensors, time periods, dates of acquisition, spatial resolution, and data processing algorithms. The median total area subject to inundation in medium to large river floodplains (drainage area > 1000 km2) is 323,700 km2. The highest spatial agreement is observed for floodplains dominated by open water such as along the lower Amazon River, whereas intermediate agreement is found along major vegetated floodplains fringing larger rivers (e.g., Amazon mainstem floodplain). Especially large disagreements exist among estimates for interfluvial wetlands (Llanos de Moxos, Pacaya-Samiria, Negro, Roraima), where inundation tends to be shallower and more variable in time. Our data intercomparison helps identify the current major knowledge gaps regarding inundation mapping in the Amazon and their implications for multiple applications. In the context of forthcoming hydrology-oriented satellite missions, we make recommendations for future developments of inundation estimates in the Amazon and present a WebGIS application (https://amazon-inundation.herokuapp.com/) we developed to provide user-friendly visualization and data acquisition of current Amazon inundation datasets.
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