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Table of Contents
Intro
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
Part I The Anthropocene
1 Understanding the Anthropocene
1.1 Introductory Remarks
1.2 The Anthropocene
1.2.1 What Is the Anthropocene?
1.2.2 The Earth System in the Anthropocene
1.3 The Twenty-First Century Environment
1.3.1 Man-Made Lakes and Reservoirs
1.3.2 Climate-Induced Changes in Terrestrial Stored Water and Contributions to Sea-Level Rise
1.3.3 Rise in Human Population
1.3.4 Land Use and Land Cover Change
1.3.5 Groundwater Depletion
1.3.6 Deforestation
1.3.7 An Altered Global Water Cycle: What Are the Consequences?
1.4 About This Book
References
Part II Hydro-Climatic Extremes
2 Hydro-Climatic Extremes: Climate Change and Human Influence
2.1 Introductory Remarks
2.2 Hydrological Extremes in the Twenty-First Century
2.2.1 Will Climate Change Affect Groundwater Recharge in the Future?
2.3 Hydrological Systems: Human Actions Versus Climate Change
2.3.1 Hydrological Processes in Semi-arid Domains
2.3.2 Droughts in the Murray Darling Basin
2.3.3 The Sahelian Drought
2.3.4 Lessons from the Lake Chad Predicament
2.3.5 A Tale of Two Extreme and Prolonged Drought Events
2.3.6 Lake Urmia: A Case of Anthropogenic Recklessness
2.3.7 Socio-economic Implications of Hydro-Climatic Extremes
2.4 The Earth System
2.4.1 Socio-hydrological Systems
2.4.2 Understanding Drought and Flood in the Anthropocene
2.5 Operational Monitoring
2.5.1 Earth Resources Satellites
2.5.2 Hydrological and Climate Models
References
Part III Water Resources
3 How Much Freshwater Is Available?
3.1 Introductory Remarks
3.2 Impacts of Climate Change on Freshwater Resources
3.3 Are We Running Out of Freshwater?
3.3.1 The Water Cycle
3.3.2 Are There Threats to Freshwater Availability?
3.3.3 Water Scarcity, Security, and Crises
3.3.4 Water Demand and Climate
3.4 Security, Sustainability, and Resilience
3.4.1 Pursuing Water Security and Sustainability
3.4.2 Building Resilience
3.5 Optimizing Monitoring Framework
3.5.1 Challenges with Observational Networks for Hydrology
3.5.2 Existing Gauge Observations
References
4 Satellite Hydrology Programmes: Capabilities and Benefits
4.1 Introductory Remarks
4.2 Multi-mission Satellite Hydrology Systems
4.2.1 Satellite Radar Systems
4.2.2 Satellite Geodesy Techniques
4.3 Quantifying Land Water Storage
4.3.1 Terrestrial Water Storage
4.3.2 Satellite Observations of Changes in Groundwater
4.3.3 Surface Water Hydrology
4.3.4 Reconstruction from Models and Observations
4.3.5 Reconstruction with Machine Learning Models
4.3.6 Downscaling Using Machine Learning Models
4.4 Benefits of Satellite Hydrology Systems
4.4.1 Tracking Climate Change
4.4.2 Hydrological Processes
4.4.3 Understanding Anthropogenic Influence
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Author
Part I The Anthropocene
1 Understanding the Anthropocene
1.1 Introductory Remarks
1.2 The Anthropocene
1.2.1 What Is the Anthropocene?
1.2.2 The Earth System in the Anthropocene
1.3 The Twenty-First Century Environment
1.3.1 Man-Made Lakes and Reservoirs
1.3.2 Climate-Induced Changes in Terrestrial Stored Water and Contributions to Sea-Level Rise
1.3.3 Rise in Human Population
1.3.4 Land Use and Land Cover Change
1.3.5 Groundwater Depletion
1.3.6 Deforestation
1.3.7 An Altered Global Water Cycle: What Are the Consequences?
1.4 About This Book
References
Part II Hydro-Climatic Extremes
2 Hydro-Climatic Extremes: Climate Change and Human Influence
2.1 Introductory Remarks
2.2 Hydrological Extremes in the Twenty-First Century
2.2.1 Will Climate Change Affect Groundwater Recharge in the Future?
2.3 Hydrological Systems: Human Actions Versus Climate Change
2.3.1 Hydrological Processes in Semi-arid Domains
2.3.2 Droughts in the Murray Darling Basin
2.3.3 The Sahelian Drought
2.3.4 Lessons from the Lake Chad Predicament
2.3.5 A Tale of Two Extreme and Prolonged Drought Events
2.3.6 Lake Urmia: A Case of Anthropogenic Recklessness
2.3.7 Socio-economic Implications of Hydro-Climatic Extremes
2.4 The Earth System
2.4.1 Socio-hydrological Systems
2.4.2 Understanding Drought and Flood in the Anthropocene
2.5 Operational Monitoring
2.5.1 Earth Resources Satellites
2.5.2 Hydrological and Climate Models
References
Part III Water Resources
3 How Much Freshwater Is Available?
3.1 Introductory Remarks
3.2 Impacts of Climate Change on Freshwater Resources
3.3 Are We Running Out of Freshwater?
3.3.1 The Water Cycle
3.3.2 Are There Threats to Freshwater Availability?
3.3.3 Water Scarcity, Security, and Crises
3.3.4 Water Demand and Climate
3.4 Security, Sustainability, and Resilience
3.4.1 Pursuing Water Security and Sustainability
3.4.2 Building Resilience
3.5 Optimizing Monitoring Framework
3.5.1 Challenges with Observational Networks for Hydrology
3.5.2 Existing Gauge Observations
References
4 Satellite Hydrology Programmes: Capabilities and Benefits
4.1 Introductory Remarks
4.2 Multi-mission Satellite Hydrology Systems
4.2.1 Satellite Radar Systems
4.2.2 Satellite Geodesy Techniques
4.3 Quantifying Land Water Storage
4.3.1 Terrestrial Water Storage
4.3.2 Satellite Observations of Changes in Groundwater
4.3.3 Surface Water Hydrology
4.3.4 Reconstruction from Models and Observations
4.3.5 Reconstruction with Machine Learning Models
4.3.6 Downscaling Using Machine Learning Models
4.4 Benefits of Satellite Hydrology Systems
4.4.1 Tracking Climate Change
4.4.2 Hydrological Processes
4.4.3 Understanding Anthropogenic Influence