Research at the lab focusses on enhancing techniques for monitoring water resources with a focus on gravity and deformation data. These techniques are applied to obtain and analyze large-scale estimates of temporal changes in continental water mass budget. Also, the impact of changes in water availability on environment, human societies as well as crisis management are investigated.
Time-variable Gravity Field & Satellite Gravimetry
Remote Sensing of Water Resources
Terrestrial Water Cycle
Groundwater Hydro-geodesy
Surface Mass Elastic Loading
Geophysical Modeling of Total Water Storage Variations
Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources
Sustainable Water Use & Hazard management
Large-scale Hydrological Modeling
"Remote Sensing of Water Mass Budget Variations in California.", NASA-ESI, [Colaborative Project: S. Werth (PI), M. Shirzaei (Co-I), Y. Fu. (Co-I)].
Drought-related terrestrial water storage changes and surface deformation in Southwest USA Drought impact on groundwater in Arizona Estimating groundwater changes in the Niger River basin "Measuring impact of drought on groundwater resources from space" (ASU Now, March 19, 2019) "ASU scientists use satellites to measure vital underground water resources" (ASU Now, July 19, 2018) "NASA satellites to aid ASU researchers in California drought study" (ASU Now, January 18, 2017)Research Interests
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