Analysis of Groundwater and Total Water Storage Changes Using GRACE Observations II

Dear Colleagues,

Detecting and monitoring long-term hydrological conditions has become critically important in the face of climate change. Strategies for this purpose have become more effective and extensive thanks to the  Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission. GRACE’s aim is to record temporal fluctuations in the Earth’s gravity field, which can then be recomputed into total water storage change (TWS) to create a representation of stored water mass. Thanks to TWS change computation, the water budget is easier to monitor and groundwater loss has become easier to estimate. Such computations can help us to study droughts and floods, which will occur increasingly frequently as a result of drastic climate changes.

This Special Issue will focus on the spatial distribution of long-term total water storage and groundwater changes and their evolution and prognosis over time. Moreover, despite the complex nature of TWS change combined with meteorological and hydrological parameters and factors, new technologies will make it possible to explain its spatio-temporal dynamics. This will lead to better insights into changes in the groundwater constituting the basis of drinking water resources.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Spatio-temporal dynamics of TWS change;
• Prognosis of TWS change;
• Downscaling TWS observations;
• Climatical and meteorological indices computed on the basis of TWS changes;
• Groundwater computation based on TWS observations;
• Groundwater level, its monitoring and prognosis;
• Influence of meteorological parameters on groundwater storage.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Remote Sensing.

Prof. Dr. Jolanta Nastula
Dr. Monika Birylo
Guest Editors

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• TWS change
• groundwater
• monitoring
• climate
• prognosis
• GRACE