Quantifying renewable groundwater stress with GRACE

Alexandra S Richey; Brian F Thomas; Min-Hui Lo; John T Reager; James S Famiglietti; Katalyn Voss; Sean Swenson; Matthew Rodell

doi:10.1002/2015WR017349

Quantifying renewable groundwater stress with GRACE

Water Resour Res. 2015 Jul;51(7):5217-5238. doi: 10.1002/2015WR017349. Epub 2015 Jul 14.

Authors

Alexandra S Richey¹, Brian F Thomas², Min-Hui Lo³, John T Reager², James S Famiglietti⁴, Katalyn Voss⁵, Sean Swenson⁶, Matthew Rodell⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California Irvine California USA.
² NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena California USA.
³ Department of Atmospheric Sciences National Taiwan University Taipei Taiwan.
⁴ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California Irvine California USA; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena California USA; Department of Earth System Science University of California Irvine California USA.
⁵ Department of Geography University of California Santa Barbara California USA.
⁶ Climate and Global Dynamics Division National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder Colorado USA.
⁷ Hydrologic Sciences Laboratory NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Maryland USA.

Abstract

Renewable groundwater stress is quantified in the world's largest aquifersCharacteristic stress regimes are defined to determine the severity of stressOverstressed aquifers are mainly in rangeland biomes with some croplands.

Keywords: anthropogenic biomes; groundwater stress; large aquifers; remote sensing; stress regimes.