Articles | Volume 21, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-751-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-751-2017
Research article
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07 Feb 2017
Research article |  | 07 Feb 2017

Application of CryoSat-2 altimetry data for river analysis and modelling

Raphael Schneider, Peter Nygaard Godiksen, Heidi Villadsen, Henrik Madsen, and Peter Bauer-Gottwein

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We use water level observations from the CryoSat-2 satellite in combination with a river model of the Brahmaputra River, extracting satellite data over a dynamic river mask derived from Landsat imagery. The novelty of this work is the use of the CryoSat-2 water level observations, collected using a complex spatio-temporal sampling scheme, to calibrate a hydrodynamic river model. The resulting model accurately reproduces water levels, without precise knowledge of river bathymetry.