Articles | Volume 24, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-5251-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-5251-2020
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12 Nov 2020
Research article |  | 12 Nov 2020

Mapping groundwater abstractions from irrigated agriculture: big data, inverse modeling, and a satellite–model fusion approach

Oliver Miguel López Valencia, Kasper Johansen, Bruno José Luis Aragón Solorio, Ting Li, Rasmus Houborg, Yoann Malbeteau, Samer AlMashharawi, Muhammad Umer Altaf, Essam Mohammed Fallatah, Hari Prasad Dasari, Ibrahim Hoteit, and Matthew Francis McCabe

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