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18 Feb 2021
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Long-term water stress and drought assessment of Mediterranean oak savanna vegetation using thermal remote sensing
María P. González-Dugo
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IFAPA, Consejería de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca y Desarrollo Sostenible, Apdo. 3048, 14071, Córdoba, Spain
Xuelong Chen
Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface
Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Beijing, China
CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Ana Andreu
IFAPA, Consejería de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca y Desarrollo Sostenible, Apdo. 3048, 14071, Córdoba, Spain
Elisabet Carpintero
IFAPA, Consejería de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca y Desarrollo Sostenible, Apdo. 3048, 14071, Córdoba, Spain
Pedro J. Gómez-Giraldez
IFAPA, Consejería de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca y Desarrollo Sostenible, Apdo. 3048, 14071, Córdoba, Spain
Arnaud Carrara
Fundación CEAM. Parque Tecnológico, Calle Charles Darwin 14, 46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain
Zhongbo Su
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University
of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
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Lianyu Yu, Yijian Zeng, and Zhongbo Su
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 4813–4830, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4813-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4813-2020, 2020
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Short summary
Drought is a devastating natural hazard and difficult to define, detect and quantify. Global meteorological data and remote-sensing products present new opportunities to characterize drought in an objective way. In this paper, we applied the surface energy balance model SEBS to estimate monthly evapotranspiration (ET) from 2001 to 2018 over the dehesa area of the Iberian Peninsula. ET anomalies were used to identify the main drought events and analyze their impacts on dehesa vegetation.
Drought is a devastating natural hazard and difficult to define, detect and quantify. Global...
