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Research article
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21 Feb 2022
Research article |
| 21 Feb 2022
| 21 Feb 2022
Remote sensing-aided rainfall–runoff modeling in the tropics of Costa Rica
Saúl Arciniega-Esparza
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Hydrogeology Group, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 04510, Mexico
Christian Birkel
Department of Geography and Water and Global Change Observatory,
University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica
Northern Rivers Institute, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen,
Scotland
Andrés Chavarría-Palma
Department of Geography and Water and Global Change Observatory,
University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica
Berit Arheimer
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping,
Sweden
José Agustín Breña-Naranjo
Institute of Engineering, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, Mexico City, Mexico
Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua, Jiutepec, Morelos,
Mexico
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- Advancing isotope‐enabled hydrological modelling for ungauged calibration of data‐scarce humid tropical catchments A. Watson et al.
- Dry season plant water sourcing in contrasting tropical ecosystems of Costa Rica R. Sánchez‐Murillo et al.
- Process‐Informed Subsampling Improves Subseasonal Rainfall Forecasts in Central America K. Kowal et al.
- FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY OF AVIAN MIXED-SPECIES FORAGING FLOCKS ON THE TILARÁN CORDILLERA, COSTA RICA S. Eberhard & N. Ocampo-Peñuela
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- Importance of measured transpiration fluxes for modelled ecohydrological partitioning in a tropical agroforestry system C. Birkel et al.
- Streamflow Simulation Based on a Hybrid Morphometric–Satellite Methodological Framework D. Pérez-Campo et al.
- Assessing hydrological drought propagation through assimilation of GRACE for groundwater storage anomalies modelling in northeastern Mexico S. Arciniega-Esparza et al.
- Regional modeling of groundwater recharge in the Basin of Mexico: new insights from satellite observations and global data sources S. González-Ortigoza et al.
- Multi-source precipitation fusion for hydrological models: Correction and metrics importance analysis M. Zhang et al.
- Uncertainty propagation from gridded precipitation datasets to streamflow simulations: application to the Reno River basin (Italy) O. Cenobio-Cruz & G. Di Baldassarre
- Quantifying climate variability and regional anthropogenic influence on vegetation dynamics in northwest India A. Banerjee et al.
- Tracer‐aided ecohydrological modelling across climate, land cover, and topographical gradients in the tropics S. Arciniega‐Esparza et al.
- Rainfall in the Greater and Lesser Antilles: Performance of five gridded datasets on a daily timescale R. Bathelemy et al.
- Coupling of SWAT and EPIC Models to Investigate the Mutual Feedback Relationship between Vegetation and Soil Erosion, a Case Study in the Huangfuchuan Watershed, China Z. Luo et al.
- ENSO sentinels in the Americas' humid tropics: We need combined hydrometric and isotopic monitoring for improved El Niño and La Niña impact prediction R. Sánchez‐Murillo et al.
- Evaluating Markov chains and Bayesian networks as probabilistic meteorological drought forecasting tools in the seasonally dry tropics of Costa Rica K. Gutiérrez-García et al.
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Short summary
In the humid tropics, a notoriously data-scarce region, we need to find alternatives in order to reasonably apply hydrological models. Here, we tested remotely sensed rainfall data in order to drive a model for Costa Rica, and we evaluated the simulations against evapotranspiration satellite products. We found that our model was able to reasonably simulate the water balance and streamflow dynamics of over 600 catchments where the satellite data helped to reduce the model uncertainties.
In the humid tropics, a notoriously data-scarce region, we need to find alternatives in order to...
