Assessment of Water Use in Pan-Eurasian and African Continents by ETMonitor with Multi-Source Satellite Data

Assessment of Water Use in Pan-Eurasian and African Continents by ETMonitor with Multi-Source Satellite Data

Zheng, Chaolei (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Jia, L. (TU Delft Optical and Laser Remote Sensing; Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Hu, Guangcheng (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Menenti, M. (TU Delft Optical and Laser Remote Sensing; Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Lu, Jing (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Zhou, J. (TU Delft Optical and Laser Remote Sensing; Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Wang, Kun (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Li, Zhansheng (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

2017-03-07

The Pan-Eurasian and African Continents are characterized by large ranges of climates varying from humid, semi-humid, semi-arid and arid regions, and great challenges exist in water allocation for different sectors that related to water resource and food security, which depends strongly on the water use information. Quantitative information on water use is also important to understand the effectiveness of water allocation and further to prevent from water stress resulted by drought in water-scarce regions. Explosive development of satellite remote sensing observations provide great chance to provide useful spatiotemporal information for quantifying the water use at regional to global scales. In this paper, a process-based model ETMonitor was used in combination with biophysical and hydrological parameters retrieved from earth observations to estimate the actual evapotranspiration, i.e. the agricultural and ecological water use. The total water use is also partitioned into beneficial part, e.g. plant transpiration, and non-beneficial part, e.g. soil evaporation and canopy rainfall interception, according to the water accounting framework. The estimated water use show good agreements with the ground observation, indicating the ability of ETMonitor for global and continental scale water use estimation. The spatial and temporal patterns of the water use in the Pan-Eurasian and African Continents were further analysed, while large spatial variation of water use was convinced. Current study also highlights the great capability of satellite observations in studying the regional water resource and continental water cycle.

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e6062c8a-d04c-4e16-a3ec-a2a1eea9ee3a

https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/57/1/012050

1755-1307

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 57 (1)

Institutional Repository

journal article

© 2017 Chaolei Zheng, L. Jia, Guangcheng Hu, M. Menenti, Jing Lu, J. Zhou, Kun Wang, Zhansheng Li