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Research activities within the Hydrological Sciences Branch focus on the interpretation of remotely sensed data and land surface hydrological, meteorological and climatological modeling. The integrating properties of remote sensing techniques provide, for the first time, a potential for complete hydrological measurements over multiple time and space scales. To realize this potential, the Branch is developing, testing, and applying algorithms for translating remotely sensed measurements into soil moisture content, snow mass, precipitation, evapotranspiration, vegetation density and other relevant hydrological quantities at the land/atmosphere interface. In addition, hydrological and atmospheric models are being developed concurrently that utilize remote sensing data for input, calibration, and validation within a wide range of temporal and spatial contexts. All of these studies serve to improve our understanding of how the various components of the hydrological cycle interact, and provide us with important information about the current structure of global hydrology and how mankind is changing the hydrological environment.
The menu to the left provides links to some of the Research Projects and Activities associated with the Hydrological Sciences Branch.
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