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Research article |
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Challenges in flood modeling over data-scarce regions: how to exploit globally available soil moisture products to estimate antecedent soil wetness conditions in Morocco
El Mahdi El Khalki
Georesources, Geoenvironment and Civil Engineering Laboratory, Cadi
Ayyad University, Marrakesh, 40000, Morocco
HydroSciences Montpellier (Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, IRD),
Montpellier, 34000, France
Christian Massari
Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, National Research Council, Perugia, 06100, Italy
Luca Brocca
Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, National Research Council, Perugia, 06100, Italy
Vincent Simonneaux
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (UPS/CNRS/IRD/CNES),
Toulouse, 31401, France
Simon Gascoin
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère (UPS/CNRS/IRD/CNES),
Toulouse, 31401, France
Mohamed El Mehdi Saidi
Georesources, Geoenvironment and Civil Engineering Laboratory, Cadi
Ayyad University, Marrakesh, 40000, Morocco
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Short summary
In North Africa, the vulnerability to floods is high, and there is a need to improve the flood-forecasting systems. Remote-sensing and reanalysis data can palliate the lack of in situ measurements, in particular for soil moisture, which is a crucial parameter to consider when modeling floods. In this study we provide an evaluation of recent globally available soil moisture products for flood modeling in Morocco.
In North Africa, the vulnerability to floods is high, and there is a need to improve the...
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