How much inundation occurs in the Amazon River basin?

• Main Authors: Fleischmann, Ayan Santos, Papa, Fabrice, Fassoni-Andrade, Alice, Melack, John M., Wongchuig, Sly, Paiva, Rodrigo Cauduro Dias, Hamilton, Stephen K., Fluet-Chouinard, Etienne, Barbedo, Rafael, Aires, Filipe, Al Bitar, Ahmad, Bonnet, Marie-Paule, Coe, Michael, Ferreira-Ferreira, Jefferson, Hess, Laura, Jensen, Katherine, McDonald, Kyle, Ovando, Alex, Park, Edward, Parrens, Marie, Pinel, Sebastien, Prigent, Catherine, Resende, Angelica F., Revel, Menaka, Rosenqvist, Ake, Rosenqvist, Jessica, Rudorff, Conrado, Silva, Thiago S. F., Yamazaki, Dai, Collischonn, Walter
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Science::Geology; Brazil; Flooding
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/164125
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Amazon River basin harbors some of the world's largest wetland complexes, which are of major importance for biodiversity, the water cycle and climate, and human activities. Accurate estimates of inundation extent and its variations across spatial and temporal scales are therefore fundamenta...