Michael Durand

TL;DR: In this article, the Ka-band radar interferometer (KaRIN) is used to measure the water elevation along rivers, lakes, streams, and wetlands and over the ocean surface using swath altimetry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that 53% of the total runoff in the western United States originates as snowmelt, despite only 37% of precipitation falling as snow.

TL;DR: In this paper, an ensemble-based data assimilation (DA) methodology for estimating bathymetric depth and slope from WSE measurements and the LISFLOOD-FP hydrodynamic model is presented.

TL;DR: A carefully designed modeling effort to estimate global river discharge at very high resolutions, thus named “Global Reach‐level A priori Discharge Estimates for Surface Water and Ocean Topography”, and can be used in other hydrologic applications requiring spatially explicit estimates of global river flows.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the possibility of estimating discharge in ungauged rivers using synthetic, daily "remote sensing" measurements derived from hydraulic models corrupted with minimal observational errors, and found at least one algorithm able to estimate instantaneous discharge to within 35% relative root-mean-squared error (RRMSE) on 14/16 nonbraided rivers despite out-ofbank flows, multichannel planforms, and backwater effects.