Earth and Planetary Sciences
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New method accurately tracks water levels in remote rivers from space.

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Remote sensing reconstruction of long-term and dense water level and storage variations of ungauged river in High Mountain Asia
Jiahui Xu, Chunqiao Song, Chenyu Fan, Kai Liu, Tan Chen, Linghong Ke, Shidong Wang, Lijuan Song

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