Landsat and GRACE observations of arid wetland dynamics in a dryland river system under multi-decadal hydroclimatic extremes

Zunyi Xie, Alfredo Huete, Xuanlong Ma, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Rakhesh Devadas, Kenneth Clarke, Megan Lewis

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