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Sci Total Environ. 2018 Jan 15;612:1234-1248. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.305. Epub 2017 Sep 08.

Land surface temperature as an indicator of the unsaturated zone thickness: A remote sensing approach in the Atacama Desert.

The Science of the total environment

Harry Urqueta, Jorge Jódar, Christian Herrera, Hans-G Wilke, Agustín Medina, Javier Urrutia, Emilio Custodio, Jazna Rodríguez

Affiliations

  1. Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile.
  2. Groundwater Hydrology Group, Dept. Civil and Environmental Eng., Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Hydromodel Host S.L. and Aquageo Proyectos SL, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: [email protected].
  3. Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile; Centro de Investigación Tecnológica del Agua en el Desierto (CEITSAZA), Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile.
  4. Groundwater Hydrology Group, Dept. Civil and Environmental Eng., Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Hydromodel Host S.L. and Aquageo Proyectos SL, Barcelona, Spain.
  5. Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain, Civil and Environmental Department, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain.
  6. Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Recursos Hídricos (CIDERH), Iquique, Chile.

PMID: 28892867 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.305

Abstract

Land surface temperature (LST) seems to be related to the temperature of shallow aquifers and the unsaturated zone thickness (∆Z

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Keywords: Arid zones; Atacama Desert; Remote sensing; Shallow aquifers; Soil temperature; Unsaturated zone thickness

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