Abstract:Water fluxes in the Amazon River floodplain affect hydrodynamic and ecological processes from local to global scales. Nevertheless, these fluxes remain poorly understood due to difficult access and limited data. In this study, we characterize the hydrodynamics of eight floodplain units of the central Amazon River (40'000 km 2 ) using the 2D hydraulic model HEC-RAS.High resolution modeling improved the representation of river and floodplain discharge, water surface elevation (77 cm accuracy) and flood extent (˜… Show more
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