Relevant Terminology

Here (for now), we will jot down relevant terminology to later be defined in detail.

• groundwater
• freshwater
• surface water
• Land water/terrestrial water
• aquifer
• water table
• Evapotranspiration
• Scenario Planning
• Water budget
• discharge
• snow water equivalent (SWE)
• mass balance
• terrestrial water storage anomalies (TWSA)
• snowpack
• mascons
• geodesy
• El Nino, La Nina?
• wetting
• drying
• essential climate variables (ECVs)
• Meteorological drought: deficit in precipitation
• agricultural drought: deficit in soil moisture
• hydrological drought: deficit in runoff, groundwater, or total water storage
• socioeconomic drought: considering water supply, demand, and social response
• Different perspectives of drought monitoring: meteorological, agricultural, hydrological, and ecological
• gravity fields
• spherical harmonic coefficients