Efforts to Unravel the Cause of Shrinkage of Lake Chad: Development of Hydrologic Real-time Observatory Network in the Lake Chad Basin

Jejung Lee1, Charles M Ichoku2, John D Bolten3, Frederick S Policelli4, KIM-Ndor Djimadoumngar5, Sanusi Imran Abdullahi6, Mohammed D Bila6, Daira Djoret6, Goni Ibrahim7, John Steven Selker8, Rebecca Hochreutener8 and Frank O Annor9, (1)University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Missouri Kansas City, Geosciences, Kansas City, MO, United States, (6)Lake Chad Basin Commission, N'Djamena, Chad, (7)University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria, (8)Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, (9)TU Delft, Civil Engineering & Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands