NASA: ‘Current’ Events: NASA and USGS Find a New Way to Measure River Flows NASA/JPL Hydrology August 7, 2024From NASA: A team of scientists and engineers at NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collaborated to see if...
NASA data shows how drought changes wildfire recovery in the west NASA/JPL ScienceWildfires and watersheds July 11, 2024By: Emily DeMarco, NASA Earth Science Division A new study using NASA satellite data reveals how drought affects the recovery...
NASA satellites find snow didn’t offset Southwest groundwater loss NASA/JPL Colorado RiverScience June 18, 2024By James R. Riordon, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Record snowfall in recent years has not been enough...
NASA: Meat of the matter: Colorado River over-consumed NASA/JPL Colorado River April 30, 2024By Laura E.P. Rocchio The Colorado River has an accounting problem. More water is taken from the river than it...
NASA JPL: NASA-Led Study Provides New Global Accounting of Earth’s Rivers NASA/JPL Planning and management April 27, 2024By NASA JPL The novel approach to estimating river water storage and discharge also identifies regions marked by ‘fingerprints’ of...
PROFILE: Rosemary Knight and Meredith Goebel: Ground(water) Breaking Science in the San Joaquin Valley NASA/JPL Groundwater News February 16, 2024By Jessica Sheaves, NASA Earth Applied Sciences writer In 2014, Rosemary Knight had access to a helicopter and an ambitious...
OPEN ET: Tracking the invisible movement of water NASA/JPL Agriculture February 2, 2024From NASA’s Earth Observatory As the world looks for sustainable solutions, a system tapping into NASA satellite data for water...
NASA: OpenET Launches a New API NASA/JPL Agriculture October 4, 2023From NASA: On Tuesday, October 3, NASA Ames’ OpenET program launched an application programming interface (API) for its widely-used Data...
NASA Tech Lets Scientists See Snow-Water Through the Trees NASA/JPL Hydrology September 21, 2023From NASA: NASA scientists are testing a technology that could more accurately measure water stored in snow as seen from a...
NASA/JPL: US-German satellites show California water gains after record winter NASA/JPL Groundwater News June 7, 2023By NASA/JPL Early data shows the greatest net gain of water over the winter in nearly 22 years, but the...
NASA/JPL: Ranking Atmospheric Rivers: New Study Finds World of Potential NASA/JPL Hydrology March 16, 2023By NASA/JPL Like hurricane categories, a scale for atmospheric river storm severity could help communities around the globe compare and...
NASA/JPL: NASA measures underground water flowing from Sierra to Central Valley NASA/JPL Groundwater News January 23, 2023This source accounts for about 10% of all the water that enters this highly productive farmland, including rivers and rain....
NASA/JPL: NASA Finds New Way to Monitor Underground Water Loss NASA/JPL Groundwater News April 5, 2022By NASA/JPL Researchers have untangled puzzling patterns of sinking and rising land to pin down the underground locations where water...
NASA’s OpenET: A Satellite-Based Water Data Resource NASA/JPL Planning and management October 21, 2021By Aries Keck, NASA Applied Sciences OpenET uses publicly available data to provide satellite-based information on evapotranspiration (the “ET” in...
NASA EARTH OBSERVATORY: California’s Rising and Sinking Coast NASA/JPL Science October 23, 2020By NASA’s Earth Observatory Global sea level has been rising at a rate of 0.1 inches (3.3 millimeters) per year...
