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The Science of Snow: Digging for Data

It takes a lot of field work in challenging conditions to gather important snow data. This is the story of NASA’s last SnowEx campaign and those who participated in it.

SnowEx Sets Sights on Alaska

NASA’s SnowEx ground and airborne campaign is a multiyear effort using a variety of techniques to study snow characteristics, and the team concludes their final year in Alaska. Project Scientist Carrie Vuyovich previews the campaign ahead.

Water Cycle Extremes: Droughts and Pluvials

This visualization shows extremes of the water cycle over a twenty-year period (2002-2021) based on observations from the GRACE and GRACE-FO satellites.

Deep Concern About Food Security in Eastern Africa

According to a July 2022 report from the International Food Security and Nutrition Working Group, the worst drought conditions in 70 years across the Horn of Africa have more than 16 million people coping with a shortage of drinking water.

 

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An article in The Washington Post, entitled “The Colorado River is running low. The picture looks even worse underground, study says” concerned a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, entitled, “Declining Freshwater Availabi...

Tuesday, May 27, 2025
 

The NASA Water Insight team, led by Sujay Kumar (617), Chris Hain, and Kim Locke (617/SAIC), co-hosted a workshop with NOAA NIDIS and the National Drought Mitigation Center on drought monitoring using NLDAS-3 data. Over 70 people atten...

Thursday, April 10, 2025

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