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Seeing Surface Water From Space

by C. Huang 1 August 201815 March 2023

Satellite-based optical sensors can detect, measure and monitor changes in lakes, reservoirs, rivers and wetlands, providing useful data with multiple applications for science and society.

Global Flood Hazard: Applications in Modeling, Mapping and Forecasting
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The Challenges of Global Flood Hazard Mapping and Prediction

by G. J.-P. Schumann 9 July 201827 February 2023

A new book presents the latest tools in remote sensing technologies and modeling approaches for addressing challenges and meeting future needs in global flood hazard mapping and prediction.

Posted inEditors' Vox

How Many Water Droplets Are in a Cloud?

by D. Grosvenor 5 July 20183 February 2022

The number of droplets in clouds affects how much of the Sun’s warming energy is reflected back to space. But how reliable are our attempts to count them?

Researchers use remote sensing to track how vegetation affects dissolved organic carbon in waterways
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Refining Remote Sensing of Dissolved Organic Carbon in Waterways

by E. Underwood 22 June 20186 January 2023

Nearby vegetation affects the color of organic matter, a new study finds.

https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GH000136
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New Strategies to Protect People from Smoke During Wildfires

by Gabriel Filippelli 21 June 201822 October 2021

Satellite measurements coupled with inexpensive air quality monitors could help protect humans from smoke particulates during wildfire events.

The SnowEx project’s first year addressed using remote sensing techniques to measure snow water content in forested areas.
Posted inScience Updates

How Can We Find Out How Much Snow Is in the World?

by E. Kim 1 June 20187 February 2023

In Colorado forests, NASA scientists and a multinational team of researchers test the limits of satellite remote sensing for measuring the water content of snow.

Researchers model magma flow under Iceland’s Bárðarbunga volcano to spot previously undetected eruptions
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Magma Flow in a Major Icelandic Eruption

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 23 May 20181 November 2021

Mechanical modeling suggests that previous, undetected eruptions released tectonic stress near the ice-covered Bárðarbunga volcano.

Two men wearing virtual reality headgear stand beside their poster exhibit at NOAA's second Emerging Technologies Workshop.
Posted inScience Updates

NOAA Seeks Emerging Technologies to Further Its Mission

by J. C. Goldstein, A. J. Kennerley and A. Steckel 16 May 201813 October 2021

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Emerging Technologies for Observations Workshop; College Park, Maryland, 22–23 August 2017

Researchers map continental deformation in northwestern Tibet.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

New Insights into Continental Deformation in Northwestern Tibet

by Terri Cook 9 May 201813 April 2022

A new surface velocity map shows strain localized along major strike-slip features, suggesting the central Tibetan Plateau is not deforming as a fluid in response to gravitational collapse.

Imja Lake—the long, silty lake in this 2010 photo—has grown in front of Imja and Lhotse Shar glaciers (top right) in the Himalayas.
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Satellite Data Archives Reveal Unrecorded Himalayan Floods

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 8 May 201819 October 2021

Almost 30 years’ worth of Landsat observations created a comprehensive inventory of catastrophic floods caused by glacial lakes bursting through their rock dams.

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