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November 1, 2024

Drought Expands Across the U.S.

Dry conditions parched all but two states in October 2024 and worsened as the month progressed.

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October 31, 2024

International SWOT Satellite Spots Planet-Rumbling Greenland Tsunami

Data from space shows water tilting up toward the north side of the Dickson Fjord as it sloshed from south to north and back every 90 seconds for nine days after a 2023 rockslide.

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October 23, 2024

A Deluge for Roswell

The city in southeastern New Mexico received four times more rainfall in a day than it usually receives in a month.

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October 3, 2024

GPM Mission Celebrates Ten Years of Observing Precipitation

On February 27, 2014, the four-ton Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory spacecraft launched aboard a Japanese H-IIA rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan.

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September 30, 2024

Summary of the 10th SWOT Applications Workshop

The tenth Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) Applications Workshop brought together the community to hear about the mission status and to explore the many facets of operational and applied uses of SWOT data.

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September 24, 2024

NASA Helps Build New Federal Sea Level Rise Website

Designed to be user-friendly, the new website contains the latest sea level data, explainers, and other information from several U.S. agencies.

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June 25, 2024

Groundwater Declines in U.S. Southwest

Record snowfall has not been enough to offset groundwater losses amid long-term drying and a heightened demand for the resource.

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May 21, 2024

Connecting Water Managers to NASA Earth Data

WWAO looks ahead to new Earth data and new relationships with decision makers.

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April 1, 2024

Improving Seasonal Water Predictions Using a Machine-Learning River Forecast System

A WWAO collaboration has published a new paper on how to use next-generation satellite snow data to improve seasonal water supply forecasts using machine learning.

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March 22, 2024

Snowstorm Coats the Rockies

A potent storm pushed snowpack levels above normal across Colorado.