GRACE 15-Year Groundwater Trends

  • Released Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
  • Updated Friday, August 25th, 2023 at 12:09AM
  • ID: 4627

NASA scientists used GRACE data to identify regional trends of freshwater movement, and combined that information with data from other satellites, climate models and precipitation measurements to determine the causes of major regional trends in freshwater storage. In these visualizations, the colors represent liquid water equivalent thinckness, while the animated graph overlay represents the terrestrial water storage anomaly.


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NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio


Datasets used in this visualization

Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)
Terra and Aqua BMNG (A.K.A. Blue Marble: Next Generation) (Collected with the MODIS sensor)

Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).

Dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/

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