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Water Cycle Extremes 2002-2024: Droughts and Pluvials

Creators

  • 1. NASA/GSFC
  • 2. University of Maryland College Park

Contributors

  • 1. NASA/GSFC
  • 2. ADNET Systems, Inc.
  • 3. University of Maryland College Park
  • 4. ASRC Federal System Solutions
  • 5. NASA/HQ

Description

In a study of 20 years of data from the NASA/German GRACE and GRACE-FO satellites, NASA scientists confirmed that major droughts and pluvials — periods of excessive precipitation and water storage on the landscape — have been occurring more often. They also found that the worldwide intensity of these extreme wet and dry events – a metric that combines extent, duration, and severity — is closely linked to global warming.
Originally published at https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5565/.

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