In the face of climate change and worsening cycles of drought, California water managers have been increasingly focused on the precise tracking of water resources. Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada is ...
Geologists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a technique that allows scientists to see how fast rivers flowed on Mars billions of years ago and currently do on Titan, ...
Long river waves, known as flow waves, have been measured by satellite for the first time, researchers announced May 14, a breakthrough that could expand understanding of river dynamics, floods and ...
ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. — This story was originally published in May 2019. It has been updated as necessary for 2023. Measuring a historic crest is no easy task, especially when it's unexpected. The ...
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A new study has mapped 35 years of river changes on a global scale. The work has revealed significant effects on both downstream (44% decrease in water flow) and upstream (17% flow increase) rivers, ...
AMMAN - Water monitoring stations have been deployed at the Wihdeh Dam to measure the flow of the Yarmouk River into the dam and control water quality, a government official said on Thursday. The ...
In a first, researchers from NASA and Virginia Tech have used satellite data to measure the height and speed of potentially hazardous flood waves traveling down U.S. rivers. The three waves they ...