Active Archive of Large Floods, 1985-Present
Current Surface Water Regional Displays
Drought Effects on Surface Water
Master Index of Inundation Maps
Dynamic Atlas of the Earth's Surface Water
Ganges/Brahmaputra Regional Flood Management Information System
Surface Water Effects of Hydrologic Drought
Surface water mapping using the MODIS optical sensor provides frequent, wide-area coverage of changes in surface water supply. Such objective information can be used to to evaluate the impact of drought, including at many lakes, reservoirs, and other water bodies not monitored by in situ measurements.
The following documents examine the effects of specific droughts identified by the U.S. Drought Monitor, and also other major droughts, internationally, when these are recorded by the DFO Surface Water Monitor displays.
September 26, 2008: Drought in Northern California
This work is made possible by data obtained by NASA, JAXA, ESA, and other space agencies, and by funding support from the Earth Surface and Interior Focus Area and the Applied Sciences Program, Science Mission Directorate, NASA, and from the European Commission, through the GDACS project, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy.
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