GregCocks, 5 months ago to california

Who Gets The Water In California? Whoever Gets There First

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/14/climate/california-water-crisis-drought.html <-- shared media article

#GIS #spatial #mapping #waterresources #waterresourcemanagement #waterrights #California #CA #USA #regulations #management #water #hydrology #hydrogeology #groundwater #surfacewater #climatechange #watersecurity #watersector #agriculture #farming #food #foodsecurity #ranching #ecosystems #habitat #drought #extremeweather #flooding #development #overpumping #extraction #subsidence #limitedresources

map - California - declining (and rising) groundwater levels
map - California - 2020s surface water claims
photo - old / hard copy water resources record map

GregCocks, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to geopolitics

See [NASA’s] SWOT Mission’s Unprecedented View of Global Sea Levels

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/swot/see-swot-missions-unprecedented-view-of-global-sea-levels/ <-- shared technical article

https://youtu.be/obIkUQtSJgk?si=Lim-RjLmOALDSt6i <-- video animation

https://swot.jpl.nasa.gov/ <-- project home page

Animation Details: “This animation shows global sea level data collected by the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite from July 26 to Aug. 16. Red and orange indicate higher-than-average ocean heights, while blue represents lower-than-average heights…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #global #animation #model #modeling #SLR #sealevel #sealevelrise #climatechange #radar #hydrospatial #SurfaceWaterandOceanTopography #SWOT #satellite #interferometer #seasurface #height #coast #coastal #visualisation #surfacewater #river #waterbodies #lakes #oceans #marine
@nasa