Hydrological Sciences
 

Upcoming Events

Monday, May 20, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
SED Director's Seminar
Hosted by Earth Sciences

Earth’s Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) from Space: A Story in Three Acts
- Joe Santanello w/PBL Working Group: ‘PBL Science, Community Building, and Influence at GSFC and Beyond’
- Jeff Piepmeier: ‘Investment: The Long Arc of Microwave Technology Development at GSFC’
- Rachael Kroodsma, Mark Stephen, Antonia Gambacorta, Fabrizio Gambini, Shawn Serbin: ‘Payoff: The Dawn of the Hyperspectral Microwave Era for PBL Science’
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Monday, May 20, 2024
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Goddard Applied Sciences Seminar
An All-of-Society Approach to Protecting Communities from Extreme Heat
Juli Trtanj, NOAA Climate Program Office
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Tuesday, May 21, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
GMAO Seminar Series on Earth System Science
Mark Carroll - NASA GSFC
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Featured Videos

The Science of Snow: Digging for Data

It takes a lot of field work in challenging conditions to gather important snow data. This is the story of NASA’s last SnowEx campaign and those who participated in it.

SnowEx Sets Sights on Alaska

NASA’s SnowEx ground and airborne campaign is a multiyear effort using a variety of techniques to study snow characteristics, and the team concludes their final year in Alaska. Project Scientist Carrie Vuyovich previews the campaign ahead.

Water Cycle Extremes: Droughts and Pluvials

This visualization shows extremes of the water cycle over a twenty-year period (2002-2021) based on observations from the GRACE and GRACE-FO satellites.

Deep Concern About Food Security in Eastern Africa

According to a July 2022 report from the International Food Security and Nutrition Working Group, the worst drought conditions in 70 years across the Horn of Africa have more than 16 million people coping with a shortage of drinking water.

 

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