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Tulare Lake flooding due to snowpack melt seen from space

Por: Newsweek Tech May 05, 2023

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The long-dried basin of Lake Tulare in California has rapidly refilled in the wake of intense rainfall and snowmelt.The speed and scale of the southern San Joaquin Valley lake's return can be seen in images taken from space by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on NASA's Landsat 8 satellite, and the Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) on the Landsat 9 satellite.The flooded lakebed has already wreaked havoc across nearby agricultural land,... + full article



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