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Levee Break Floods Central C
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Levee Break Floods Central California |
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A broken levee near the San Joaquim-Sacramento River delta flooded nearly 12,000 acres of farmland in Central California on June 3, 2004. According to news reports, about 300 people were evacuated from the flood region. An intricate series of levees and canals channel the fresh water from melting snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the farmland in California?s Central Valley. A break on one levy can affect the distribution of water to others. In this case, up to one million acres of farmland may receive less water during June, the typical peak irrigation month. Additionally, the change in the water level could draw salty water from the San Francisco Bay into the freshwater delta, threatening to contaminate the drinking water of many of California?s cities. The levee that broke is about 20 miles (32 kilometers) west of Stockton, and the breach allowed water from the Middle River to create a vast lake, visible in imagery taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] (MODIS) on NASA?s Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite on June 5. A false-color MODIS image taken on June 2 shows the water network before the levee broke. In both scenes, tan and bright green squares are agricultural fields. The high-resolution images provided above are at MODIS? maximum resolution. Both the June 5 [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2004157-0605/California.A2004157.2110.721 ] and June 2 [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2004154-0602/California.A2004154.1900.721 ] images are available in additional resolutions. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC |
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Levee Break Floods Central C
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| Title |
Levee Break Floods Central California |
| Description |
A broken levee near the San Joaquim-Sacramento River delta flooded nearly 12,000 acres of farmland in Central California on June 3, 2004. According to news reports, about 300 people were evacuated from the flood region. An intricate series of levees and canals channel the fresh water from melting snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the farmland in California?s Central Valley. A break on one levy can affect the distribution of water to others. In this case, up to one million acres of farmland may receive less water during June, the typical peak irrigation month. Additionally, the change in the water level could draw salty water from the San Francisco Bay into the freshwater delta, threatening to contaminate the drinking water of many of California?s cities. The levee that broke is about 20 miles (32 kilometers) west of Stockton, and the breach allowed water from the Middle River to create a vast lake, visible in imagery taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] (MODIS) on NASA?s Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite on June 5. A false-color MODIS image taken on June 2 shows the water network before the levee broke. In both scenes, tan and bright green squares are agricultural fields. The high-resolution images provided above are at MODIS? maximum resolution. Both the June 5 [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2004157-0605/California.A2004157.2110.721 ] and June 2 [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2004154-0602/California.A2004154.1900.721 ] images are available in additional resolutions. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC |
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Levee Break Floods Central C
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| Title |
Levee Break Floods Central California |
| Description |
A broken levee near the San Joaquim-Sacramento River delta flooded nearly 12,000 acres of farmland in Central California on June 3, 2004. According to news reports, about 300 people were evacuated from the flood region. An intricate series of levees and canals channel the fresh water from melting snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the farmland in California?s Central Valley. A break on one levy can affect the distribution of water to others. In this case, up to one million acres of farmland may receive less water during June, the typical peak irrigation month. Additionally, the change in the water level could draw salty water from the San Francisco Bay into the freshwater delta, threatening to contaminate the drinking water of many of California?s cities. The levee that broke is about 20 miles (32 kilometers) west of Stockton, and the breach allowed water from the Middle River to create a vast lake, visible in imagery taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] (MODIS) on NASA?s Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite on June 5. A false-color MODIS image taken on June 2 shows the water network before the levee broke. In both scenes, tan and bright green squares are agricultural fields. The high-resolution images provided above are at MODIS? maximum resolution. Both the June 5 [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2004157-0605/California.A2004157.2110.721 ] and June 2 [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2004154-0602/California.A2004154.1900.721 ] images are available in additional resolutions. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC |
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Moonlight Fire, California
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Moonlight Fire, California |
| Description |
Northerly winds drove the Moonlight Fire south through the Plumas National Forest in Northern California on September 5, 2007. According to reports from the National Forest Service, [ http://www.inciweb.org/incident/978/ ] the fire had grown to 28,000 acres since its start on September 3, and mandatory evacuations were in effect on September 6. The cause of the fire was still being investigated. This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite shows the fire spreading smoke over the Sacramento Valley on September 5. The area where MODIS detected actively burning fire is outlined in red. The terrain where the fire is burning has heavy timber, a lot of small fuels (slash) lying on the ground, and 80 percent slopes, the extremely steep terrain is a significant challenge for firefighters. The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?USA1/ ] images of the region in additional resolutions. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Northern California Floods
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Northern California Floods |
| Description |
Northern California ushered in 2006 with a series of major storms that inundated the area and left many towns awash in water, mud, and debris. According to a report from the USATODAY.com Website, at least two levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region were unable to handle the rising waters and strong winds, and residents nearby evacuated as the water-control structures began leaking. In the wine-country town of Napa perhaps as many as 1,000 homes were flooded along with thousands of acres of rural and agricultural land. The governor declared several counties in the region flood disaster areas. This pair of images shows flooding in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley region inland of San Francisco Bay. The image on the left was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite on December 10, 2005, while the image at right was captured on January 4, 2006, just days after the severe storms passed through. Dark blue pools of water swamp far larger areas of ground in January than they did in December. The Sacramento River is very wide and turbid, the sediment in the water is reflective and gives the river its lighter blue appearance. Flood control channels alongside the river help carry the additional flows. The northern reaches of San Francisco Bay are also bright with sediment, which may be a mixture of river run-off and churning of the Bay by storm winds. Vegetation is bright green, snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains is bright blue (upper right), and bare or sparsely vegetated ground appears pinkish or reddish tan. The rain-producing storms that passed through the state became blizzards as they crossed the mountains. A wider-area image [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?USA1/2006004/USA1.2006004.aqua.721 ] produced by the MODIS Rapid Response Team shows snow cover on the Sierra Nevada Mountains and across the Great Basin. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Fires in California
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Fires in California |
| Description |
The combined smoke from the Freds and Power Fires in northern California southwest of Lake Tahoe was filling in the northern end of the Sacramento Valley on October 14, 2004. This image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA?s Aqua satellite in the afternoon, when smoke had become so thick the actively burning areas of the fire that MODIS on the Terra satellite detected during its morning overpass [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?AERONET_Fresno/2004288/AERONET_Fresno.2004288.terra ] could no longer be picked up. Southwest of Lake Tahoe, the northernmost band of thick smoke is associated with the Freds Fire, while the central and southern ones are associated with the Power Fire. The smoke has risen far enough into the air to be casting a shadow onto another, thinner layer of smoke below. Smoke nestles into the ravines and canyons of the many rivers that run off the Sierra Nevada Mountains, causing them to stand out from the forested terrain. Other landmarks in the scene include San Francisco Bay, along the bottom edge to the left of center, Clear Lake, in the upper left quadrant, the southern end of Nevada?s Pyramid Lake, at upper right, and the gray-colored rock of Yosemite National Park, to the west of Mono Lake at bottom right. A small fire was detected by MODIS in that area and is outlined in red. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Flooding in Northern Califor
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| Title |
Flooding in Northern California |
| Description |
Heavy rains inundated northern California in mid-December 2002 and gave rise to extensive flooding. The above true color image (right) was acquired on December 18, 2002, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA?s Aqua spacecraft. The image shows some of the worst of the flooding around the lakes and tributaries surrounding the Sacramento and Feather rivers north of San Francisco Bay. Normally only small sections of these rivers would be visible in the MODIS image (left, acquired December 6, 2002). The heavy rains were caused by a series of North Pacific storms called extratropical lows. In many areas rain totals exceeded 16 inches. The series of storms may be related to a moderate El Nino currently active across the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC |
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Flooding in Northern Califor
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| Title |
Flooding in Northern California |
| Description |
Heavy rains inundated northern California in mid-December 2002 and gave rise to extensive flooding. The above true color image (right) was acquired on December 18, 2002, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA?s Aqua spacecraft. The image shows some of the worst of the flooding around the lakes and tributaries surrounding the Sacramento and Feather rivers north of San Francisco Bay. Normally only small sections of these rivers would be visible in the MODIS image (left, acquired December 6, 2002). The heavy rains were caused by a series of North Pacific storms called extratropical lows. In many areas rain totals exceeded 16 inches. The series of storms may be related to a moderate El Nino currently active across the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC |
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Floods in California
| Title |
Floods in California |
| Description |
Two large storms [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=12562 ] pounded California with rain and snow during the last two weeks of October 2004, bringing rain and snowfall totals to record levels for many areas. The resulting high water levels are apparent in the above pair of false color images, both acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA?s Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] and Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellites. In the left image, acquired on November 1, inky black water has pooled in lowlands around the Sacramento River (top left) in areas that were mostly dry on October 13. The River flows south through Sacramento Valley, then turns west to empty into San Pablo Bay, the body of water north of San Francisco Bay on the left edge of the image. Additional flooding is apparent along the Sacramento River near San Pablo Bay and around the Bay itself. In the lower right corner of the image, the San Joaquin River also appears to be flooded in two places where black pools of water surround the river. The high resolution images provided above are at MODIS? maximum resolution of 250 meters per pixel. Both the November 1 and the October 13 [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2004287-1013/California.A2004287.1920.721 ] images are available in additional resolutions from the MODIS Rapid Response Team. NASA images courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC |
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Floods in California
| Title |
Floods in California |
| Description |
Two large storms [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=12562 ] pounded California with rain and snow during the last two weeks of October 2004, bringing rain and snowfall totals to record levels for many areas. The resulting high water levels are apparent in the above pair of false color images, both acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA?s Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] and Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellites. In the left image, acquired on November 1, inky black water has pooled in lowlands around the Sacramento River (top left) in areas that were mostly dry on October 13. The River flows south through Sacramento Valley, then turns west to empty into San Pablo Bay, the body of water north of San Francisco Bay on the left edge of the image. Additional flooding is apparent along the Sacramento River near San Pablo Bay and around the Bay itself. In the lower right corner of the image, the San Joaquin River also appears to be flooded in two places where black pools of water surround the river. The high resolution images provided above are at MODIS? maximum resolution of 250 meters per pixel. Both the November 1 and the October 13 [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2004287-1013/California.A2004287.1920.721 ] images are available in additional resolutions from the MODIS Rapid Response Team. NASA images courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC |
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Floods in California
| Title |
Floods in California |
| Description |
Two large storms [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=12562 ] pounded California with rain and snow during the last two weeks of October 2004, bringing rain and snowfall totals to record levels for many areas. The resulting high water levels are apparent in the above pair of false color images, both acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA?s Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] and Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellites. In the left image, acquired on November 1, inky black water has pooled in lowlands around the Sacramento River (top left) in areas that were mostly dry on October 13. The River flows south through Sacramento Valley, then turns west to empty into San Pablo Bay, the body of water north of San Francisco Bay on the left edge of the image. Additional flooding is apparent along the Sacramento River near San Pablo Bay and around the Bay itself. In the lower right corner of the image, the San Joaquin River also appears to be flooded in two places where black pools of water surround the river. The high resolution images provided above are at MODIS? maximum resolution of 250 meters per pixel. Both the November 1 and the October 13 [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2004287-1013/California.A2004287.1920.721 ] images are available in additional resolutions from the MODIS Rapid Response Team. NASA images courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC |
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Floods in Central California
| Title |
Floods in Central California |
| Description |
Many California counties were in a state of emergency on April 13, 2006, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite acquired the top image. A month of above-average rainfall taxed river systems, levees, and reservoirs in Central California, particularly along the San Joaquin River. Inky black in this false-color image, the river has spread beyond its banks to cover bright green squares of farmland. Earlier in April, two burst levees along the Merced River flooded homes and farms, forcing evacuations, according to news reports. Those floods had subsided by the time this image was acquired, and the Merced River looks much as it did in mid-March, before the floods began. The flooding was not limited to the area shown in this image. The Dartmouth Flood Observatory [ http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7efloods/Archives/2006sum.htm ] also reported flooding along the Consumes, Sacramento, and Navarro Rivers to the north. These floods are visible in the large images provided above and in daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/fas/?USA1/2006103 ] provided by the MODIS Rapid Response Team. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. |
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Floods in Central California
| Title |
Floods in Central California |
| Description |
Many California counties were in a state of emergency on April 13, 2006, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite acquired the top image. A month of above-average rainfall taxed river systems, levees, and reservoirs in Central California, particularly along the San Joaquin River. Inky black in this false-color image, the river has spread beyond its banks to cover bright green squares of farmland. Earlier in April, two burst levees along the Merced River flooded homes and farms, forcing evacuations, according to news reports. Those floods had subsided by the time this image was acquired, and the Merced River looks much as it did in mid-March, before the floods began. The flooding was not limited to the area shown in this image. The Dartmouth Flood Observatory [ http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7efloods/Archives/2006sum.htm ] also reported flooding along the Consumes, Sacramento, and Navarro Rivers to the north. These floods are visible in the large images provided above and in daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/fas/?USA1/2006103 ] provided by the MODIS Rapid Response Team. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. |
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Fires in California: Natural
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Smoke engulfed the northern
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Levee Break Floods Central C
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California_TMO2004157
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2004-06-05 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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California_TMO2004157 |
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Fires in Northern California
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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The combined smoke from the
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Power_Fire.AMOA2004288
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2004-10-14 |
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NASA -- NASA image courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Power_Fire.AMOA2004288 |
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Fires in California: Natural
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
In the last week of June 200
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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Moonlight Fire, California:
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Northerly winds drove the Mo
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ncalif_AMO_2007248
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2007-09-05 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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Northern California Floods:
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Northern California ushered
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ge_06181
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image |
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2005-12-10 |
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NASA -- NASA image courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center |
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ge_06181 |
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Northern California Floods:
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Northern California ushered
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ge_06181
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2005-12-10 |
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NASA -- NASA image courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center |
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ge_06181 |
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Northern California Floods:
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Northern California ushered
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ge_06181
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2005-12-10 |
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NASA -- NASA image courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center |
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ge_06181 |
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Northern California Floods:
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Northern California ushered
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ge_06181
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2005-12-10 |
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NASA -- NASA image courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center |
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ge_06181 |
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Northern California Floods:
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Northern California ushered
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ge_06181
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2005-12-10 |
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NASA -- NASA image courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center |
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ge_06181 |
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Northern California Floods:
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Northern California ushered
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NCalif_floods.AMO2006004
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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Flooding in Northern Califor
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Heavy rains inundated northe
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Flooding in Northern Califor
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Heavy rains inundated northe
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Floods in Central California
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Many California counties wer
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California_AMO_2006103
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2006-04-13 |
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NASA -- NASA images courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. |
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California_AMO_2006103 |
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Floods in California: Natura
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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Forest Fires in California:
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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In the last week of June 200
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