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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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San Francisco Bay Sediment C
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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This March 3, 2000 image of
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aster_sf_sediment
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IMAGE |
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image |
| date |
2000-03-03 |
| creator |
NASA -- Image courtesy asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/ ASTER Science Team |
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aster_sf_sediment |
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Flooding in Northern Califor
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Heavy rains inundated northe
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california.AMO2002352
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2002-12-18 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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california.AMO2002352 |
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Flooding in Northern Califor
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Heavy rains inundated northe
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california.AMO2002352
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IMAGE |
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image |
| date |
2002-12-18 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
california.AMO2002352 |
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Sacramento River Delta: Imag
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Between the two of them, the
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sacramentor_etm_1999188
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IMAGE |
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image |
| date |
2005 |
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NASA -- NASA image by Robert Simmon, based on landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Landsat-7 data provided by the UMD glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/index.shtml Global Land Cover Facility |
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sacramentor_etm_1999188 |
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San Francisco Bay, Californi
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| Title |
San Francisco Bay, California as seen from STS-59 |
| Description |
San Francisco Bay as seen from STS-59. View is oriented with the sea up. The delta of the combined Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers occupies the foreground with San Francisco Bay in the middle distance, then the Pacific Ocean. Variations in water color caused both by sediment load and by wind streaking strike the eye. Man-made features dominate this scene. The Lafayette/Concord complex is left of the bay head, Vallejo is to the right, the Berkeley/Oakland complex rims the shoreline of the main bay, and San Francisco fills the peninsula beyond. Salt-evaporation ponds contain differently-colored algae depending on salinity. The low altitude (less than 120 nautical miles) and unusually-clear air combine to provide unusually-strong green colors in this Spring scene. |
| Date Taken |
1994-04-14 |
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