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International SWOT Mission Can Improve Flood Prediction [1]

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Date: 2024-05

SWOT will also help scientists and water managers quantify how much water lakes and reservoirs can store. While there are about 90,000 relatively large U.S. reservoirs, only a few thousand of them have water-level data that’s incorporated into the National Water Model. This limits scientists’ ability to know how reservoir levels relate to surrounding land elevations and potential flooding. SWOT is measuring tens of thousands of U.S. reservoirs, along with nearly all natural U.S. lakes larger than about two football fields combined.

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[1] Url: https://science.nasa.gov/earth/climate-change/international-swot-mission-can-improve-flood-prediction/

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