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CSDMS, INSTAAR, University of Colorado |
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Campus Box 450 |
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River Watch Version 1 (discontinued) |
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Yellow: low flow or ice-covered |
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Technical Summary |
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Blue: normal |
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Purple: flood |
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Crosses (red and yellow): from gaging station data |
Satellite Gauging Site Locations |
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Red: major flood |
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NASA/JAXA AMSR-E data (Ashcroft, P., and Wentz, F., 2006, updated daily, AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness
Temperatures V002, Boulder, Colorado USA,
National Snow and Ice Data Center) |
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discharge at over 2500 selected river measurement sites. |
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testing and calibrating the several thousand river measurement points in this
display. |
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| Sample Results |
Recent AGU presentation |
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| Regional Displays |
(To access estimated discharge results, click on
dots in regional displays) |
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| Central
America |
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| Alaska |
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North America |
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| Western
Canada |
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| Eastern
North America |
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| Northern
South America |
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South America |
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River Watch is a cooperative
project between the Dartmouth Flood Observatory, Dartmouth College, Hanover
NH USA |
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GDACS-GFDS (Global Disaster
Alert Coordination System, Global Flood Detection System), European
Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy |
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Africa |
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The Flood Observatory is supported in part by grants
from NASA |
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| Indian
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G. R. Brakenridge, University of Colorado |
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S.V. Nghiem, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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Co-Investigators: |
T. De Groeve, JRC |
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Asia |
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Z. Kugler, JRC |
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| Australia
Region |
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| Return To River Watch Home |
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Some relevant publications: |
2007 Water Resources Research article |
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Copyright 2007 American Geophysical Union. Further
reproduction or electronic distribution is not permitted. |
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2005 EOS article |
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Copyright 2005 American Geophysical Union. Further
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2008 JRC GDACS Report |
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