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A Boom Year for Sierra Nevada Snow

Atmospheric rivers delivered a huge amount of snow to the California mountain range.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and snow water equivalent (SWE) data courtesy of the University of Colorado Boulder Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. Story by Emily Cassidy.

Published April 19, 2023
Data acquired April 2, 2020 - April 6, 2023

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Space Shuttle > SRTM
Terra > MODIS
Collection:
Science in Action