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Intense, Widespread Drought Grips South America

Insufficient rainfall in 2023-2024 has taken a toll on the region’s rivers and groundwater and upended daily life in several countries.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey, GRACE-FO data (NASA-GFZ) available from the National Drought Mitigation Center, and DSCOVR EPIC from NASA. The fire risk forecasts and hydrometeorological analyses from the USAID-NASA SERVIR project use data from NASA’s GEOS S2S forecast model, the Land Information System (LIS), and Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for GPM (IMERG). Story by Adam Voiland.

Published October 15, 2024
Data acquired September 21, 2021 - September 21, 2024

Sources:
DSCOVR > EPIC
GRACE-FO
Landsat 8 > OLI
Landsat 9 > OLI-2
Collection:
Science in Action