In the face of climate change and worsening cycles of drought, California water managers have been increasingly focused on the precise tracking of water resources. Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada is ...

A University of Iowa researcher is working toward commercializing a new method to estimate river flow, which will provide more accurate real-time data and improve water engineering and public safety.

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In a first, researchers from NASA and Virginia Tech have used satellite data to measure the height and speed of potentially hazardous flood waves traveling down U.S. rivers. The three waves they ...