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Site at JPL devloted to the study of snow, ice and
glaciers with radar NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Laboratory for
Hydrospheric Processes is responsible for programs that include theory
and experiments on snow and ice. One of the goals of the remote sensing
of snow is to describe the spatial and temporal variability of snow cover. One of the best visualizations about glaciers and
climate change, related to glacier bay. This site represents some of the
best work of visualization specialists and NASA scientists. This page
also indicates how you can order the excellent NASA Video: Glacier Bay,
Alaska, from the Ground, Air and Space. On this web site you'll find text, visualizations,
pictures, and links relating an exciting research project studying Antarctica.
The images and quicktime movies are very well done. This site has links to NASA's MODIS Snow and Ice Global Mapping Project, as well as links to: NASA Climate News, NSF's National Science and Technology Week: Polar Connections, The National Snow and Ice Data Center, Ice and Snow site, Scott Polar Research Institute, Ice Core Dating, Glaciers, Snow, Ice and Permafrost Research Projects, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC), Snowtastic Snow, Cyberspace Avalance Center, and Antarctic Warming Early Signs of Global Climate Change This site, supported by NASA, is a gold mine of information
on general snow information links, Avalanche Awareness, Glaciers, snow
removal efforts in the United States, The Blizzards of 1996, Ice shelves
and icebergs, and an introduction to the method NSIDC uses to store satellite
sensing data in "grids" For information on the geography of the wildfires in the West, check out: http://www.geomac.gov/ Search the status of the water supplies in your area
at: Water Supply Outlook for the Western United States, including mountain snowpack maps and reservoir storage graphics State Basin Reports for the Current Water Year Adolescent-oriented news about life and ice and snow Good information on water and water conservation The National Drought Mitigation Center helps people and institutions develop and implement measures to reduce societal vulnerability to drought. The NDMC stresses preparation and risk management rather than crisis management. You can review the drought histories of different states. You can create graphs of the historic droughts experienced by different states, for example, California: http://enso.unl.edu/ndmc/climate/palmer/calif.gif
If you live in California or Southern California, these sites will be interesting: California Department of Water Resources, Bulletin
160-98: California Water Plan, 1998 update. This has lots of information
for students living in California The metropolitan water district of Southern California
site. This would be of use for educators in Southern California. Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert Postel, Sandra. Last Oasis. Norton/Worldwatch Books. 1998. Conniff, R. November 1993. California: Desert in Disguise in Water. The power, promise and turmoil of North America's Fresh Water. November 1993. National Geographic Special Edition, p. 38-53 Jim Carrier, June 1991, The Colorado. A river drained dry. National Geographic, v. 179 (6) 4-35. Images: Have you used this investigation? |
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