Tinted detail of a photo: Fast-flowing white water rushing over mossy boulders in a rocky stream through a tall green conifer forest.
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Hydrological Sciences

freshwater

The groundwater we lose – and the groundwater we gain

The groundwater we lose – and the groundwater we gain

Groundwater is easy to use but difficult to observe. Wells can measure local changes very precisely, but they are unevenly distributed, and long groundwater records are missing across large parts of the world. Satellite gravimetry offers another view. Instead of measuring water levels in individual aquifers, satellites detect small changes in Earth’s gravity field caused …[Read More]