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Integrating urban water fluxes and moving beyond impervious surface cover: A review

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HESS opinions: Beyond the long-term water balance: Evolving Budyko's supply–demand framework for the Anthropocene towards a global synthesis of land-surface fluxes under natural and human-altered watersheds

Data Release
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Global reference evapotranspiration for food-security monitoring (ver. 2.2, March 2025)

Center News
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EROS Scientists Publish Accuracy, Guidance for Global Evapotranspiration Data

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Groundwater development stress: Global-scale indices compared to regional modeling

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Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe

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Modeling landscape evapotranspiration by integrating land surface phenology and a water balance algorithm

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Land–atmosphere feedbacks amplify aridity increase over land under global warming

Project
Global Drought Effects - A networked drought experiment and Austin Rueda, hard at work.

A global synthesis of multi-year drought effects on terrestrial ecosystems

How to's and trainings
Using Google Earth Engine to Generate Monthly-to-Weekly Maps of Surface Water Thumbnail

Using Google Earth Engine to Generate Monthly-to-Weekly Maps of Surface Water
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video thumbnail: The View from Space: Tracking Forty Years of Global Changes

The View from Space: Tracking Forty Years of Global Changes
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The global abundance and size distribution of lakes, ponds, and impoundments

Podcasts
Color photo of Matt Hansen with graphic for Eyes on Earth podcast.

Eyes on Earth Episode 33 – Global Land Change
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Engaging the user community for advancing societal applications of the Surface Water Ocean Topography mission

Data Release
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Water surface elevations recorded by submerged pressure transducers along the upper Willamette River, Oregon, Spring, 2015

How to's and trainings

Lesson 10c2: Exploring and Classifying LiDAR Data in Global Mapper
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Evaluation of the Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) air temperature data products

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GMEG Exhibit poster

Dissolved arsenic, copper, and lead concentrations in surface water within the Klamath Basin (ver. 3.0, October 2022)

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System analysis to estimate subsurface flow: From global level to the State of Minnesota

Data Release
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Water-surface elevations derived from submersible pressure transducers deployed along the Salcha River, AK, July -October 2018

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Detection of crystalline hematite mineralization on Mars by the Thermal Emission Spectrometer: evidence for near-surface water

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Pecos River, Texas

Modeling and Projecting the Influence of Climate Change on Texas Surface Waters and their Aquatic Biotic Communities

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The extended Global Lake area, Climate, and Population (GLCP) dataset: Extending the GLCP to include ice, snow, and radiation-related climate variables

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100-year lower Mississippi floods in a global climate model: Characteristics and future changes

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Modeling accumulated surface runoff and water availability for aquifer storage and recovery in the MENA region from 1984-2015

Presentations and Events
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National Water Availability Assessment Release
Data Release
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Modeling accumulated surface runoff and water availability for aquifer storage and recovery in the MENA region from 1984-2015

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Climate impacts on source contributions and evaporation to flow in the Snake River Basin using surface water isoscapes (δ2H and δ18O)

How to's and trainings

Getting Started with VIIRS Surface Reflectance Data Part 1
Center News
Color photo of "Atlas of Global Surface Water Dynamics" book

Atlas displays beauty, variety, and value of Landsat water images

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