{"id":982,"date":"2024-04-27T16:56:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T11:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=982"},"modified":"2024-04-27T16:59:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T11:14:14","slug":"nasa-study-provides-new-global-accounting-of-earths-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/nasa-study-provides-new-global-accounting-of-earths-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA study provides new global accounting of Earth&#8217;s rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A study led by NASA researchers has provided new estimates of how much water courses through Earth&#8217;s rivers, which is crucial information for understanding the planet&#8217;s water cycle and managing its freshwater supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California used a novel methodology that combines stream-gauge measurements with computer models of about 3 million river segments around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published recently in Nature Geoscience, estimates that the total volume of water in Earth&#8217;s rivers on average from 1980 to 2009 was about 2,246 cubic kilometers.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers estimate that the Amazon basin contains about 38 percent of the world&#8217;s river water, the most of any hydrological region evaluated.<\/p>\n<p>Estimates in the study could eventually be compared with data from the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to improve measurements of human impacts on Earth&#8217;s water cycle, NASA said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in December 2022, SWOT is mapping the elevation of water around the globe, and changes in river height offer a way to quantify storage and discharge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study led by NASA researchers has provided new estimates of how much water courses through Earth&#8217;s rivers, which is crucial information for understanding the planet&#8217;s water cycle and managing its freshwater supplies. Researchers at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California used a novel methodology that combines stream-gauge measurements with computer models of about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}