Cool Geo-video: Mapping Mega-Droughts

This cool geo-video comes from NASA science in an effort to communicate drought risk base on past drought & soil moisture to drive climate modeling scenarios to estimate the risk & impact of future drought in the 21st century.





Reference: NASA Earrh Observatory, Carbon Emissions Could Dramatically Increase Risk of U.S. Megadroughts, February 15, 2015  - original post - click here

1. NASA Earth Observatory (2012, February 1) Mayan Deforestation and Drought.
2. NASA Earth Observatory (2010, June 3) Global Warming.
3. NASA Earth Observatory (2010, October 1) The Water Cycle.
4. NASA Earth Observatory (2012, September 12) The Gravity of Water.

NASA images by Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC) and Cheng Zhang (USRA), NASA Scientific Visualization Studio. Caption by Patrick Lynch, NASA Earth Science News Team.

Instrument(s): Model