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This site is a US Global Change Research Program Seminar, dated 23 November 1998. It consists of a series or reports that help students to understand how water has been used to transform desert regions into productive and livable environments.
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Robowell is an automated process for monitoring selected ground-water-quality properties and constituents. It was developed to provide a cost effective monitoring system that met protocols expected for manual sampling. Users have access to real-time water quality data. There are also links to other water quality sites.
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The
Harmful
Algal
Bloom
(HAB)
Project
develops
and
supports
systems
that
provide
information
on
the
location
and
extent
of
red
tide
blooms
in
the
Gulf
of
Mexico.
The
Experimental
HAB
bulletin
alerts
subscribers
to
developing
blooms
and
changes
in
the
location
and
extent
of
existing
blooms.
The
HAB
Mapping
System
(HABMapS)
provides
the
position
of
an
identified
bloom
and
data
from
environmental
conditions
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This article on the strategic importance of water in the Middle East includes maps of the region and descriptions of the water sources, and addresses pollution sources, sources of present and past conflicts, and suggestons for solutions. Countries included in the report are Egypt, Suda, Ethiopia, Saudia Arabia, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority.
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This page presents a narrative history of the Colorado River Compact, which has provided the management framework for this natural resource since 1922.
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This article describes how astronomers from the European Space Agency (ESA) have discovered thermal emission lines from interstellar water vapor using the spectrometers aboard ESA's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO).
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This site presents average ice conditions estimated using satellite passive microwave data for the most recent month available, as well as snapshots of trends and anomalies that compare these recent conditions with the mean for the month.
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This
site
contains
information
about
snow,
glaciers,
permafrost,
sea
ice
and
cryospheric
trends.
The
cryosphere
is
the
portion
of
the
Earth's
surface
where
water
is
in
a
solid
form,
usually
snow
or
ice.
Seasonal
snow
cover,
the
largest
component
of
the
cryosphere,
covers
up
to
33
percent
of
the
Earth's
total
land
surface.
Glaciers
and
ice
sheets
cover
about
10
percent
of
the
Earth's
land
area.
Nearly
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This site provides information on several microscopic marine algae which are toxic to humans. Examples include Alexandrium, Dinophysis, Pseudo-nitzschia multiseries, and Domoic acid.
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Contained on this page are satellite images pointed over different severe storm and special weather event areas. Each event has imagery that has been captured in the visible, infrared and water vapor frequencies. Locations vary depending upon current weather events.
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