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Rapid thawing in Alaska caused damaging river floods in May 2023.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Photograph courtesy of the NWS Alaska-Pacific River Forecast Center. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published May 23, 2023
Data acquired May 6 - 14, 2023

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Landsat 9 > OLI-2
Photograph