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The water delivered by winter storms in 2022-2023 is likely insufficient to reverse the longer-term depletion of California’s groundwater.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and chart data courtesy of Pang-Wei Liu and Jay Famiglietti. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published February 13, 2023
Data acquired November 18, 2022 - January 29, 2023

Sources:
GRACE
GRACE-FO
Landsat 8 > OLI
Landsat 9 > OLI-2