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Atmospheric Rivers Swamp Central Chile

After more than a decade of drought, strong atmospheric rivers in June and August flooded the foothills of the Andes in the Maule, Ñuble, and Biobío regions.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin and Wanmei Liang, using GEOS-FP data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published September 1, 2023
Data acquired August 21 - 26, 2023

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
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