Water Clarity in California

High sediment loading can be seen in San Francisco Bay in this SeaWiFS image. The upper corner of this image also contains one of the more dramatic examples of human induced change in a body of water, the two-toned Great Salt Lake in Utah.

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Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

Published August 14, 1999
Data acquired August 14, 1999

Source:

OrbView-2 > SeaWiFS

Topic:

Hydrosphere > Water Quality > Turbidity