Floodwaters at the Confluence of the Wabash and Ohio Rivers - related image preview

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Floodwaters at the Confluence of the Wabash and Ohio Rivers

What happens downriver can be largely affected by what happens upriver in the floodplains of major rivers.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen, with image interpretation by John Sloan/National Great Rivers Research and Education Center, and Kenneth Olson and Lois Morton/Iowa State University.

Published March 15, 2018
Data acquired November 7, 2017 - March 3, 2018

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI