India, April 29 -- A study led by NASA researchers provides new estimates of the world's river water storage and discharge levels.
Data on how much water courses through Earth's rivers, the rates at which it is flowing into the ocean, and how much both of those figures have fluctuated over time provides crucial information for understanding the planet's water cycle and managing its freshwater supplies, says NASA, which led the research.
The results of the study, conducted by researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, was recently published in Nature Geoscience.
Although researchers have made numerous estimates over the years of how much water flows from rivers into the ocean, estimates of the volume of water ...