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Flooding in Central California

Image of a three-day flood composite ending Jan 23, 2023, from the MODIS instruments aboard the Terra and Aqua satellites.

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True-color corrected reflectance image of flooding in Central California on January 23, 2023. Overlaid on the image is the Flood 3-Day Window composite ending on January 23, 2023. Red indicates flooded areas and blue indicates existing surface water. These images are from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites. Visit Worldview to interactively explore this image.

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Dataset: MCDWD_L3_NRT doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCDWD_L3_NRT.061

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