Open Database Tracks Earth's Water Cycle by Standardizing Decades of Satellite Data

Open database tracks Earth's water cycle by standardizing decades of satellite data

All water comes from somewhere. Researchers who want to know where it comes from rely on water isotopes, variants of water molecules with slightly different masses, as location identifiers. In particular, the specific ratio of heavy to light water isotopes is unique to the water's origin and processes it has undergone and can provide information on how water travels across the globe.

A New Database To Track Origins Of Water From Space

. International collaboration makes decades of satellite data more accessible to scientists studying global water cycle. All water comes from somewhere. Researchers who want to know where it comes […]

Rice University researchers create open database of satellite water isotope data

Rice University researchers created WISO-SAT, an open-access database standardizing 24 years of water-isotope measurements from eight satellite missions.

Rice University: Researchers create new database to track origins of water from space

Rice University: Researchers create new database to track origins of water from space. “All water comes from somewhere. Researchers who want to know where it comes from rely on water isotopes, variants of water molecules with slightly different masses, as location identifiers. In particular, the specific fraction of heavy to light water isotopes is unique to the water’s origin and processes it has undergone and can provide information on how wat…