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The National Climate Assessment says that climate change is already affecting the patterns of rainfall and snow in the Midwest and Northeast regions of the U.S. The report also states that intense, long-term droughts are projected to increase in southern areas of the Great Plains and West. This is the type of drought that California is experiencing right now. NASA uses satellite missions and airborne campaigns to track the movement of water through the entire Earth system – from the ocean to the sky, from the sky to the land and seas, and from the land to rivers and groundwater and then back to the ocean. Understanding how a warming climate will affect this global water cycle remains a vital goal of NASA’s Earth science mission. The cycle affects not only rainfall and drought, but also the amount and quality of water available for drinking, agriculture, and hydropower. In partnership with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA recently launched the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, the most sophisticated satellite effort yet to measure rain and snow around the planet. NASA’s GRACE mission is making crucial measurements of groundwater availability in the U.S. and around the planet. With water resource managers in California, NASA is using the instruments aboard the Airborne Snow Observatory to find ways to better track the water that is available in mountain snowpack. To learn more about the effects of climate change on the nation’s water supply, visit: nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/sectors/waterhttp://nca20... To learn more about other NASA missions that contribute to understanding climate change, visit: climate.nasa.gov To learn more about GPM, visit: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GPM/main/ To learn more about GRACE, visit: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GPM/main/ To learn more about the Airborne Snow Observatory, visit: aso.jpl.nasa.gov/ To learn more about NASA's Earth science activities in 2014, visit: www.nasa.gov/earthrightnow
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