Open data from sources such as the US Geological Survey are an essential scientific resource for understanding our environment in a warming world.
Open data from sources such as the US Geological Survey are an essential scientific resource for understanding our environment in a warming world.
Scientists have unveiled rapid fluctuations in river water temperature across the United States (US) with rivers controlled by dams showing more frequent and volatile thermal changes.
Their research was based on national scale, open data from the US Geological Survey. Such data are an essential scientific resource for understanding environmental variability between different places and over time, especially in a warming and increasingly human-dominated world.
In this research, the authors leveraged 15 years' worth of high-resolution temperature data nationally in the first study of its kind globally.
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