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2.4K views 3 years ago. Overlay of historic maps of Tulare Lake in California's San Joaquin Valley with current satellite images. The extent of the historical lake bed is seen within the...
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acquired March 2 - April 1, 2023. These images show a wider view of the Tulare lakebed. They were acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite and show the progression of flooding between March 2 and April 1.
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Mar 22, 2023 · A 1876 map of Tulare County shows a vast lake nearly a thousand square miles in size. During that time frame, the lake was the largest body of fresh water in the western United States. If...
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The hydrology of Tulare Lake is primarily influenced by four rivers: the Kings, Kaweah, Tule, and Kern. These rivers, fed by snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada, once provided the primary source of water for the lake. Tulare Lake’s water levels would fluctuate seasonally, expanding during the spring and early summer as the snowmelt increased river flow...
Safeeq Khan, agricultural engineer and adjunct professor in civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Merced noted in an article published by NASA, “The Tulare basin floods occasionally, especially during extremely wet years and years with abundant snowpack on the Sierra Nevada mountains.” According to Khan, the Tulare la...
Blunt, A. B., & Negrini, R. M. (2015). Lake levels for the past 19,000 years from the TL05-4 cores, Tulare Lake, California, USA: geophysical and geochemical proxies. Quaternary International, 387, 122-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.07.001 California as it is(4th ed.). (1883). San Francisco Call Company. Cassidy, E. (2023, April 4). Ret...
Apr 4, 2023 · March 2 - April 1, 2023. These images show a wider view of the Tulare lakebed. They were acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite and show the progression of flooding between March 2 and April 1.
Before Pine Flat Dam was built fierce rainstorms nearly filled Tulare Lake in 1938, and in 1983 the wet year managed to fill much of the old lake as it reached the outskirts of Corcoran. According to geographical records, the area known as the “Tulare Lake Region” formed millions of years ago as geological events created a great basin ...
The images below show the progression of flooding in the Tulare Lake basin. They were acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite between March 2 and April 28, 2023.
