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Want to know where and when the next major river flood will hit? Just look up to the satellites.

Conventional estimates of river volume come from rainfall, of course, and from measurement of the water that seeps from soil and groundwater reserves.

But NASA's gray satellites for gravity recovery

and climate experiment can pick up changes in the gravity field in a given river basin. The more

water in the basin, the higher the gravity signal. Scientists used grace results from 2003 to 2012

to see if they could have predicted the 500-year flooding event in the Missouri River Basin in 2011.

Proceeding the flood were two significant storms, record snow melt, saturated soils, and particularly high groundwater.

With grace data, the researchers found that they could have predicted the Missouri River floods

months before current prediction models. They say that the technique could be used to forecast floods

up to

11 months before such events take place in areas where snowmelt or groundwater is a significant

contribution. The research was published in the journal Nature Geoscience. Snowmelt and major

rainstorms are predicted to increase with climate change, which puts a premium on better flood

prediction. Thanks for the minute.

For Scientific American 60 Second Science, I'm Cynthia Graver.