COSEE Ocean Systems: News
NASA's TRMM satellite confirms 2010 landslides
Description: A NASA study using TRMM satellite data revealed that the year 2010 was a particularly bad year for landslides around the world. The work is part of an ongoing effort to catalog worldwide rainfall-triggered landslides-one of the world's lesser known but often catastrophic natural hazards. Locating them is a step in an effort to be able, one day, to predict and warn. [Source: NASA Climate Change News]
URL: http://climate.nasa.gov/news/?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=820
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Source: NASA Climate Change News
Publish Date: 11/27/2012
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