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Data on changes in water storage in the Congo basin show how GRACE, a pair of satellites designed to record variations in Earth's gravitational field, is benefiting the study of the planet's water cycle.

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Figure 1: Estimates of terrestrial water storage in the Mississippi river basin.

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195, Washington, USA

    Dennis P. Lettenmaier

  2. Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, 92697, California, USA

    James S. Famiglietti

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Lettenmaier, D., Famiglietti, J. Water from on high. Nature 444, 562–563 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/444562a

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