Just as medical imaging revolutionized our approach to human health, Earth imaging provides “right-time” data to support water and food security in a climate constrained world.
Rosemary Knight is the George L. Harrington Professor in the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and founding director of the school’s Center for Groundwater Evaluation and Management. She is also a senior fellow, by courtesy, of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Her talk was presented as part of an October 6, 2019, event at Stanford University: Accelerating Climate Solutions for a World that Works. Please see http://climatesolutions.stanford.edu for more information.
In This Story: Climate
Climate is the long-term average of weather, typically averaged over a period of 30 years. More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years.