Images & Animations Murray's muddy flood plume fills the Southern Ocean

DEA Surface Reflectance - ESA Sentinel-2A - 2023-01-06 - Murray River mouth, South Australia

Published:11 May 2023

DEA Surface Reflectance True Colour Sentinel-2 imagery of Murray River flood plume showing sediment that flushed through the river and into the Southern Ocean in January, 2023 following months high rainfall.

DEA Surface Reflectance True Colour Sentinel-2 imagery of Murray River flood plume showing sediment that flushed through the river and into the Southern Ocean in January, 2023 following months of high rainfall.

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Creative Commons - Attribution International 4.0, © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2021. Input data from Copernicus Sentinel-2 courtesy of the European Space Agency.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2050433

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