{"id":5708,"date":"2016-01-11T09:49:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T14:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=5708"},"modified":"2016-01-11T09:49:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T14:49:26","slug":"nasa-soil-composition-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/01\/nasa-soil-composition-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA soil composition maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA published a blog post on\u00a0a set of soil composition maps this week, which really show the range of water-holding capacity across the United States. \u00a0The series of maps show the composition of soil by sand, clay, and silt as well as showing the available water storage. \u00a0As expected, the water storage of Southeastern soils is not large, which means that ample rainfall or irrigation is critical in maintaining the growth of crops. \u00a0It is fascinating to see how the composition varies across the country.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the maps and read about it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=87220\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/IOTD\/view.php?id=87220<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/water-storage-conus_gis_1998.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5709\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5709\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/water-storage-conus_gis_1998-300x283.png\" alt=\"water storage conus_gis_1998\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/water-storage-conus_gis_1998-300x283.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/water-storage-conus_gis_1998-146x138.png 146w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2016\/01\/water-storage-conus_gis_1998.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA published a blog post on\u00a0a set of soil composition maps this week, which really show the range of water-holding capacity across the United States. \u00a0The series of maps show the composition of soil by sand, clay, and silt as well as showing the available water storage. \u00a0As expected, the water storage of Southeastern soils [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-interesting-weather-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5710,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions\/5710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}