When Georgetown County Councilman Bob Anderson was preparing for Hurricane Florence in 2018 with county staff, something wasn ...

Savannah secured new grant funding to complete flood modeling for all 24 drainage basins to improve city resiliency.

A new benchmark across three Luxembourg flood events shows AI weather models excel at light rain and temperature but lose to ...

On Aug. 21, 2021, Waverly, Tennessee, received nearly one-third of its average annual rainfall in just a few hours—the resulting 17 inches of rain led to one of the deadliest flooding events on record ...

Before rain begins to fall, scientists and engineers can predict where a storm might cause flooding thanks to advanced modeling and digital simulations that help guide billion-dollar decisions ...

A new cloud-native machine-learning framework called SIAVASH emulates global flood-hazard data to map design-event flood ...

As with computer models that help predict risk from hurricane winds, insurers now have more than one model to use when gauging flood damage in storm-soaked Florida. The Florida Commission on Hurricane ...

Flooding from storm surges, rainfall-runoff, and their interaction into compounding events are major natural hazards in coastal regions. To assess risks of damages to life and properties alike, ...

“Even though flooding is known to be a major issue, the flood maps in Skagit County, the official ones for [the Federal Emergency Management Agency], date back to 1984,” climatologist at the ...

Researchers have developed a new simulation model, which can predict flooding during an ongoing disaster more quickly and accurately than currently possible. A new simulation model that can predict ...