The Muskingum method remains a cornerstone in flood routing, offering a pragmatic yet robust approach for simulating flood wave propagation through river reaches. Traditional linear and more recent ...

Irvine, Calif., July 24, 2024 – Government agencies, insurance companies and disaster planners rely on national flood risk models from the private sector that aren’t reliable at smaller levels such as ...

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 ...

More than one fifth of the world is at risk of significant flooding as waters rise. But artificial intelligence models could help save lives as conditions worsen in the coming years. AI flood models ...

Fathom, a research-led flood risk modelling specialist, recently launched its U.K. flood model on Nasdaq’s Risk Modelling for Catastrophes service. We sat down with Oliver Wing, Chief Research Officer ...

A new article presents a new methodology to create a watershed-scale flood model based on LiDAR data. The widespread flooding that submerged parts of the province's most densely populated regions in ...

A team of researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Tennessee Technological University have created a 2D, open-source flood inundation model designed for a ...

Four teens won $50,000 and first place at this year's The Earth Prize competition. The Earth Prize is the world's largest environmental competition for teens. The winners hope their invention will one ...

Floods are devastating. They rip asunder communities, wipe out neighborhoods, force the evacuation of thousands of people every year and recovering from them can take years — assuming recovery is ...

Rising sea levels, stronger storms and increased erosion are making life on the coast riskier and more unpredictable. For potential buyers or renters, particularly in the wake of another winter of ...

Weather models that meteorologists use to predict thunderstorm activity and heavy precipitation suggested on Thursday the possibility of 10 inches of rain — and even as much as 20 inches — across some ...