Floods are some of the most devastating natural disasters communities in the United States face, causing billions of dollars of damage annually, according to the National Weather Service. A group, ...

Rainfall prediction has advanced rapidly with the adoption of machine learning, but most models remain optimized for overall ...

WASHINGTON — A new machine learning tool can reduce errors in national flood prediction programing, resulting in more accurate predictions of where floods will occur. In a new study, scientists found ...

When engineers and planners design roads, bridges and dams, they rely on hydrological models intended to protect infrastructure and communities from 50- and 100-year floods. But as climate change ...

The 2,175-mile system of interconnected, man-made canals crisscrossing Florida, from Orlando to the Keys, has a particularly important role when a hurricane happens to be pinwheeling toward the ...

Fathom, acquired by Swiss Re in December 2023, provides flood hazard and terrain datasets that capture extreme outcomes.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed a supercomputer tool called TRITON to advance flood risk modeling. The tool uses supercomputers to run complex calculations, reducing simulation times from ...

Flooding poses significant risks to communities in wetlands and densely urbanized regions, necessitating robust prevention ...