Suggested Citation: "3 Prepare and Monitor." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Flood Forecasting for Transportation Resilience: A Guide ...

Climate change increases the frequency of extreme events such as flooding. This reinforces the need to develop methods for more precise and faster flood forecasting in order to better protect the ...

Despite considerable advances in flood forecasting during recent decades, state-of-the-art, operational flood early warning systems (FEWS) need to be equipped with near-real-time inundation and impact ...

Google is expanding its Flood Hub artificial intelligence (AI) platform to 80 countries, providing forecasting up to seven days in advance of a flood to 460 million people. Natural disasters, like ...

We investigate whether the distribution of maximum seasonal streamflow is significantly affected by catchment or climate state of the season/month ahead. We fit the Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) ...

CLIMATEWIRE | A new government forecasting system shows for the first time roads, streets and properties that are likely to be flooded by ongoing or upcoming rainstorms, providing unprecedented detail ...

Artificial intelligence is becoming an asset in hurricane forecasting. In 2024, an AI-based model created by Google correctly predicted Hurricane Beryl would make landfall in Texas while a top ...

The deluge that surged through Central Texas over the Fourth of July weekend devastated the hill country and shocked the world with its intensity and loss of life. The Guadalupe River at Kerrville ...

In recent months, rivers overflowing their banks have caused property damage and loss of life in France, Italy, Mexico, and South Africa, underscoring the increasing perils of climate change. To ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. George Cheng thinks a lot about flooding. In his home state North Carolina, hurricanes and tropical ...

Identify opportunities to connect with other DOTs and develop partnerships with public and private entities to build flood forecasting capabilities and advance the field of research. Anticipating, ...

Over the past years, great progress has been made in the spatiotemporal forecasting of flood events. It is thus now possible to predict maximum flood levels at locations of river gauges. Until now, ...