The 2021 Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission will measure water surface elevation, slopes, and inundations of rivers as narrow as 50 meters.
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Equity Concerns Raised in Federal Flood Property Buyouts
The communities most in need of federal property buyouts after a flood are the communities least likely to get them.
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AGU Releases Report to Address Flooding in Communities
The Surging Waters report shows how science empowers us to mitigate the impacts on people and property in communities around the United States.
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Devastating Floods Hit India for the Second Year in a Row
The deadly floods raise questions of land use and extreme precipitation trends.
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Bringing Climate Projections Down to Size for Water Managers
Hydrologists are creating watershed-scale projections for water resources managers and tools that managers can use to plan for the effects of climate change.
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Historic Solutions to Sea Level Rise May Help Modern Communities
Earthen mounds helped ancient Dutch settlers thrive in coastal flood zones. Could historical engineering help us fight against rising seas?
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Enabling Dynamic, Regional-Scale Modelling of Outburst Floods
The GeoClaw model is used to simulate a landslide-dam outburst flood through rugged Himalayan topography.
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As Sea Levels Rise, Expect More Floods
A new study unveils the increasing exposure of coastal communities to minor and extreme floods as sea levels rise.
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Calculating the Risk of Rare Floods
The first spatially realistic catalog of synthetic flood event risk across the entire United States uncovers high-risk areas and estimates the probability of another Katrina–level flood loss.
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If Precipitation Extremes Are Increasing, Why Aren’t Floods?
Improving our understanding of the relationship between changes in precipitation and flooding due to rising temperature is a new grand challenge for the scientific community, argue the authors of a recent commentary.