HOUSTON – As hurricane season approaches, the Houston Community College unveiled its plans for a $30 million flood simulation center on Tuesday. Officials presented renderings of the five-acre flood ...

LYON’S, COLO (July 26, 2022) – Extreme flooding is the second deadliest of all weather-related hazards in the United States. In recent years few places have seen this more than the Gulf Coast from ...

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 ...

Houston Community College on Tuesday announced a disaster mitigation program — including a roughly $30 million flood simulation center — to train first responders, businesses and community members for ...

Attribution researches the influence of climate change on local weather and impacts. We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around ...

First, a nationally unified spatial data governance framework for disaster prevention must be established. At present, geographic data maintained by the Ministry of the Interior, the Water Resources ...

According to the United States Geological Survey, “more than 75% of declared Federal disasters are related to floods, and annual flood losses average almost $8 billion with over 90 fatalities per year ...