BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Karen Clark & Company (KCC) today announced that the KCC US Flood Reference Model Version 2.0 has been certified by the Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection ...

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 ...

CHAUNCEY, Ohio—This village sits between the Hocking River and a tributary, Sunday Creek. When they flood, they can completely submerge the two roads connecting the village to the highway. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

When a storm is barreling in from the Gulf, which neighborhoods would be most likely to flood and at what depths? And can that be predicted quickly with affordable technology? A team of LSU scientists ...

For Jude Kastens, who grew up on a farm in northwest Kansas, rainfall was always serious business. Although flooding wasn't as big a problem in his hometown as in central and eastern Kansas, it was ...