Nearly three months after hurricanes Helene and Milton delivered record flood and storm surge levels to cities in Florida, the state has accepted a public loss model that FIU helped design to assess ...

In July 2021, heavy rain fell across Central Europe, resulting in catastrophic flooding that killed more than 220 people and left a trail of destruction costing more than US $25 billion. Here in ...

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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 ...

Until now, the bespoke and manual nature of large area parametric flood quotes has restricted underwriting capacity and in turn brokers' ability to serve small- and mid-sized markets. The lengthy ...