Flood Mitigation Project Shortlisted for Award
A research project on mitigating the impacts of the devastating floods has been shortlisted for the Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2019 in the United Kingdom (UK). The THE Awards…
Flood forecasting and early warning systems
A research project on mitigating the impacts of the devastating floods has been shortlisted for the Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2019 in the United Kingdom (UK). The THE Awards…
Before you read this story, take a minute to stop and look around you. Now imagine your surroundings under two feet of dirty, sewage-filled water. If you’re at home, everything…
Earlier this month the UK’s Met Office and the Environment Agency marked a 10-year partnership in flood forecasting which has saved lives, livelihoods, and protected infrastructure. The partnership has led…
DHAKA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Bangladesh will seek to improve the way it communicates flood warnings to local people in regions at risk of rising waters, a minister said on…
The number of people exposed to the risk of floods is rising. More and expanding human settlements are being built in flood-prone areas, especially in Africa, Asia and South America.…
NEW YORK, June 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Virtual reality simulations work better than traditional alerts in motivating people to evacuate ahead of hurricanes, research said on Friday, part of…
Unique, real-time street level flood prediction technology developed at Loughborough University has been commercially launched to save lives and livelihoods worldwide. Cities across the globe are increasingly vulnerable to surface…
Extreme floods across the continental United States are associated with four broad atmospheric patterns, a machine-learning based analysis of extreme floods found. Researchers analyzed relatively rare floods in the United…
A team of researchers led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has created a scale to characterize the strength and impacts of “atmospheric rivers,”…
An analysis of satellite data has revealed global patterns of extreme rainfall, which could lead to better forecasts and more accurate climate models. Extreme rainfall – defined as the top…
New flood maps for Canberra provide the most comprehensive flood risk information ever available to the Territory, Minister for Planning and Land Management Mick Gentleman said on 04 December, 2018.…
The Environment Agency and the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) have successfully deployed a mobile weather radar in Cumbria. For the next 12 months, the NCAS X-band radar will…
Weather and disaster offices have for years faced criticism for a lack of flood early warnings – but that is changing this year, experts say. MARAWILA, Sri Lanka, June 6…
To quantify the likelihood of dangerous weather events taking place, Dr Peter Stott from the Met Office – the UK’s national weather service – has helped code a computer model…
“Most people immediately think of wind when they visualise a hurricane … But the reality is multiple hazards – wind, heavy rain and storm surge” LONDON, April 13 (Thomson Reuters…
For the first time, scientists can look at landslide threats anywhere around the world in near real-time, thanks to satellite data and a new model developed by NASA. The model,…