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Major midwest flood risk underestimated by as much as five feet, study finds
2015-06-30 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: As floodwaters surge along major rivers in the midwestern United States, a new study from Washington University in St. Louis suggests federal agencies are underestimating historic 100-year flood levels on these rivers by as much as five feet, a miscalculation that has serious implications for future flood risks, flood insurance and business development in an expanding floodplain. "This analysis shows that average high-water marks on these river systems are rising about an inch per year -- that's...
Flood Maps Can Get Much Sharper With A Little Supercomputing Oomph
2015-06-30 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A small company in California is hoping to make a big splash by providing detailed flood maps to homeowners and insurance companies. And to do that, the company is using one of the fastest supercomputers in the world. The company is called Katrisk, based in Berkeley, Calif. Hydrologist and computer modeler Dag Lohmann is one of the company's founders. He says the flood maps the Federal Emergency Management Agency already produces will tell you how prone a particular area is to flooding. But FEMA's...
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VIDEO: Recovering from Ghana's flood damage
2015-06-26 17:37:05| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Can the Ghanaian economy keep its head above water following the floods in the capital?
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Boulder scientist ties severity Colorado's 2013 flood climate change
2015-06-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Camera: The severe effects of the flooding across Colorado's northern Front Range in September 2013 and other recent extreme weather events likely were enhanced by human-caused global warming, according to a paper published Monday on which a Boulder scientist is the lead author. Severe storm events always have formed, and will continue to do so, out of the natural chaos of global weather. But the argument advanced by Kevin Trenberth, distinguished senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric...
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Unnatural Disaster: How Warming Helped Cause India Catastrophic Flood
2015-06-23 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Two years ago this month, a flood devastated the Himalayan village of Kedarnath, India, the destination of half a million Hindu pilgrims annually. The town sits 11,500 feet up in a tight valley. Sharp, snowy peaks tower on three sides and a stone temple sits at one end. The flood which occurred on June 17, 2013 was Indias worst disaster in a decade. Several thousand people drowned. The deluge tore apart dozens of bridges, swept away miles of paved roads, and carried off herds of livestock. ...
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