Before rain begins to fall, scientists and engineers can predict where a storm might cause flooding thanks to advanced modeling and digital simulations that help guide billion-dollar decisions ...

Government agencies, insurance companies and disaster planners rely on national flood risk models from the private sector that aren't reliable at smaller levels such as neighborhoods and individual ...

Violent storms like Hurricane Helene last fall have made Americans aware of how devastasting flooding on rivers and streams can be and how beneficial accurate predictions of where and when flooding ...