All Articles Tagged As: flooding

Bays on US Gulf Coast vulnerable to flooding (10/6/2008)

3 decades of data point to troubling century ahead for Gulf bays ...> Full Article

Uncertainty Analysis Is Key to Predicting Severity of Floods, Sedimentation (9/9/2008)

Better understanding of flood uncertainty is key to helping mitigate damage ...> Full Article

Major flooding risk could span decades after Chinese earthquake (9/7/2008)

Up to 20 million people are at increased risk of flooding and major power shortages in China's massive Sichuan Basin. ...> Full Article

Global Sea-Rise Levels By 2100 May Be Lower Than Some Predict (9/5/2008)

Despite projections by some scientists of global seas rising by 20 feet or more by the end of this century as a result of warming, a new study concludes that global sea rise of much more than 6 feet is a near physical impossibility. ...> Full Article

Scientists Test System to Forecast Flash Floods along Colorado's Front Range (7/27/2008)

People near vulnerable creeks, streams, rivers may soon have advance notice ...> Full Article

Expert predicts 'Monsoon Britain' (5/9/2008)

Prepare for more floods - in ways we are not used to ...> Full Article

Mapping Earth's soil moisture (5/1/2008)

Science team designing a NASA satellite mission to collect global soil moisture measurements and other data seen as key to improving weather, flood and drought forecasts and predictions of agricultural productivity and climate change. ...> Full Article

Better Dams, Levees, Embankments: Soil Type And Compaction Factors Can Make Soil 1,000 Times More Resistant To Erosion (4/10/2008)

Researcher develops tool to evaluate the condition of streams and dam embankments ...> Full Article

Current Major Flooding in U.S. a Sign of Things to Come (3/24/2008)

Major floods striking America's heartland in March offer a preview of the spring seasonal outlook, according to NOAA's National Weather Service. Several factors will contribute to above-average flood conditions, including record rainfall in some states and snow packs, which are melting and causing rivers and streams to crest over their banks. The week of March 15, more than 250 communities in a dozen states are experiencing flood conditions. ...> Full Article

Are existing large-scale simulations of water dynamics wrong? (3/13/2008)

Researchers find that a much smaller spatial resolution should be used for modeling soil water ...> Full Article

Heavy rainfall on the increase (2/21/2008)

Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have found that winter precipitation - such as rain and snow - became more intense in the UK during the last 100 years. ...> Full Article

As A River Runs Through It, A Death Valley Stream Offers Insights Into Flooding And Climate Change (2/11/2008)

Death Valley may be known by its three superlatives: hottest, driest, and lowest - as in temperature, rainfall, and elevation in the United States. But it was the flow of water through the National Park that attracted Boston College Asst. Prof. of Geology and Geophysics Noah P. Snyder to the desert of eastern California. ...> Full Article

Mapping of Greenland may aid understanding of sea-level mystery (1/16/2008)

A University of Alberta Arctic ice researcher is closing in on some real understanding about the process that might be feeding rising sea levels. ...> Full Article

Study suggests future sea-level rises may be even higher than predicted (12/25/2007)

A new study of past sea levels shows that they rose by an average of 1.6 metres every one hundred years the last time the Earth was as warm as it is predicted to be later this century, with levels reaching up to six metres above those seen today. The findings suggest that current predictions of sea-level rises may be too low. ...> Full Article

Ancient Flood Disrupted Ocean Circulation And Triggered Climate Cooling (12/20/2007)

As the giant North American ice sheets melted an enormous pool of freshwater, many times larger than all of the Great Lakes, formed behind them. About 8400 years ago this pool of freshwater burst free and flooded the North Atlantic. About the same time, a sharp century long cold spell is observed around the North Atlantic and other areas. Researchers have often speculated that the cooling was the result of changes in ocean circulation triggered by this freshwater flood. The sudden addition of so much freshwater would have curtailed (suppressed) the sinking of deep water in the North Atlantic and as a consequence less warm water would be pulled north in the Gulf stream. ...> Full Article

'Noah's flood' kick-started European farming (11/20/2007)

The flood believed to be behind the Noah's Ark myth kick-started European agriculture, according to new research by the Universities of Exeter and Wollongong, Australia. Published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, the research paper assesses the impact of the collapse of the North American (Laurentide) Ice Sheet, 8000 years ago. The results indicate a catastrophic rise in global sea level led to the flooding of the Black Sea and drove dramatic social change across Europe. The research team argues that, in the face of rising sea levels driven by contemporary climate change, we can learn important lessons from the past. ...> Full Article

Catastrophic Flooding Changes The Course Of British History (7/20/2007)

A catastrophic megaflood separated Britain from France hundreds of thousands of years ago, changing the course of British history, according to research published in the journal Nature today. ...> Full Article