Modeling Floods
Flooding in densely populated areas has remained the costliest natural hazard of all weather-related events in terms of fatalities and material costs. Past events are clear harbingers of what is yet to come: estimates indicate that the number of people residing in the flow path of high-risk floods will double (from one to two billion) within two generations. CEE researchers are developing new computational methods to characterize floods at high resolution and quantify uncertainty in order to better understand and predict floods.