Photo courtesy of the California Department of Transportation On her way to pick up her daughter from King Magnet Elementary at Downtown Little Rock, Amy notices the dark clouds of a thunderstorm rapidly approaching. Meanwhile computers at a private meteorological service is using data from the National Weather Services and the Arkansas Department of Transportation to produce a highly specific ...

Covid-19, climate change, flash floods, heat waves, wildfires: the present contribution originates at a moment in history when emergencies and their retinue of emergency measures proliferate, supersede worsen (less often improve) each other, side effects one inform transform our perceptions other. Between environmental consequences current disease outbreak, its economic impacts on clean energy ...

New York City (NYC) is an ultra-urban region, with over 50% impervious cover and buried stream channels. Traditional flood studies rely on the presence of stream gages to detect flood stage and discharge, but these methods cannot be used in ultra-urban areas. Here we create a high-resolution radar rainfall dataset for NYC and utilize citizen and expert reports of flooding throughout the city to...