Researchers Show How Advances in High-resolution Modeling Will Help Improve Storm Surge Forecasts
Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 16:21
in Earth & Climate
A report just released in the most recent issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society offers hope that a new high-resolution storm surge modeling system developed by scientists at Stony Brook University will better be able to predict flood levels and when flooding will occur in the New York metropolitan area.
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