Coastal Flooding (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center

Coastal Flooding

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Flooding from hurricane storm surge can devastate lives and property. A new method yields substantially smaller errors in water level estimates from computer simulations. The work won a NHERI DesignSafe Dataset Award 2021. Photo of Kinston, North Carolina, on October 14, 2016.

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