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Spotlight: UNC Advances Hurricane-driven Flood Prediction Capabilities for Coastal Communities
The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), University of North Carolina (UNC) Center for Natural Hazards Resilience, and Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS) at UNC-Chapel Hill, combined efforts under a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to develop a better modeling approach for the compound flooding caused by fluvial (river), pluvial (surface flooding unrelated to rivers), and oceanic storm surge interaction. The resulting model advancement will help scientists represent river channel size variations and provide better insights into interactions between river channels and floodplains, as well as providing predictions to the decision-makers working to keep their communities safe during storm-related flood events.