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Flood Maps Can Get Much Sharper With A Little Supercomputing Oomph
2015-06-30 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A small company in California is hoping to make a big splash by providing detailed flood maps to homeowners and insurance companies. And to do that, the company is using one of the fastest supercomputers in the world. The company is called Katrisk, based in Berkeley, Calif. Hydrologist and computer modeler Dag Lohmann is one of the company's founders. He says the flood maps the Federal Emergency Management Agency already produces will tell you how prone a particular area is to flooding. But FEMA's...
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