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June 24, 2022

Our flood predictions are getting worse as the climate changes. We have to understand how hills shape floods

Sally Thompson, The University of Western Australia; Anneliese Sytsma, Colorado School of Mines; Dana Ariel Lapides, Simon Fraser University, and Mary H. Nichols

A warmer atmosphere can hold more water – and that makes floods harder to predict. To help, we improved one common tool used to predict floods.

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April 21, 2021

Ana Manero, Australian National University; Anneliese Sytsma, University of California, Berkeley; Margaret Shanafield, Flinders University, and Sally Thompson, The University of Western Australia

Some flood dangers can be hard to spot initially – to planners, developers and home-buyers. Sometimes, the danger comes from underground.