Flood
Discover the latest commentary on major flood events around the globe plus new insights on flood risk modeling.
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Typhoon Lekima Follows a Familiar Path
The first half of 2019 had been unusually quiet in the western North Pacific tropical cyclone basin. Following the dissipation of the…
An Award-Winning U.S. Inland Flood Model
It was off to London’s Savoy Hotel for members of the RMS London team last Thursday, for the Eleventh Trading Risk Awards. And apart from the…
The Value of Flood Protection: Quantifying the B...
Whenever the U.K. is hit by major flooding, attention quickly turns to the performance of the nation’s flood defenses. Some defenses, such as…
Risk Modeler 1.11 Release: Accelerating Access t...
The April release of Risk Modeler 1.11 marks a major milestone in both model science and software. For the first time at RMS, a complete high-…
Disaster Risk Reduction: Avoiding the Inevitable
While natural hazards are inevitable, their impact on any given community is not. This is the thrust of the #NoNaturalDisasters campaign.…
The All-Peril Cat Five
Why the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Intensity Scale had five levels we don’t know. The digits on a hand? Better than three, but lower resolution…
