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New Satellite-Derived River Slope Database Helps Improves U.S. Flood Forecasts

CIROH researchers have harnessed NASA’s satellite data to sharpen a critical piece of flood forecasting: river slope. Their new datasets improve U.S. flood models by more than 30%, giving emergency managers faster, more reliable information to protect communities during extreme weather.

CIROH Visiting Scholar Advances Natural Water Hazard Forecasting and Management

Dr. Sayed Bateni has spent his professional career researching and learning about natural hazards, terrestrial remote sensing, machine learning, data assimilation and coupled land-atmosphere systems behavior. He received his Bachelor of Science in civil and environmental engineering from Isfahan University of Technology in 2002, Master of Science from Sharif University of Technology in 2005 and…

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