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Figure: The VIIRS Flood map, Sentinel-1 SAR Flood map, and the comprehensively blended Flood map on 10/2/2022 reporting flood extent due to Hurricane Ian.

Florida Flood Maps for Hurricane Ian

October 21, 2022

Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida on the afternoon of 9/28/2022 as a massive Category 4 storm and brought record-setting winds. As of 10/4/2022, at least 105 people have been reported as casualties of Hurricane Ian, 55 of which in Lee County, Florida. Even more people are without power or their home. The NOAA STAR Flood team has produced VIIRS Flood maps, Sentinel-1 SAR Flood maps, and blended Flood maps to report the flood extent due to Hurricane Ian.

Figure: The Red River snow cover, river ice and flooding monitored with VIIRS 5-day Flood Inundation Maps (FIM) time series products from February through June in 2022.

Quingyuan Zhang on the VIIRS Flood Inundation Maps for the 2022 Red River Flood

September 8, 2022

ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Qingyuan Zhang has collaborated with NOAA’s Sean Helfrich (STAR/SMCD) to explore and document the Red River flood in 2022.

Figure 1. Two comparison examples of VIIRS FIM products and Sentinel-1 SAR FIM products in March during Midwestern Great Flood in 2019 (SAR FIM products are available at https://rapid-nrt-flood-maps.s3.amazonaws.com/).

Accelerating the Exploitation of Satellite Observations to Improve Flood and Inundation Monitoring and Forecasts

August 4, 2021

ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Qingyuan Zhang and their colleagues have developed a framework to compare Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Flood Inundation Maps (FIM) with Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) FIM.

A hand peaks out under an umbrella to touch rainfall

Wu, International Coauthors Call for ‘Glocal’ Approach to Mitigate Flood Damage

January 6, 2021

ESSIC Visiting Assistant Research Scientist Huan Wu is first author on a new paper in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences titled “From China’s Heavy Precipitation in 2020 to a “Glocal” Hydrometeorological Solution for Flood Risk Prediction”.

A snowy Yosemite mountain behind a lake, also surrounded by snow

Cho Develops Tool to Predict Areas Affected by Snowmelt-Driven Floods

December 4, 2020

ESSIC Post-doctoral Associate Eunsang Cho is first author on a paper in Water Resources Research titled “Extreme Value Snow Water Equivalent and Snowmelt for Infrastructure Design Over the Contiguous United States”.

Tag: flood

Florida Flood Maps for Hurricane Ian

Quingyuan Zhang on the VIIRS Flood Inundation Maps for the 2022 Red River Flood

Accelerating the Exploitation of Satellite Observations to Improve Flood and Inundation Monitoring and Forecasts

Wu, International Coauthors Call for ‘Glocal’ Approach to Mitigate Flood Damage

Cho Develops Tool to Predict Areas Affected by Snowmelt-Driven Floods

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