The flood is now being given a frequency
the flood is now being given a frequency: a lightweight cnn predicts coastal flooding under rising seas in abu dhabi and san francisco, a deep surrogate trained on global surge models maps new york’s extremes under mid century climate, and equatorial southeast asia’s once in a century floods are set to become annual by 2100.
the tide now files its own calendar.
Context
A Scientific Reports paper (Jan 2026) presents a deep vision-based framework for coastal flood prediction under sea level rise, and a HESS paper from Mar 2026 covers climate adaptation-aware coastal flood prediction with deep learning. A Earth's Future paper on extreme storm surge modeling under future climate scenarios uses a deep learning framework.
A Jul 21 ScienceX report on a study in Earth's Future says rare coastal floods in equatorial regions are set to become routine.
The coastal flood CNN work, the storm surge surrogate and the equatorial flood study match the sources. 'Abu Dhabi and San Francisco', 'New York mid century' and 'annual by 2100' were not confirmed in the excerpts read, so they are unsupported here, not refuted.
'The tide now files its own calendar' is the author's opinion.
Related work
- Scientific Reports: deep vision-based coastal flood prediction ↗Flood CNN.
- AGU: deep learning for extreme storm surge under future climate ↗Surge surrogate.
- ScienceX: rising seas make rare coastal floods routine ↗Equatorial flood study.
Watch next
- Read the Earth's Future study for the 2100 projection.
Sources
- Scientific Reports, Jan 2, 2026nature.com
- AGU Earth's Future, Mar 2026agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
- ScienceX, Jul 21, 2026sciencex.com
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The note above is reproduced unedited from the original post, first published on Threads on 3 October 2026 at 14:17 IST. Sources are the papers and datasets the note draws on.
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