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The next chapter in flood resilience: Open sourcing Google’s hydrology framework

Grey Nearing and Deborah Cohen, Research Scientists, Google Research We have open-sourced our hydrology model to enable National Meteorological and Hydrological Services to integrate advanced AI-based flood forecasting into their own workflows. Quick links Hydrology framework Flood Hub Share Copy link × Floods are one of the most devastating natural hazards worldwide, often arriving with little warning and leaving long-term damage. Over several years, Google Research has built state-of-the-art AI models for more accurate flood forecasting , ensuring this technology reaches frontline responders to give them time to act. To help further protect vulnerable communities, we are now open-sourcing our hydrology modeling framework on GitHub for others to use and build upon. This open source modeling framework allows researchers and forecasters to train AI flood forecasting models with the same architecture and similar training data to what is used to power riverine flood forecasts on Google’s Flood Hub. …

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03 Jun 2026 18:37 UTC