Sunny Day Flooding in Beaufort, N.C. (IMAGE)

North Carolina State University

Sunny Day Flooding in Beaufort, N.C.

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A new study finds that coastal flooding happens far more often than previously thought -- and that there are major flaws with the widely used approach of using tide gauge data to capture instances of flooding. This photo shows sunny day flooding in Beaufort, N.C.

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Sunny Day Flooding Project

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