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Forecasting system provides flood warnings to vulnerable residents of Bangladesh

As catastrophic floods worsen in Bangladesh a pilot forecasting program that was developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research and Georgia Institute of Technology is being used to warn thousands of vulnerable residents in selected flood-prone regions.

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