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English sea walls get wired to measure flood risk in real time

On the shores of Liverpool Bay, ‘WireWall’ device helps engineers mount a battle against the waves.
  1. Alexandra Witze
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Jenny Brown is hoping for really bad weather. She is consulting tide tables, watching forecasts and rooting for strong westerly winds that would push the spring tide over the sea wall at Crosby, on Liverpool Bay, in the days around 21 March.

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Nature 567, 294-295 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00720-x

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