H34C:
Global Floods: Forecasting, Monitoring, Risk Assessment, and Socioeconomic Response II

Session ID#: 4872

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
3010 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Philip Ward, IVM - VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, G Robert Brakenridge, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Huan Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Primary Convener:  Huan Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Co-conveners:  Tara Troy, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States, G Robert Brakenridge, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Philip Ward, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
OSPA Liaison:  Tara Troy, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

1817 Extreme events [HYDROLOGY]
1821 Floods [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
Virtual Option?: Yes
Swirl Theme: Characterizing Uncertainty

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

H34C-01
Global River Flood Exposure Assessment Under Climate Change: How Many Asians Are Affected By Flood in the Future? (6286)
Youngjoo Kwak and Yoichi Iwami, International Centre for Water Hazard And Risk Management(ICHARM), PWRI, Tsukuba, Japan
H34C-02
Multi-decadal Variability of Flood Risk in Southwestern Canadian Prairie Rivers as Characterized by the PDO and ENSO (25797)
Sunil Gurrapu1,2, Jeannine-Marie St. Jacques2,3, David Sauchyn2,3 and Kyle R Hodder3, (1)National Institute of Hydrology, Uttarakhand, India, (2)Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative (PARC), Regina, SK, Canada, (3)University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada
H34C-03
What Matters? The Peak, the Volume and the Duration of Floods and Their Coincidence Across the Globe (Invited) (4846)
Upmanu Lall, Columbia University, Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States
H34C-04
Characterizing the impacts of water resources infrastructure, humans, and hydrologic nonstationarity on changes in flood risk across the Himalaya region (20268)
Desiree D Tullos, Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
H34C-05
To act or not to act: Can flood risk data trigger humanitarian preparedness? (Invited) (5211)
Erin Coughlan1,2, Maarten van Aalst2, Bart van den Hurk1,3 and Pablo Suarez2, (1)Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (2)Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre, The Hague, Netherlands, (3)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, R&D Weer- en Klimaatmodellen, De Bilt, Netherlands
H34C-06
eWaterCycle: Live Demonstration of an Operational Hyper Resolution Global Hydrological Model (22088)
Niels Drost1, Edwin Sutanudjaja2, Rolf Hut3, Maarten van Meersbergen1, Gennadii Donchyts4, Marc FP Bierkens5 and Nick Van De Giesen6, (1)Netherlands eScience Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (2)Utrecht University, Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)Delft University of Technology, Water Management, Delft, Netherlands, (4)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, (5)Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (6)Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands
H34C-07
Hydroclimatological Aspects of the Extreme 2011 Assiniboine River Basin Flood (10635)
Julian Brimelow1, Kit Szeto2, Barrie R Bonsal3, John Hanesiak4, Bohdan Kochtubajda1 and Ronald E Stewart5, (1)Environment Canada Edmonton, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)Environment Canada, Downsview, ON, Canada, (3)Environment Canada Saskatoon, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (4)University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, (5)University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
H34C-08
A First Comparison of Multiple Probability Hazard Outputs from Three Global Flood Models (10941)
Mark Adam Trigg, University of Bristol, School of Geography, Bristol, United Kingdom, Paul D Bates, University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, Tim J Fewtrell, Willis Group, Willis Global Analytics, London, United Kingdom, Dai Yamazaki, University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Florian Pappenberger, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom and Hessel Winsemius, Deltares, Delft, Netherlands
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