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

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Tara Troy, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States, Philip Ward, IVM - VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Robert Brakenridge, University of Colorado, CSDMS, Boulder, CO, United States and Huan Wu, ESSIC/NASA GSFC, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Conveners:  Huan Wu, ESSIC/NASA GSFC, College Park, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Tara Troy, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States, Robert Brakenridge, University of Colorado, CSDMS, Boulder, CO, United States and Philip Ward, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
OSPA Liaisons:  Tara Troy, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
H34C-01
 
Global River Flood Exposure Assessment Under Climate Change: How Many Asians Are Affected By Flood in the Future?
Youngjoo Kwak and Yoichi Iwami, International Centre for Water Hazard And Risk Management(ICHARM), PWRI, Tsukuba, Japan
4:15 PM
H34C-02
 
Multi-decadal Variability of Flood Risk in Southwestern Canadian Prairie Rivers as Characterized by the PDO and ENSO
Sunil Gurrapu1,2, Jeannine-Marie St. Jacques1,2, David Sauchyn1,2 and Kyle R Hodder1, (1)University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada, (2)Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative (PARC), Regina, SK, Canada
4:30 PM
H34C-03
 
What Matters? The Peak, the Volume and the Duration of Floods and Their Coincidence Across the Globe
Upmanu Lall, Columbia Univ, New York, NY, United States
4:45 PM
H34C-04
 
Characterizing the impacts of water resources infrastructure, humans, and hydrologic nonstationarity on changes in flood risk across the Himalaya region
Desiree D Tullos, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
5:00 PM
H34C-05
 
To act or not to act: Can flood risk data trigger humanitarian preparedness?
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, De Bilt, Netherlands
5:15 PM
H34C-06
 
eWaterCycle: Live Demonstration of an Operational Hyper Resolution Global Hydrological Model
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, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, (3)Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, (4)Deltares, Delft, 2629, Netherlands, (5)Utrecht University, Department of Physcial Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (6)Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, 5612, Netherlands
5:30 PM
H34C-07
 
Hydroclimatological Aspects of the Extreme 2011 Assiniboine River Basin Flood
Julian Brimelow1, Kit Szeto2, Barrie R Bonsal3, John Hanesiak4, Bohdan Kochtubajda1 and Ronald E Stewart4, (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, MB, Canada
5:45 PM
H34C-08
 
A First Comparison of Multiple Probability Hazard Outputs from Three Global Flood Models
Mark Trigg1, Paul D Bates1, Tim J Fewtrell2, Dai Yamazaki3, Florian Pappenberger4 and Hessel Winsemius5, (1)University of Bristol, School of Geography, Bristol, United Kingdom, (2)Willis Group, Willis Global Analytics, London, United Kingdom, (3)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (4)European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, (5)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands
 
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