GC41E:
Extreme Events and Climate Change: Impacts on Environment and Resources V Posters

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Michael R Hiscock, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, United States and Dorothy M Koch, United States Department of Energy, Office of Science, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Conveners:  Michael R Hiscock, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, United States
Co-conveners:  John P Dawson, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Air Resource Management, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Dorothy M Koch, United States Department of Energy, Office of Science, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Michael R Hiscock, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Uncertainties in Projected Runoff over the Central United States
Ignazio Giuntoli1,2, Gabriele Villarini3, Christel Prudhomme2 and David M Hannah1, (1)University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (2)Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom, (3)University of Iowa, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Iowa City, IA, United States
 
Climate Change Impacts on U.S. Streamflow and Water Quality
Xin-Zhong Liang, Univ of MD-AOSC/ESSIC, College Park, MD, United States and Yuxiang He, ESSIC,University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
 
Predicting Air-Water Geysers and Their Implications on Reducing Combined Sewer Overflows
YunJi Choi1, Arturo Leon1 and Sourabh Apte2, (1)Oregon State University, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, School of Mechanical Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
Using EPA Tools and Data Services to Inform Changes to Design Storm Definitions for Wastewater Utilities based on Climate Model Projections
Jerry S Fries, Computer Sciences Corporation, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Michael Tryby, Environmental Protection Agency Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States and Curt Baranowski, Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
 
Simulating the Response of Urban Water Quality to Climate and Land Use Change in Partially Urbanized Basins
Ning Sun1, John R Yearsley1, Bart Nijssen1 and Dennis P Lettenmaier1,2, (1)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of California, Los Angeles (effective Nov., 2014), Dept. of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Land Use Land Cover Impact on Probable Maximum Flood and Sedimentation for Artificial Reservoirs: A Case Study in Western US
Wondmagegn Y Yigzaw, Tennessee Technological University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cookeville, TN, United States and Faisal Hossain, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
 
The Tale of Flooding over the Central United States: Not Bigger but More Frequent
Iman Mallakpour, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States and Gabriele Villarini, University of Iowa, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Iowa City, IA, United States
 
Improved Simulation of Peak Flows Under Climate Change: Post-Processing or Multi-Objective Calibration?
Xujie Zhang1, Martijn J. Booij2 and Yue-ping Xu1, (1)Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, (2)University of Twente, Enschede, 7500, Netherlands
 
The unspoken link between flooding and global warming – will future storms and floods intensify?
Conrad Wasko, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Ashish Sharma, University of New South Wales, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sydney, NSW, Australia
 
Inland Flooding Damages in the United States: Historical Trends and Climate Change Implications
Cameron W Wobus1, Richard Streeter1, Russell Jones1 and Jeremy Martinich2, (1)Stratus Consulting, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)U.S. EPA - Climate Change Division, Washington, DC, United States
 
Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Flood Event Types in Two Alpine Catchments
Thea Turkington1, Korbinian Breinl2, Victor Jetten1 and Janneke Ettema1, (1)University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, (2)University of Salzburg, Department of Geoinformatics Z_GIS, Salzburg, Austria
 
Observed low flow trends in major US river basins
Maryam Pournasiri Poshtiri and Indrani Pal, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, United States
 
Study on the water related disaster risks using the future socio-economic scenario in Asia
Masashi Kiguchi1, Misako Hatono2, Hiroaki Ikeuchi2, Shinichiro Nakamura3, Yukiko Hirabayashi2, Shinjiro Kanae4 and Taikan Oki1, (1)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (2)the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Engineering, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, (3)the University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan, (4)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
 
Investigation of Climate Change Effect on Probable Maximum Flood at a Northern Watershed
Hassan Rouhani and Robert Leconte, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
 
Changes in the Extreme Rainfall Events Trends and Variability in Kansas, USA
Vahid Rahmani1, Stacy L Hutchinson1, John A Harrington Jr1 and Shawn Hutchinson2, (1)Kansas State Univ, Manhattan, KS, United States, (2)Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States
 
Hydrological Model Parameter (In)stability – Implications for the Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Flood Seasonality
Klaus Vormoor1, Deborah Lawrence2, Maik Heistermann1 and Axel Bronstert1, (1)University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth- and Environmental Science, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, Oslo, Norway
 
Taking climate change into estimation of long-term flood risks: A case of Devils Lake of North Dakota, USA
Gehendra Kharel and Andrei Kirilenko, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States
 
High Resolution, Consistent Online Estimation of Potential Flood Damage in The Netherlands
Olivier Hoes1, Rolf Hut1 and Elgard van Leeuwen2, (1)Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, (2)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands
 
Climate-Driven Trends in the Occurrence of Major Floods in North America and Europe
Glenn A Hodgkins1, Paul Whitfield2, Donald H Burn3, Jamie Hannaford4, Benjamin Renard5, Kerstin Stahl6, Anne K Fleig7, Henrik Madsen8, Luis Mediero9, Johanna Korhonen10, Conor Murphy11, Philippe Crochet12 and Donna Wilson7, (1)US Geological Survey, Augusta, ME, United States, (2)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (3)University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (4)Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom, (5)IRSTEA Lyon, Villeurbanne Cedex, France, (6)Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Freiberg, Germany, (7)Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, Oslo, Norway, (8)DHI, Horsholm, Denmark, (9)Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, (10)Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (11)National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland, (12)Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland
 
Seasonal Precipitation Variability Associated with Climate Change and Impacts on Vermont Flood Risk
Justin Guilbert1, Arne Bomblies1 and Donna Rizzo2, (1)University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States, (2)Univ Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States
 
Development of a Simple Framework to Assess Hydrological Extremes using Solely Climate Data
Etienne Foulon1, Patrick Gagnon2 and Alain N Rousseau1, (1)Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Eau Terre Environnement INRS-ETE, Quebec City, QC, Canada, (2)Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada - AAC, Québec City, QC, Canada
 
Evaluation of Potential Wetlands to Reduce Peak Flows in Future Climate Scenarios in the Eagle Creek Watershed, IN
Kelli M Walters and Meghna Babbar-Sebens, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States