EP11A:
Advances in Modeling the Dynamics of River-Floodplain Systems Under Natural and/or Anthropogenic Stressors Posters

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Session ID#: 27067

Session Description:
The challenges in understanding the interactions between the river channels and the floodplains have reached higher levels of complexity due to non-stationary processes such as urbanization, changes in morphodynamics and long term climate change induced stressors such as sea level rise and increased frequency of extreme weather events. The evolution of the river-floodplain Systems can be attributed to the short-term stressors or shocks that can occur individually, simultaneously, successively or by a combination of events that are not themselves extreme but lead to extreme flow patterns over a floodplain when combined (e.g., storm surge and precipitation-induced high river discharge, dam failures/removal, snow melt, sediment transport, etc.). This session seeks contributions from researchers who are focused on holistic and cross-disciplinary modeling approaches to better understand the importance of the dynamic evolution of floodplain and main channels on the overall variability of water resources and floods.
Primary Convener:  Firas Saleh, Stevens Institute of Technology, Davidson Laboratory, Deptartment of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering, Union City, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Venkatsundar Ramaswamy, Stevens Institute of Technology, Davidson Laboratory, Deptartment of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering, Union City, NJ, United States
Chairs:  Venkatsundar Ramaswamy, Stevens Institute of Technology, Davidson Laboratory, Deptartment of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering, Union City, NJ, United States and Firas Saleh, Stevens Institute of Technology, Davidson Laboratory, Deptartment of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering, Union City, NJ, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Venkatsundar Ramaswamy, Stevens Institute of Technology, Davidson Laboratory, Deptartment of Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering, Union City, NJ, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

1641 Sea level change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4321 Climate impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Combined Climate and Flow Abstraction Impacts on an Aggrading Alpine River (207630)
Maarten Bakker1, Anna Costa2, Tiago Adrião Silva3, Laura Stutenbecker4, S Girardclos5, Jean-Luc Loizeau3, Peter Molnar6, Fritz Schlunegger4 and Stuart N Lane1, (1)University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Lausanne, Switzerland, (2)ETH - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)University of Geneva, Insitute F.-A. Forel, Geneva, Switzerland, (4)University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences, Bern, Switzerland, (5)University of Geneva, Genève, Switzerland, (6)ETH Zurich, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland
Hydrograph Predictions of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods From an Ice-Dammed Lake (Invited) (206701)
Scott W McCoy, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, United States, Jonathan Jacquet, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Daniel McGrath, Colorado State University, Department of Geosciences, Fort Collins, United States, Robert Koschitzki, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany and Jorge Okuinghttons, Ministry of Public Works, Santiago, Chile
The hydrologic pendulum: How novel data-driven analysis approaches and sensor data can cast new light on the old problem of discharge forecasting (Invited) (257030)
Laurel Larsen1, Dino G. Bellugi2, Hongxu Ma3 and Christopher Tennant1, (1)University of California Berkeley, Geography, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Geography, Berkeley, United States, (3)Google, Mountain View, United States
Compound flooding: examples, methods, and challenges (Invited) (218332)
Thomas Wahl, University of Central Florida, Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, Orlando, United States
Exploring applications of GPR methodology and uses in determining floodplain function of restored streams in the Gulf Coastal Plain, Alabama (263957)
Samantha Waverley Eckes, Auburn University, Department of Geosciences, Auburn, AL, United States and Stephanie L Shepherd, Auburn University, Department of Geoscience, Auburn, AL, United States
An iterative and integrative approach to modeling the morphological alterations in backwater condition: A case study of Darby Creek, PA (273034)
Hossein Hosseiny, Villanova University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Villanova, PA, United States and Virginia B Smith, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, United States
Hydrodynamic Modeling to Assess the Impact of Man-Made Fishing Canals on Floodplain Dynamics: A Case Study in the Logone Floodplain (277628)
Apoorva R Shastry1, Michael T Durand2, Alfonso Fernandez3, Sui Chian Phang4, Ian Hamilton4, Sarah Laborde5, Bryan G Mark6, Mark Moritz5 and Jeffrey C Neal7, (1)The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)Universidad de Concepción, Geography, Concepción, Chile, (4)Ohio State University, Evolution Ecology and Organismal Biology, Columbus, OH, United States, (5)Ohio State University, Anthropology, Columbus, OH, United States, (6)Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, (7)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom
MORPHODYNAMIC RESPONSES OF A RIVER-FLOODPLAIN SYSTEM TO A CHUTE CUTOFF: NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF MULTIPLE ACTIVE FACTORS (289121)
Zhi Li, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States and Marcelo H Garcia, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States

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