H23L:
Advances in Characterizing Extreme Storms, Flood Risk, and Flood Risk Management III

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Session ID#: 34268

Session Description:
Severe storm and flood related disaster events are on the rise globally with three of the highest recorded events occurring during the past six years in the US alone. The increasing trend is expected to continue in the future due to the warming of the earth and the intensification of the hydrological cycle. Adaptation to this trend requires proper design and management of stormwater facilities using improved characterization of the intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) of storms and associated flooding risk by considering their nonstationarity, impacts of snow, and underlying hydrometeorological phenomena. This session invites contributions on development and application of 1) the next-generation of IDF curves considering nonstationary climate, 2) downscaling and bias correction techniques targeting extreme precipitations, 3) methodologies for characterizing snow effects on IDF curves, 4) hydrologic models to estimate runoff and flooding risks associated with design storms, 5) design approaches to managing flood risk under nonstationarity and climate uncertainty.
Primary Convener:  Yonas Demissie, Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States
Conveners:  Anna M Wagner, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Fort Wainwright, AK, United States, Casey Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States and Kenneth Kunkel, CICS-NC/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States
Chairs:  Kenneth Kunkel, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS), North Carolina State University, and NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), Asheville, NC, United States and Yonas Demissie, Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Yonas Demissie, Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1817 Extreme events [HYDROLOGY]
1821 Floods [HYDROLOGY]
4321 Climate impact [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4343 Preparedness and planning [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Evaluate Hydrologic Response on Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Rainfall Using High Resolution Radar Rainfall Data and WRF-Hydro Model (291010)
Shang Gao, University of Texas at Arlington, Civil Engineering, Arlington, TX, United States and Nick Z. Fang, Univ of TX-Arlington-Civil Eng, Arlington, TX, United States
Automatic Feature Selection and Weighting for the Formation of Homogeneous Groups for Regional Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) Curve Estimation (245075)
Zhe Yang, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada and Donald H Burn, University of Waterloo, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Space-time precipitation extremes for urban hydrology (Invited) (248950)
Andras Bardossy, University of Stuttgart, Chair of Hydrology and Geohydrology, Stuttgart, Germany and Geoffrey G S Pegram, Univ Natal, Durban, South Africa
Beyond Traditional Extreme Value Theory Through a Metastatistical Approach: Lessons Learned from Precipitation, Hurricanes, and Storm Surges (238519)
Marco Marani, University of Padova, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Padova, Italy, Enrico Zorzetto, Duke University, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Durham, NC, United States, Seyed Reza Hosseini, Polytechnic Milan, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Milano, Italy, Arianna Miniussi, University of Padova, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Padova, Italy and Marco Scaioni, Polytechnic Milan, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Milan, Italy
Anthropogenic Warming Impacts on Today's Sierra Nevada Snowpack and Flood Severity (294457)
Xingying Huang, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Alexander D Hall, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Neil Berg, RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA, United States
Trading Space for Time in Design Storm Estimation Using Radar Data (249142)
Uwe Haberlandt, Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources Management, Leibniz University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany and Christian Berndt, Leibniz University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany

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