H51O:
Global Hydrological Extremes: From Intense Rainfall to Flash Flood I

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Session ID#: 34405

Session Description:
Intense rainfall and flash floods are two extreme hydrological events that pose significant challenges to sustainable development around the world. The aim of this session is to provide a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and experiences among atmospheric-hydrological researchers, modelers and decision makers. The session welcomes contributions on the development of novel methodologies/models, case studies, remote sensing and monitoring approaches exploring the following topics:

-Addressing past, present and prospective changes in intense rainfall and floods under environmental changes (global warming, land use change, etc.)

-Computing nonstationarity, spatial patterns and variability, and predicting these events over short- to long-term periods, from catchment to regional and continental scales

-Developing models, hypothesis testing and diagnostics to quantify uncertainty/error in intense rainfall and flood prediction

- Constructing case studies of regional hydrological analysis in climate sensitive and flood prone regions worldwide

-Assessing the risk and socio-economics consequences of these extremes

Primary Convener:  Vidya Samadi, Clemson University, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Clemson, SC, United States
Conveners:  Michaela Bray, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom and Hayley J Fowler, Newcastle University, School of Engineering, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Chairs:  Vidya Samadi, Clemson University, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Clemson, SC, United States, Michaela Bray, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom and Hayley J Fowler, Newcastle University, School of Engineering, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Vidya Samadi, Clemson University, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Clemson, SC, United States

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

1821 Floods [HYDROLOGY]
1869 Stochastic hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4328 Risk [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Strange Floods: The Upper Tail of Flood Peaks in the US (Invited) (237642)
James A Smith1, Alexander A Cox1, Mary Lynn Baeck2, Long Yang3 and Paul D Bates4, (1)Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, (4)University of Bristol, School Of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom
A Fresh Start for Flood Estimation in Ungauged Basins (Invited) (222056)
Ross A Woods, University of Bristol, Civil Engineering, Bristol, United Kingdom
A global dataset of sub-daily rainfall indices (265058)
Hayley J Fowler1, Elizabeth Lewis2, Stephen Blenkinsop3, Selma Guerreiro2, Xiaofeng Li4, Renaud Barbero5, Steven Chan6, Geert Lenderink7 and Seth Westra8, (1)Newcastle University, School of Engineering, Newcastle, United Kingdom, (2)Newcastle University, School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, (3)Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, (4)Institute of Soil and Rock Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Soil and Rock Mechanics, Wuhan, China, (5)IRSTEA, Montpelier, France, (6)Newcastle University, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom, (7)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands, (8)University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Extreme Value Analysis of hydro meteorological extremes in the ClimEx Large-Ensemble (271036)
Raul R. Wood1, Jean-Luc Martel2, Florian Willkofer1, Fabian von Trentini1, Franz-Josef Schmid1, Martin Leduc3, Anne Frigon4 and Ralf Ludwig1, (1)Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Geography, Munich, Germany, (2)École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, QC, Canada, (3)Ouranos, Montreal, QC, Canada, (4)Ouranos - Consortium on Regional Climatology and Adaptation to Climate Change, Montreal, QC, Canada
Characterising Record Flooding in the United Kingdom (218097)
Alexander Cox, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Paul D Bates, University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom and James A Smith, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
A Metastatistical Approach to Satellite Estimates of Extreme Rainfall Events (228129)
Enrico Zorzetto, Duke University, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Durham, NC, United States and Marco Marani, University of Padova, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Padova, Italy

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