H22A:
Advances in Adaptation Methods for Extreme Precipitation and Flooding I


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Session ID#: 61913

Session Description:
Extreme precipitation events continue to increase in occurrence and severity in the United States and globally.  In 2017 Hurricane Harvey dropped unprecedented amounts of rainfall in the Houston area, in some locations approaching 50 inches or more over a three day period.  Increases in these kinds of events are expected to continue in the future as the climate warms.  Adaptation of infrastructure to these kinds of extreme precipitation events requires the use of intensity-duration-frequency curves (IDF) modified for expected increases in extreme precipitation.  This session will explore methods to produce next-generation IDF curves that account for expected increases in extreme precipitation.  This includes the use of information from climate model simulations, methods for incorporating snow into IDF values, use of hydrologic models to estimate runoff and flood risk with extreme precipitation.
Primary Convener:  Katherine Schlef, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
Conveners:  David R Easterling, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, United States, Yonas Demissie, Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States and Anna M Wagner, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Fort Wainwright, AK, United States
Primary Liaison:  Katherine Schlef, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
Chairs:  David R Easterling, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, 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
Index Terms:

1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1817 Extreme events [HYDROLOGY]
1854 Precipitation [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Impacts of Weather System Changes on Future Extreme Precipitation Design Values (378677)
Kenneth Kunkel, North Carolina State University, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, Raleigh, United States, Jim Biard, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellite North Carolina State, Asheville, NC, United States and Liqiang Sun, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States
Characterizing Extreme Events Relevant to Hydrologic Design Using Next-Generation Intensity-Duration-Frequency Curves Over the Conterminous United States (421068)
Ning Sun1, Hongxiang Yan2, Mark S Wigmosta1, Leung Ruby2, Richard Skaggs3, Andre M Coleman3 and Zhangshuan Hou2, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Energy and Environment Directorate, Richland, WA, United States
Sub-daily precipitation classification for Australia and its implications for future IDF curves (426437)
Fiona Johnson, University of New South Wales, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Jennifer Louise Catto, University of Exeter, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom, Andrew J Dowdy, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Michael Leonard, University of Adelaide, Alice Springs, NT, Australia, Jingwan Li, Tukwila, WA, United States, Seth Westra, University of Adelaide Water Research Centre, Adelaide, Australia and Wenyan Wu, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Treatment of non-stationary in the flood frequency analysis (427994)
Kasiviswanathan Kasiapillai Sudalaimuthu, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India and Bankaru-Swamy Soundharajan, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India
How the rainfall probabilistic scenarios future can help the management of extreme events? (431873)
Angélica Nardo Caseri, National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disaster, São José dos Campos, Brazil, Carlos Frederico Angelis, National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disaster, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil and Etienne Leblois, Irstea, Lyon, France
Performance of a Conceptual and a Physically-Based, Distributed Model in Simulating Extreme Events over a Semi-Urbanized Watershed in San Antonio, Texas (448651)
Sheeba Mary Thomas, San Antonio River Authority, San Antonio, TX, United States
A Risk-Based Framework for Climate Adaptive Design of Infrastructure (467087)
Farshid Vahedifard, Tufts University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Medford, United States, James M. Williams, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, United States, Hamed Moftakhari, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, David Espinoza, Geosyntec, Washington, DC, United States and Amir AghaKouchak, University of California, Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States
Development of New Intensity-Duration-Frequency Curves for a Changing Climate (468584)
Alissa Jared1, Eugene Yan2, Yonas Demissie3, Md Rubayet Mortuza3 and Edom Moges4, (1)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (2)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, United States, (3)Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States, (4)Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Richland, WA, United States

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