H34C:
Extreme Rainfall and Flooding: Monitoring, Forecasting, Risk Assessment, and Socioeconomic Consequences II


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Session ID#: 62391

Session Description:
Severe storm and flood hazards are on the rise globally with the frequent recorded events occurring during the past few years in the US alone. 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 models, case studies, remote sensing and monitoring approaches exploring the following topics:

 

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

-Computing nonstationarity, spatio-temporal 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 these events 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:  Stacey A Archfield, US Geological Survey, Integrated Modeling and Prediction Division, Water Resources Mission Area, Reston, United States and Michaela Bray, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Vidya Samadi, Clemson University, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Clemson, SC, United States
Chairs:  Michaela Bray, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom and Vidya Samadi, University of South Carolina, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Columbia, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Stacey A Archfield, US Geological Survey, Integrated Modeling and Prediction Division, Water Resources Mission Area, Reston, United States
Index Terms:

1821 Floods [HYDROLOGY]
1869 Stochastic hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4315 Monitoring, forecasting, prediction [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A hybrid stochastic event-based continuous approach for the estimation of extreme flood hydrographs through fully distributed hydrological modelling. (408295)
Ivan Gabriel-Martin, Alvaro Sordo-Ward and Luis Garrote, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Characterizing the Dependence Structure between Temperature and Precipitation over Canada (443719)
Harsimrenjit Singh1, Farshad Jalili Pirani1, Mohammad Reza Najafi1 and Alex J. Cannon2, (1)University of Western Ontario, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, ON, Canada, (2)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Data and Analysis Section, Climate Research Division, Victoria, BC, Canada
Evaluation of WRF/WRF-Hydro Coupling during an Extreme Weather Event in a Hyper Arid Region (451700)
Youssef Wehbe1, Marouane Temimi2, Michael Weston3, Naira Chaouch1, Oliver Branch4, Thomas Schwitalla4, Volker Wulfmeyer4 and Abdulla Al Mandous5, (1)Khalifa University, Civil Infrastructure and Environmental Engineering, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (2)Stevens Institute of Technology, Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering, Hoboken, United States, (3)Khalifa University of Science and Technology, CESAM Lab, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, (4)University of Hohenheim, Institute of Physics and Meteorology, Stuttgart, Germany, (5)National Center of Meteorology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Scales and causes of European river flooding (362705)
Wouter Berghuijs, ETH Zurich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Zurich, Switzerland and James W Kirchner, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Zurich, Switzerland
Translating plausible changes in flood hazards to potential impacts on the reliability of water infrastructure systems in the future. (455327)
Iman Mallakpour1, Amir AghaKouchak2, Mojtaba Sadegh3 and Aneseh Alborzi1, (1)University of California, Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States, (2)University of California, Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States, (3)Boise State University, Department of Civil Engineering, Boise, ID, United States
Shape-based Performance Metrics For Hydrodynamic Models (464787)
Thaine H. Assumpção1,2, Ioana Popescu3, Andreja Jonoski3 and Dimitri P Solomatine1,4, (1)IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, Netherlands, (2)Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, (3)IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Department of Hydroinformatics and Socio-Technical Innovation, Delft, Netherlands, (4)Delft University of Technology, Water resources section, Delft, Netherlands
The role of atmospheric river precipitation intensity, rain-snow height levels, and antecedent snowpack in the 2017 Oroville Dam crisis (410978)
Keith N Musselman, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, Brian M Henn, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Marty Ralph, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, United States, Leanne Lestak, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Noah P Molotch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, United States
Quantifying the Relative Importance of Flood Mechanisms across the US (382191)
Xiuyuan Li and Tara J. Troy, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States

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