Session 7 Extreme Rainfall and Hydrologic Extremes. Part III

Tuesday, 14 January 2020: 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
253C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 34th Conference on Hydrology
Chair:
John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M Univ., Atmospheric Sciences, College Station, TX
Cochairs:
Kelly Mahoney, NOAA, ESRL/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO; Kenneth Kunkel, North Carolina State University, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, NC and Bill D. Kappel, Applied Weather Associates, Monument, CO

The connection between extreme rainfall and hydrologic extremes seems obvious, but recent research has shown the relationship to be complex and location-specific.  New observing technologies and real-time hydrologic models are improving our ability to monitor and predict droughts and floods.  Meanwhile, broad-brush assumptions about climate-driven trends in frequency and intensity of hydrologic extremes fail to capture the interplay between location characteristics, meteorology, soil conditions, and vegetation.  This session invites papers on all aspects of extreme rainfall, including their relationships to floods and to the termination of droughts, encompassing observations, modeling, short-term and seasonal prediction, climate change, and risk assessment.  Papers exploring the causes and consequences of individual extreme rainfall events that cause floods or terminate droughts, as well as the causes and consequences of changing drought, extreme rainfall, and flood risk are particularly encouraged.

Papers:
2:00 PM
7.2
The Connection between Extreme Rainfall and Hydrologic Extremes in the San Francisco Bay Area
Yingzhao Ma, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and V. Chandrasekar, R. Cifelli, and H. Chen

2:15 PM
7.3
Changes in Peak Streamflow and Its Associated Rainfall across the Hawaiian Islands from 1970 to 2005
Yu-Fen Huang, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; and Y. P. Tsang, A. M. Strauch, and H. M. Clilverd
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