Session 8 Extreme Rainfall and Hydrologic Extremes - IV

Tuesday, 14 January 2020: 3:00 PM-4:00 PM
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:
3:00 PM
8.1
Progress on flash flood verification and excessive rainfall related QPF products from the HRRR model
E. P. James, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO; and T. Alcott, C. Alexander, and M. Erickson

3:15 PM
8.2
21st Century Tools for Extreme Rainfall and Flood Prediction in Colorado
Bill McCormick, Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water Resources, Denver, CO; and M. Perry

3:30 PM
8.3
Partnerships for Real-Time Flood Inundation Mapping Capabilities across the Federal Enterprise
Mary Erickson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Osler, J. Murphy, T. Graziano, and E. Clark

3:45 PM
8.4
Towards Near Real-Time Forecast Flood Inundation Map Services
Fernando Salas, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and B. Bates, M. Stone, S. Crawley, D. Giardino, B. A. Cosgrove, D. Djokic, M. J. Glaudemans, D. jones, E. Clark, and T. Graziano

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