Climate change and the hydropower sector: A global review

A Wasti, P Ray, S Wi, C Folch… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Renewable sources of electricity, such as solar and wind, need to be paired with sources of
reliable baseload. Hydropower is a renewable, low‐emission source of electricity baseload …

[HTML][HTML] The impacts of urbanisation and climate change on urban flooding and urban water quality: A review of the evidence concerning the United Kingdom

JD Miller, M Hutchins - Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Study region United Kingdom (UK). Study focus Climate change and urbanization
pose significant threats for flooding and water quality in urban areas. This paper reviews the …

If precipitation extremes are increasing, why aren't floods?

A Sharma, C Wasko… - Water resources research, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Despite evidence of increasing precipitation extremes, corresponding evidence for
increases in flooding remains elusive. If anything, flood magnitudes are decreasing despite …

An extremeness threshold determines the regional response of floods to changes in rainfall extremes

MI Brunner, DL Swain, RR Wood, F Willkofer… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Precipitation extremes will increase in a warming climate, but the response of flood
magnitudes to heavier precipitation events is less clear. Historically, there is little evidence …

Climate adaptation as a control problem: Review and perspectives on dynamic water resources planning under uncertainty

JD Herman, JD Quinn, S Steinschneider… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change introduces substantial uncertainty to water resources planning and raises
the key question: when, or under what conditions, should adaptation occur? A number of …

Influence of changes in rainfall and soil moisture on trends in flooding

C Wasko, R Nathan - Journal of Hydrology, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite the expectation that increases in rainfall with climatic change will result in increases
in pluvial flooding, there is more historical evidence for decreases in flood magnitude. In …

[HTML][HTML] Stationarity is undead: Uncertainty dominates the distribution of extremes

F Serinaldi, CG Kilsby - Advances in Water Resources, 2015 - Elsevier
The increasing effort to develop and apply nonstationary models in hydrologic frequency
analyses under changing environmental conditions can be frustrated when the additional …

A Brief review of flood forecasting techniques and their applications

SK Jain, P Mani, SK Jain, P Prakash… - … journal of river basin …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Flood forecasting (FF) is one the most challenging and difficult problems in hydrology.
However, it is also one of the most important problems in hydrology due to its critical …

Revisiting the concepts of return period and risk for nonstationary hydrologic extreme events

JD Salas, J Obeysekera - Journal of hydrologic engineering, 2014 - ascelibrary.org
Current practice using probabilistic methods applied for designing hydraulic structures
generally assume that extreme events are stationary. However, many studies in the past …

Techniques for assessing water infrastructure for nonstationary extreme events: A review

JD Salas, J Obeysekera, RM Vogel - Hydrological Sciences …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Statistical and physically-based methods have been used for designing and assessing
water infrastructure such as spillways and stormwater drainage systems. Traditional …