Increased flood exposure due to climate change and population growth in the United States

DL Swain, OEJ Wing, PD Bates, JM Done… - Earth's …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Precipitation extremes are increasing globally due to anthropogenic climate change.
However, there remains uncertainty regarding impacts upon flood occurrence and …

Spatial dependence of floods shaped by spatiotemporal variations in meteorological and land‐surface processes

MI Brunner, E Gilleland, A Wood… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Floods often affect large regions and cause adverse societal impacts. Regional flood hazard
and risk assessments therefore require a realistic representation of spatial flood …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of a physics-based tropical cyclone rainfall model for risk assessment

D Xi, N Lin, J Smith - Journal of Hydrometeorology, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Bacmeister, JT, KA Reed, C. Hannay, P. Lawrence, S. Bates, JE Truesdale, N. Rosenbloom,
and M. Levy, 2018: Projected changes in tropical cyclone activity under future warming …

Tropical cyclone precipitation in the HighResMIP atmosphere-only experiments of the PRIMAVERA Project

W Zhang, G Villarini, E Scoccimarro, M Roberts… - Climate Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
This study examines the climatology and structure of rainfall associated with tropical
cyclones (TCs) based on the atmosphere-only Coupled Model Intercomparison Project …

[HTML][HTML] Chasing rainfall: estimating event precipitation along tracks of tropical cyclones via reanalysis data and in-situ gauges

JBD Jaffrés, JL Gray - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2023 - Elsevier
Tropical cyclones (TCs) are an important water source in many regions around the world,
replenishing local dams, waterways and groundwater systems. Three diverse precipitation …

Global changes in the spatial extents of precipitation extremes

X Tan, X Wu, B Liu - Environmental Research Letters, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Understanding the variability of spatial extents of precipitation extremes favors an accurate
assessment of the severity of disasters caused by extreme precipitation events. Using a …

Future changes in tropical cyclone exposure and impacts in Southeast Asia from CMIP6 pseudo‐global warming simulations

TL Tran, EA Ritchie, SE Perkins‐Kirkpatrick… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In this Pseudo‐global Warming study, potential future changes in the Southeast
Asia tropical cyclone (TC) exposure climatology are quantified. One hundred and seventeen …

A multivariate scaling system is essential to characterize the tropical cyclones' risk

A Alipour, F Yarveysi, H Moftakhari, JY Song… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The current Tropical Cyclones (TCs) scaling system, Saffir‐Simpson Hurricane
Wind Scale (SSHWS), characterizes the hazardousness of these events solely based on …

Climatology of tropical cyclone precipitation in the S2S models

JL García-Franco, CY Lee, SJ Camargo… - Weather and …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study evaluates the representation of tropical cyclone precipitation (TCP) in reforecasts
from the Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Prediction Project. The global distribution of …

Toward a more effective hurricane hazard communication

JY Song, A Alipour, HR Moftakhari… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Tropical cyclones are among the most devastating natural disasters that pose risk to people
and assets all around the globe. The Saffir-Simpson scale is commonly used to inform …