A systematic review of climate change science relevant to Australian design flood estimation

C Wasko, S Westra, R Nathan, A Pepler… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2024 - hess.copernicus.org
In response to flood risk, design flood estimation is a cornerstone of planning, infrastructure
design, setting of insurance premiums, and emergency response planning. Under stationary …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of key flood risk drivers under climate change using a bottom-up approach

D O'Shea, R Nathan, C Wasko, M Ho, A Sharma - Journal of Hydrology, 2024 - Elsevier
Our understanding of the key drivers of change in flood risk due to climate change remains
incomplete. Here, to understand and quantify the key drivers of change in flood risk, we …

Increasing dam failure risk in the USA due to compound rainfall clusters as climate changes

J Hwang, U Lall - npj Natural Hazards, 2024 - nature.com
A changing climate, with intensifying precipitation may contribute to increasing failures of
dams by overtopping. We present the first analysis of rainfall sequences and events …

Climate Change and Urban Flooding: Assessing Remote Sensing Data and Flood Modeling Techniques: A Comprehensive Review

A Bagheri, GJ Liu - Environmental Reviews, 2024 - cdnsciencepub.com
This review critically examines the current understanding of climate change impacts on
urban flooding, synthesizing recent findings to provide a comprehensive overview of how …

Unveiling the evolution of extreme rainfall storm structure across space and time in a warming climate

A Ghanghas, A Sharma, V Merwade - Earth's Future, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change induces significant changes in storm characteristics, particularly for short‐
duration extreme storms (heavy rain features), impacting their intensity and spatio‐temporal …

[HTML][HTML] A simple and robust approach for adapting design storms to assess climate-induced changes in flash flood hazard

N Peleg, DB Wright, HJ Fowler, JP Leitão… - Advances in Water …, 2024 - Elsevier
Hydrologists and civil engineers often use design storms to assess flash flood hazards in
urban, rural, and mountainous catchments. These synthetic storms are not representations …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the implications of climate change for Australia's surface water resources: Challenges and future directions

C Wasko, C Stephens, TJ Peterson, R Nathan… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate change is altering Australia's streamflow and water resources due to a complex
interplay of shifts in temperature, rainfall, evaporation, vegetation dynamics, soil moisture …

[HTML][HTML] Pyraingen: A python package for constrained continuous rainfall generation

C Dykman, A Sharma, C Wasko, R Nathan - Environmental Modelling & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Continuous rainfall is often required for flood estimation and water resources assessment.
However, stochastically generated continuous rainfall records are typically inconsistent with …

On the relationship between precipitation extreme and local temperature over eastern China based on convection permitting simulations: roles of different moisture …

G Dai, B Yang, D Huang, Z Yang, J Tang, Y Qian… - Climate Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Clausius–Clapeyron (CC) scaling, which indicates a roughly 7% increase in
saturated water vapor per 1° C increase in temperature, can serve as a strong constraint …

Re-inventing Bethlahmy method for estimating probable maximum precipitation

J Bhatt, VV Srinivas - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
The design and risk analysis of large-scale hydraulic structures (eg, dams) and sensitive
installations (eg, nuclear facilities) downstream of those structures rely on design flood …