Projecting compound flood hazard under climate change with physical models and joint probability methods

A Gori, N Lin - Earth's Future, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate delineation of compound flood hazard requires joint simulation of rainfall‐runoff
and storm surges within high‐resolution flood models, which may be computationally …

Strange floods: The upper tail of flood peaks in the United States

JA Smith, AA Cox, ML Baeck, L Yang… - Water Resources …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the upper tail of flood peak distributions through analyses of annual peak
observations from more than 8,000 US Geological Survey (USGS) stream gaging stations …

Variations in the intensity and spatial extent of tropical cyclone precipitation

D Touma, S Stevenson, SJ Camargo… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The intensity and spatial extent of tropical cyclone precipitation (TCP) often shapes the risk
posed by landfalling storms. Here we provide a comprehensive climatology of landfalling …

Long term changes in flooding and heavy rainfall associated with North Atlantic tropical cyclones: Roles of the North Atlantic Oscillation and El Niño-Southern …

YN Aryal, G Villarini, W Zhang, GA Vecchi - Journal of Hydrology, 2018 - Elsevier
The aim of this study is to examine the contribution of North Atlantic tropical cyclones (TCs)
to flooding and heavy rainfall across the continental United States. Analyses highlight the …

Estimation of Atlantic tropical cyclone rainfall frequency in the United States

M Feldmann, K Emanuel, L Zhu… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Tropical cyclones pose a significant flood risk to vast land regions in their path because of
extreme precipitation. Thus it is imperative to quantitatively assess this risk. This study …

[HTML][HTML] Climatological variations of moisture sources for precipitation of North Atlantic tropical cyclones linked to their tracks

A Pérez-Alarcón, P Coll-Hidalgo… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - Elsevier
The tropical cyclones (TCs) trajectories are mainly controlled by the large-scale parameters
related with the steering flow. We used the HURDAT2 database from 1980 to 2018 for …

Estimating tropical cyclone precipitation risk in Texas

L Zhu, SM Quiring, KA Emanuel - Geophysical Research …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper uses a new rainfall algorithm to simulate the long‐term tropical cyclone
precipitation (TCP) climatology in Texas based on synthetic tropical cyclones generated …

Assessing United States county-level exposure for research on tropical cyclones and human health

GB Anderson, J Ferreri, M Al-Hamdan… - Environmental …, 2020 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Tropical cyclone epidemiology can be advanced through exposure
assessment methods that are comprehensive and consistent across space and time, as …

Spatial and temporal patterns of drought in Oklahoma (1901–2014)

L Tian, SM Quiring - International Journal of Climatology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This study uses the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) at a 6‐
month timescale to document the spatial and temporal patterns of drought in Oklahoma from …

Impact of aerosols on tropical cyclone-induced precipitation over the mainland of China

X Yang, L Zhou, C Zhao, J Yang - Climatic Change, 2018 - Springer
In this study, we investigate the impacts of aerosols on tropical cyclone (TC) precipitation
that occurred from 1980 to 2014 over China mainland. The TC-induced precipitation is …