Challenges in modeling and predicting floods and droughts: A review

MI Brunner, L Slater, LM Tallaksen… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Predictions of floods, droughts, and fast drought‐flood transitions are required at different
time scales to develop management strategies targeted at minimizing negative societal and …

Copulas for hydroclimatic analysis: A practice‐oriented overview

F Tootoonchi, M Sadegh, JO Haerter… - Wiley …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
A warming climate is associated with increasing hydroclimatic extremes, which are often
interconnected through complex processes, prompting their concurrence and/or succession …

Compounding effects of sea level rise and fluvial flooding

HR Moftakhari, G Salvadori, A AghaKouchak… - Proceedings of the …, 2017‏ - pnas.org
Sea level rise (SLR), a well-documented and urgent aspect of anthropogenic global
warming, threatens population and assets located in low-lying coastal regions all around the …

Increasing risk of compound flooding from storm surge and rainfall for major US cities

T Wahl, S Jain, J Bender, SD Meyers… - Nature Climate …, 2015‏ - nature.com
When storm surge and heavy precipitation co-occur, the potential for flooding in low-lying
coastal areas is often much greater than from either in isolation. Knowing the probability of …

A century of observations reveals increasing likelihood of continental-scale compound dry-hot extremes

MR Alizadeh, J Adamowski, MR Nikoo… - Science …, 2020‏ - science.org
Using over a century of ground-based observations over the contiguous United States, we
show that the frequency of compound dry and hot extremes has increased substantially in …

Global warming and changes in risk of concurrent climate extremes: Insights from the 2014 California drought

A AghaKouchak, L Cheng, O Mazdiyasni… - Geophysical …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Global warming and the associated rise in extreme temperatures substantially increase the
chance of concurrent droughts and heat waves. The 2014 California drought is an archetype …

Multivariate C opula A nalysis T oolbox (MvCAT): describing dependence and underlying uncertainty using a B ayesian framework

M Sadegh, E Ragno… - Water Resources …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
We present a newly developed Multivariate Copula Analysis Toolbox (MvCAT) which
includes a wide range of copula families with different levels of complexity. MvCAT employs …

Multivariate statistical modelling of compound events via pair-copula constructions: analysis of floods in Ravenna (Italy)

E Bevacqua, D Maraun, I Hobæk Haff… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2017‏ - hess.copernicus.org
Compound events (CEs) are multivariate extreme events in which the individual contributing
variables may not be extreme themselves, but their joint–dependent–occurrence causes an …

[HTML][HTML] Nonstationary precipitation intensity-duration-frequency curves for infrastructure design in a changing climate

L Cheng, A AghaKouchak - Scientific reports, 2014‏ - nature.com
Extreme climatic events are growing more severe and frequent, calling into question how
prepared our infrastructure is to deal with these changes. Current infrastructure design is …

Increasing probability of mortality during Indian heat waves

O Mazdiyasni, A AghaKouchak, SJ Davis… - Science …, 2017‏ - science.org
Rising global temperatures are causing increases in the frequency and severity of extreme
climatic events, such as floods, droughts, and heat waves. We analyze changes in summer …