Assessing and managing design storm variability and projection uncertainty in a changing coastal environment.

ABSTRACT: Coastal urban infrastructure and water management programs are vulnerable to the impacts of long-term hydroclimatic changes and to the flooding and physical destruction of disruptive hurricanes and storm surge. Water resilience or, inversely, vulnerability depends on design specifications of the storm and inundation, against which water infrastructure and environmental assets are planned and operated. These design attributes are commonly derived from statistical modeling of historical measurements. Here we argue for the need to carefully examine the approach and associated design vulnerability in coastal areas because of the future hydroclimatic changes and large variability at local coastal watersheds. This study first shows significant spatiotemporal variations of design storm in the Che

SUBMITTER: Liang MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7487976 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature