HWRS 696F Section 002 Spring 2015 jump to class schedule Advanced Topics in Surface Hydrology and Modeling
Flood Hydrometeorology & Hydroclimatology Instructors: Katie Hirschboeck 1 & Victor Baker 2
1 Associate Professor of Climatology Laboratory of Tree-Ring
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Course Description: This graduate seminar course will focus on the meteorological and climate-related causes of floods, both regionally and globally, and the overarching scientific issues related to floods. After an overview of flood-generating processes, participants will examine and present case studies of a selection of past major flood events in the United States based on published post-flood reports (USGS, NOAA). In tandem with these case studies, we will review and discuss relevant classic and current scientific literature on flood hydrometeorology, hydroclimatology, extreme precipitation events, and flooding & climate change. The semester will also include readings and discussion on the policy and planning implications that emerge from this physically based, climate-linked understanding of the underlying causes of flooding variability. To critically evaluate and apply the knowledge gained, 3-unit participants will complete an individual or class project, such as the analysis of a selected watershed’s flood history to assess past, present, and (projected) future climate-related drivers of its floods, a study of the Rillito watershed decades after the 1983 and 1993 floods, a group publication manuscript, etc. Project options will be discussed and agreed upon in class.
TENTATIVE CLASS SCHEDULE Useful links: USGS Publication Warehouse NOAA US Daily Weather Maps Project
Dates with * - an alternative day, time and/or location may be set
up for these dates, agreeable to all
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DATE
TOPIC
READING LIST
FLOOD GENERATING PROCESSES
1
Jan 20
Overview of Course
2
Jan 27
Flood Hydroclimatology,
KKH presentation & discussion
3
Feb 3
Floods, Paleofloods
VRB presentation & discussion
4
Feb 10
Flash Flood
Hydrometeorology
Bob Maddox presentation & discussion (tentative date)
SOME FLOOD RESOURCES:
FLOOD CASE STUDIES
6
Feb 24
Flood Case Study Presentations
7
Mar 3
Flood Case Study Presentations
8
Mar 10*
Flood Case Study Presentations
Mar 17
SPRING BREAK - NO CLASSES THIS
WEEK
PAST & PRESENT & FUTURE FLOODING:
EXTREMES
/
TRENDS
9
Mar 24
TBD
10
Mar 31
TBD
11
Apr 7
TBD
FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS, POLICY & PLANNING
IMPLICATIONS
12
Apr 14*
13
Apr 21
TBD
14
Apr 28
TBD
15
Class Finale:
Research presentations & Class Wrap Up
student research
presentations
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