The Regional Hydrology of Extreme Floods in an Urbanizing Drainage Basin

Regional variations in small-basin floods in the United States

This paper presents a reconnaissance study of regional flood patterns in the United States, focusing on peak discharges at several recurrence intervals and characteristics of flood-causing rainfall. Because of an interest in flash floods, attention was restricted to watersheds between 10 and 200 km in area. Data were obtained from 130 stream gaging stations with a consistent 30-year period of r...

Hydrology of Floods in South Asia

Climate variability and its effects on regional hydrology: A case study for the Baltic Sea drainage basin

As climate models can be used to reproduce historical climates, the outcomes can be used to put climate extremes in to a proper historical perspective. This also allows investigation of nonlinear properties of hydrologic processes (e.g. precipitation, runoff) to better understand regional hydrologic dynamics. To this end, the present study uses results from a so-called ‘paleosimulation’ (i.e. s...

Assessment of the Potential Flood Risk in Sarbaz Drainage Basin

Today, due to climate change, natural hazards and how to deal with them are among the most important concerns of researchers in environmental planning and crisis management. The purpose of this study is the assessment of the potential flood risk in Sarbaz drainage basin. For this purpose, the databases including elevation, slope, geological characteristics, soil characteristics, precipitation, ...

3. Quantifying Long-term Hydrologic Response in an Urbanizing Basin*

This paper describes long-term hydrologic response within a rapidly developing watershed in the western suburbs of Washington, DC, within the Chesapeake Bay drainage basin. Data consist of up to 24 years of observed rainfall, basin discharge, and land use/land cover (LULC) from four headwater basins of the Occoquan River in northern Virginia. Basin outlets are monitored for storm and nonstorm f...