NDLI: Design and quantification of an extreme winter storm scenario for emergency preparedness and planning exercises in California

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Author	Dettinger, Michael D. Martin Ralph, F. Hughes, Mimi Das, Tapash Neiman, Paul Cox, Dale Estes, Gary Reylds, David Hartman, Robert Cayan, Daniel Jones, Lucy
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	The USGS Multihazards Project is working with numerous agencies to evaluate and plan for hazards and damages that could be caused by extreme winter storms impacting California. Atmospheric and hydrological aspects of a hypothetical storm scenario have been quantified as a basis for estimation of human, infrastructure, economic, and environmental impacts for emergency-preparedness and flood-planning exercises. In order to ensure scientific defensibility and necessary levels of detail in the scenario description, selected historical storm episodes were concatentated to describe a rapid arrival of several major storms over the state, yielding precipitation totals and runoff rates beyond those occurring during the individual historical storms. This concatenation allowed the scenario designers to avoid arbitrary scalings and is based on historical occasions from the 19th and 20th Centuries when storms have stalled over the state and when extreme storms have arrived in rapid succession. Dynamically consistent, hourly precipitation, temperatures, barometric pressures (for consideration of storm surges and coastal erosion), and winds over California were developed for the so-called ARkStorm scenario by downscaling the concatenated global records of the historical storm sequences onto 6- and 2-km grids using a regional weather model of January 1969 and February 1986 storm conditions. The weather model outputs were then used to force a hydrologic model to simulate ARkStorm runoff, to better understand resulting flooding risks. Methods used to build this scenario can be applied to other emergency, nonemergency and non-California applications.
Starting Page	1085
Ending Page	1111
Page Count	27
File Format	PDF
ISSN	0921030X
Journal	Natural Hazards
Volume Number	60
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15730840
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2011-07-13
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Storm hazards California Flood Scenario Emergency preparedness Disaster management Environmental Management Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences Geophysics/Geodesy Hydrogeology Civil Engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Atmospheric Science Water Science and Technology

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