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Title: Impacts of Future Climate-Driven Runoff on Six County WWT Facilities in New Jersey

Abstract

The occurrence of extreme storms and associated flood hazards has increased in most regions in recent decades (Groisman et al. 2005, Alexander et al. 2006, Hegerl et al. 2011, Min et al. 2011). Extensive data on weather extremes since 1910 kept by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s National Climatic Data Center have shown an increasing trend (reaching more than 20%) in U.S. one-day extreme precipitation events. This trend is expected to continue in the future, with likely intensification of heavy precipitation events (Kunkel et al. 2010, Westra et al. 2013). Recently, Argonne has performed dynamic downscaling from global climate model (GCM) projections with high-resolution regional climate model, Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) and projected future climate conditions for the middle of century (2035-2064). For this project, we incorporated our future climate projections into our hydrological modeling to evaluate potential effects of changing climate on streamflow near the six county WWT facilities in New Jersey to improve our understanding of climate-driven precipitation impacts and use this information to inform the potential risk of precipitation-affected infrastructures. The information for the future projected hydrological flow discharges was also provided to support a storm surge study. The study was expanded later tomore » quantify likelihood of river discharges near WWT facilities with a statistical approach and informed the flood risk contributed by the river discharges.« less

Authors:
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  1. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
OSTI Identifier:
1573499
Report Number(s):
ANL/EVS-19/8
155961
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
New Jersey; climate change; runoff

Citation Formats

Yan, Eugene Y., Pierce, Julia, Jared, Alissa, and Finster, Molly. Impacts of Future Climate-Driven Runoff on Six County WWT Facilities in New Jersey. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.2172/1573499.
Yan, Eugene Y., Pierce, Julia, Jared, Alissa, & Finster, Molly. Impacts of Future Climate-Driven Runoff on Six County WWT Facilities in New Jersey. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1573499
Yan, Eugene Y., Pierce, Julia, Jared, Alissa, and Finster, Molly. 2018. "Impacts of Future Climate-Driven Runoff on Six County WWT Facilities in New Jersey". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1573499. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1573499.
@article{osti_1573499,
title = {Impacts of Future Climate-Driven Runoff on Six County WWT Facilities in New Jersey},
author = {Yan, Eugene Y. and Pierce, Julia and Jared, Alissa and Finster, Molly},
abstractNote = {The occurrence of extreme storms and associated flood hazards has increased in most regions in recent decades (Groisman et al. 2005, Alexander et al. 2006, Hegerl et al. 2011, Min et al. 2011). Extensive data on weather extremes since 1910 kept by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s National Climatic Data Center have shown an increasing trend (reaching more than 20%) in U.S. one-day extreme precipitation events. This trend is expected to continue in the future, with likely intensification of heavy precipitation events (Kunkel et al. 2010, Westra et al. 2013). Recently, Argonne has performed dynamic downscaling from global climate model (GCM) projections with high-resolution regional climate model, Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) and projected future climate conditions for the middle of century (2035-2064). For this project, we incorporated our future climate projections into our hydrological modeling to evaluate potential effects of changing climate on streamflow near the six county WWT facilities in New Jersey to improve our understanding of climate-driven precipitation impacts and use this information to inform the potential risk of precipitation-affected infrastructures. The information for the future projected hydrological flow discharges was also provided to support a storm surge study. The study was expanded later to quantify likelihood of river discharges near WWT facilities with a statistical approach and informed the flood risk contributed by the river discharges.},
doi = {10.2172/1573499},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1573499}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}