Adaptation Methods in Response to Hydrometeorological Extremes in Watersheds
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Hydrometeorological extreme events (e.g., droughts, floods, extreme precipitation and temperature) have adverse impacts on human life and health, infrastructure, economy and the environment. These events continue to increase in occurrence and intensity in the United States, and their further intensification is expected in a warming climate. In response to upcoming changes, adaptation and resiliency strategies of watershed infrastructure is needed. However, hazard and risk assessments require making challenging choices to account for the complex, multivariate, and compounding nature of hydrometeorological extremes. This opens the door to a variety of robust methodology options, multiple data sources and modeling strategies. This session will explore how researchers and managers approach these challenges and how they address uncertainty and a nonstationary future climate.
We invite contributors undertaking these challenges at local and regional levels and scientists supporting development of new adaptation methods to advise risk-informed decision to submit an abstract. This session will explore adaptation and risk implications of the hydrometeorological extremes in a warming climate. Potential submissions may include studies highlighting challenges related to methods used in extremes adaptation and management; discussing impact of individual events; predictability, and long-term adaptation strategies; incorporating future uncertainty; discussing datasets, and climate and hydrologic models.