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Dr. Alan F. Hamlet
• Climate Impacts Group• Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Washington
Effects of Observed Climate Variability and Climate Change on Flooding in the Pacific Northwest
Climate Impacts Group Research Team
Lara Whitely BinderPablo CarrascoJeff DeemsMarketa McGuire ElsnerAlan F. HamletCarrie LeeSe-Yeun LeeDennis P. LettenmaierJeremy LittellGuillaume MaugerNate MantuaEd MilesKristian MickelsonPhilip W. MoteRob NorheimErin RogersEric SalathéAmy SnoverIngrid TohverAndy Wood
http://www.hydro.washington.edu/2860/products/sites/r7climate/study_report/CBCCSP_chap1_intro_final.pdf
Land surface hydrology and modeling (Elsner et al. 2010; Hamlet and Lettenmaier 2005; Hamlet et al. 2005, 2007; Leung et al. 1999; Mote et al. 2005; Painter et al. 2010)
Integrated hydrological and water resources modeling (Hamlet and Lettenmaier 1999a; Miles et al. 2000; Payne et al. 2004; Vano et al. 2010)
Water resources planning and management (Hamlet 2003; Lee et al. 2009, 2011a,b; Miles et al. 2000; Payne et al. 2004; )
Flooding and assessment of hydrologic extremes (Hamlet and Lettenmaier 2007; Mantua et al. 2010; Lee et al. 2009, 2011a,b)
Impacts of climate variability and climate change on hydrology and water resources (Hamlet and Lettenmaier 1999a; Hamlet and Lettenmaier 1999b; Miles et al. 2000; Mote et al. 2003; Adam et al. 2009; Elsner et al. 2010)
Sustainable water resources management and climate change adaptation strategies (Miles et al. 2000; Hamlet 2003; Snover et al. 2003; Slaughter et al. 2010; Whitely Binder et al. 2010; Hamlet 2010 )
Overview of Research Interests:
Long-lead climate and streamflow forecasts and related water resources applications (Hamlet and Lettenmaier 1999b; Hamlet et al. 2002; Voisin et al. 2006; Lee et al. 2011b)
Modeling of freshwater, and estuarine ecosystems (Crozier et al. 2008; Wenger et al. 2010, 2011; Mantua et al. 2010)
Forest hydrology and impacts to terrestrial ecosystems (Littell et al. 2010)
Paleoclimatic precipitation and streamflow reconstruction (Lutz et al. 2012)
Climate impacts on hydropower and energy systems (Hamlet and Lettenmaier 1999a, Hamlet et al. 2002; Voisin et al. 2006; Hamlet et al. 2010)
Climate services (Gamble et al. 2002; Snover et al. 2003)
Research Interests (cont):
Land surface hydrology and modeling (Elsner et al. 2010; Hamlet and Lettenmaier 2005; Hamlet et al. 2005, 2007; Leung et al. 1999; Mote et al. 2005; Painter et al. 2010)
Integrated hydrological and water resources modeling (Hamlet and Lettenmaier 1999a; Miles et al. 2000; Payne et al. 2004; Vano et al. 2010)
Water resources planning and management (Hamlet 2003; Lee et al. 2009, 2011a,b; Miles et al. 2000; Payne et al. 2004; )
Flooding and assessment of hydrologic extremes (Hamlet and Lettenmaier 2007; Mantua et al. 2010; Lee et al. 2009, 2011a,b)
Impacts of climate variability and climate change on hydrology and water resources (Hamlet and Lettenmaier 1999a; Hamlet and Lettenmaier 1999b; Miles et al. 2000; Mote et al. 2003; Adam et al. 2009; Elsner et al. 2010)
Sustainable water resources management and climate change adaptation strategies (Miles et al. 2000; Hamlet 2003; Snover et al. 2003; Slaughter et al. 2010; Whitely Binder et al. 2010; Hamlet 2010 )
Overview of Research Interests:
The Myth of Stationarity:
1) Climate Risks are stationary in time.
2) Observed streamflow records are the best estimate of future variability.
3) Systems and operational paradigms that are robust to past variability are robust to future variability.
Image Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center, W. O. Field, B. F. Molniahttp://nsidc.org/data/glacier_photo/special_high_res.html
Aug, 13, 1941 Aug, 31, 2004
The Myth of Stationarity Meets the Death of Stationarity
Muir Glacier in Alaska
Why a Focus on Hydrologic Extremes?
Many human and natural systems are quite robust under “normal” conditions, but have the potential to be profoundly impacted by hydrologic extreme events.
Public Safety and Economic Impacts
Damage to Infrastructure
http://www.nps.gov/mora/parknews/upload/flooddamagev3.pdf
Nisqually River at Sunshine Point (Nov, 2006)
Sediment Transport and Mudslides
Nuts and Bolts:
Traditional Methods for Estimating Hydrologic
Extremes
Step 1: Select Extreme Event from Each Historical Year
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Step 2: Rank Extreme Events for All Years and Estimate Quantiles
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Step 3: Fit a Probability Distribution to the Data
Examples of Commonly Used Probability Distributions:
• Extreme Value Type 1 (EV 1)
• Log Normal (LN)
• Log Pearson
• Generalized Extreme Value (GEV)
For climate change experiments, GEV is a good choice since the true nature of the future probability distributions is essentially unknown. However it turns out that the choice of distribution is not very critical in terms of the evaluating the sensitivity to warming and/or precipitation change.
Step 4: Estimate Extremes Associated with Return Intervals
Site Name Ret. Int. Flow (cfs)SNOMO : 20 68660SNOMO : 50 81332SNOMO : 100 91145
Note that any return interval can be estimated. E.g. one could provide an estimate of the “5000 year flood”, albeit with large uncertainty.
Historical Perspectives:
Changing Flood Risk in the 20th Century
References:
Neiman, P.J., L.J. Schick, F.M. Ralph, M. Hughes, and G.A. Wick, 2010: Flooding in Western Washington: The Connection to Atmospheric Rivers.
J. of Hydrometeorology, 12, 1337–1358
Hamlet A.F., D.P. Lettenmaier, 2007: Effects of 20th century warming and climatevariability on flood risk in the western U.S. Water Resour Res,
43:W06427.doi:10.1029/2006WR005099
Observed Characteristics of Extreme Precipitation Events
Evidence of Changing Flood Statistics
Role of Atmospheric Rivers in Flooding (Nov 7, 2006)
Neiman, P.J., L.J. Schick, F.M. Ralph, M. Hughes, and G.A. Wick, 2010: Flooding in Western Washington: The Connection to Atmospheric Rivers. J. of Hydrometeorology, 12, 1337–1358
Neiman, P.J., L.J. Schick, F.M. Ralph, M. Hughes, and G.A. Wick, 2010: Flooding in Western Washington: The Connection to Atmospheric Rivers. J. of Hydrometeorology, 12, 1337–1358
Role of Atmospheric Rivers in Flooding (Oct 20, 2003)
Modeling Studies of Changing 20th Century Flood Risk in the West
Snow Model
Schematic of VIC Hydrologic Model• Sophisticated, fully distributed,
physically based hydrologic model• Widely used globally in climate
change applications• 1/8th Degree Resolution (~50 km2)
General Model Schematic
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Evaluating the Hydrologic Model Simulations in the Context of Reproducing Flood Characteristics
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Detrended Temperature Driving Data for Flood Risk Experiments
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ftp://ftp.hydro.washington.edu/pub/jhamman/PNWCSC_2011/Poster2%20final.pdf
20-year Flood for “1973-2003” Compared to “1916-2003” for a Constant Late 20th Century Temperature Regime
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Hypotheses Regarding 21st Century Flooding Impacts
Rain Dominant Basins:Potential increases in flooding due to increased precipitation intensity, but no significant change from warming alone.
Mixed Rain and Snow Basins Along the Coast:Strong increases in flooding due to warming and increased precipitation intensity (both effects increase flood risk)
Inland Snowmelt Dominant Basins:Relatively small overall changes because effects of warming (decreased risks) and increased precipitation intensity (increased risks) are in the opposite directions.
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Scenarios of Flood Risk in the 21th Century
Consensus Forecasts of Temperature and Precipitation Changes from IPCC AR4 GCMs
Mote, P.W. and E. P. Salathe Jr., 2010: Future climate in the Pacific Northwest, Climatic Change, DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9848-z
21st Century Climate Impacts for the Pacific Northwest Region
Seasonal Precipitation Changes for the Pacific Northwest
Mote, P.W. and E. P. Salathe Jr., 2010: Future climate in the Pacific Northwest, Climatic Change, DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9848-z
http://www.hydro.washington.edu/2860/
• Smaller basins down to ~500 km2
• Monthly and daily streamflow time series
• Assessment of hydrologic extremes
(e.g. Q100 and 7Q10)
Columbia Basin Climate Change Scenarios Project
297 Sites
Available PNW Scenarios
2020s – mean 2010-2039; 2040s – mean 2030-2059; 2080s – mean 2070-2099
Downscaling ApproachA1B
Emissions Scenario
B1 Emissions Scenario
Hybrid Delta
hadcm cnrm_cm ccsm3 echam5 echo_g cgcm3.1_t47 pcm1 miroc_3.2 ipsl_cm4 hadgem1
2020s 10 9
2040s 10 9
2080s 10 9
Transient BCSD
hadcm cnrm_cm ccsm3 echam5 echo_g cgcm3.1_t47 pcm1
1950-2098+ 7 7
Delta Method
composite of 10
2020s 1 12040s 1 12080s 1 1
Hybrid Downscaling Method
• Performed for each VIC grid cell:
Hist. DailyTimeseries
Hist. MonthlyTimeseries
Historic Monthly CDF
Bias CorrectedFuture
Monthly CDF
Projected DailyTimeseries
1916-2006
1970-1999
30 yr window
1916-2006
1916-2006“Base Case”
Spatial Variability of Temperature and Precipitation Changes
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Snow Model
Schematic of VIC Hydrologic Model• Sophisticated, fully distributed,
physically based hydrologic model• Widely used globally in climate
change applications• 1/16th Degree Resolution
(~5km x 6km or ~ 3mi x 4mi)
General Model Schematic
Watershed Classifications:Transformation From Snow to Rain
Map: Rob Norheim
Flood Analysis: What’s In? What’s Out?Issue Affecting Analysis Yes No
Based on explicit daily time step simulations of streamflow?
Yes
Changing freezing elevation?
Yes
Rain on snow captured? YesIncreases/decreases in storm intensity?
Yes (monthly statistics only)
Changes in tails of probability distributions affecting extreme daily precipitation ?
No
Changes in size and sequencing of storms?
No
Changes in small scale thunder storms?
No
Includes water management effects?
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Simulate Daily Time Step Streamflow Scenarios
Associated with Changesin Climate
Fit Probability Distributions To Estimate Flood and Low Flow
Risks
Compare FloodRisks to Those in the 20th Century
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Historical10 Member Ensemble Using the Hybrid Delta Downscaling Approach
Changes in High Flows
Q100 values are projected to systematically increase in many
areas of the PNW due to increasing precipitation and
rising snowlines.
http://www.hydro.washington.edu/2860/products/sites/r7climate/study_report/CBCCSP_chap7_extremes_final.pdf
Relationship Between Change in Q100 and Winter Temp
Changes in Q100 at Small Spatial Scales
Improving Flood Risk Projections Using High Resolution Regional
Climate Models
Overview of Key Science Questions:
Will daily precipitation statistics at smaller spatial scales change differently in response to global climate change than monthly precipitation statistics at large spatial scales?
Will the nature of extreme storms (such as atmospheric rivers) change in response to global climate change?
Will different areas of the PNW experience substantially different changes in extreme precipitation and flood statistics (e.g. the west slopes of the Cascades vs. the east slopes)?
Will the seasonal timing of flood events change?
Regional Climate Modeling at CIG WRF Model (NOAH LSM) 36 to 12 km
ECHAM5 forcing CCSM3 forcing (A1B and A2 scenarios)
HadRM 25 km HadCM3 forcing
Snohomish River Near Monroe, WA
Downscaling
• WRF output is first regridded to 1/16th degree• Then, for each VIC grid cell:
WRF Daily Downscaling Method
WRF DailyTime Series
WRFDaily CDF
Historical VIC Daily CDF
Bias Corrected Daily Time Series
1970-19991970-19992040-2069
1970-19992040-2069
1970-1999
The storm size distribution and time series behavior of the simulations comes directly from the daily WRF simulations.
Preliminary Results for the ECHAM5 A1B Sceario for the 2050s.
Chehalis River at PorterD
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Sauk River near Sauk
ECHAM5 2050 A1B ECHAM5 2050 A1B
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Boise River at Boise
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Changing Nature of Extreme Storms?
2030-11-27
2056-11-20
Conclusions:
• Our initial exploration of changing flood risk in the PNW using statistical downscaling points to increasing flood risk in most areas of the region due to projected regional warming and increases in cool season precipitation.
• Regional climate models offer more physically based assessment tools for understanding the potential changes in nature of extreme storms (such as atmospheric rivers), the timing of flooding, and a potentially improved picture of the spatial variations in changing hydrologic extremes across the region.
• Initial results suggest more extreme storms in the early fall and general increases in flood intensity will accompany global climate change in the PNW. In particular, many sites show distinct shifts towards flooding earlier in the water year due to the combination of changes in snowpack and earlier storms.
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