ASSESSING WATER SUPPLY SECURITY IN A NONSTATIONARY ENVIRONMENT

The Impact of Climate Change on Operational Probable Maximum Precipitation Estimates

JB Visser, S Kim, C Wasko, R Nathan, A Sharma

2022-11-01

The safety of high-risk water infrastructure, such as dams and nuclear power plants, is often assessed by reference to their abili..

Linking Total Precipitable Water to Precipitation Extremes Globally

Seokhyeon Kim, Ashish Sharma, Conrad Wasko, Rory Nathan

2022-02-01

The relationship between extreme precipitation (EP) and precipitable water (W) is useful to assess design extremes and speculate o..

Eliminating the "Hook" in Precipitation-Temperature Scaling

Johan B Visser, Conrad Wasko, Ashish Sharma, Rory Nathan

2021-12-01

Observational studies of extreme daily and subdaily precipitation temperature sensitivities (apparent scaling) aim to provide evid..

Evidence of shorter more extreme rainfalls and increased flood variability under climate change

Conrad Wasko, Rory Nathan, Lina Stein, Declan O'Shea

2021-09-29

Increases in extreme rainfall intensities as a result of climate change pose a great risk due to the possibility of increases in p..

Decreases in relative humidity across Australia

Eleanor Denson, Conrad Wasko, Murray C Peel

2021-07-01

How relative humidity is changing is important for our understanding of future changes in precipitation and evaporation. For examp..

Estimating design hydrologic extremes in a warming climate: alternatives, uncertainties and the way forward

Ashish Sharma, Suresh Hettiarachchi, Conrad Wasko

2021-04-19

It is now well established that our warming planet is experiencing changes in extreme storms and floods, resulting in a need to be..

Incorporating climate change in flood estimation guidance

Conrad Wasko, Seth Westra, Rory Nathan, Harriet G Orr, Gabriele Villarini, Roberto Villalobos Herrera, Hayley J Fowler

2021-04-19

Research into potential implications of climate change on flood hazard has made significant progress over the past decade, yet eff..

Intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes and implications for flood risk: current state of the art and future directions

Hayley J Fowler, Conrad Wasko, Andreas F Prein

2021-04-19

Review: Can temperature be used to inform changes to flood extremes with global warming?

Conrad Wasko

2021-04-19

As climate change alters flood risk, there is a need to project changes in flooding for water resource management, infrastructure ..

Implications of event-based loss model structure on simulating large floods

Declan O'Shea, Rory Nathan, Conrad Wasko, Peter Hill

2021-02-12

Event-based rainfall-runoff models used for design flood estimation and operational flood forecasting commonly represent losses (t..

Understanding trends in hydrologic extremes across Australia

C Wasko, Y Shao, E Vogel, L Wilson, QJ Wang, A Frost, C Donnelly

2021-02-01

Changes in the hydrologic cycle have far reaching impacts on agricultural productivity, water resources availability, riverine eco..

Resolving Inconsistencies in Extreme Precipitation-Temperature Sensitivities

JB Visser, C Wasko, A Sharma, R Nathan

2020-09-28

Extreme precipitation events are intensifying with increasing temperatures. However, observed extreme precipitation-temperature se..

Impact of atmospheric circulation on the rainfall-temperature relationship in Australia

Bhavik Magan, Seokhyeon Kim, Conrad Wasko, Renaud Barbero, Vincent Moron, Rory Nathan, Ashish Sharma

2020-09-01

Anthropogenic climate change is leading to the intensification of extreme rainfall due to an increase in atmospheric water holding..

An Improved Covariate for Projecting Future Rainfall Extremes?

TP Roderick, C Wasko, A Sharma

2020-08-01

Projection of extreme rainfall under climate change remains an area of considerable uncertainty. In the absence of geographically ..