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Impacts of long-term climate variability and climate change on flood frequency: Susannah Brook, Western Australia
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Samuel, J.;  Sivapalan, M.;  Franks, Stewart William
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In this paper we investigate the propagation of long-term climate variabilities and climate changes through a catchment system to the flood frequency curve, through the use of a rainfall-runoff model that captures rainfall and water balance variability at a multiplicity of time scales, ranging from event to seasonal, inter-annual and inter-decadal time scales. This modelling investigation is carried out in the Susannah Brook catchment, Western Australia. Analysis of the results shows that, for example, a 10-year flood may change over to a 15-year flood over the next 50 years, due to a possible declining rainfall trend. Similarly, the 25-year flood may become a 40-year flood over the same period. These results suggest that engineers will need to come up with creative changes to traditional flood frequency estimation procedures to deal with long-term climate variability and changes.
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Regional Hydrological Impacts of Climatic Variability and Change: Impact Assessment and Decision Making: Proceedings of Symposium S6 Held During the Seventh IAHS Scientific Assembly at Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, April 2005. (Foz de Iguaçu, Brazil April 3-9, 2005)
Date
2005
Publisher
IAHS Press
Keyword(s)
climate change;  climate variability;  flood frequency;  inter-annual;  inter-decadal
Resource Type
conference paper
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http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/24597
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ISBN:1-901502-08-2
Language
eng
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