This course explores the impacts of climate change on extreme event hydrology, focusing on developing design hydrographs for drainage infrastructure. The learning outcomes include understanding the increasing intensity of extreme precipitation events, estimating Probable Maximum Precipitation and Probable Maximum Flood, and utilizing recommended standards for selecting design events under climate change scenarios. The course teaches skills such as analyzing changes in sub-daily rainfall events, understanding the relationship between flood and extreme event precipitation, and utilizing data sources for developing design hydrographs. The teaching method includes presentations from international and Australian experts, summarizing the latest research and data sources. The intended audience includes professionals in the fields of hydrology, meteorology, climate science, and infrastructure planning and design.
Overview
Syllabus
​ - Introductions.
​ - Global focus - David Curtis.
- Atmosphere effects- Jason Evans.
- Selecting design events - Janice Green.
- Q&A.
​ - Wrap-up.
Taught by
Australian Water School
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Climate change is causing rapid changes on hydrological events. Many authors have recently utilized the results of the Global Climate Models (GCMs), which are the most complex coupled numerical models for forecasting the general circulation of the earth's atmosphere. There is a plethora of research on the CMIP6-based GCMs' capacity to represent the physical processes of the terrestrial atmosphere. Simulations from many GCMs have already been utilized as data input for hydrological projections in order to assess how climate change may affect the hydrological responses in different river basins throughout the world. However, the GCM simulated climate data are less accurate at the basin scale due to their coarse spatial resolutions
