Quantifying the Impact of Climate Change on Peak Stream Discharge for Watersheds of Varying Sizes in the Coastal Plain of Virginia
Civil infrastructure systems have traditionally been designed assuming stationarity in precipitation. However, climate change is making this assumption invalid, affecting both existing infrastructure designed assuming stationarity and the design of new infrastructure. Although many studies have analyzed potential increases in precipitation due to climate change, fewer have attempted to translate these changes into the impact of stream discharge in a way that could be incorporated into infrastructure design.
Given this gap, we conducted a study to assess the potential impact of climate change on both rainfall and peak discharge to aid in bridge and road infrastructure design in Coastal Virginia, USA.
The study is in press in the ASCE Journal of Hydrologic Engineering DOI: 10.1061/JHYEFF.HEENG-6114https://doi.org/10.1061/JHYEFF.HEENG-6114).
The scripts in this repository were used for performing the analysis for this study.