Speaker: Guo Yu, assistant research professor, hydrometeorology, Dept. of Geography, Desert Research Institute

Seminar: Process-based Understanding of Flood Hazards
 
Abstract
Extreme precipitation and the floods they cause represent significant risk to safety and economic security. Estimating the probabilities of rare floods is challenging due to the hydrometeorological complexity as well as spatiotemporal variability in extreme precipitation. Design storm methods and statistical flood frequency analyses often overlook these complexities and how they shape the probabilities of rare floods. I will present a process-based approach that combines stochastic storm transposition (SST), and physics-based distributed rainfall-runoff modeling to simulate flood peak distributions up to the 10,000-year recurrence interval and to provide insights into the hydrometeorological drivers of those events.

Bio
Guo Yu holds the position of assistant research professor at Desert Research Institute (DRI) and is also a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Nevada. Dr. Yu has a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He studies weather and climate extremes using both statistical and physics-based modeling. He is also interested in climate change impact studies and catastrophe modeling.