Projecting Changes in Expected Annual Damages From Riverine Flooding in the United States

Summary of datasets for flooding analysis reported in Wobus et al. (2019) 1) Wobus_Flood_Damages_huc10.xlsx – contains total flood damages for floods of each specified recurrence interval, organized by HUC10, for watersheds with RiskMAP data from 3 or 5 recurrence intervals. Also includes lookup table to crosswalk from HUC10 to NCA region, and from HUC10 to the ReachID associated with the modeled flow data. 2) CONUS_model_dT.xlsx – contains the year that each of the 29 models evaluated meets the specified temperature threshold relative to 2001-2020 baseline, on a CONUS average basis. Sheet “Summary” in that workbook is the main result from that analysis. 3) annmaxs_all85.zip – Contains annual maximum timeseries from all nodes in the geospatial fabric as modeled by NCAR/USBR in the VIC downscaled hydrologic dataset. These are the raw data used to generate extreme value statistics for baseline (2001-2020) and future time periods (see below). Variables are “reaches” (57116x1) with reachIDs; “modelnames85” (1x29) with model IDs; “years” (150x1) with years from 1950-2100; and “annmaxs_rcp85” (57116x150x29) with annual maximum flow values by reachID, year and model. Note the step function in annual maximum flows as reported by Wobus et al. (2017) in the year 2000 – do NOT compare pre-2000 vs post-2000 data. Citation information for this dataset can be found in the EDG's Metadata Reference Information section and Data.gov's References section.

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Maintainer Jeremy Martinich
Last Updated July 28, 2019, 13:28 (CDT)
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