Abstract: Area reduction factors (ARFs), which are used to convert estimates of extreme point rainfall to estimates of extreme area-averaged rainfall, are central to conventional flood risk assessment. Errors in the estimation of ...

Abstract: Hydrometeorological analyses of rainfall and flood response are presented for urbanizing drainage basins in the Philadelphia metropolitan region. Research focuses on major flood events resulting from Tropical Storm Allison ...

Abstract: On July 17–18, 1996, two mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) passed through northeastern Illinois, causing a record 440-mm total storm rainfall within a 24-h period at Aurora, Illinois, with values exceeding 200 mm throughout ...