Effects of Global Warming on Hurricane‐Induced Flooding

Abstract

Global simulation models used to predict climate change typically have resolutions too coarse for resolving small drainage basins, creating a major obstacle to evaluating the hydrologic impacts of climate variability. The writers circumvent this difficulty by using a physical model for severe hurricanes to derive changes in hurricane rainfall under a predicted global warming. The modified rainfall is then transferred to a linked hydrologic‐hydrodynamic model to compute the impact of global warming on hurricane‐induced flooding in a susceptible watershed. As an example, using simulations of tropical,