Journal article
Attribution of the impacts of the 2008 flooding in Cedar Rapids (Iowa) to anthropogenic forcing
Environmental research letters, Vol.15(11), 114057
11/24/2020
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abc5e5
Abstract
The City of Cedar Rapids was significantly affected by the June 2008 flood. However, little is known about the role anthropogenic warming during this event, not only in terms of hydrologic response but also of impacts. Here we use a continuous distributed hydrologic model forced with precipitation with and without external forcing and show that the impacts of this flood were likely magnified because of increased anthropogenic warming; compared to the baseline scenario with the external forcing removed, this event was ∼1.28-fold larger in flood extent, an approximate 3.4-time larger in the number of affected buildings, and an estimated 5.8- and 7.1-time larger in structural and content damage, respectively. While much of the effort up to this point has focused on the attribution of the physical hazard, our results highlight the cascading increase of the contribution of the external forcing (mainly from anthropogenic forcing) moving from hazard to human impacts.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Attribution of the impacts of the 2008 flooding in Cedar Rapids (Iowa) to anthropogenic forcing
- Creators
- Gabriele Villarini - IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering, The University of Iowa , Iowa City, IA 52242, United States of AmericaWei Zhang - IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering, The University of Iowa , Iowa City, IA 52242, United States of AmericaFelipe Quintero - IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering, The University of Iowa , Iowa City, IA 52242, United States of AmericaWitold F Krajewski - IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering, The University of Iowa , Iowa City, IA 52242, United States of AmericaGabriel A Vecchi - Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University , Princeton, NJ, United States of America
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Environmental research letters, Vol.15(11), 114057
- DOI
- 10.1088/1748-9326/abc5e5
- ISSN
- 1748-9326
- eISSN
- 1748-9326
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Number of pages
- 8
- Grant note
- IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Institute for Water Resources Iowa Flood Center
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/24/2020
- Academic Unit
- Civil and Environmental Engineering; IIHR--Hydroscience and Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984066349802771
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