Date:
Location:
Speaker: Casey Brown
Casey BROWN, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Sponsored by the China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Abstract:
The traditional dependence of hydrologic design on statistical analysis is compromised by nonstationary climate and pervasive change. Yet climate model projections are ill-suited and climate experiments poorly designed to provide a viable successor. An alternative approach based on bridging system analytics and process level analysis of hydrologic extremes and their future evolution under climate change is demonstrated with applications to adaptation planning for water infrastructure.