Extreme rainfall, flood scaling and flood policy options in the United States
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2000.
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| author | Bhatti, Babar Mahmood, 1968- |
| author2 | Daniele Veneziano and Daniel E. Hastings. |
| author_facet | Daniele Veneziano and Daniel E. Hastings. Bhatti, Babar Mahmood, 1968- |
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| description | Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2000. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/90922019-04-12T20:42:47Z Extreme rainfall, flood scaling and flood policy options in the United States Bhatti, Babar Mahmood, 1968- Daniele Veneziano and Daniel E. Hastings. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division. Civil and Environmental Engineering. Engineering Systems Division. Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2000. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 220-227). River flood and rainfall have been shown to exhibit scale invariance behavior over a range of space and time scales. Although various approaches have been taken to investigate and model the various scaling aspects of rainfall and floods, little theoretical work has been done on the relation between the scaling of rainfall and flood. If available, such a theory would provide frequency estimate for extreme rainfall and floods outside the range of observations and could also be used to estimate floods at ungaged basins. The relationship between rainfall and flood scaling is the main focus of this thesis. We use a two step approach to investigate the relationship between exponent of peak flows and the scaling of rain. First, we use data analysis to verify existing theories that relate the multi scaling behavior of rainfall to the simple scaling behavior of the IDFs. Second, we use a model to relate the scaling of the IDFs to the scaling of peak flows with basin area. We find that, although temporal rainfall shows multiscaling, the IDFs exhibit simple scaling and peak floods show simple or mild multiscaling. We validate our findings by using U.S. peak annual flow data and rainfall from a few New England stations. Extreme floods damage mitigation requires sound and integrated policy making. We review the flood disaster mitigation situation in the U.S., carry out policy analysis and recommend options for a successful and sustainable flood disaster policy in the U.S. by Babar Mahmood Bhatti. S.M. 2005-08-24T19:38:12Z 2005-08-24T19:38:12Z 2000 2000 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9092 46972335 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 227 leaves 12393917 bytes 12393675 bytes application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf n-us--- Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Civil and Environmental Engineering. Engineering Systems Division. Bhatti, Babar Mahmood, 1968- Extreme rainfall, flood scaling and flood policy options in the United States |
| title | Extreme rainfall, flood scaling and flood policy options in the United States |
| title_full | Extreme rainfall, flood scaling and flood policy options in the United States |
| title_fullStr | Extreme rainfall, flood scaling and flood policy options in the United States |
| title_full_unstemmed | Extreme rainfall, flood scaling and flood policy options in the United States |
| title_short | Extreme rainfall, flood scaling and flood policy options in the United States |
| title_sort | extreme rainfall flood scaling and flood policy options in the united states |
| topic | Civil and Environmental Engineering. Engineering Systems Division. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9092 |
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