Urbanization exacerbated the rainfall and flooding caused by hurricane Harvey in Houston

Attribution of extreme rainfall from Hurricane Harvey, August 2017

(2017) Geert Jan van Oldenborgh et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Attributable Human-Induced Changes in the Likelihood and Magnitude of the Observed Extreme Precipitation during Hurricane Harvey

(2017) Mark D. Risser et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Assessing the present and future probability of Hurricane Harvey’s rainfall

(2017) Kerry Emanuel   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evaluating the Drivers of Seasonal Streamflow in the U.S. Midwest

(2017) Louise Slater et al.   Water

Assessing Current and Future Freshwater Flood Risk from North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones via Insurance Claims

(2017) Jeffrey Czajkowski et al.   Scientific Reports

Sensitivity of urban rainfall to anthropogenic heat flux: A numerical experiment

(2016) Christopher Claus Holst et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Urban meteorological modeling using WRF: a sensitivity study

(2016) Ashish Sharma et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Human influence on tropical cyclone intensity

(2016) Adam H. Sobel et al.   SCIENCE

Exploring historical and future urban climate in the Earth System Modeling framework: 2. Impact of urban land use over the Continental United States

(2016) Dan Li et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Detection and attribution of urbanization effect on flood extremes using nonstationary flood-frequency models

(2015) I. Prosdocimi et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Case Study of Flood Mitigation and Hazard Management at the Texas Medical Center in the Wake of Tropical Storm Allison in 2001

(2014) Zheng Fang et al.   Natural Hazards Review

Mechanism of Precipitation Increase with Urbanization in Tokyo as Revealed by Ensemble Climate Simulations

(2013) Hiroyuki Kusaka et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Modeling Land Surface Processes and Heavy Rainfall in Urban Environments: Sensitivity to Urban Surface Representations

(2013) Dan Li et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

A comprehensive change detection method for updating the National Land Cover Database to circa 2011

(2013) Suming Jin et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The CCSM4 Land Simulation, 1850–2005: Assessment of Surface Climate and New Capabilities

(2011) David M. Lawrence et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

A numerical study of interactions between surface forcing and sea breeze circulations and their effects on stagnation in the greater Houston area

(2011) Fei Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Land use/land cover changes and climate: modeling analysis and observational evidence

(2011) Roger A. Pielke et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change

The integrated WRF/urban modelling system: development, evaluation, and applications to urban environmental problems

(2010) Fei Chen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

A Study of the Urban Boundary Layer Using Different Urban Parameterizations and High-Resolution Urban Canopy Parameters with WRF

(2010) Francisco Salamanca et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Urban Modification of Thunderstorms: An Observational Storm Climatology and Model Case Study for the Indianapolis Urban Region*

(2010) Dev Niyogi et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Tropical cyclones and climate change

(2010) Thomas R. Knutson et al.   Nature Geoscience

Flood frequency analysis for nonstationary annual peak records in an urban drainage basin

(2009) Gabriele Villarini et al.   ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES

On the stationarity of annual flood peaks in the continental United States during the 20th century

(2009) Gabriele Villarini et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Extreme hydrometeorological events and the urban environment: Dissecting the 7 July 2004 thunderstorm over the Baltimore MD Metropolitan Region

(2008) Alexandros A. Ntelekos et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH