期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 13, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaac65
关键词
flood risk; large-scale flood models; flooding; USA
资金
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- Leverhulme Research Fellowship
- Nature Conservancy
- UK Natural Environment Research Council grant [NE/M007766/1]
- NERC [NE/M007766/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Past attempts to estimate rainfall-driven flood risk across the US either have incomplete coverage, coarse resolution or use overly simplified models of the flooding process. In this paper, we use a new 30 m resolution model of the entire conterminous US with a 2D representation of flood physics to produce estimates of flood hazard, which match to within 90% accuracy the skill of local models built with detailed data. These flood depths are combined with exposure datasets of commensurate resolution to calculate current and future flood risk. Our data show that the total US population exposed to serious flooding is 2.6-3.1 times higher than previous estimates, and that nearly 41 million Americans live within the 1% annual exceedance probability floodplain (compared to only 13 million when calculated using FEMA flood maps). We find that population and GDP growth alone are expected to lead to significant future increases in exposure, and this change may be exacerbated in the future by climate change.
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