Impacts of climate and land-use changes on floods in an urban catchment in southeast Queensland, Australia

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Chen, Yi-Ru
Yu, Bofu
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Boegh, E

Blyth, E

Hannah, DM

Hisdal, H

Kunstmann, H

Su, B

Yilmaz, KK

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2013
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Gothenburg, SWEDEN

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Over the coming decades, the projected land-use change, when coupled with climate change, could potentially lead to an increased risk of flooding in urban catchments. This research aims to examine impacts of climate and land-use changes on floods in southeast Queensland, Australia. A rainfall-runoff routing model, RORB, was first calibrated and validated using observed flood hydrographs for an urbanised catchment, the Bulimba Creek catchment, for the period 1961-1990. The validated flood model was then used to generate flood hydrographs using projected rainfall based on a global climate model, GFDL, and a regional climate model, CCAM, for 2016-2045. Projected daily precipitations for the two contrasting periods were used to derive adjustment factors for a given frequency of occurrence. Two scenarios of land-use change were considered to evaluate the likely impact of land-use change. Results showed that future flood magnitudes are unlikely to increase for large flood events for the urban catchment. Further, land-use change would not significantly affect flood magnitudes for a given frequency of occurrence in the urbanised catchment.

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CLIMATE AND LAND SURFACE CHANGES IN HYDROLOGY

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359

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© 2013 IAHS. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the conference's website for access to the definitive, published version.

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Environmental Engineering Modelling

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