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Storylines of Future Extreme Precipitation in Baltimore, MD
Citation:
Gray, G., K. Kunkel, T. Spero, J. Bowden, AND A. Jalowska. Storylines of Future Extreme Precipitation in Baltimore, MD. CORDEX: The Use of Storylines from Regional Simulations, NA, Virtual, April 25 - 27, 2022.
Impact/Purpose:
This presentation illustrates the use of modeled meteorological data and collaboration with stakeholders to develop possible future climatologies for extreme precipitation events in an urban area.
Description:
The urban environment is especially vulnerable to extreme precipitation events due to the density of infrastructure and population. The stochasticity of extreme precipitation creates a technical barrier to producing specific outcomes in an explicit location. This project blends downscaling methods through a storylines lens to provide multiple scenarios and levels of information to decision makers and community members. Collaborating with municipal practitioners defined the parameters of the study and conversations with community leaders provided a much needed lived-experience perspective. Ultimately, the design of the project benefited from several stages of collaboration to produce storylines of extreme precipitation in the context of past and future climatologies.
