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Temporal changes in rainfall intensity–duration thresholds for post-wildfire flash floods in southern California
Tao Liu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
85721-0011, USA
Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of
Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0011, USA
Luke A. McGuire
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
85721-0011, USA
Nina Oakley
Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Forest Cannon
Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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A well-constrained rainfall-runoff model forced by radar-derived precipitation is used to define rainfall intensity-duration (ID) thresholds for flash floods. The rainfall ID doubles in 5 years after a severe wildfire in a watershed in southern California, USA. Rainfall ID performs stably well for intense pulses of rainfall over durations of 30-60 minutes that cover at least 15%-25% of the watershed. This finding could help issuing flash flood warnings based on radar-derived precipitation.
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