Minnesota Stormwater Research Spotlight Series
March 17, 2022, 10 a.m.
Please join the Water Resources Center for the next Minnesota Stormwater Research Spotlight Series event featuring Ryan Noe, senior scientist in Bonnie Keeler's lab in the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy area of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
To appropriately size infrastructure, stormwater managers use estimates of precipitation amount over a range of durations and recurrence intervals (e.g., 100-year 24-hour storms).These estimates are created for every location in the United States by NOAA in their Atlas-14 publication. While Atlas-14 is an important guidance document, a limitation is that it does not account for climate change, even though some of its estimates include data from the late 1800s. Recent federal infrastructure spending has dedicated funding for updating Atlas-14, but the process could take years and the demand is already high. To address this gap, we created a proof-of-concept application of NOAAs Atlas-14 methods to dynamically down-scaled climate change projections. This work documents the challenges of combining the methods; and created tools and techniques that can be applied to future iterations climate change projections. County-level reports and statewide maps are now available.
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About the Minnesota Stormwater Research Spotlight Series
The MN Stormwater Research Spotlight Series features experts and researchers from Minnesota who have recently completed or are working on innovative and high priority stormwater research. Every other month will feature representatives of the current research projects through this program. The alternating months will feature an invited speaker and local panel experts as part of the MN Stormwater Seminar Series.
The Minnesota Stormwater Research Spotlight Series is hosted by the University of Minnesota Water Resources Center in coordination with the St. Anthony Falls Lab. These research projects are made possible through the Minnesota Stormwater Research and Technology Transfer Program in collaboration with the Minnesota Stormwater Research Council. The Series is made possible by the Minnesota Stormwater Research and Technology Transfer Program in collaboration with the Minnesota Stormwater Research Council and supported through an appropriation from the Clean Water Fund established by Minnesota Clean Water Land and Legacy Amendment.
