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Developing Intensity?Duration?Frequency (IDF) Curves under Climate Change Uncertainty: The Case of Bangkok, Thailand

Ashish Shrestha    
Mukand Singh Babel    
Sutat Weesakul    
Zoran Vojinovic    

Resumen

The magnitude and frequency of hydrological events are expected to increase in coming years due to climate change in megacities of Asia. Intensity?Duration?Frequency (IDF) curves represent essential means to study effects on the performance of drainage systems. Therefore, the need for updating IDF curves comes from the necessity to gain better understanding of climate change effects. The present paper explores an approach based on spatial downscaling-temporal disaggregation method (DDM) to develop future IDFs using stochastic weather generator, Long Ashton Research Station Weather Generator (LARS-WG) and the rainfall disaggregation tool, Hyetos. The work was carried out for the case of Bangkok, Thailand. The application of LARS-WG to project extreme rainfalls showed promising results and nine global climate models (GCMs) were used to estimate changes in IDF characteristics for future time periods of 2011?2030 and 2046?2065 under climate change scenarios. The IDFs derived from this approach were corrected using higher order equation to mitigate biases. IDFs from all GCMs showed increasing intensities in the future for all return periods. The work presented demonstrates the potential of this approach in projecting future climate scenarios for urban catchment where long term hourly rainfall data are not readily available.

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