Abstract
The accurate design flood of hydraulic engineering is an important precondition to ensure the safety of residents, and the high precision estimation of flood frequency is a vital perquisite. The Xiangjiang River basin, which is the largest river in Hunan Province of China, is highly inclined to floods. This paper aims to investigate the annual maximum flood peak (AMFP) risk of Xiangjiang River basin under the climate context employing the Bayesian nonstationary time-varying moment models. Two climate covariates, i.e., the average June-July-August Artic Oscillation and sea level pressure in the Northwest Pacific Ocean, are selected and found to exhibit significant positive correlation with AMFP through a rigorous statistical analysis. The proposed models are tested with three cases, namely, stationary, linear-temporal and climate-based conditions. The results both indicate that the climate-informed model demonstrates the best performance as well as sufficiently explain the variability of extreme flood risk. The nonstationary return periods estimated by the expected number of exceedances method are larger than traditional ones built on the stationary assumption. In addition, the design flood could vary with the climate drivers which has great implication when applied in the context of climate change. This study suggests that nonstationary Bayesian modelling with climatic covariates could provide useful information for flood risk management.
Highlights
The results indicated that ENE, design life level (DLL) and equivalent reliability (ER) yielded very similar design flood values for both increasing and decreasing trends
In the Xiangjiang River basin, as floods are primarily driven by abundant precipitation in the wet seasons, we focus on identifying the significant climate covariates for extreme flood peaks and quantitatively estimating the climate contribution to the probability of extreme flood events and design flood using the nonstationary modeling framework
The study contributes to describingflood the characteristics of extreme flood risks under a changing climate, using nonstationary frequency analysis models in the Xiangjiang changing climate, using nonstationary flood frequency analysis models in the
Summary
River basin under the climate context employing the Bayesian nonstationary time-varying moment models. The proposed models are tested with three cases, namely, stationary, linear-temporal and climate-based conditions. The results both indicate that the climate-informed model demonstrates the best performance as well as sufficiently explain the variability of extreme flood risk. This study suggests that nonstationary Bayesian modelling with climatic covariates could provide useful information for flood risk management. With climate change and anthropogenic activities, the stationary flood frequency analysis method is frequently questionable relative to the heterogeneous flood population; the nonstationary extreme flood risk analysis with various methodological frameworks has been extensively explored over recent decades
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