Evaluating flood potential with GRACE in the United States

Molodtsova, Tatiana; Molodtsov, Sergey; Kirilenko, Andrei; Zhang, Xiaodong; VanLooy, Jeffrey

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1011-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1011-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1011-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 4

Research article

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25 Apr 2016

Research article |

| 25 Apr 2016

Evaluating flood potential with GRACE in the United States

Tatiana Molodtsova, Sergey Molodtsov, Andrei Kirilenko, Xiaodong Zhang, and Jeffrey VanLooy

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RC C2702: 'RC to nhess-2015-289', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Dec 2015
RC C2770: 'comments on "evaluating flood potential..."', J.T. Reager, 22 Dec 2015
AC C3235: 'Response to the referee comments', Sergey Molodtsov, 22 Feb 2016

Short summary

One of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) products, the Terrestrial Water Storage Anomaly (TWSA), was used for assessing large-scale flood risk. The efficacy of the methodology was evaluated over the continental USA. The method exhibits higher skill in predicting the large-area, long-duration floods, especially during the summer season.