Compound Flooding Manual of Practice for Engineers

Compound flood events result from a combination of multiple meteorological, hydrologic and oceanographic drivers occurring either in close succession or concurrently. These drivers may be statistically interdependent, and the processes that cause them may be non-stationary. The rate and magnitude of the processes’ changes are significantly uncertain. Traditional engineering practices have generally used univariate approaches that assume stationary conditions of underlying variables. To address the challenge of compound flood analysis in a changing climate, the ASCE Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate is writing a Manual of Practice on Compound Flooding. The purpose of this Manual of Practice is to provide guidelines for the practicing engineer on how to analyze compound flooding events. The partial session will provide an overview of the Manual of Practice.