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Take the time to read @jimmor12's deep dive into how we make decisions about dealing with climate change impacts in our communities. For the most part, we don't. With the push for rebuilding our infrastructure, this isn't optional. With comments from me, @Alice_C_Hill, & others. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1380528334854103040
Our 2018 research looked at the engineering standards of every State Department of Transportation. The number of engineering standards that included climate change? https://medium.com/resilient-infrastructure/https-medium-com-resilient-infrastructure-stormwater-27ed61efef4c.
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With some amazing students, we've built up an entire research program around this area, and we offer a climate adaptation for infrastructure graduate concentration. https://www.costasamaras.com/climate-change-adaptation
This paper outlined a framework on using climate model output:
https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/10_1061_ASCE_IS_1943-555X_0000382_pdf/5257867
This paper outlined a framework on using climate model output:
https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/10_1061_ASCE_IS_1943-555X_0000382_pdf/5257867
This is our paper about the State DOT standards and climate change, but it also examines how the rain data everyone used and IS USING RIGHT NOW, is out of date for climate change: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aac696
This paper examines how we might use rain information and climate model output to improve the performance of green infrastructure: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23789689.2019.1681819. We need to turn green infrastructure into infrastructure that used widely, instead of something of a bonus.
We spent a lot of time trying to understand and characterize how to use climate model information for resilience. The methods really matter now. Nobody has standardized it and nobody is checking the impacts. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-019-02649-6
There's lot of uncertainty, but that shouldn't stop us from doing something. Do nothing is also a choice, a bad one: https://rdcu.be/b3xJM
Here's our analysis of all the publicly-available downscaled climate model output for resilience decision-making. The uncertainties matter, and we generated a combined data set for public use and analysis: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL086797
Here's a piece showing that 97% of the US highway system was built before NOAA started updating rainfall information in 2004, which itself is mostly out of date. https://engrxiv.org/jseqr/
We have to rethink infrastructure and resilience in the Anthropocene: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-021-00016-y
Resilience to extreme rainfall starts with robust public science: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/aop/BAMS-D-20-0267.1/BAMS-D-20-0267.1.xml
Climate changes all of our assumptions about infrastructure. As the world builds out more hydropower, it's worth examining how it will perform under climate change: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0973082621000259. /end/more to come
A couple more of our outputs to round out this thread on climate adaptation for infrastructure: our free e-book from our ASCE Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate: https://ascelibrary.org/doi/book/10.1061/9780784479193
Another book from our ASCE Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate, "Climate-Resilient Infrastructure: Adaptive Design and Risk Management" https://ascelibrary.org/doi/book/10.1061/9780784415191
