Research Scientist Phil Gassman published an article in PLoS ONE. Gassman wrote the article "Evaluation of flood metrics across the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin and their relation to flood damages" with Keith E. Schilling, Elliot S. Anderson, and Jerry Mount of the University of Iowa, Kelly Suttles of the Environmental Defense Fund, Natalja Cerkasova of Texas A&M,and Michael J. White and Jeffrey G. Arnold of the US Department of Agriculture Grassland Soil and Water Research Laboratory.
The study uses a national-scale hydrological model to identify, assess, and map 16 different streamflow metrics that could be used to describe flood risks across 34,987 HUC12 subwatersheds within the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin. The authors observe a clear spatial difference among two different classes of metrics. Watersheds in the eastern half of the MARB exhibited higher overall flows as characterized by the mean, median, and maximum daily values, whereas western MARB watersheds were associated with flood indicative of high extreme flows such as skewness, standardized streamflow index and top days.
Evaluation of flood metrics across the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin and their relation to flood damages
Keith E. Schilling, Elliot S. Anderson, Jerry Mount, Kelly Suttles, Philip W. Gassman, Natalja Cerkasova, Michael J. White, and Jeffrey G. Arnold
PLoS ONE
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0307486
(Released October 2024)