The Hydroclimate Extremes Research Group @ UW-Madison

We are water, weather, and computational enthusiasts who do applications-oriented hydrometeorology and hydroclimatology research

Research Areas

Extreme Precipitation

Measurement and prediction of extreme rainfall at high resolution using all sources: rain gages, weather radar, satellites, and land/atmosphere models

Flood Hydrology

Understanding the roles of rainfall and land surface process variability and interactions to produce floods at all scales using high-resolution multi-scale supercomputer-based watershed models

Applied Climate Science

Interfacing with meteorologists and climate scientists to translate projected changes in extreme precipitation from regional and global climate models into projections of future risks

Software/Algorithm Development

Developing practical open source tools and supercomputing methods for improved probabilistic rainfall and flood hazard and risk estimation

Land Atmosphere Interactions

Understanding the complex interactions between land surface processes and atmospheric dynamics to improve weather and climate predictions