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Member Since 2011
Daniel B. Wright
Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Daniel B. Wright is an associate professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research, teaching, and outreach focuses on extreme rainfall, floods, and how both are influenced by meteorology, urbanization, and climate change.
Professional Experience
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Associate Professor
2016 - Present
Education
Doctorate
2013
Honors & Awards
Outstanding Reviewer Award - Earth’s Future
Received December 2021
Natural Hazards Early Career Award
Received December 2021
Current Roles
Member
Natural Hazards Early Career and Student Committee
Publications
A Nonstationary Stochastic Rainfall Generator Conditioned on Global Climate Models for Design Flood ...
Existing stochastic rainfall generators (SRGs) are typically limited to relatively small domains due to spatial stationarity assumptions, hindering...
May 25, 2024
Process‐Based Quantification of the Role of Wildfire in Shap...
December 21, 2023
Performance of Fire Danger Indices and Their Utility in Pred...
November 20, 2023
Ensemble Representation of Satellite Precipitation Uncertain...
August 15, 2022
AGU Abstracts
A Novel Method for Compound Flood Driver Attribution to Inform Urban Coastal Flood Risk Management
ADVANCING FLOOD CHARACTERIZATION, MODELING, AND COMMUNICATION VI POSTER
hydrology | 13 december 2023
Daniel Lassiter, Julianne Quinn, Daniel B. Wright
Quantifying compound flood risk in coastal communities is a global challenge exacerbated by the complex spatiotemporal variability and correlations of...
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Rainfall spatiotemporal variability effects on adverse flow conditions in urban stormwater systems: a case study of the Richmond tunnel in San Francisco, California
URBAN HYDROLOGY AND WATER QUALITY: TOWARD SUSTAINABLE URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE I POSTER
hydrology | 13 december 2023
Yichen Tao, Abdulmuttalib Lokhandwala, Vitor G. Ge...
Urban expansion and the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events bring new challenges to stormwater collection systems. One ...
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Chapter 4 - Water - The Fifth National Climate Assessment
THE FIFTH NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT: RISKS, IMPACTS, AND RESPONSES POSTER
science and society | 12 december 2023
Elizabeth A. Payton, Ariane O. Pinson, Tirusew Ase...
This poster is part of the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) poster series. NCA5 Chapter 4 - Water describes how a changing climate profoundly ...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2024
Member
Natural Hazards Early Career and Student Committee
2019 - 2021
Chair
Natural Hazards Early Career and Student Committee
2019 - 2021
Member
Natural Hazards Early Career and Student Committee
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