Abstract Global efforts to upgrade water, drainage, and sanitation services are hampered by hydrometeorological data-scarcity plus uncertainty about climate change. Intensity–duration–frequency (IDF) tables used routinely design water infrastructure so offer an entry point for adapting engineering standards. This paper begins with a novel procedure guiding downscaling predictor variable selecti...

Because of the broad range of altitudes spanned by its catchment, the American River is notable for its occasional, very large winter floods. These floods typically are spawned by warm and exceptionally wet storms that deposit heavy rain or wet snows on broad expanses of the river’s watershed, generating rapid runoff and high streamflows. On flood and longer time scales, the American River is n...