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Daniel Wright
Selected Publications

Publications:

Wright, D.B., J. A. Smith, G. Villarini, and M. L. Baeck,  Estimating the Frequency of Extreme Rainfall Using Weather Radar and Stochastic Storm Transposition, Journal of Hydrology, in review, 2012.

Wright, D.B., J. A. Smith, G. Villarini, and M. L. Baeck,  High-Resolution Radar Estimation of Extreme Rainfall for Urban Hydrology, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, in review, 2012.

Smith, J.A., M. L. Baeck, G. Villarini, D. B. Wright, Witold F. Krajewski, Extreme Flood Response: The June 2008 Flooding in Iowa, Journal of Hydroclimatology, submitted, 2012.

Smith, B. K., J. A. Smith, M. L. Baeck, G. Villarini, D. B. Wright, The Spectrum of Storm Event Hydrologic Response in Urban Watersheds, Water Resources Research, in revision, 2012.

Wright, D.B., J. A. Smith, G. Villarini,  and M. L. Baeck, “Applications of Radar-Based Rainfall Estimates for Urban Flood Studies,”  Stormwater and Urban Water Systems Modeling, Monograph 21 (Ed. W. James), Computational Hydraulics International, Guelph, ON Canada, in press, 2012.

Wright, D.B., J.A. Smith, G. Villarini , M.L. Baeck. “The hydroclimatology of flash flooding in Atlanta Georgia,” Water Resources Research, 48, W0524, 2012.

Wright, D.B. and J. Marcus Schwenk, Aplicación de HEC-RAS 4.0 en el cálculo del comportamiento hidráulico del rechazo de carga en mini- y pequeñas centrales hidroeléctricas (Application of HEC-RAS 4.0 to hydraulic behavior of mini- and small hydroelectric plants during load rejection events), CINER E&D, 36, 2010.

Towey, T. P., S.-C. Chang, A. Demond, D.B. Wright, N. Barabás, A. Franzblau, D.H. Garabrant, B.W. Gillespie, J. Lepkowski, W. Luksemburg, and P. Adriaens, Hierarchical cluster analysis of polychlorinated dioxins and furans in Michigan, USA, soils: Evaluation of industrial and background congener profiles. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 29: 64–72, 2010.

Workshops and symposia:

Invited Panelist, Extreme Precipitation Panel, Workshop for Developing a Program in Probabilistic Flood Hazard Assessment, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Rockville, MD (January 29-31, 2013).

Participant: Summer School on Atmospheric Modeling, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ (July 2012).
 
Participant: Advanced Studies Program Summer Colloquium: Statistical Assessment of Extreme Weather Phenomena under Climate Change, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO (June 2011).
 
Guest speaker, Sustainable Engineering and Development Scholars Program, Princeton University (December 2010).
 
Invited panelist: Collective Motion 2010: Mainstreaming Sustainability in Development, water panel, Princeton University (November 2010).

Invited panelist, Engineers in the Peace Corps: A Conversation with College of Engineering Alumni, The University of Michigan (October 2010).

Conference Presentations:

Wright, D.B., J.A. Smith, G. Villarini, M.L. Baeck. “An Observation-Driven Approach to Rainfall and Flood Frequency Analysis Using High-Resolution Radar Rainfall Fields and Stochastic Storm Transposition,” Workshop for Developing a Program in Probabilistic Flood Hazard Assessment, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Rockville MD, January 29-31, 2013.
 
Wright, D.B., J.A. Smith, G. Villarini , M.L. Baeck. “New Approaches to Rainfall and Flood Frequency Analysis Using High-Resolution Radar Rainfall Fields and Stochastic Storm Transposition,” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 6, 2012.
 
Wright, D.B., J.A. Smith, M.L. Baeck, J. Yeung, L. Yang. “Rainfall modification in urban areas: no easy answers,” Symposium on Fluid Dynamics and the Global Environment, Princeton University, May 22, 2012 .
 
Wright, D.B., J.A. Smith, G. Villarini , M.L. Baeck. “Applications of Radar-Based Rainfall Estimates for Urban Flood Studies,” Conference on Stormwater and Urban Water Systems Modeling, Toronto, February 22, 2012.
 
Wright, D.B., J.A. Smith, G. Villarini , M.L. Baeck.  “The Flood Hydroclimatology of Urban Environments in the Southeastern United States,” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 6, 2011.
 
Wright, D.B., J.A. Smith, G. Villarini , M.L. Baeck. “Hydroclimatologic Analyses of Extreme Rainfall and Flooding in Atlanta, Georgia Using Long-Term Radar-Rainfall Datasets,” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 14, 2010.