Shapefile of Areal Reduction Factor (ARF) regions for the state of Florida (ARF_regions.shp)

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The Florida Flood Hub for Applied Research and Innovation and the U.S. Geological Survey have developed projected future change factors for precipitation depth-duration-frequency (DDF) curves at 242 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Atlas 14 stations in Florida. The change factors were computed as the ratio of projected future to historical extreme-precipitation depths fitted to extreme-precipitation data from downscaled climate datasets using a constrained maximum likelihood (CML) approach as described in https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20225093. The change factors correspond to the periods 2020-59 (centered in the year 2040) and 2050-89 (centered in the year 2070) as compared to the 1966-2005 historical period. An areal reduction factor (ARF) is computed to convert rainfall statistics of a point, such as at a weather station, to an area, such as a watershed or model grid cell. Regions considered for the development of change factors as part of this study study are taken from NOAA National Center for Environmental Information (NCEI) U.S. Climate Divisions for the state of Florida with some modifications in south Florida. Geospatial data provided in an ArcGIS shapefile are described herein. Areal reduction factors (ARF) and their standard deviation have been calculated for each region. For each model grid cell closest to each NOAA Atlas 14 station, return levels for extreme precipitation depth are adjusted from the area-scale to the station-scale by dividing by the areal reduction factor (ARF) for the ARF region where the station is located. See Areal_reduction_factors.xlsx and Table 1 of Datasets_station_information.xlsx for the ARF data by ARF region, event duration, and model grid-cell area.

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Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Q3LEIL
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.64a2e831d34ef77fcb056ba6.xml

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  • florida-flood-hub-for-applied-research-and-innovation
  • arf
  • boundaries
  • florida
  • usgs-64a2e831d34ef77fcb056ba6
  • climate-divisions

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