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
Publications
STREAM‐Sat: A Novel Near‐Realtime Quasi‐Global Satellite‐Only Ensemble Precipitation Dataset
Satellite‐based precipitation observations can provide near‐global coverage with high spatiotemporal resolution in near‐realtime....
March 20, 2025
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
AGU Abstracts
Moving Beyond the Design Storm: Probabilistic Flood Hazard Mapping Using Modified Stochastic Storm Transposition
RECENT ADVANCES IN LARGE-SCALE, HIGH-RESOLUTION HYDROLOGIC AND FLOOD MODELING: ASSESSING HYDROCLIMATIC EXTREMES I ORAL
hydrology | 12 december 2024
Jack Baer, Lauren E. Grimley, Antonia Sebastian, D...
Flood hazard maps are essential to floodplain management and resiliency efforts, including insurance mandates, construction requirements, and developm...
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Stochastic Downscaling and Ensemble Generation of Seasonal Predictions of Extreme Rainfall Using a Space-Time Nonstationary Stochastic Rainfall Model
IMPROVEMENTS TO SUBSEASONAL TO SEASONAL AND SEASONAL TO DECADAL (S2S/S2D) PREDICTIONS USING NOVEL STATISTICAL, MACHINE, AND DEEP LEARNING METHODS II ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 12 december 2024
Yagmur Derin, Daniel B. Wright, Yuan Liu, Robert E...
There is increasing interest in characterizing extreme weather and climate events, both for the development of early weather warning systems and to be...
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Proceed with Caution: The Critical Role of Precipitation Accuracy, Resolution, and Uncertainty in Large-Scale Hydrologic and Flood Hazard Modeling
RECENT ADVANCES IN LARGE-SCALE, HIGH-RESOLUTION HYDROLOGIC AND FLOOD MODELING: ASSESSING HYDROCLIMATIC EXTREMES I ORAL
hydrology | 12 december 2024
Daniel B. Wright, Yuan Liu, Kaidi Peng, Ankita Pra...
Increasing availability of high-performance computing and distributed geospatial datasets has led to a dramatic increase in the popularity of large-sc...
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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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