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A new Nature Scientific Report paper has been published by EDC members, Sigrid J. Bakke, Monica Ionita and Lena M. Tallaksen. You can find the paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-48861-4

Elsevier webshop: https://shop.elsevier.com/books/hydrological-drought/tallaksen/978-0-12-819082-1 Description Drought is a worldwide phenomenon that originates from a prolonged deficit in precipitation, often in combination with high evaporation, over an extended region. The resultant meteorological water balance deficit may cause a hydrological drought to develop…
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As part of the EURO-FRIEND project 3 on “Large Scale Variations in Hydrological Characteristics”, it will be running a workshop/training series between April and December 2022. Once a month, it will be proposed either a seminar or training on the…
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For those who are at EGU, we would like to highlight the following events.   Meeting Panta Rhei Drought in the Anthropocene meetup. This is an informal get-together for researchers part of (or interesting in) the Panta Rhei working group…
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Contributed by: Samuel J. Sutanto and Henny A.J. Van Lanen Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands   In the past three years, from 2018 to 2020, extensive areas in Europe once more suffered from…
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The GRDC Data Download portal has been completed and now in-situ river discharge data collected since 1988 in the Global Runoff Database are available with a few mouse clicks. The Global Runoff Database of quality controlled “historical” mean daily and…
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Prognosis of hydrological drought development in Slovakia (Miriam Fendeková and Lotta Blaškovičová Eds., 2018) The monograph is the contribution of the Slovak scientific community to the international UNESCO-IHP VIII FRIEND-Water programme, the EUROFRIEND – Low Flow and Drought group. The…
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Text by Eric Sauquet A EU-wide citizen science network initiative was launched in April 2019 by the SMIRES COST project (Studying Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams, https://www.smires.eu) to fill gaps in our knowledge of the dynamics of intermittent streams. The…
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Text by Theresa Lorenz and Annika Kramer – adelphi, Berlin Summer 2018 has shown once more that drought risk is not only limited to Mediterranean regions but can also affect Northern Europe, a region that is not known for frequent…
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By Eric Sauquet What is the relationship between groundwater and rivers? What is the impact of climate change on water resources? These are questions that require regular observation of streamflow. Unfortunately small catchments – which are frequently intermittent – are…
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