The Drought Resilience +10 Conference was held from 30 September to 2 October 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland, at the WMO Headquarters. The event brought together countries, experts, and practitioners to review progress and lessons learnt since the High-Level Meeting on National Drought Policy (HMNDP)…
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The GroundedExtremes project “Understanding and governing groundwater to reduce risk of hydrological extremes” (2024-2027) aims to investigate groundwater and hydrological extremes, and design improved groundwater management as a powerful adaptation strategy to both droughts and floods, avoiding long-term unintended consequences…
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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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