We are pleased to announce a Special Issue (SI) entitled “Recent advances in drought and water scarcity monitoring, modeling, and forecasting (EGU2019, session HS4.1.1/NH1.31)“, to be published in the open access journal Natural Hazard and Earth System Sciences (ISSN 1561-8633,…
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The upcoming FRIEND splinter meeting at EGU 2019 will take place on Friday, 12th April, 12:45-13:45h in Room 2.61 (Red floor) and will be held as a “brown bag” lunch meeting (bring your own lunch). Considering the limited time slot it would…
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We have selected some sessions of the coming EGU 2017 for those who are interested in Drought. Session HS2.4.1 Hydrological extremes: from droughts to floods Convener: Anne Van Loon | Co-conveners: Gregor Laaha , Louise Slater , Jan Szolgay ,…
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This post is jointly published on the blogs of HEPEX and EDC Contributed by Louise Arnal (ECMWF and University of Reading), Shaun Harrigan (ECMWF) & David Lavers (ECMWF) Summer 2018 in Europe was remarkable from a hydroclimate perspective, with large…
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By Anne van Loon The basis for (almost) all scientific work, at least in the earth and environmental sciences, is DATA. We all need data to search for the answers to our questions. There are a number of options to…
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By Maria Kireeva Don is one of the biggest rivers on the European territory of Russia. Its basin has the same area as Sweden or Iraq. Simultaneously this region is a centre of industry and especially agriculture. Rivers are also…
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We have selected some sessions of the coming EGU 2017 for those who are interested in Drought. Session HS2.1.1 Hydrological extremes: from droughts to floods Convener: Anne Van Loon | Co-Conveners: Jan Szolgay, Lena M. Tallaksen, Gregor Laaha, Ilja…
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By Anne van Loon In recent years the human dimension of hydrology has become increasingly important. Major flood and drought events have shown how strongly water and society are intertwined (Van Loon et al., 2016 & Kreibich et al., 2016)….
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By Jean-Philippe Vidal I promise, it will definitely be a post on droughts, not a ghost story. Well, actually… When you think about it, there will be many ghosts around! This post arises from a conference I attended a week…
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By Anne Van Loon Lately we have seen some stories in the news and in scientific media about snow drought. Low snowpacks are worrying, both for the tourist industry and for water managers and water users who depend on the…
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