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February 22, 2018
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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EDCadmin
November 8, 2017
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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EDCadmin
June 9, 2017
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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EDCadmin
April 20, 2017
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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EDCadmin
March 21, 2017
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, Alberto Viglione,…
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EDCadmin
February 20, 2017
All the materials related to the Third Webinar on Climate ADAPT have been published on line on the EEA-EIONET website (http://forum.eionet.europa.eu/nrc-climate-change-adaptation/library/workshops-meetings/climate-adapt-development-webinars/third-climate-adapt-webinar), including all the presentation. Click the following link to see the presentation. http://forum.eionet.europa.eu/nrc-climate-change-adaptation/library/workshops-meetings/climate-adapt-development-webinars/third-climate-adapt-webinar/presentations Particularly relevant for the EDC members…
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EDCadmin
February 13, 2017
The report “Climate change, impacts and vulnerability in Europe 2016” has been recently published by the European Environmental Agency (EEA). It is an indicator-based assessment of past and projected climate change and its impacts on ecosystems and society. It also…
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EDCadmin
December 19, 2016
EDC members were amongst nearly 40 drought experts from Europe and the USA to participate to the ‘sort-out-drought’ workshop co-organised by Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology (LfULG), the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration…
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EDCadmin
December 16, 2016
We suggest to have a look at the publication “Handbook of Drought Indicators and Indices” by WMO/GWP Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP). 2016. The pdf of the publication is available here: http://www.droughtmanagement.info/handbook-drought-indicators-and-indices/. It has been translated to Arabic, Chinese, Spanish,…
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EDCadmin
November 22, 2016
Sessions of interest for the European Drought Centre. HS2.1.1 – Hydrological extremes: from droughts to floods Convener: Anne Van Loon Co-Conveners: Jan Szolgay, Lena M. Tallaksen, Gregor Laaha, Alberto Viglione More information: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/session/22955 HS.4.4 – Drought and water scarcity: monitoring,…
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