The European Drought Risk Atlas (EDRA) (https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC135215) represents a significant advancement in impact-based drought assessment. It assists in the development and implementation of drought management and adaptation policies and actions. Following two different approaches, the atlas characterizes how drought hazard,…
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We recommend a new paper in review (discussion), on the 2022 drought in Europe which is available as a discussion paper in EGUsphere: EGUsphere – The 2022 Drought Needs to be a Turning Point for European Drought Risk Management
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
We are excited to announce the publishing of the second edition of the textbook on ‘Hydrological Drought – Processes and Estimation Methods for Streamflow and Groundwater‘. It represents a major revision of the first edition, including many emerging drought topics.
New Paper from EDC memebers (Sigrid Jørgensen Bakke, Niko Wanders, Karin van der Wiel, and Lena Merete Tallaksen) about wildfire danger in Fennoscandia! The open-access paper is available at the following link: https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/23/65/2023/nhess-23-65-2023.html. Abstract Wildfires are recurrent natural hazards that…
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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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New review paper on the challenges in modeling and predicting floods and droughts is available as Open Access at the following link. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wat2.1520 Abstract Predictions of floods, droughts, and fast drought‐flood transitions are required at different time scales to develop…
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The IHP family (UNESCO-IHP National Committees, A2 Centres, Chairs) has evaluated the sixteen IHP’s Programmes and Major Initiatives. FRIEND-Water is at the 5th rank, particular because it is well-known. It could improve by increasing activity in some regions across the…
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