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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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. For more details check the entire post on this topic!
New paper published by Sigrid J. Bakke, Monica Ionita, and Lena M. Tallaksen on the Copernicus journal HESS The 2018 northern European hydrological drought and its drivers in a historical perspective Abstract. In 2018, large parts of northern Europe were…
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The blog of the Natural Hazards Division of the EGU has published an interview to Henny van Lanen about the ANYWHERE project, particularly relevant also for people interested in droughts. You can read more here. https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/nh/2019/08/05/hot-topic-for-a-hot-summer-extreme-wheather-and-climate-event-in-the-anywhere-project-a-pan-european-platform-for-multi-hazard-early-warning-and-associated-impacts/
The Department of Physical Geography and Rijkswaterstaat are searching for a PhD candidate with the aim to improve our understanding of future drought impacts on water resources with a focus on the Netherlands. The project will make use of the…
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