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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Text by Theresa Lorenz and Annika Kramer – adelphi, Berlin Summer 2018 has shown once more that drought risk is not only limited to Mediterranean regions but can also affect Northern Europe, a region that is not known for frequent…
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By Eric Sauquet What is the relationship between groundwater and rivers? What is the impact of climate change on water resources? These are questions that require regular observation of streamflow. Unfortunately small catchments – which are frequently intermittent – are…
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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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