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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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Contributed by: Samuel J. Sutanto and Henny A.J. Van Lanen Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands   In the past three years, from 2018 to 2020, extensive areas in Europe once more suffered from…
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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. 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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