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Keurhorst, Adriaan (author)
The Alps are experiencing a gradual reduction in snow cover due to rising temperatures, impacting the landscape and dependent ecosystems. While several models have been developed to study snow cover in the region, there is a lack of visual representations. This research employs a Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN) to generate a...
master thesis 2023
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van der Kleij, Sylke (author)
Atmospheric rivers transport 90% of all atmospheric moisture in the mid-to-high latitudes, while covering only 10% of the Earth’s surface at any given time. Atmospheric rivers occur infrequently, and atmospheric river frequency in the polar areas is especially low, but they can have a large impact on the cryosphere when they make landfall. They...
master thesis 2023
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Blanken, Emma (author)
Fire both shapes and destroys forests. Forest fires are therefore essential to ecological processes and vegetation as we know them. With climate change, forest fires are expected to increase in severity and frequency. To maintain the functioning of the forests, it is important to understand the vegetation response to and recovery from forest...
master thesis 2023
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de Boer, Lotte (author)
Icebergs drifting through the Southern Ocean release fresh water and nutrients. This has local impacts on surrounding ecosystems and sea ice formation. On a global scale, salinity patterns and ocean circulation are affected. In addition, <br/> tudying icebergs as a proxy for ice shelves in a warming climate can help predict future climate...
master thesis 2023
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Pena Pereira, Simon (author)
Transforming the global energy sector from fossil-fuel based to renewable energy sources is key to limiting global warming and efficiently achieving climate neutrality. The decentralized nature of the renewable energy system allows private households to install photovoltaic (PV) systems on their rooftops. In this context, planning an efficient...
master thesis 2023
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Petrie, Wytse (author)
Disintegration of Antarctic ice shelves can induce devastated consequences for the environment and human infrastructure in the form of an increase of the global mean sea level. One of the causes of an ice shelf break down is hydrofracturing due to the mass load of supraglacial lakes. The top of the snowpack melts and the meltwater flows to a...
master thesis 2022
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Zitman, Jelle (author)
Antarctic ocean temperatures are rising due to climate change, causing land ice to melt at increasingly higher rates. Ice shelf bottom melt is a key factor responsible for Antarctic ice mass loss and as such understanding melt processes in the Antarctic is therefore key to more accurately predict how the global sea level will respond to climate...
master thesis 2022
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Hulskemper, Daan (author)
This research aims to analyse the sensitivity of the YOLOv5 object detection algorithm to current issues related to the tracking of icebergs in SAR imagery. To this end a sensitivity study was done on (1) the sensitivity of the algorithm to variations in input image resolution, (2) the sensitivity of the algorithm to variations in contrast...
student report 2022
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Verschoor, Fleur (author)
Satellite data, such as optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery, can provide information about the location and level of destruction caused by natural hazards. This information is essential to optimise the rescue mission logistics by humanitarian aid organisations and save people in need. Currently, many Automatic Damage Assessment (ADA)...
master thesis 2022
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van Hell, Marije (author)
It is well known that warming of deep Atlantic Water in recent decades resulted in extensive retreat of marine terminating glaciers in Northwest Greenland and increased their discharge, which contributed significantly to sea level rise. Here we use data and model resources over a wide range of space and timescales to determine how the pathways...
master thesis 2022
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Hulskamp, Romy (author)
The coastal area provides important services such as valuable habitats for wildlife, resources for regional development, and buffer zones for the land against natural disasters such as storm surges. But these narrow coastal areas experience pressure from both land and ocean side. In order to regulate sustainable coastal development, protect...
master thesis 2021
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Caljouw, Denise (author)
Dikes hold back water and protect the land behind it from flooding. Due to rising sea levels, land subsidence and more extreme weather patterns, the function of dikes become increasingly important. To ensure dike safety, dikes are regularly inspected. With about 22,500 kilometers of dikes in the Netherlands, this is a very slow, costly and time...
master thesis 2021
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van der Heide, Daan (author)
Recent research suggested that the digital elevation models can be considered, as an alternative to the altimetry data. However, the water prohibits the ability of monitoring the construction the waterbed, due to the loss of the returning signal. The elevation models have therefore a flat surface, which prohibits the extraction of the water...
master thesis 2021
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Kreynen, Dylan (author)
Subsurface firn processes play a crucial role in ice sheet mass loss mechanisms. On Greenland surface meltwater percolates to deeper layers where porous firn retains it, directly inhibiting runoff. However, secondary effects such as the formation of impermeable ice slabs may indirectly and irreversibly accelerate runoff and with it global sea...
master thesis 2021
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Kool, Juliette (author)
The Mara Wetland in Tanzania has an important role in regulating the quality, timing and magnitude of the flow of water into Lake Victoria. In addition, the wetland provides natural resources for local communities and habitat for variety of species. The planned dam construction upstream of the wetland and projected changes in the local climate...
master thesis 2021
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de Roda Husman, S. (author)
Ice jam events can be devastating for the environment, human infrastructure, and local population. During breakup season, it is of great importance to be informed about the river ice cover condition in order to mitigate breakup flood risk. The Athabasca River near FortMcMurray, located in Alberta, is particularly prone to ice jam events and...
master thesis 2020
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Günes, Merve (author)
Coastal dunes habitats are in the transition zone of marine and terrestrial ecosystems and therefore have high biodiversity in terms of animal and vegetation species. These species provide important ecosystem services to the human kind. Due to the development and operation of Maasvlakte 2, an increase of nitrogen emission is expected in the...
master thesis 2020
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Koenders, David (author), van den Munckhof, Gijs (author), van Egmond, Jessie Lynn (author), Brummelkamp, Judith (author), van Dongen, Kirsten (author), Schurer, Sten (author)
This report contains the findings of a multidisciplinary project in Mozambique which ran from mid-November 2018 to mid-January 2019. This study is part of the IWACA-TECH project, which is an abbreviation for “Improved Water efficiency Control based on remote sensing TECHnologies. The goal is to increase water efficiency and crop yield without...
student report 2019
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Antonissen, Coco (author)
Climate on Earth is changing rapidly. In order to take the right measures it is important to know with which magnitude and rate the warming of the climate continues in the future. However, climate models currently predict different scenarios. The differing in response of shallow cumulus clouds to a warming climate explains the largest part of...
master thesis 2019
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Izeboud, Maaike (author)
An accurate prediction of global sea-level rise requires that the cause of recent and intensifying glacier acceleration along the Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) coastal margins is understood. Ice shelf thinning and abrupt ice shelf collapse have been linked to surface melt that is prevalent across coastal Antarctica. Primarily, surface melt is...
master thesis 2019
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