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Karrer, Markus (author), Dias Neto, J. (author), von Terzi, Leonie (author), Kneifel, Stefan (author)Comparing the reflectivity flux at the top and bottom of the melting layer (ML) reveals the overall effect of the microphysical processes occurring within the ML on the particle population. If melting is the only process taking place and all particles scatter in the Rayleigh regime, the reflectivity flux increases in the ML by a constant...journal article 2022
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Whitworth, Michael R. Z. (author), Giardina, Giorgia (author), Penney, Camilla (author), Di Sarno, Luigi (author), Adams, Keith (author), Kijewski-Correa, Tracy (author), Black, Jacob (author), Foroughnia, Fatemeh (author), Macchiarulo, V. (author)On 14th August 2021, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Tiburon Peninsula in the Caribbean nation of Haiti, approximately 150 km west of the capital Port-au-Prince. Aftershocks up to moment magnitude 5.7 followed and over 1,000 landslides were triggered. These events led to over 2,000 fatalities, 15,000 injuries and more than 137,000...journal article 2022
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Ali, Muhammad Gufran (author), Ali, Sikandar (author), Arshad, Rao Husnain (author), Nazeer, A. (author), Waqas, Muhammad Mohsin (author), Waseem, Muhammad (author), Aslam, Rana Ammar (author), Cheema, Muhammad Jehanzeb Masud (author), Leta, Megersa Kebede (author), Shauket, Imran (author)Near real-time estimation of soil loss from river catchments is crucial for minimizing environmental degradation of complex river basins. The Chenab river is one of the most complex river basins of the world and is facing severe soil loss due to extreme hydrometeorological conditions, unpredictable hydrologic response, and complex orography....journal article 2021
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Schoups, G.H.W. (author), Nasseri, M. (author)To fully benefit from remotely sensed observations of the terrestrial water cycle, bias and random errors in these data sets need to be quantified. This paper presents a Bayesian hierarchical model that fuses monthly water balance data and estimates the corresponding data errors and error-corrected water balance components (precipitation,...journal article 2021
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Mokkenstorm, Lone C. (author), van den Homberg, Marc J.C. (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author), Persson, Andreas (author)Detecting and forecasting riverine floods is of paramount importance for adequate disaster risk management and humanitarian response. However, this is challenging in data-scarce and ungauged river basins in developing countries. Satellite remote sensing data offers a cost-effective, low-maintenance alternative to the limited in-situ data when...journal article 2021
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Daggers, Tisja D. (author), Herman, P.M.J. (author), van der Wal, Daphne (author)Understanding the spatial structure of microphytobenthos (MPB) on intertidal flats is necessary to gain insight in the benthic community structure and ecosystem processes. The increasing availability of high resolution satellite sensors provides the opportunity to better understand spatial patterns of MPB on various (meter to km) scales. We...journal article 2020
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Singh, C. (author), Wang-Erlandsson, Lan (author), Fetzer, Ingo (author), Rockström, Johan (author), van der Ent, R.J. (author)Climate change and deforestation have increased the risk of drought-induced forest-to-savanna transitions across the tropics and subtropics. However, the present understanding of forest-savanna transitions is generally focused on the influence of rainfall and fire regime changes, but does not take into account the adaptability of vegetation...journal article 2020
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Lhermitte, S.L.M. (author), Sun, Sainan (author), Shuman, Christopher (author), Wouters, B. (author), Pattyn, Frank (author), Wuite, Jan (author), Berthier, Etienne (author), Nagler, Thomas (author)Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites Glacier in the Amundsen Sea Embayment are among the fastest changing outlet glaciers in West Antarctica with large consequences for global sea level. Yet, assessing how much and how fast both glaciers will weaken if these changes continue remains a major uncertainty as many of the processes that control their...journal article 2020
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Gossart, Alexandra (author), Palm, Stephen P. (author), Souverijns, Niels (author), Lenaerts, Jan T.M. (author), Gorodetskaya, Irina V. (author), Lhermitte, S.L.M. (author), van Lipzig, Nicole P.M. (author)Continuous measurements of blowing snow are scarce, both in time and space. Satellites now provide the opportunity to derive blowing snow occurrences, transport and sublimation rates over Antarctica. These products are extremely valuable and offer a continental-wide assessment of blowing snow, which is an important but unknown component of...journal article 2020
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Fokker, Peter A. (author), van Leijen, F.J. (author), Orlic, Bogdan (author), van der Marel, H. (author), Hanssen, R.F. (author)Ground surface dynamics is one of the processes influencing the future of the Wadden Sea area. Vertical land movement, both subsidence and heave, is a direct contributor to changes in the relative sea level. It is defined as the change of height of the Earth's surface with respect to a vertical datum. In the Netherlands, The Normaal Amsterdams...journal article 2018
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Boers, Reinout (author), Knist, Christine (author), Russchenberg, H.W.J. (author), Werner, Frank (author), Wood, Robert (author), Zhang, Zhibo (author), Quaas, Johannes (author)The cloud droplet number concentration (N<sub>d</sub>) is of central interest to improve the understanding of cloud physics and for quantifying the effective radiative forcing by aerosol-cloud interactions. Current standard satellite retrievals do not operationally provide N<sub>d</sub>, but it can be inferred from retrievals of cloud optical...journal article 2018
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Nijzink, R.C. (author), Almeida, S. (author), Pechlivanidis, I. G. (author), Capell, R. (author), Gustafssons, D. (author), Arheimer, B. (author), Parajka, J. (author), Freer, J. (author), Han, D. (author), Wagener, T. (author), van Nooijen, R.R.P. (author), Savenije, Hubert (author), Hrachowitz, M. (author)The calibration of hydrological models without streamflow observations is problematic, and the simultaneous, combined use of remotely sensed products for this purpose has not been exhaustively tested thus far. Our hypothesis is that the combined use of products can (1) reduce the parameter search space and (2) improve the representation of...journal article 2018
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Mianabadi, A. (author), Coenders-Gerrits, Miriam (author), Shirazi, P. (author), Ghahraman, B. (author), Alizadeh, Amin (author)Evaporation is a very important flux in the hydrological cycle and links the water and energy balance of a catchment. The Budyko framework is often used to provide a first order estimate of evaporation, since it is a simple model where only rainfall and potential evaporation is required as input. Many researchers have tried to improve the Budyko...journal article 2017
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Echevarria Icaza, L. (author), van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author), van der Hoeven, F.D. (author)The purpose of this research is to analyse the thermal behaviour of South Holland provincial parks during heat waves, in order to provide design adaptation guidelines to increase their cooling capacity over the hotspots present in their urban surroundings. This research analyses the thermal behaviour of different land use patches (forests,...journal article 2016
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Echevarria Icaza, L. (author), van der Hoeven, F.D. (author), van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (author)The urban heat island effect is often associated with large metropolises. However, in the Netherlands even small cities will be affected by the phenomenon in the future (Hove et al., 2011), due to the dispersed or mosaic urbanisation patterns in particularly the southern part of the country: the province of North Brabant. This study analyses the...journal article 2016
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Ritter, B. (author), Meskers, A.J.H. (author), Miles, O. (author), Russwurm, M. (author), Scully, S. (author), Roldan, A. (author), Hartkorn, O. (author), Jüstel, P. (author), Réville, V. (author), Lupu, S. (author), Ruffenach, A. (author)The Earth’s magnetosphere is formed as a consequence of interaction between the planet’s magnetic field and the solar wind, a continuous plasma stream from the Sun. A number of different solar wind phenomena have been studied over the past 40 years with the intention of understanding and forecasting solar behavior. One of these phenomena in...journal article 2015
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Yang, Z. (author), Zhou, Y. (author), Wenninger, J. (author), Uhlenbrook, S. (author), Wan, L. (author)Groundwater is the most important resource for local society and the ecosystem in the semi-arid Hailiutu River catchment. The catchment water balance was analyzed by considering vegetation types with the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), determining evapotranspiration rates by combining sap flow measurements and NDVI values,...journal article 2015
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Van Emmerik, T.H.M. (author), Mulder, G. (author), Eilander, D. (author), Piet, M. (author), Savenije, H.H.G. (author)The hydrological decade on Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB) led to many new insights in model development, calibration strategies, data acquisition and uncertainty analysis. Due to a limited amount of published studies on genuinely ungauged basins, model validation and realism assessment of model outcome has not been discussed to a great...journal article 2015
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Shang, H. (author), Li, J. (author), Menenti, M. (author)The soil wetness condition is a useful indicator of inundation hazard in floodplains, such as the Poyang Lake floodplain. Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) passive microwave data were used to monitor water-saturated soil and open water areas of the Poyang Lake floodplain from 2001 to 2008, capturing the inundation patterns of this area in...journal article 2015
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Chen, Q. (author), Jia, L. (author), Hutjes, R. (author), Menenti, M. (author)Most land surface models require information on aerodynamic roughness length and its temporal and spatial variability. This research presents a practical approach for determining the aerodynamic roughness length at fine temporal and spatial resolution over the landscape by combining remote sensing and ground measurements. The basic framework of...journal article 2015