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Agoungbome, David (author), ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)Climate variability poses great challenges to food security in West Africa, a region heavily dependent on rainfall for farming. Identifying sowing strategies that minimize yield losses for farmers in the region is crucial to securing their livelihood. In this paper, we investigate three sowing strategies to assess their ability to identify safe...journal article 2024
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Estebanez Camarena, M. (author), Taormina, R. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (author)Food and economic security in West Africa rely heavily on rainfed agriculture and are threatened by climate change and demographic growth. Accurate rainfall information is therefore crucial to tackling these challenges. Particularly, information about the occurrence and length of droughts as well as the onset date of the rainy season is...journal article 2023
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Zimba, H.M. (author), Coenders-Gerrits, Miriam (author), Kawawa, Banda (author), Schilperoort, B. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), Nyambe, Imasiku (author), Savenije, Hubert (author)The trend and magnitude of actual evaporation across the phenophases of miombo woodlands are unknown. This is because estimating evaporation in African woodland ecosystems continues to be a challenge, as flux observation towers are scant if not completely lacking in most ecosystems. Furthermore, significant phenophase-based discrepancies in both...journal article 2023
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Eisma, J.A. (author), Schoups, G.H.W. (author), Davids, Jeffrey C. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)High-quality citizen science data can be instrumental in advancing science toward new discoveries and a deeper understanding of under-observed phenomena. However, the error structure of citizen scientist (CS) data must be well-defined. Within a citizen science program, the errors in submitted observations vary, and their occurrence may depend on...journal article 2023
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Kaandorp, C. (author), Pessoa, Igor T.Moreno (author), Pesch, U. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), Abraham, E. (author)Decarbonisation of the built environment is needed to abate the use of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions. In the city of Amsterdam, multiple bottom-up initiatives have been initiated to reach these goals. In this paper, we explore how energy justice is reshaped by these initiatives on an urban scale. This is done by a case study on a...journal article 2023
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Gründemann, Gaby J. (author), Zorzetto, E. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), van der Ent, R.J. (author)Global warming impacts the hydrological cycle, affecting the seasonality and timing of extreme precipitation. Understanding historical changes in extreme precipitation occurrence is crucial for assessing their impacts. This study uses relative entropy to analyze historical changes in seasonality and timing of extreme daily precipitation...journal article 2023
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Gründemann, Gaby J. (author), Zorzetto, Enrico (author), Beck, Hylke E. (author), Schleiss, M.A. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), Marani, Marco (author), van der Ent, R.J. (author)Quantifying the magnitude and frequency of extreme precipitation events is key in translating climate observations to planning and engineering design. Past efforts have mostly focused on the estimation of daily extremes using gauge observations. Recent development of high-resolution global precipitation products, now allow estimation of...journal article 2023
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Estebanez Camarena, M. (author), Curzi, Fabio (author), Taormina, R. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (author)West African food systems and rural socio-economics are based on rainfed agriculture, which makes society highly vulnerable to rainfall uncertainty and frequent floods and droughts. Reliable rainfall information is currently missing. There is a sparse and uneven rain gauge distribution and, despite continuous efforts, rainfall satellite products...journal article 2023
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Zhou, C. (author), van Nooijen, R.R.P. (author), Kolechkina, A.G. (author), Gargouri, E.F.G. (author), Slama, Fairouz (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)The dependency structure between hydrological variables is of critical importance to hydrological modelling and forecasting. When a copula capturing that dependence is fitted to a sample, information on the uncertainty of the fit is needed for subsequent hydrological calculations and reasoning. A new method is proposed to report inferential...journal article 2023
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Agoungbome, David (author), ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)Climate change is exacerbating adverse impacts of water stress in rainfed agriculture. This paper seeks to identify safe sowing windows for smallholder farmers in the Sudanian region of West Africa (WA). We hypothesize that the traditional focus on the onset of the season to start sowing leads to crop losses in years of high rainfall...journal article 2023
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Krietemeyer, A. (author), van der Marel, H. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (author)Low-cost dual-frequency receivers and antennas have created opportunities for a wide range of new applications, in regions and disciplines where traditional GNSS equipment is unaffordable. However, the major drawback of using low-cost antenna equipment is that antenna phase patterns are typically poorly defined. Therefore, the noise in...journal article 2022
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Salinas Rodriquez, Sergio (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), McClain, M.E. (author)Environmental flow (eflow) reference values play a key role in environmental water science and practice. In Mexico, eflow assessments are set by a norm in which the frequency of occurrence is the managing factor to integrate inter-annual and seasonal flow variability components into environmental water reserves. However, the frequency parameters...journal article 2022
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Abdollahi, B. (author), Alidoost, Fakhereh (author), Moshir Panahi, Davood (author), Hut, R.W. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)The reproducibility of computational hydrology is gaining attention among hydrologists. Reproducibility requires open and reusable code and data, allowing users to verify results and process new datasets. The creation of input files for global hydrological models (GHMs) requires complex high-resolution gridded dataset processing, limiting the...journal article 2022
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Aerts, J.P.M. (author), Hut, R.W. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), Drost, Niels (author), van Verseveld, Willem J. (author), Weerts, Albrecht H. (author), Hazenberg, Pieter (author)Distributed hydrological modelling moves into the realm of hyper-resolution modelling. This results in a plethora of scaling-related challenges that remain unsolved. To the user, in light of model result interpretation, finer-resolution output might imply an increase in understanding of the complex interplay of heterogeneity within the...journal article 2022
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Gründemann, Gaby J. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), Brunner, Lukas (author), van der Ent, R.J. (author)Future rainfall extremes are projected to increase with global warming according to theory and climate models, but common (annual) and rare (decennial or centennial) extremes could be affected differently. Here, using 25 models from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 driven by a range of plausible scenarios of future greenhouse...journal article 2022
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Aydin, B.E. (author), Oude Essink, Gualbert H.P. (author), Delsman, Joost R. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), Abraham, E. (author)A significant increase in surface water salinization in low-lying deltas is expected globally due to saline groundwater exfiltration driven by rising sea levels and decreasing freshwater availability. Sustaining fresh water-dependent agriculture in such areas will entail an increased demand for fresh water flushing. Unfortunately, the...journal article 2022
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Singirankabo, U.A. (author), Ertsen, M.W. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)On the basis of a data set from four research sites over the course of three agricultural years (2006/2007, 2012/2013, 2016/2017), this article empirically assesses the relations between land tenure security and smallholder farms’ crop production in Rwanda. We show that the general assumption that secure land tenure improves farm level...journal article 2022
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Vermunt, P.C. (author), Steele-Dunne, S.C. (author), Khabbazan, S. (author), Judge, Jasmeet (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)Microwave observations are sensitive to vegetation water content (VWC). Consequently, the increasing temporal and spatial resolution of spaceborne microwave observations creates a unique opportunity to study vegetation water dynamics and its role in the diurnal water cycle. However, we currently have a limited understanding of sub-daily...journal article 2022
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van Amelrooij, Edward (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), Plomp, J. (author), Thijs, M.A. (author), Fico, Tomáš (author)A newly developed Boron-based Large-scale Observation of Soil Moisture (or BLOSM) system is currently being tested and implemented. The stationary system provides a cost-effective way to measure fast and thermalized neutrons by using low-cost, non–hazardous and accessible materials and equipment. BLOSM operates by measuring cosmic-ray induced...journal article 2022
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Kaandorp, C. (author), Miedema, T. (author), Verhagen, J.D. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), Abraham, E. (author)Infrastructure for heat provision in the built environment needs to change remarkably to support lowering carbon emissions and achieving climate mitigation targets before 2050. We propose a computational approach for finding a mix of heat options per neighbourhood that minimises cumulative carbon emissions between 2030 and 2050, referred to as...journal article 2022