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Luo, Yifan (author), Yang, Jinxin (author), Shi, Qian (author), Xu, Yong (author), Menenti, M. (author), Wong, Man Sing (author)The urban heat island effect poses a growing threat to human society, especially in densely populated and developed megacities. With the introduction of the Local Climate Zones (LCZ) framework, new perspectives and findings have been brought to urban heat island studies. This study investigated the cooling effect of vegetation and albedo on the...journal article 2023
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Fresne, Maëlle (author), Chun, Kwok P. (author), Hrachowitz, M. (author), McGuire, Kevin J. (author), Schoppach, Remy (author), Klaus, Julian (author)Identifying the vegetation and topographic variables influencing the isotopic variability of xylem water of forest vegetation remains crucial to interpret and predict ecohydrological processes in landscapes. In this study, we used temporally and spatially distributed xylem stable water isotopes measurements from two growing seasons to examine...journal article 2023
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Kamath, A.C. (author)The Netherlands has an extensive network of rivers and canals systems serving purposes like irrigation, transportation and water removal. The banks along the canals are either protected by earth retaining structures such as sheet pile walls or left unprotected. A bulk of the engineered sheet piles used to protect the canal banks in the...doctoral thesis 2022
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Heineke, Esther (author)Coastal protection is required to keep coastal areas protected during storm conditions. Coastal dunes are a natural defense against flooding and erosion from the sea against storms. Many insights have been obtained regarding the positive effects of coastal dune vegetation on dune formation and growth in the past. Several recent studies have...master thesis 2022
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Vreugdenhil, Mariette (author), Greimeister-Pfeil, Isabella (author), Preimesberger, Wolfgang (author), Camici, Stefania (author), Dorigo, Wouter (author), Enenkel, Markus (author), van der Schalie, Robin (author), Steele-Dunne, S.C. (author), Wagner, Wolfgang (author)Agricultural droughts are extreme events which are often a result of interplays between multiple hydro-meteorological processes. Therefore, assessing drought occurrence, extent, duration and intensity is complex and requires the combined use of multiple variables, such as temperature, rainfall, soil moisture (SM) and vegetation state. The...review 2022
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De Lannoy, Gabriëlle J.M. (author), Bechtold, Michel (author), Albergel, Clément (author), Brocca, Luca (author), Calvet, Jean Christophe (author), Carrassi, Alberto (author), Crow, Wade T. (author), de Rosnay, Patricia (author), Steele-Dunne, S.C. (author)The beginning of the 21<sup>st</sup> century is marked by a rapid growth of land surface satellite data and model sophistication. This offers new opportunities to estimate multiple components of the water cycle via satellite-based land data assimilation (DA) across multiple scales. By resolving more processes in land surface models and by...review 2022
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de Bruijn, Max (author)Conventional dike reinforcement measures do not take vegetation into account, while vegetation contains wave damping properties. Reasoning for this is that vegetation in general is seen as temporary and hence may be removed in the future. In this case study for the Dutch waterboard WDOD, the wave damping properties of vegetation in a floodplain...master thesis 2020
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Vermunt, P.C. (author), Khabbazan, S. (author), Steele-Dunne, S.C. (author), Judge, Jasmeet (author), Monsivais-Huertero, Alejandro (author), Guerriero, Leila (author), Liu, Pang Wei (author)The latest developments in radar mission concepts suggest that subdaily synthetic aperture radar will become available in the next decades. The goal of this study was to demonstrate the potential value of subdaily spaceborne radar for monitoring vegetation water dynamics, which is essential to understand the role of vegetation in the climate...journal article 2020
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Barciela Rial, M. (author)The Marker Wadden project aims to improve the ecosystem of Lake Markermeer (The Netherlands) by constructing a wetland with sediment from the lake. Sediment is dredged from the bed, and the resulting slurries are pumped into the project area. During this process, segregation and oxidation of the sediment may occur. The native sediment...doctoral thesis 2019
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Petchiappan, Ashwini (author)The Amazon rainforest is among the most vital ecosystems on earth, holding about a quarter of the global terrestrial carbon sink. Since 2005, three 100-year return period droughts have occurred, the likes of which have the potential to turn the forest from a carbon sink to a source – meaning disastrous consequences for the planet. Monitoring of...master thesis 2019
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Kalloe, Sudarshini (author)Including vegetation in flood defense systems has the potential to be a more cost-effective solution than conventional dike reinforcement measures, as vegetation contains wave damping properties. However, more insight is required on the complex physical processes due to wave-vegetation interaction in order to predict the amount of wave damping....master thesis 2019
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Vuik, V. (author)Flood risk reduction in coastal areas is traditionally approached from a conventional engineering perspective, where dikes and dams are built to withstand the forces of tides, surges and waves. Recently, a nature-based approach to flood risk reduction is increasingly promoted, in which the benefits of coastal ecosystems for reducing the impact...doctoral thesis 2019
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Feys, Charles (author)A specific type of wave is identified as an infragravity wave (IG wave). These waves with very long wave periods, even up to minutes, are possibly dangerous for flood events, increased storm surge and/or failure of coastal defences. Current guidelines for dike safety are often determined for gravity wave dominated systems, so identifying IG...master thesis 2018
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Peeters, Lotte (author)In this thesis, a coupled hydrodynamic, morphodynamic and plant growth model is reviewed. The goal of this model is to simulate plant colonization and channel formation on an initially flat or ascending substrate in a tidal landscape. To be able to simulate these biophysical processes on a small enough scale (while still using the same spatial...master thesis 2018
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Steele-Dunne, S.C. (author), Khabbazan, S. (author), Vermunt, P.C. (author), Ratering Arntz, A.M. (author), Marinetti, C. (author), Iannini, L. (author), Westerdijk, K. (author), van der Sande, C. (author)In this study, we performed ground validation to support the interpretation of Sentinel-1 imagery during a full growing season of five key crop types in the Netherlands. Crop height and growth stage were monitored weekly in a total of 25 parcels of maize, potato, sugar beet maize and English rye grass in the province of Flevoland....conference paper 2018
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van Emmerik, T.H.M. (author)Vegetation is a crucial part of the water and carbon cycle. Through photosynthesis carbon is assimilated for biomass production, and oxygen is released into the atmosphere. During this process, water is transpired through the stomata, and is redistributed in the plant. Transpired water is refilled by uptake of water from the root zone in the...doctoral thesis 2017
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van Emmerik, T.H.M. (author), Steele-Dunne, S.C. (author), Paget, Aaron (author), Oliveira, Rafael S. (author), Bittencourt, Paulo R.L. (author), Barros, Fernanda de V. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)The Amazon rainforest plays an important role in the global water and carbon cycle, and though it is predicted to continue drying in the future, the effect of drought remains uncertain. Developments in remote sensing missions now facilitate large-scale observations. The RapidScat scatterometer (K<sub>u</sub> band) mounted on the International...journal article 2017
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Steele-Dunne, S.C. (author), McNairn, Heather (author), Monsivais-Huertero, Alejandro (author), Judge, Jasmeet (author), Liu, Pang Wei (author), Papathanassiou, Kostas (author)Observations from spaceborne radar contain considerable information about vegetation dynamics.The ability to extract this information could lead to improved soil moisture retrievals and the increased capacity to monitor vegetation phenology and water stress using radar data.The purpose of this review paper is to provide an overview of the...review 2017
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Vuik, V. (author), Jonkman, Sebastiaan N. (author)Salt marshes are a characteristic feature of estuaries and coastal seas. They are found in the upper coastal intertidal zones between land and water, which are regularly flooded by tides and surges. They are covered with salt-tolerant vegetation types, such as herbs and grasses. Sheltering from continuous intense hydrodynamic forcing by waves...abstract 2016
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Mangone, G. (author)The design of office buildings can substantially improve the building, social, and ecological performance of office building projects. However, existing research on improving the performance of work environments has primarily focused on identifying and evaluating methods to make work environments less bad, rather than focusing on how to develop...doctoral thesis 2015