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Jeu, Richard A.M. (author), Wagner, W. (author), Holmes, T. R.H. (author), Dolman, A. J. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), Friesen, J (author)Within the scope of the upcoming launch of a new water related satellite mission (SMOS) a global evaluation study was performed on two available global soil moisture products. ERS scatterometer surface wetness data was compared to AMSR-E soil moisture data. This study pointed out a strong similarity between both products in sparse to moderate...journal article 2008
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Hellegers, P.J.G.J. (author), Soppe, R. (author), perry, C.J. (author), Bastiaanssen, W.G.M. (author)This paper demonstrates that combining spatial land surface data with socio-economic analysis provides a number of indicators to strengthen decision making in integrated water and environmental management. It provides a basis to: track current water consumption in the Inkomati Basin in South-Africa; adjust irrigation water management; select...journal article 2009
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Jazizadeh, F. (author), Taleghani, M. (author)Urban facilities are major contributors to annual energy consumption and therefore, evaluating their energy efficiency and retrofit planning play a major role in achieving sustainability goals. For urban facilities, such as buildings, energy performance audits could be conducted by detailed evaluation at building level. However, at urban...journal article 2016
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Lu, S. (author), Heemink, A.W. (author), Lin, H.X. (author), Segers, Arjo (author), Fu, Guangliang (author)Remote sensing, as a powerful tool for monitoring atmospheric phenomena, has been playing an increasingly important role in inverse modeling. Remote sensing instruments measure quantities that often combine several state variables as one. This creates very strong correlations between the state variables that share the same observation variable....journal article 2017
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Pfitzenmaier, L. (author), Dufournet, Y. (author), Unal, C.M.H. (author), Russchenberg, H.W.J. (author)The interaction of ice crystals with supercooled liquid droplets in mixed-phase clouds leads to an enhanced growth of ice particles. However, such processes are still not clearly understood although they are important processes for precipitation formation in midlatitudes. To better understand how ice particles grow within such clouds, changes...journal article 2017
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Qin, Xiaoqiong (author), Liao, Mingsheng (author), Zhang, L (author), Yang, M. (author)Thermal dilation is a vital component of deformation along the extensive railway network infrastructure. To monitor subtle deformation, the synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) technique has been adopted as a space-borne geodetic tool. However, InSAR applications in railway stability surveillance have been largely limited by the...journal article 2017
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Bangira, T. (author), Alfieri, S.M. (author), Menenti, M. (author), van Niekerk, Adriaan (author), Vekerdy, Zoltán (author)The Caprivi basin in Namibia has been affected by severe flooding in recent years resulting in deaths, displacements and destruction of infrastructure. The negative consequences of these floods have emphasized the need for timely, accurate and objective information about the extent and location of affected areas. Due to the high temporal...journal article 2017
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Reinoso Rondinel, R. (author), Unal, C.M.H. (author), Russchenberg, H.W.J. (author)One of the most beneficial polarimetric variables may be the specific differential phase K<sub>DP</sub> because of its independence from power attenuation and radar miscalibration. However, conventional K<sub>DP</sub> estimation requires a substantial amount of range smoothing as a result of the noisy characteristic of the measured...journal article 2018
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Radermacher, M. (author), de Schipper, M.A. (author), Reniers, A.J.H.M. (author)Operational nearshore current forecasts based on numerical model simulations are gaining popularity as a measure to increase the safety of swimmers. Applying remotely-sensed bathymetry in these model simulations is often proposed in order to cope with rapidly changing nearshore bathymetry. Errors in the remotely-sensed bathymetry may...journal article 2018
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Blatchford, Megan Leigh (author), Karimi, Poolad (author), Bastiaanssen, W.G.M. (author), Nouri, Hamideh (author)Crop water productivity (CWP) has become a recognised indicator in assessing the state of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 6.4—to substantially increase water use efficiency. This indicator, while useful at a global scale, is not comprehensive at a local scale. To fill this gap, this research proposes a CWP framework, that takes advantage...journal article 2018
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Lu, Y. (author), Dong, Jianzhi (author), Steele-Dunne, S.C. (author)The spatial heterogeneity and temporal variation of soil moisture and surface heat fluxes are key to many geophysical and environmental studies. It has been demonstrated that they can be mapped by assimilating soil thermal and wetness information into surface energy balance models. The aim of this work is to determine whether enhancing the...journal article 2019
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Bangira, T. (author), Alfieri, S.M. (author), Menenti, M. (author), van Niekerk, Adriaan (author)Small reservoirs play an important role in mining, industries, and agriculture, but storage levels or stage changes are very dynamic. Accurate and up-to-date maps of surface water storage and distribution are invaluable for informing decisions relating to water security, flood monitoring, and water resources management. Satellite remote...journal article 2019
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Oude Nijhuis, A.C.P. (author), Unal, C.M.H. (author), Krasnov, O.A. (author), Russchenberg, H.W.J. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)In this article, five velocity-based energy dissipation rate (EDR) retrieval techniques are assessed. The EDR retrieval techniques are applied to Doppler measurements from Transportable Atmospheric Radar (TARA)—a precipitation profiling radar—operating in the vertically fixed-pointing mode. A generalized formula for the Kolmogorov constant is...journal article 2019
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El Ghandour, F.E. (author), Alfieri, S.M. (author), Houali, Youssef (author), Habib, Adnane (author), Akdim, Nadia (author), Labbassi, Kamal (author), Menenti, M. (author)This study on a large irrigation scheme in Morocco addressed a two-fold question: (a) does the local water management authority adapt water releases to atmospheric water demand ET<sub>0</sub>-P? and (b) does crop actual evapotranspiration respond to inter- and intra-annual variability in water releases? We have evaluated the inter-annual...journal article 2019
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van Natijne, A.L. (author), Lindenbergh, R.C. (author), Bogaard, T.A. (author)Nowcasting and early warning systems for landslide hazards have been implemented mostly at the slope or catchment scale. These systems are often difficult to implement at regional scale or in remote areas. Machine Learning and satellite remote sensing products offer new opportunities for both local and regional monitoring of deep-seated...journal article 2020
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Simons, G.W.H. (author), Bastiaanssen, W.G.M. (author), Cheema, M.J.M. (author), Ahmad, B. (author), Immerzeel, W.W. (author)Increasing irrigation efficiencies remains the focus of numerous efforts to mitigate water scarcity. In reality, higher local efficiencies do often not reduce water scarcity, but instead cause a redistribution of water flows when the entire irrigation scheme or river basin is considered. Insufficient understanding of consumed fractions and non...journal article 2020
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Gawehn, M.A. (author), van Dongeren, Ap (author), de Vries, S. (author), Swinkels, Cilia (author), Hoekstra, Roderik (author), Aarninkhof, S.G.J. (author), Friedman, Joshua (author)Coastal management in the Netherlands has the aim to defend coastal zones by preventing flooding and mitigating erosion. To that end, large-scale nourishments are placed in the nearshore, which are supposed to dynamically preserve the coastal zone over a timescale of years. To assess their effectiveness, these nourishments are monitored over...journal article 2020
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Mashhoodi, B. (author), Stead, D. (author), van Timmeren, A. (author)It is widely accepted that land surface temperature (LST) affects household energy consumption (HEC). There is, however, no previous study available that clarifies whether LST's impact is similar in each and every area, or if it varies from one location to another. Analysing the impact of LST on HEC of 2612 residential zones of the...journal article 2020
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Bosveld, Fred C. (author), Baas, P. (author), Beljaars, Anton C.M. (author), Holtslag, Albert A.M. (author), de Arellano, Jordi Vilà Guerau (author), van de Wiel, B.J.H. (author)An overview is given of 50-year Cabauw observations and research on the structure and dynamics of the atmospheric boundary layer. It is shown that over time this research site with its 200-m meteorological tower has grown into an atmospheric observatory with a comprehensive observational program encompassing almost all aspects of the...journal article 2020
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Ball, W.T. (author), Chiodo, Gabriel (author), Abalos, Marta (author), Alsing, Justin (author), Stenke, Andrea (author)The stratospheric ozone layer shields surface life from harmful ultraviolet radiation. Following the Montreal Protocol ban on long-lived ozone-depleting substances (ODSs), rapid depletion of total column ozone (TCO) ceased in the late 1990s, and ozone above 32 km is now clearly recovering. However, there is still no confirmation of TCO recovery,...journal article 2020