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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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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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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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van der Heijden, T.J.T. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), Palensky, P. (author), Abraham, E. (author)The Netherlands is a low-lying country in the Rhine-Meuse delta. Because a large part of the Netherlands is situated below sea level, proper management of local and national waterways is a necessity. Polders are used to manage groundwater levels, drain excess rainwater and store water for droughts. Typically, pumping stations in local Dutch...conference paper 2022
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Kaandorp, C. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), Abraham, E. (author)Transitioning towards renewable heating is important to minimise the use of fossil fuels and abate carbon emissions, because heating accounts for 50% of the final energy consumption and 40% of carbon dioxide emissions globally. In the city of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the aim is to transition towards renewable heating by 2040 and achieve...abstract 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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Hut, R.W. (author), Drost, Niels (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), van Werkhoven, Ben (author), Abdollahi, B. (author), Aerts, J.P.M. (author), Albers, Thomas (author), Alidoost, Fakhereh (author), Andela, Bouwe (author)Hutton et al. (2016) argued that computational hydrology can only be a proper science if the hydrological community makes sure that hydrological model studies are executed and presented in a reproducible manner. Hut, Drost and van de Giesen replied that to achieve this hydrologists should not “re-invent the water wheel” but rather use existing...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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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Singirankabo, U.A. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)The year 2007 marked the beginning of a journey to secure food in Rwanda. The country introduced the Crop Intensification Program (CIP), which promotes the farmland use consolidation (LUC). This study assesses the effect of farmland use changes on the agriculture production. We collected data at four research sites and considered three...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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van der Heijden, T.J.T. (author), Palensky, P. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), Abraham, E. (author)In this manuscript we propose a methodology to generate electricity price scenarios from probabilistic forecasts. Using a Combined Quantile Regression Deep Neural Network, we forecast hourly marginal price distribution quantiles for the DAM on which we fit parametric distributions. A Non-parametric Bayesian Network (BN) is applied to sample from...conference paper 2022
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le Coz, C.M.L. (author), Heemink, A.W. (author), Verlaan, M. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)Many satellite-based estimates use gauge information for bias correction. In general, bias-correction methods are focused on the intensity error and do not explicitly correct possible position or timing errors. However, position and timing errors in rainfall estimates can also lead to errors in the rainfall occurrence or the intensity. This is...journal article 2021