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Samboko, H.T. (author), Schurer, S. (author), Savenije, Hubert (author), Makurira, Hodson (author), Kawawa, Banda (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author)Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), affordable precise global navigation satellite system hardware, multi-beam echo sounders, open-source 3D hydrodynamic modelling software, and freely available satellite data have opened up opportunities for a robust, affordable, physics-based approach to monitoring river flows. Traditional methods of river...journal article 2023
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Tiggeloven, Timothy (author), de Moel, Hans (author), van Zelst, V.T.M. (author), van Wesenbeeck, B (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author), Eilander, Dirk (author), Ward, Philip J. (author)Due to rising sea levels and projected socio-economic change, global coastal flood risk is expected to increase in the future. To reduce this increase in risk, one option is to reduce the probability or magnitude of the hazard through the implementation of structural, Nature-based or hybrid adaptation measures. Nature-based Solutions in...journal article 2022
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Samboko, H.T. (author), Schurer, S. (author), Savenije, Hubert (author), Makurira, H. (author), Banda, K. (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author)Rapid modern technological advancements have led to significant improvements in river monitoring using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), photogrammetric reconstruction software, and low-cost real-time kinematic Global Navigation Satellite System (RTK GNSS) equipment. UAVs allow for the collection of dry bathymetric data in environments that are...journal article 2022
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Streefkerk, I.N. (author), van den Homberg, Marc J.C. (author), Whitfield, Stephen (author), Mittal, Neha (author), Pope, Edward (author), Werner, Micha (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author), Comes, M. (author), Ertsen, M.W. (author)Droughts and changing rainfall patterns due to natural climate variability and climate change, threaten the livelihoods of Malawi's smallholder farmers, who constitute 80% of the population. Provision of seasonal climate forecasts (SCFs) is one means to potentially increase the resilience of rainfed farming to drought by informing farmers in...journal article 2022
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Donchyts, G. (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author), Baart, F. (author), Dahm, Ruben (author), Schellekens, Jaap (author), Gorelick, Noel (author), Iceland, Charles (author), Schmeier, Susanne (author)The original version of this Article contained an error in the Data Availability section where “All new data and code generated in this research are available under the terms of Creative Commons BY 4.0 (for the data) and Apache 2.0 (for the code) licenses. Datasets and supplementary materials generated during this study are accessible from...journal article 2022
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Donchyts, G. (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author), Baart, F. (author), Dahm, Ruben (author), Schellekens, Jaap (author), Gorelick, Noel (author), Iceland, Charles (author), Schmeier, Susanne (author)Small and medium-sized reservoirs play an important role in water systems that need to cope with climate variability and various other man-made and natural challenges. Although reservoirs and dams are criticized for their negative social and environmental impacts by reducing natural flow variability and obstructing river connections, they are...journal article 2022
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Chomba, Innocent C. (author), Banda, Kawawa E. (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author), Eunice, Makungu (author), Sichingabula, Henry M. (author), Nyambe, Imasiku A. (author)The rapid development of free and open-access hydrological models and coupling framework tools continues to present more opportunities for coupled model development for improved assessment of floodplain hydrology. In this study, we set up an Upper Zambezi hydrological model and a fully spatially hydrological-hydrodynamic coupled model for the...journal article 2022
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Couasnon, A.A.O. (author), Scussolini, P. (author), Tran, T. V.T. (author), Eilander, D. (author), Dullaart, J. (author), Xuan, Y. (author), Nguyen, H. Q. (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author), Ward, P. J. (author)State-of-the-art flood hazard maps in coastal cities are often obtained from simulating coastal or pluvial events separately. This method does not account for the seasonality of flood drivers and their mutual dependence. In this article, we include the impact of these two factors in a computationally efficient probabilistic framework for...journal article 2022
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Chomba, Innocent C. (author), Banda, Kawawa E. (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author), Chomba, Machaya J. (author), Mataa, Mulema (author), Ngwenya, Victoria (author), Sichingabula, Henry M. (author), Nyambe, Imasiku A. (author), Ellender, Bruce (author)Floodplain wetlands are a fundamental part of the African continent’s ecosystem and serve as habitat for fish and wildlife species, biodiversity, and micro-organisms that support life. It is generally recognised that wetlands are and remain fragile ecosystems that should be subject to sustainable conservation and management through the use of...review 2021
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Brussee, A.R. (author), Bricker, J.D. (author), De Bruijn, Karin M. (author), Verhoeven, Govert F. (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author), Jonkman, Sebastiaan N. (author)Flood simulations are important for flood (fatality) risk assessment. This article provides insight into the sensitivity of flood fatality risks to the model resolution of flood simulations and to several uncertain parameters in the loss of life model used. A case study is conducted for river flooding in a polder in the Netherlands (the...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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Eilander, Dirk (author), van Verseveld, Willem (author), Yamazaki, Dai (author), Weerts, Albrecht (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author), Ward, Philip J. (author)Distributed hydrological models rely on hydrography data such as flow direction, river length, slope and width. For large-scale applications, many of these models still rely on a few flow direction datasets, which are often manually derived. We propose the Iterative Hydrography Upscaling (IHU) method to upscale high-resolution flow direction...journal article 2021
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van Zelst, V.T.M. (author), Dijkstra, Jasper T. (author), van Wesenbeeck, B (author), Eilander, Dirk (author), Morris, Edward P. (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author), Ward, Philip J. (author), de Vries, M.B. (author)Exposure to coastal flooding is increasing due to growing population and economic activity. These developments go hand-in-hand with a loss and deterioration of ecosystems. Ironically, these ecosystems can play a buffering role in reducing flood hazard. The ability of ecosystems to contribute to reducing coastal flooding has been emphasized in...journal article 2021
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Gebremedhin, Eskedar T. (author), Basco-Carrera, Laura (author), Jonoski, Andreja (author), Iliffe, Mark (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author)Participatory modelling has become a growing concept in environmental modelling, as it allows stakeholders to be involved in various stages of model development. The majority of studies, however, have focused on the participation during model use for scenario analysis and strategy evaluation after the model has been developed. Large-scale...journal article 2020
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Measuring compound flood potential from river discharge and storm surge extremes at the global scaleCouasnon, Anais (author), Eilander, Dirk (author), Muis, Sanne (author), Veldkamp, Ted I.E. (author), Haigh, Ivan D (author), Wahl, Thomas (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author), Ward, Philip J. (author)The interaction between physical drivers from oceanographic, hydrological, and meteorological processes in coastal areas can result in compound flooding. Compound flood events, like Cyclone Idai and Hurricane Harvey, have revealed the devastating consequences of the co-occurrence of coastal and river floods. A number of studies have recently...journal article 2020
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Tiggeloven, Timothy (author), de Moel, Hans (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author), Eilander, Dirk (author), Erkens, Gilles (author), Gebremedhin, Eskedar (author), Diaz-Loaiza, Andres (author), Kuzma, Samantha (author), Luo, Tianyi (author), Iceland, Charles (author)<p>Coastal flood hazard and exposure are expected to increase over the course of the 21st century, leading to increased coastal flood risk. In order to limit the increase in future risk, or even reduce coastal flood risk, adaptation is necessary. Here, we present a framework to evaluate the future benefits and costs of structural protection...journal article 2020
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Ward, Philip J. (author), Blauhut, Veit (author), Bloemendaal, Nadia (author), Daniell, E. James (author), De Ruiter, C. Marleen (author), Duncan, J. Melanie (author), Jenkins, F. Susanna (author), Kirschbaum, Dalia (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author)Since 1990, natural hazards have led to over 1.6 million fatalities globally, and economic losses are estimated at an average of around USD&thinsp;260-310 billion per year. The scientific and policy communities recognise the need to reduce these risks. As a result, the last decade has seen a rapid development of global models for...review 2020
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Bouaziz, L.J.E. (author), Steele-Dunne, S.C. (author), Schellekens, Jaap (author), Weerts, Albrecht H. (author), Stam, Jasper (author), Sprokkereef, Eric (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author), Savenije, Hubert (author), Hrachowitz, M. (author)The spatiotemporal dynamics of water volumes stored in the unsaturated root zone are a key control on the response of terrestrial hydrological systems. Robust, catchment-scale root-zone soil moisture estimates are thus critical for reliable predictions of river flow, groundwater recharge, or evaporation. Satellites provide estimates of near...journal article 2020
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Samboko, H.T. (author), Abas, I. (author), Luxemburg, W.M.J. (author), Savenije, Hubert (author), Makurira, H. (author), Banda, K. (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author)Rapid advancements in technologies open up possibilities for water resource authorities to increase their ability to accurately, safely and efficiently establish river flow observation through remote and non-intrusive observation methods. Low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVS) in combination with Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) can...journal article 2020
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Petersson, Louise (author), ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (author), Verhoeven, Govert (author), Kapelan, Z. (author), Maholi, Innocent (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author)In this paper we demonstrate a framework for urban flood modeling with community mapped data, particularly suited for flood risk management in data-scarce environments. The framework comprises three principal stages: data acquisition with survey design and quality assurance, model development and model implementation for flood prediction. We...journal article 2020