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van Linn, Joseph (author)Snow is a natural hazard to human life and infrastructure. This motivates current research efforts to understand the granular material. The material point method models snow as a continuum. Application length scales range from the microstructural level to full scale avalanches. This conventional numerical method relies on solely spatially local...master thesis 2023
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Keurhorst, Adriaan (author)The Alps are experiencing a gradual reduction in snow cover due to rising temperatures, impacting the landscape and dependent ecosystems. While several models have been developed to study snow cover in the region, there is a lack of visual representations. This research employs a Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (cGAN) to generate a...master thesis 2023
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Farmakis, Chrysanthos (author)Seasonal snow is the major water resource of more than a billion people around the world. In a plethora of regions in the Northern Hemisphere, agricultural, industrial, and drinking water supply are highly dependent on seasonal snow. In addition, the melting of seasonal snow regulates the magnitude and timing of high and low flows, controls the...master thesis 2022
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Nazeer, A. (author), Maskey, Shreedhar (author), Skaugen, Thomas (author), McClain, M.E. (author)In many high altitude river basins, the hydro-climatic regimes and the spatial and temporal distribution of precipitation are little known, complicating efforts to quantify current and future water availability. Scarce, or non-existent, gauged observations at high altitudes coupled with complex weather systems and orographic effects further...journal article 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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Kreynen, Dylan (author)Subsurface firn processes play a crucial role in ice sheet mass loss mechanisms. On Greenland surface meltwater percolates to deeper layers where porous firn retains it, directly inhibiting runoff. However, secondary effects such as the formation of impermeable ice slabs may indirectly and irreversibly accelerate runoff and with it global sea...master thesis 2021
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Wiersma, Pau (author)Global hydrological models (GHMs) have become an increasingly valuable tool in a range of global impact studies related to water resources. However, glacier parameterization is often overly simplistic or non-existent in GHMs. The representation of glacier dynamics and evolution, including related products such as glacier runoff, can be improved...master thesis 2021
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Zhang, Jing (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Zhou, Jie (author), Ren, Shaoting (author)Glacier and snow are sensitive indicators of regional climate variability. In the early 21st century, glaciers in the West Kunlun and Pamir regions showed stable or even slightly positive mass budgets, and this is anomalous in a worldwide context of glacier recession. We studied the evolution of snow cover to understand whether it could...journal article 2021
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van Voorst, Leon (author)The root zone storage capacity is a critical determinant in hydrology, playing a major role in the partitioning of precipitation into evaporation and runoff. Besides, it is an important parameter in climatological and hydrological models. Understanding of the root zone storage capacity and its major determining processes is therefore fundamental...master thesis 2020
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Liu, Qiaodan (author)In many parts of the world, water retained in snowpack and glaciers are critical to the stability of downstream ecosystems and human society. This study sets out to quantify, map, and explain the spatiotemporal pattern of annual snow cover duration, which are quantified by regional differences in the number of annual snow cover days (Dsc) and...master thesis 2020
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Gossart, Alexandra (author), Palm, Stephen P. (author), Souverijns, Niels (author), Lenaerts, Jan T.M. (author), Gorodetskaya, Irina V. (author), Lhermitte, S.L.M. (author), van Lipzig, Nicole P.M. (author)Continuous measurements of blowing snow are scarce, both in time and space. Satellites now provide the opportunity to derive blowing snow occurrences, transport and sublimation rates over Antarctica. These products are extremely valuable and offer a continental-wide assessment of blowing snow, which is an important but unknown component of...journal article 2020
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van Esch, Thijs (author)Snow in mountainous areas is of great importance for the water supply in many catchments. To get data on snow cover, ground station data is not enough and, in many catchments, not available. Therefore, satellite data is used to measure snow cover. In this thesis the MODIS daily snow cover dataset (MOD10A1) is used. These images are obstructed by...master thesis 2019
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Bouman, Christian (author)Extreme weather events seem to happen more often nowadays. One of these extreme events was the California Drought between 2012 and 2016. The socioeconomic and environmental impacts of this drought were enormous:<br/>thousands square kilometers of agricultural land fallowed, thousands of lost jobs, salinization problems and forest fires. As a...master thesis 2018
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Antonissen, Coco (author)The region of Coquimbo, Chile, is located adjacent to the dry Andes. Water is scarce, and with very little precipitation during spring and summer, water supply in these seasons depends mostly on melt water from snow in the Andes mountains. <br/>A project funded by the local government was conducted by CEAZA, a research institute based in the...student report 2018
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van der Lugt, P.W. (author)Glacier fluctuations are regarded as one of the most significant indicators of climate change. The expansion and contraction of glaciers can be observed by outlining glacier boundaries or measuring snow lines with optical Earth observation satellites. New satellites, such as Sentinel-2A/B, provide high spatial resolution images and short revisit...master thesis 2017
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van de Wiel, B.J.H. (author), Vignon, Etienne (author), Baas, P. (author), van Hooijdonk, I.G.S. (author), van der Linden, S.J.A. (author), van Hooft, J.A. (author), Bosveld, Fred C. (author), de Roode, S.R. (author), Moene, Arnold F. (author), Genthon, Christophe (author)A conceptual model is used in combination with observational analysis to understand regime transitions of near-surface temperature inversions at night as well as in Arctic conditions. The model combines a surface energy budget with a bulk parameterization for turbulent heat transport. Energy fluxes or feedbacks due to soil and radiative heat...journal article 2017
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Wesselink, D.S. (author)Avalanches form a threat to people travelling in mountainous regions as well as for infrastructure and buildings. They cause around 250 fatalities annually worldwide. To limit the number of future fatalities, forecasting services are interested in knowledge on avalanche activity to verify their warning system. They rely on information about the...master thesis 2015
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Gao, H. (author)In this thesis, a novel landscape-based hydrological model is presented that was developed and tested in numerous catchments around the world with various landscapes and climate conditions. A landscape is considered to consist of a topography and an ecosystem living on it. Firstly, the influence of climate on hydrological process was studied. It...doctoral thesis 2015
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Trap, M.L. (author)Extreme winters have repeatedly led to severely disrupted situations on the Dutch railway network. Due to heavy snow and ice, both infrastructure and rolling stock broke down or malfunctioned, which made the network run out-of-control. Today, a special reduced timetable is being deployed to provide for more robustness and consequently limit the...master thesis 2014
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