Determining drought-induced subsidence in urban areas: An in-practice analysis of drought impacts on subsidence in two Dutch soft-soil cities

Drought and subsidence are two out of several water-related urban climate adaptation challenges many cities in the Netherlands currently face. Drought is expected to increase in frequency and extent due to climate change. Therefore, drought is likely to further pressurize (subsiding) urban areas in the coming decades. Although the impact of...

Finding the Optimum Unsaturated Zone Storage Change Estimation Method to Improve Water Accounting in Vietnam

Assimilation of soil moisture data with the ensemble Kalman filter for the intermediate scale soil moisture predictions in the Netherlands

This thesis discusses the applicability of assimilation of artificial SMAP data into a quasi steady state hydrological model to improve soil moisture estimates. The model used for this research was SIMGRO and since no real SMAP data were available at the time of the research, artificial SMAP data were used. The ensemble Kalman filter was used to...

Design a multi-sensor device for measuring soil moisture

This master thesis is done for the company Priva, located in de Lier. Priva is active in both the ‘Horticulture market’ and the ‘Living and working environment (LWE) market’. The graduation project focuses on the horticulture market, in which Priva sells products for climate management, water management and harvest & labour registration....

Assimilating Soil Moisture Data into a Hydrological Model of the Volta Basin

Soil moisture is important for the Volta Basin. However, in-situ measurements of soil moisture in the Volta Basin are scarce, only remote sensing observations are available. Remote sensing observations are also provided with limited temporal and spatial resolutions. Also capabilities of the sensors are limited (e.g measuring soil moisture...