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Conde Santos Borba, P. (author), Sousa, Wilson C. (author), Shadman, Milad (author), Pfenninger, Stefan (author)During atypical droughts, power systems with a heavy reliance on hydropower risk increased greenhouse gas emissions if they are balanced with fossil-fired generation. This work investigates the role of offshore wind energy in reducing the vulnerability of power systems dependent on such hydrological patterns, thereby eliminating this emission...journal article 2023
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Pahl-Wostl, Claudia (author), Odume, Oghenekaro Nelson (author), Scholz, G. (author), De Villiers, Ancois (author), Amankwaa, Ebenezer Forkuo (author)Path-breaking transformative change is needed in human-environment relations to move towards more sustainable development trajectories at local, national and global scales. Crises may trigger transformative change and learning in the short and in the long term. However, in particular, a short-term response to crises may also be reactive,...journal article 2023
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Holstvoogd, Jorijn (author)Under the current climate change projections, droughts and extreme rainfall events are becoming more common and intense. During sustained droughts, soil cracks can develop in the topsoil of a dike. These soil cracks can enhance the infiltration and drainage of the dike, affecting the dike stability. This study’s main objective is to better...master thesis 2022
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Bonavita, Daniele (author)From 2018 to 2020, the city of Breda (NL) faced drought, with significant economic losses and water scarcity problems. The water board within which the city is located began to consider new possible water management practices, due to the unsustainability of the current ones. This study aims to investigate how a change of the current paradigm can...master thesis 2022
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van Osnabrugge, Antonella (author)The Netherlands has suffered form three successive dry summers resulting in a lowering of the groundwater table, causing water shortage. Also in the area of Water BoardDe Dommel, locatedwithin the province of Brabant, water shortage is a common problem. This results in water abstraction restrictions for farmers in the crop season every year....master thesis 2022
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Chen, Kuei-Tso (author)The city of Rotterdam has a long and interesting history. It began as a small settlement on the River Rotte, at the place where the river met with the Nieuwe Maas. In 1270, the long dam was built in an attempt to reclaim the swampy land for development. In another word, since its origins, Rotterdam had to adapt to the natural circumstances of...master thesis 2022
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Cobben, Nicolle (author)The Netherlands is confronted with drought more and more frequently. Two of the four climate scenarios predict that summers will become drier and extreme weather such as drought will occur longer and more often. Drought is a serious problem for multiple reasons. First of all it concerns large areas. Secondly it can take long before the effects...master thesis 2022
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Shorachi, Maurice (author), Kumar, V. (author), Steele-Dunne, S.C. (author)Drought is a major natural hazard that impacts agriculture, the environment, and socio-economic conditions. In 2018 and 2019, Europe experienced a severe drought due to below average precipitation and high temperatures. Drought stress affects the moisture content and structure of agricultural crops and can result in lower yields. Synthetic...journal article 2022
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Mohamed, Ahmed (author), Faye, Cheikh (author), Othman, Abdullah (author), Abdelrady, Ahmed (author)The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite data retrieval experiment has been instrumental in characterizing the global fluctuations in terrestrial water storage (ΔTWS) over the past 20 years. Given the limited availability of hydrological data, GRACE measurements are frequently combined with other climatic models,...journal article 2022
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Machairas, Ilias (author), van de Ven, F.H.M. (author)Due to climate change, droughts will intensify in large parts of the world. Drought and its impacts on nature and agriculture have been studied thoroughly, but its effects on the urban environment is rather unexplored. But also the built environment is susceptible to droughts and estimation of its vulnerability is the first step to its...review 2022
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- Ganguly, Auroop R. (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author), Evers, Mariele (author), Hendricks Franssen, Harrie Jan (author), Illangasekare, Tissa (author), Kumar, Praveen (author), Steefel, Carl (author), Taylor, Richard G. (author) contribution to periodical 2022
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Lu, Jing (author), Jia, Li (author), Zhou, Jie (author), Jiang, Min (author), Zhong, Yulong (author), Menenti, M. (author)A drought-induced water storage deficit index (D-WSDI) is proposed to quantify the response of GRACE-based terrestrial water storage change to meteorological drought and the impact of drought on water storage deficit. D-WSDI is defined as the normalized residual component of GRACE time-series data after removing the long-term trend and...journal article 2022
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Van Loon, Anne F. (author), Rangecroft, Sally (author), Coxon, Gemma (author), Werner, Micha (author), Wanders, Niko (author), Di Baldassarre, Giuliano (author), Tijdeman, Erik (author), Bosman, Marianne (author), Breña-Naranjo, Jose Agustin (author), Jewitt, G.P.W. (author)Human activities both aggravate and alleviate streamflow drought. Here we show that aggravation is dominant in contrasting cases around the world analysed with a consistent methodology. Our 28 cases included different combinations of human-water interactions. We found that water abstraction aggravated all drought characteristics, with...journal article 2022
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Babadi, Masoud (author), Iran Pour, Siavash (author), Roscher, Ribana (author), Amiri Simkooei, A. (author), Karimi, Hamed (author)Drought is one of the most complex and threatening disasters, defined as a period of drier-than-normal conditions which results in water-related problems. In addition to climate variation, human activities can cause or intensify drought through groundwater overextraction, unsupervised expansion of agricultural lands, etc. One prime example of...journal article 2022
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Yu, M. (author), Liu, X. (author), Wood, Paul (author), Wei, Li (author), Wang, Guoqing (author), Zhang, Jianyun (author), Li, Qiongfang (author)Due to an intensification of anthropogenic activities and climate change in recent decades, the hydrological connections and relationships between rivers and lakes have been significantly modified globally. Poyang Lake is one of the largest freshwater lakes globally and is one of the few that remain naturally connected to the Yangtze River....journal article 2022
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Alam, M.F. (author), Pavelic, Paul (author), Villholth, Karen G. (author), Sikka, Alok (author), Pande, S. (author)Study region: The study region is the Kamadhiya catchment (1150 km<sup>2</sup>), located in the Saurashtra region of the western state of Gujarat, India. The region has seen intensive development of check dams (CDs) for groundwater recharge with an estimated 27,000 CDs constructed up until 2018. Study focus: The impact of CDs on groundwater...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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Vreugdenhil, Mariette (author), Greimeister-Pfeil, Isabella (author), Preimesberger, Wolfgang (author), Camici, Stefania (author), Dorigo, Wouter (author), Enenkel, Markus (author), van der Schalie, Robin (author), Steele-Dunne, S.C. (author), Wagner, Wolfgang (author)Agricultural droughts are extreme events which are often a result of interplays between multiple hydro-meteorological processes. Therefore, assessing drought occurrence, extent, duration and intensity is complex and requires the combined use of multiple variables, such as temperature, rainfall, soil moisture (SM) and vegetation state. The...review 2022
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Chotkan, S.A. (author), van der Meij, Raymond (author), Klerk, Wouter Jan (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Aguilar Lopez, J.P. (author)In this paper, we aim to identify factors affecting susceptibility to drought-induced cracking in levees and use them to build a machine learning model that can identify crack-prone levees on a regional scale. By considering the key relationship between the size of cracks and the moisture content, we observed that low moisture contents act as...journal article 2022
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Sirisena, Jeewanthi (author), Augustijn, Denie (author), Nazeer, A. (author), Bamunawala, Janaka (author)Droughts exert severe impacts on the environment, economy, and society. The south Asian region is vulnerable to droughts and the Indian sub-continent is one of the most vulnerable in the region to frequent drought disasters. This study assesses the agricultural droughts in the Narmada River Basin (NRB), India, where more than 50% of the area is...journal article 2022