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van der Zon, Jelle (author)Tailings are the rock flour which result from the process of mineral extraction at a mine. This waste material is stored in tailings storage facilities, also known as tailings impoundments. These impoundments gradually grow in size during operation as more tailings are produced and stored over time. These structures are however also prone to...master thesis 2021
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van Hamel, Amber (author)A green-blue roof consists of a water storage layer with on top a substrate layer covered with vegetation. Due to the presence of the water storage layer, a green-blue roof is better capable of retaining heavy rain events. A movable valve makes it possible to manage the amount of water on the roof and the timing of drainage from the roof to the...master thesis 2021
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van Leth, Thomas C. (author), Leijnse, Hidde (author), Overeem, A. (author), Uijlenhoet, R. (author)e investigate the spatiotemporal structure of rainfall at spatial scales from 7 m to over 200 km in the Netherlands. We used data from two networks of laser disdrometers with complementary interstation distances in two Dutch cities (comprising five and six disdrometers, respectively) and a Dutch nationwide network of 31 automatic rain gauges....journal article 2021
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Pallares Vega, R. (author), Hernandez Leal, Lucia (author), Fletcher, Benjamin N. (author), Vias-Torres, Eduardo (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Weissbrodt, D.G. (author), Schmitt, Heike (author)The occurrence and removal patterns of 24 antimicrobial agents and antimicrobial resistant determinants namely 6 antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and 2 mobile genetic elements (MGEs), and the fecal indicator E. coli were investigated in three full-scale wastewater treatment plants. Their waterlines and biosolids lines (including secondary...journal article 2021
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Pudashine, Jayaram (author), Guyot, Adrien (author), Overeem, A. (author), Pauwels, Valentijn R.N. (author), Seed, Alan (author), Uijlenhoet, R. (author), Prakash, Mahesh (author)This study presents the first evaluation of using commercial microwave link (CML) data for rainfall measurements in Australia, with the test site being the greater Melbourne Metropolitan area. More than 100 CMLs with microwave frequency ranging between 10 and 40 GHz have been used for the rainfall retrieval. The 15-minute received signal...journal article 2021
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Rosin, T. R. (author), Romano, M. (author), Keedwell, E. (author), Kapelan, Z. (author)Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) are a major source of pollution and urban flooding, spilling untreated wastewater directly into water bodies and the surrounding environment. If overflows can be predicted sufficiently in advance, then techniques are available for mitigation. This paper presents a novel bi-model committee evolutionary...journal article 2021
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Young, A.T. (author), Bhattacharya, Biswa (author), Zevenbergen, C. (author)Rapidly expanding cities in the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) region are at risk of flooding due to heavy rainfall, insufficient drainage capacity, a lack of preparedness and insufficient data to conduct required studies. A low regret Early Warning Systems (EWS) using rainfall thresholds is proposed as a cost-effective short-term...journal article 2021
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Fiddes, Sonya (author), Pepler, Acacia (author), Saunders, K.R. (author), Hope, Pandora (author)Climate scientists routinely rely on averaging over time or space to simplify complex information and to concisely communicate findings. Currently, no consistent definitions of 'warm' or 'cool' seasons for southern Australia exist, making comparisons across studies difficult. Similarly, numerous climate studies in Australia use either...journal article 2021
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Liu, Yubo (author), Zhang, Chi (author), Tang, Qiuhong (author), Hosseini-Moghari, Seyed Mohammad (author), Haile, Gebremedhin Gebremeskel (author), Li, Laifang (author), Li, Wenhong (author), Yang, Kun (author), van der Ent, R.J. (author), Chen, Deliang (author)Rainfall is one of the most influential climatic factors on regional development and environment, and changes in rainfall intensity are of specific concern. In the Huaihe River Valley (HRV), heavy rainfall is a primary trigger of floods. However, the difference in the origin of moisture contributed to heavy rainfall and light rainfall is...journal article 2021
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Yves, Tramblay (author), Villarini, Gabriele (author), El Khalki, El Mahdi (author), Gründemann, Gaby J. (author), Hughes, Denis (author)Africa is severely affected by floods, with an increasing vulnerability to these events in the most recent decades. Our improved preparation against and response to this hazard would benefit from an enhanced understanding of the physical processes at play. Here, a database of 399 African stream gauges is used to analyze the seasonality of...journal article 2021
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Overeem, A. (author), Leijnse, Hidde (author), van Leth, Thomas C. (author), Bogerd, Linda (author), Priebe, Jan (author), Tricarico, Daniele (author), Droste, Arjan (author), Uijlenhoet, R. (author)Commercial microwave links (CMLs) from cellular telecommunication networks can provide a valuable 'opportunistic' source of high-resolution space-time rainfall information, complementing traditional in-situ measurement devices (rain gauges, disdrometers) and remote sensors (weather radars, satellites). Their greatest potential lies in areas...journal article 2021
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Overeem, A. (author), de Vries, Hylke (author), Sakka, Hassan Al (author), Uijlenhoet, R. (author), Leijnse, Hidde (author)The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) operates two operational dual-polarization C-band weather radars providing 2D radar rainfall products. Attenuation can result in severe underestimation of rainfall amounts, particularly in convective situations that are known to have high impact on society. To improve the radar-based...journal article 2021
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Moreido, Vsevolod (author), Gartsman, Boris (author), Solomatine, D.P. (author), Suchilina, Zoya (author)With more machine learning methods being involved in social and environmental research activities, we are addressing the role of available information for model training in model performance. We tested the abilities of several machine learning models for short-term hydrological forecasting by inferring linkages with all available predictors...journal article 2021
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Bogerd, Linda (author), Overeem, Aart (author), Leijnse, Hidde (author), Uijlenhoet, R. (author)Applications like drought monitoring and forecasting can profit from the global and near-real-time availability of satellite-based precipitation estimates once their related uncertainties and challenges are identified and treated. To this end, this study evaluates the IMERG V06B Late Run precipitation product from the Global Precipitation...journal article 2021
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Nahimana, Aliane (author)In this thesis, the quality and usefulness of crowdsourced precipitation measurements from 01/01/2019 to 31/01/2020 of 63 stations held by farmers in Burundi are investigated. Common sources of errors in the measurements are identified following field visits and discussions with farmers. Two filters for identifying and removing faulty zeros and...master thesis 2020
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Teruel Cano, David (author)Due to global warming, temperatures are expected to rise and, with it, the increase in moisture holding capacity of the atmosphere. Changes in precipitation extremes with temperature are governed by the Clausius-Clapeyron relationship (CC), which states that precipitation increases 7% per degree of warming. While global models and observations...master thesis 2020
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Kabbouch, Y. (author)Radar rainfall nowcasting stands for the prediction of rainfall amounts and intensities over the next 6 hours by means of statistical extrapolation of radar measurements. It is the principal ingredient for modern flood forecasting and early warning systems. Radar forecasts are generated by identifying and tracking rainfall cells in radar images...master thesis 2020
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Gerritsen, Gerben (author)To validate rainfall intensity in urban areas measured by satellite a first prototype proof of concept is introduced and tested. Using low-cost electronics an umbrella is converted into a mobile acoustic rain gauge which can be used in urban areas to measure rainfall intensities. A reed switch is placed in the umbrella to measure whether the...student report 2020
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Andringa, Lise (author), Eijkelkamp, Timo (author), Grolleman, Thomas (author), Schouten, David (author), Szadkowski, Xavier (author), Ophof, Oscar (author)The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is scheduled to present their solution for a storm surge barrier on Galveston Island in 2021 to congress for approval. A solution for an engineered dune system on the Galveston Island West End has been proposed, but storm surge models have shown that protection from this engineered dune only goes...student report 2020
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Basu, Bidroha (author), Nogal Macho, M. (author), O'Connor, Alan (author)Estimating reliable projections of precipitation considering climate change scenarios is important for hydrological studies. General circulation models provide future climate simulations at large scale in terms of large-scale atmospheric variables (LSAVs). Those LSAVs can be downscaled to finer special resolution using several downscaling...journal article 2020