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Marino, Pasquale (author), Peres, David J. (author), Cancelliere, Antonino (author), Greco, Roberto (author), Bogaard, T.A. (author)Empirical thresholds indicating the meteorological conditions leading to shallow landslide triggering are one of the most important components of landslide early warning systems (LEWS). Thresholds have been determined for many parts of the globe and present significant margins of improvement, especially for the high number of false alarms...journal article 2020
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Ke, Q. (author), Tian, X. (author), Bricker, J.D. (author), Tian, Zhan (author), Guan, Guanghua (author), Cai, Huayang (author), Huang, Xinxing (author), Yang, Honglong (author), Liu, Junguo (author)Urban pluvial flooding is a threatening natural hazard in urban areas all over the world, especially in recent years given its increasing frequency of occurrence. In order to prevent flood occurrence and mitigate the subsequent aftermath, urban water managers aim to predict precipitation characteristics, including peak intensity, arrival time...journal article 2020
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Laverde Barajas, M.A. (author), Corzo Perez, G. A. (author), Chishtie, F. (author), Poortinga, A. (author), Uijlenhoet, R. (author), Solomatine, D.P. (author)A spatiotemporal object-based rainfall analysis method is used to evaluate the hydrological response of two systematic satellite error sources for storm estimation in the Capivari catchment, Brazil. This method is called Spatiotemporal Contiguous Object-based Rainfall Analysis (ST-CORA) specifically evaluates the error structure of satellite...journal article 2020
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Gatidis, C. (author), Schleiss, M.A. (author), Unal, C.M.H. (author), Russchenberg, H.W.J. (author)The adequacy of the gamma model to describe the variability of raindrop size distributions (DSD) is studied using observations from an optical disdrometer. Model adequacy is checked using a combination of Kolmogorov–Smirnov goodness-of-fit test and Kullback–Leibler divergence and the sensitivity of the results to the sampling resolution is...journal article 2020
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Mulder, Esmée (author)The livelihood of the Maasai pastoral communities in Longido District of Northern Tanzania are impacted by droughts regularly, with expectations of increasing variability in rainfall patterns the coming years due to climate change. The goal of this research is to explore if weather forecast and remote sensing data can be tailored to existing...master thesis 2019
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Naseri Jahfari, Arman (author)Rainfall is increasing in frequency and intensity due to climate change. Hydrological models exist that can report bottlenecks in urban infrastructures. However, these require accurate rainfall estimations with high temporal and spatial resolution. The fulfillment of these requirements is challenged due to high costs. This can be solved with...master thesis 2019
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Sui, Xinxin (author)With rapid urbanization, Low Impact Development (LID) is promoted as an alternative to Conventional Drainage (CD), seeking a natural solution for current urban water problems. The positive effects of LID were the main theme of recent LID researches, but this project aims to deeply explore the hidden troubles about the extreme peak runoffs...master thesis 2019
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De Villiers, Didier (author)Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change. This is largely driven by the dependence on rain fed agriculture for food production. At the same time African climate observational networks have been in decline since the 1990s. A new kind of rainfall sensor (the intervalometer), which counts the arrival...master thesis 2019
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Hoogmoet, Gijs (author)The world’s climate is changing. In the Netherlands one of the consequences is that water boards and municipalities are preparing for an increase in extreme precipitation. To evaluate the consequences in case of extreme precipitation all Dutch municipalities and water boards have to perform a stress test. In these stress tests the response of...master thesis 2019
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Cristiano, E. (author)Spatial and temporal rainfall variability play an important role in generation of pluvial flooding. In urban areas, this phenomenon has increased in the last decades, due in particular to an intensification of urbanization and imperviousness degree. In fact, population is growing and moving from rural areas to cities, which are becoming more and...doctoral thesis 2019
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Schoester, Jeroen (author)Urban pluvial flooding occurs when the run-off converted rainfall exceeds the capacity of the sewer or stormwater system (Houston et al., 2011). This can result in damage to ecology, infrastructure, disruption to human activities, injuries and in the worst-case scenario, loss of life (Biniyam et al., 2017). With the expected increase in the...master thesis 2019
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Cristiano, E. (author), ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (author), Wright, Daniel B. (author), Smith, James A. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)Interactions between spatial and temporal variability of rainfall and catchment characteristics strongly influence hydrological response. In urban areas, where runoff generation is fast due to high imperviousness degree, it is especially relevant to capture the high spatiotemporal rainfall variability. Significant progress has been made in...journal article 2019
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Pallares Vega, R. (author), Blaak, Hetty (author), van der Plaats, Rozemarijn (author), de Roda Husman, Ana M. (author), Hernandez Leal, Lucia (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Weissbrodt, D.G. (author), Schmitt, Heike (author)Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), linking human fecal residues and the environment, are considered as hotspots for the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). In order to evaluate the role of WWTPs and underlying operational parameters for the removal of AMR, the presence and removal efficiency of a selected set of 6 antimicrobial...journal article 2019
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Tian, X. (author), ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (author), Schleiss, M.A. (author), Bouwens, Christian (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)Urban pluvial flooding is one of the most costly natural hazards worldwide. Risks of flooding are expected to increase in the future due to global warming and urbanization. The complexity of the involved processes and the lack of long-term field observations means that many crucial aspects related to urban flood risks still remain poorly...journal article 2019
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Oude Nijhuis, A.C.P. (author), Unal, C.M.H. (author), Krasnov, O.A. (author), Russchenberg, H.W.J. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)In this article, five velocity-based energy dissipation rate (EDR) retrieval techniques are assessed. The EDR retrieval techniques are applied to Doppler measurements from Transportable Atmospheric Radar (TARA)—a precipitation profiling radar—operating in the vertically fixed-pointing mode. A generalized formula for the Kolmogorov constant is...journal article 2019
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Mastrantonas, Nikolaos (author), Bhattacharya, Biswa (author), Shibuo, Yoshihiro (author), Rasmy, Mohamed (author), Espinoza-Dávalos, Gonzalo (author), Solomatine, D.P. (author)After the launch of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission in 2014, many satellite precipitation products (SPPs) are available at finer spatiotemporal resolution and/or with reduced latency, potentially increasing the applicability of SPPs for near-real-time (NRT) applications. Therefore, there is a need to evaluate the NRT SPPs...journal article 2019
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le Coz, C.M.L. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)An ever-increasing number of rainfall estimates is available. They are used in many important applications such as flood/drought monitoring, water management, or climate monitoring. Such data are especially valuable in sub-Saharan Africa, where rainfall has considerable socioeconomic impacts and the gauge and radar networks are sparse. The...journal article 2019
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Reinoso Rondinel, R. (author)Observations of weather phenomena have attracted many researchers because of their microphysical complexity, space-time variability, and more important, their impact on human life. In the efforts of studying weather, researchers have used a diverse number of instruments to obtain both in-situ (towers, tethered balloons, and weather station...doctoral thesis 2018
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Askarinejad, A. (author), Akca, Devrim (author), Springman, Sarah M. (author)A full-scale landslide-triggering experiment was conducted on a natural sandy slope subjected to an artificial rainfall event, which resulted in mobilisation of 130 m<sup>3</sup> of soil mass. Novel slope deformation sensors (SDSs) were applied to monitor the subsurface pre-failure movements and the precursors of the artificially triggered...journal article 2018
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Hutten, Rinske (author)Flooding in cities, known as Urban Pluvial Flooding (UPF), causes disruption of society, damage to cities and inconvenience for people. Cities are expected to become more vulnerable to UPF due to more frequent and more intense extreme rainfall events with high spatial variability as result of climate change. Additionally increasing urbanisation...master thesis 2018