A Bivariate Copula Approach to Extreme Water Level Estimation: For the city of Venice

Understanding the factors that drive extreme water levels is key to an accurate assessment of flood hazard. The city of Venice has always been affected by flooding due to extreme water levels. In this study, we examine the factors driving and influencing extreme water levels in the Venice lagoon, aiming at deriving accurate extreme water level...

Precipitation Trends Analysis Using Gridded Dynamic Sampling Zones: Case Study Yangtze Delta Megalopolis

As a result of the fast growth of remote sensing and data assimilation technology, many global land use land cover (LULC) and climate reanalysis data sets have been used to advance our understanding of climate and environmental change. This paper investigates the precipitation variations of the Yangtze Delta Megalopolis by using precipitation...

Identifying Behavioural Changes due to Parkinson’s Disease Progression in Motor Performance Data: Development of a Tool for Monitoring Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson's disease can severely affect motor performance and impede in executing daily activities. Treatment can greatly improve patients' quality-of-life, however, disease detection and monitoring is still performed subjectively. Quantification of patients' motor performance and its decline due to increasing symptom severity using tracking...

Impacts of land use and land cover changes on hydrology of the Gumara catchment, Ethiopia

Land use and land cover (LULC) changes are continuous phenomena, often driven by natural and anthropogenic factors. In Ethiopia, a conversion of forest and grass lands into cultivated and urbanized lands has been reported. While such changes are known to have multidirectional impacts on river flows, erosion and sedimentation, and the socio...

Space-time variation of hydrological processes and water resources in Rwanda: Focus on the Migina catchment

This book presents the hydrological research carried out in the Migina catchment (260 km2), Southern Rwanda. The main objective of the research is to explore the hydrological trends and climate linkages for catchments in Rwanda (26,338 km2), and to contribute to the understanding of dominant hydrological process interactions. Different hydro...

Integration or specialization? Impacts of current trends on the Dutch oil downstream industry

Due to the changing market structure of the downstream oil industry it is important for oil companies to gain more insight in how the oil downstream value chain works and how current trends affects them and their competitors. This article facilitates the need for insight by giving a clear picture of the oil downstream value chain and the...

Qualitative futures research for innovation

This is about how commercial organisations use qualitative methods of futures research, such as scenarios, roadmapping and trend-analysis, in their innovation processes. The linkages etween innviation proceses and the methids can take place in different ways.