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Satellite-based drought analysis in the Zambezi River Basin
Was the 2019 drought the most extreme in several decades as locally perceived?
Study region: The study area is the river basin upstream of the Kariba dam located in the Zambezi River at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe. Study focus: During the dry season of 2019 in Sub-Saharan Africa, extremely low water levels occurred in the Zambezi. According to news me
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Process-based hydrological models seek to represent the dominant hydrological processes in a catchment. However, due to unavoidable incompleteness of knowledge, the construction of “fidelius” process-based models depends largely on expert judgment. We present a systematic approac
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Looking beyond general metrics for model comparison
Lessons from an international model intercomparison study
International collaboration between research institutes and universities is a promising way to reach consensus on hydrological model development. Although model comparison studies are very valuable for international cooperation, they do often not lead to very clear new insights r
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Joint editorial
Fostering innovation and improving impact assessment for journal publications in hydrology
Editors of several journals in the field of hydrology met during the Assembly of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences - IAHS (within the Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics - IUGG) in Prague in June 2015. This event was a follow-up of a
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Panta Rhei 2013-2015
Global perspectives on hydrology, society and change
In 2013, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (lAHS) launched the hydrological decade 2013-2022 with the theme "Panta Rhei; Change in Hydrology and Society". The decade recognizes the urgency of hydrological research to understand and predict the interactions of
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Panta Rhei 2013-2015
Global perspectives on hydrology, society and change
In 2013, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (lAHS) launched the hydrological decade 2013-2022 with the theme "Panta Rhei; Change in Hydrology and Society". The decade recognizes the urgency of hydrological research to understand and predict the interactions of
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Panta Rhei 2013-2015
Global perspectives on hydrology, society and change
In 2013, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (lAHS) launched the hydrological decade 2013-2022 with the theme "Panta Rhei; Change in Hydrology and Society". The decade recognizes the urgency of hydrological research to understand and predict the interactions of
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Panta Rhei 2013-2015
Global perspectives on hydrology, society and change
In 2013, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (lAHS) launched the hydrological decade 2013-2022 with the theme "Panta Rhei; Change in Hydrology and Society". The decade recognizes the urgency of hydrological research to understand and predict the interactions of
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Panta Rhei 2013-2015
Global perspectives on hydrology, society and change
In 2013, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (lAHS) launched the hydrological decade 2013-2022 with the theme "Panta Rhei; Change in Hydrology and Society". The decade recognizes the urgency of hydrological research to understand and predict the interactions of
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Panta Rhei 2013-2015
Global perspectives on hydrology, society and change
In 2013, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (lAHS) launched the hydrological decade 2013-2022 with the theme "Panta Rhei; Change in Hydrology and Society". The decade recognizes the urgency of hydrological research to understand and predict the interactions of
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The inclusion of model uncertainty
Preliminary examination on how model uncertainties affect frequency lines for water levels
The transition towards a new risk approach for the Dutch national safety assessment of primary flood defences has been taken as an opportunity to improve the dealings with uncertainties. The probabilistic models for the new safety assessment (WBI2017) not only deal with the natu
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Using River Geometry for Rating Curve Computation
A step towards Remote River Rating
Conventional practices of rating curve computation fall short in many aspects. They are data-intensive and are notoriously inaccurate in high-flow regimes as a result of extrapolation of low-flow curve fitting. By making use of a simple commercial UAV, a physically-based rating c
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Genetic Programming in Hydrology
Using genetic programming in conceptual modelling
This report introduces the use of Genetic Programming (GP) into hydrology by describing the results of GP using conceptual hydrological models as physical representation. First the possibilities of GP are tested on synthetic data, which results in a shortlist of good working obje
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Root for rain
Towards understanding land-use change impacts on the water cycle
We live today on a human-dominated planet under unprecedented pressure on both land and water. The water cycle is intrinsically linked to vegetation and land use, and anticipating the consequences of simultaneous changes in land and water systems requires a thorough understanding
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Internal processes in hydrological models
A glance at the Meuse basin from space
Contemplating the Meuse or any other river of the world, one may wonder about the journey of rain in becoming river. This fascinates hydrologists, as they develop theories to understand movement, storage and release of water through the landscape across climates. These theories a
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Evaporation of the miombo woodland of southern Africa
A phenophase-based comparison of field observations to satellite-based evaporation estimates
Through precipitation retention and evaporation (by both interception and transpiration), woodlands play a significant role in the global moisture cycle. Evaporation is the largest, but at the same time, the most difficult flux to observe in a woodland. Accounting for woodland ev
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Remote river rating in resource constricted river basins
Exploring opportunities for ungauged basins through low-cost technological advancements
The unavailability of consistent accurate river flow data is a significant impediment to understanding water resources availability, and hydrological extremes. This is particularly true for remote, difficult to access, morphologically active and therefore rapidly changing rivers.
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Evaporation partitioning of forest stands
The role of forest structure
Forest evaporation (Ei) is considered the main source of water vapor at a continental scale. Its quantification has been carried out in many ecosystems worldwide, applying the classical partitioning method to differentiate among sources of water vapor. This partitioning different
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Heat Exchange in a Conifer Canopy
A Deep Look using Fiber Optic Sensors
Forests cover a large part of the globe, and are responsible for a large amount of evaporation and the fixation of carbon. To be able to better understand this atmospheric exchange of forests, and how the forests will behave under future climate change, both accurate measurements
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Satellite data in rainfall-runoff models
Exploring new opportunities for semi-arid, data-scarce river basins
Throughout the world, many people have been affected by water related issues in the past, some more extreme than others. In this context, hydrological models have often been used to gain more insight into the situation and to limit negative impacts as much as possible. There are
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