The Boussinesq Board has recently announced that Ryan Teuling is the Boussinesq Awardee 2021. Every two years the Boussinesq Center for Hydrology awards this Boussinesq Award to a mid-career scientist who contributed with innovative research of great importance for the further development of hydrology as a scientific discipline. According to …
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PhD defense Joost Buitink
On 20 October 2021, Joost Buitink will defend his PhD thesis entitled “Capturing hydrological variability – Spatio-temporal aspects of the Rhine basin” Dealing with spatio-temporal variability in hydrological processes and states is a major challenge in hydrology. In his thesis, Joost has investigated different elements of variability, with emphasis on …
Continue readingFuture runoff changes in Switzerland
Runoff from the Swiss mountains is important for hydropower, but also for water availability in Switzerland and many other downstream countries including The Netherlands. In two recent papers, Muelchi and co-workers investigated runoff under future changes in temperature and precipitation. Runoff in mountainous areas is highly sensitive to temperature, precipitation, …
Continue readingA drought frequency paradox?
Recent years have shown that droughts can have serious socio-economical impacts. While the underlying cause of a drought (a lack of water compared with normal conditions) appears trivial, the exact definition is not. Especially since droughts can occur in different components of the hydrological cycle, each with unique spatial and …
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