Marc Bierkens provided a Union Keynote at EGU 2014 entitled ” Waters of the Earth”. The webcast of his talk can be viewed here!

You can find the program with presentations and posters from our group here!

Toward global-scale models that are relevant at local scales! On February 13/14 an international workshop was organized at Utrecht University, bringing together hydrologists from around the world that are involved in large-scale high- to hyper-resoluytion modelling of terrestrial hydrology. A succesfull workshop lead to the foundation of the HYperHydro network with three working groups: WG1:…

Two recent publications on our global hydrological model PCR-GLOBWB  are on-line. The work in these papers is a precursor to the launch of PCR-GLOBWB 2.0. These are: Wada, Y.,  D. Wisser, and M. F. P. Bierkens, 2014. Global modeling of withdrawal, allocation and consumptive use of surface water and groundwater resources Earth System Dynamics 5, 15-40. De Graaf, I.E.M., L.P.H. van Beek,…

Since December 16,  the papers belonginging to the The Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI-MIP) are on line with the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal. They are part of the special issue entitled: Global Climate Impacts: A Cross-Sector, Multi-Model Assessment Special Feature. Members (Yoshi Wada) and former members (Dominik Wisser) of our group are co-authors of…

Brian, Edwin, Inge, Niko and Yoshi are at the Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union at San Francisco from December 8 to december 14. These are their talks and posters: Monday December 9 Poster Session: 8:00 AM – 12:20 PM; Hall A-C (Moscone South) GC11A-0965. Virtual water management in the Roman world Brian Dermody;…

On Friday November 8 Yoshihide Wada defended his PhD thesis entitled “Human and climate impacts on global water resources“. He obtained his degree Cum Laude (top 3-5%) due to the exceptional quality of his work. The PhD evaluation committee consisted of Prof. Taikan Oki (Tokyo University), Dr. Dieter Gerten (PIK Potsdam), Prof. Arjen Hoekstra (University of Twente), Prof. Stefan…

Lead by dr. Philip Ward of VU University Amsterdam and in co-operation with the research institutes Deltares and PBL (Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency), members of our group published the first global map of fluvial flood risk (both hazard as well as costs) for a range of return periods: Ward, Ph.J. B. Jongman, F. Sperna Weiland, A. Bouwman, L.P.H. van Beek, M.F.P….

Yohihide Wada et al. published a paper in Environmental Research Letters showing that current water abstraction intensifies hydrological drought in many parts of the world. Results show that human water consumption alone increased global drought frequency by 27 %, where the intensification of drought frequency is most severe over Asia (35%), but also substantial over North America…

New publications from our group: A new publication by Dominik Wisser et al. reveals that global reservoir capacity has already peaked in 2006, this as a result of the silting up of reservoirs. In a changing climate and under a growing population, decreasing reservoir capacity is a complicating factor if future water demands are to…