“What global geospatial datasets are in fact available for the study of floods, droughts and their interplay with societies?” My supervisor Giuliano Di Baldassarre asked this question during one of our first meetings. We were brainstorming hypotheses and scientific inquiries for my PhD position, focusing on hydrological extremes and GIS analysis on large scales. WeContinue reading “New data opportunities for studying floods and droughts”
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The role of risk perception in influencing flood losses over time
Do you know the idiom “burying the head in the sand”? The phrase refers to the common but mistaken belief that an ostrich hides its head in the sand as soon as it feels threatened. According to this credence, the ostrich perceives to be at risk but does nothing to change its fate. On theContinue reading “The role of risk perception in influencing flood losses over time”
A systematic comparison of statistical and hydrological methods for design flood estimation
Accurate estimates of design floods are useful for the planning and design of hydraulic structures or the quantification of risks that will arise due to the occurrence of floods. Hydrological literature is replete with numerous ways of estimating design floods and these methods are considered to be either statistical or hydrological. The statistical method (commonlyContinue reading “A systematic comparison of statistical and hydrological methods for design flood estimation”
Sociohydrology and the global water crisis
Nothing is permanent except change. To express this concept, Heraclitus metaphorically referred to the change in the symbiotic relationship between water and people using the words: “no man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man”. The prescient insight of Heraclitus can equally wellContinue reading “Sociohydrology and the global water crisis”
Evaluating precipitation datasets for large-scale distributed hydrological modelling
Our understanding of the advantages and limitations of satellite derived precipitation datasets as a forcing to hydrological models has made tremendous progress over the past decade. However, most studies have analysed only the performance of one or few datasets, were limited to selected small-scale case studies or used lumped models when investigating large-scale basins InContinue reading “Evaluating precipitation datasets for large-scale distributed hydrological modelling”
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