Ongoing research projects

• DOWN2EARTH: Translation of climate information into multilevel decision support for social adaptation, policy development, and resilience to water scarcity in the Horn of Africa Drylands

• DRY-2-DRY: Do droughts self-propagate and self-intensify?
• Digital Twin Earth - Hydrology
• ET-Sense: High-resolution terrestrial evaporation from Sentinels
• ALBERI: Assessing Links Between Biogenic Emissions and Remotely sensed photosynthesis Indicators
• GCOS: Essential Climate Variable (ECV) on surface latent and sensible heat fluxes
• BELSAR-Science - Exploitation of the first bistatic SAR time series for agriculture and hydrology applications
• Stochastic modelling of future extreme discharges as a tool for water resource management
• Improving flood forecasting based on optimized flood mapping from radar images

Finished research projects

• LandFlux: The GEWEX LandFlux Project
• SurFlux: WCRP initiative to promote dissemination of data and information related to surface-air fluxes
• SATDATA 3.0: High resolution evaporation data for The Netherlands
• SAT-EX: Global impacts of hydrological and climatic extremes on vegetation
• STR3S: Stress on TRanspiration Sensed from Satellite Systems
• HYDRAS+: Improving drought monitoring through assimilating multi-source remote sensing observations in hydrologic models
• SMOS+ET2: On the value of SMOS data to derive global evaporation
• Optimized discharge assessment based on hydrodynamic simulation results
• Use of in situ soil moisture observations for data assimilation in distributed hydrological modelling
• SMOS+ET1: On the value of SMOS data to derive evaporation over Australia
• SMOS+Hydrology
• Integrating Radar Remote Sensing, Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modelling for Surface Water Management
• Epidemoist: Improving epidemiological modelling using satellite derived soil moisture proxies
• Copula-based models for generating design rainfall
• Assessment of the use of rainfall generators for the development of flood risk maps
• Assessment of land surface characterization and implications for distributed hydrological modelling
• Hydrologic modeling for surface water management – estimation of the catchment averaged evapotranspiration
• Stochastic rainfall generation accounting for climate changes
• Floodmoist: Flood mapping and soil moisture retrieval for improved water management
• Spatial scaling uncertainty in hydrological variables based on remote sensing
• Water and sediment budgets of Lake Tana for optimisation of land management and water allocation (Ethiopia)