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Water related research at the University of Potsdam and affiliated partners
Combining
#EarthSystemModels
with river data from 50 basins, allowed for refined global
#WaterCycle
estimates: river flow and flow-to-precipitation ratios are lower than thought,
#GlobalWarming
may raise flow by ~7.8 mm/yr per °C.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Growing meltwater reservoirs â glacial lakes are both a resource and a habitat worthy of protection New contribution from members of the WaterHub.
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Evolving resource potential of glacial lakes with ongoing deglaciation - Nature Water
Lakes fed by melting and retreating glaciers are becoming important freshwater reservoirs, and their value depends on their storage capacity and sedimentation-dependent lifespan. This study estimates ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44221-025-00578-6
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When and how quickly can ecosystems âtip,â and how will they develop in the future? Researchers from the University of Potsdam, the PIK, and the TU Munich have developed a new method to measure how close an ecosystem is to a catastrophic tipping point.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Predicting instabilities in transient landforms and interconnected ecosystems - Nature Communications
The authors introduce a method to assess the stability of periodic (seasonal) systems without the need for complex data pre-processing and show that it can be used to predict the onset of glacier surg...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68944-w#citeas
13 days ago
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The density of wood from trees and shrubs varies widelyânot only between species, but also within them. Fischer et al. show, among other things, that plants growing in extreme environments have higher wood density than those elsewhere.
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Beyond species means â the intraspecific contribution to global wood density variation
Wood density is central for estimating vegetation carbon storage and a plant functional trait of great ecological and evolutionary importance. However, the global extent of wood density variation is ....
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.70860
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Klaus Töpfer Sustainability Fellowship 2027 The Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences awards the Klaus Töpfer Sustainability Fellowship to support individuals who are committed to sustainable development.
www.rifs-potsdam.de/de/institut/...
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Klaus Töpfer Sustainability Fellowship 2027 (f_m_x)
https://www.rifs-potsdam.de/de/institut/karriere/2025/2025-10/klaus-toepfer-sustainability-fellowship-2027-fmx
28 days ago
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Benni Thiebes
about 1 month ago
đ Yay, das Video zu unserem Pixi-Buch zu
#Starkregen
und
#DĂŒrre
ist nun verfĂŒgbar:
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Starkregen und DĂŒrre - Wie gehen wir mit Wasserextremen um? | Pixi WissenÂź
YouTube video by Bilderbuch TV | Carlsen K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbTB2NcfC3A
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Norbert Marwan
about 1 month ago
Inspired by recurrence microstates, I developed an efficient, sampling-based approach for recurrence quantification analysis, significantly reducing computation time â and, consequently, energy consumption. Published today open access.
#recurrence_plot
doi.org/10.1140/epjs...
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Increasing glacial lake outburst flood hazard on the eastern Tibetan Plateau and implications for the SichuanâTibet Railway
doi.org/10.1088/1748...
via
@ioppublishing.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
Lecture: âPlanetary Boundariesâ (EN) Professor Johan Rockström, the director
@pik-potsdam.bsky.social
, talks about planetary boundaries at the Potsdam Climate & Sustainability Lectures on January 13. Further information about the event can be found at:
www.uni-potsdam.de/de/veranstal...
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Call for abstracts - Cross-Scale Processes and Interactions in Changing Mountain and Snow-Dominated Environments
www.egu26.eu/session/5772...
about 1 month ago
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Call for abstracts - Advancing process representation for hydrological modelling across spatio-temporal scales
www.egu26.eu/session/55665
about 2 months ago
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Field study at two German rivers shows bank filtration removes >84% of microplastics from surface water to groundwater. Polymer type and river hydrodynamicsânot particle sizeâcontrol microplastic transport, retention, and accumulation.
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Polymer-specific transfer and retention of microplastics at the riverâsedimentâgroundwater interface
Microplastic particles (MPs) are ubiquitous across aquatic compartments, yet their transport and retention dynamics in surface waterâgroundwater systeâŠ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135425019219?via%3Dihub
about 2 months ago
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The Influence of Topography on the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle - Gnann - 2025 - Reviews of Geophysics - Wiley Online Library has reached over 10000 views!
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The Influence of Topography on the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle
Topography influences water and energy provided by the atmosphere, and the fate of water at and below the land surface Topography is associated with gradients and contrasts, whose interactions ex...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023RG000810?utm_campaign=B2CJNL_MIS_1430291_FTV_Milestones_Campaign_RoW_EM1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sfmc
2 months ago
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Prominent German climate activist spoke at the Potsdam Climate & Sustainability Lectures
www.uni-potsdam.de/en/headlines...
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âNicht alles ist verloren, nur weil wir nicht alles gewonnen habenâ â Luisa Neubauer sprach bei den Potsdam Climate & Sustainability Lectures
https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/headlines-and-featured-stories/detail/2025-12-15-nicht-alles-ist-verloren-nur-weil-wir-nicht-alles-gewonnen-haben-luisa-neubauer-sprach-bei-den-potsdam-climate-and-sustainability-lectures
2 months ago
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Eva P. S. Eibl
2 months ago
Registration for the 12th Physics of Volcanoes workshop including two GeoX-hosted discussion rounds is now open:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
It will be hosted at the
@geowpotsdam.bsky.social
of the
@unipotsdam.bsky.social
from 18 to 20 February 2026. Everyone interested in volcanoes is welcome.
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Physics of Volcanoes 2026 (PoV-12)
Event Timing: 18-20 February 2026 on site, in person, in Potsdam: 18 Feb 2026: 17:00 - 19:00 Icebreaker 19 Feb 2026: 09:15 - 18:15 Scientific Program + discussion, 19:15 Joint Dinner 20 Feb 2026: 09...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdC9QD1FnGjOlKzini2lN4UM8OerDkXy8YYDE2Lc9RX88kVhw/viewform
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UÄur ĂztĂŒrk
2 months ago
đ Call for abstracts for
#EGU26
: Urban Risk in a Changing World. đ Seeking work on multi-hazard interactions & urban vulnerability, innovative data tools, urban governance/resilience, and Transdisciplinary case studies. đïž deadline: 15 Jan 2026 Join our session and share your research!
#UrbanRisk
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#egu26 #urban #egu26 #urbanrisk #resilience #hazards #disasterriskreduction #urbanstudies #geoscience | Faith Taylor
We welcome submissions to our #EGU26 session NH9.4: Urban Risk in a Changing World: Dynamics, Disruption & Resilience in Cities This session brings together research on how evolving socio-environment...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/faith-taylor-555b932a_egu26-urban-egu26-activity-7404539131793461249-kHoy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAAAncnEYBcystZgAZ_QYXe27U5QAYi_kD_BU
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High Mountain Asiaâs surface waters warmed from 1994â2023 (avg +0.1°C, up to +0.3°C), with faster warming in snow-covered areas and clear recent acceleration. Surface water is heating faster than nearby land, driven by rapid cryosphere changes.
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Strongly Heterogeneous SurfaceâWater Warming Trends in High Mountain Asia
Surface waters are warming significantly in High Mountain Asia Water is warming faster than land in most of the region 30-year warming trends have accelerated over the past decade
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL119418
2 months ago
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Integrating mobile CRNS soil-moisture data into the mHM model greatly boosts its ability to capture spatial and temporal moisture patterns. Forests remain challenging, but results show strong gains and good transferability for better hydrological forecasts.
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Frontiers | On the value of mobile cosmic-ray neutron measurements for spatio-temporal soil moisture simulations
High-resolution soil moisture measurements are indispensable for advancing hydrological modeling and improving environmental risk assessments at regional sca...
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/water/articles/10.3389/frwa.2025.1630051/full
3 months ago
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Extreme rain intensifies faster on warm days mainly because weather shifts from gentle to convective storms. Big systems become more convective above ~14 °C dew point, boosting short-burst rainfall and flood risk.
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Super-ClausiusâClapeyron scaling of extreme precipitation explained by shift from stratiform to convective rain type
Nature Geoscience - Warming-induced changes in extreme precipitation intensity that exceed the ClausiusâClapeyron scaling rate can be explained by a statistical shift from stratiform to...
https://rdcu.be/eTfHO
3 months ago
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Call for abstracts for Session HS8.2.13 Multiscale Perspectives on Groundwater Recharge: From Field Observations to Integrated Models at the upcoming EGU General Assembly 2026.
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
3 months ago
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UÄur ĂztĂŒrk
3 months ago
I gave a seminar talk about the growing threat of
#landslides
at Earth and Life Institute - UCLouvain. Here's a link to watch it: đœïžhttps://lnkd.in/dYRPJraX It was a very productive visit thanks to Caroline Michellier, Erasmus Zu Ermgassen, and Olivier Dewitte.
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Open PhD Position (75%, 3 years) in Landslide Research in the Geohazards Group at the University of Potsdam. More information can be found here:
topotoolbox.wordpress.com/category/jobs/
3 months ago
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This study shows that SAR data can map crop phenometrics more accurately than optical data. Itâs a promising step for precision agricultureâbetter resource use, improved yield predictions, and more sustainable farming.
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The potential of Sentinel-1 time series for large-scale assessment of maize and wheat phenology across Germany
Monitoring crop phenometrics is crucial for understanding crop conditions and dynamics. Dense time series are needed for accurate information. Recent work has shown that remote sensing data can be ...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15481603.2025.2531593
3 months ago
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Christian Klassert
3 months ago
đŁđŁđŁ We are hiring!!! (Please repost) 3 PhDs in new research group ânavigate" on urban-rural resilience in water scarcity crises, co-lead by TaĂs Carvalho & me at
@ufz.de
(start: 1 Feb): PhD 1 (behav. sci./econ.):
is.gd/ty0BAX
PhD 2 (data sci./ML):
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PhD 3 (hydro-econ./ABM):
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PYROPHOB - A research project into the forest of tomorrow
www.pyrophob.de/forschung-2#...
www.uni-potsdam.de/en/headlines...
3 months ago
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FreezeâThaw Effects on Daily Sediment Transport in an Alpine River - SkĂ„levĂ„g - 2025 - Water Resources Research - Wiley Online Library
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FreezeâThaw Effects on Daily Sediment Transport in an Alpine River
Streamflow is the primary driver of suspended sediment transport, but its effect is modulated by temperature and freeze-thaw conditions There is a marked shift in suspended sediment dynamics when...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024WR039183
3 months ago
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UFZ
3 months ago
www.deutschlandfunk.de/tropenwaelde...
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Biologin Böhning-Gaese - "Tropische WĂ€lder spielen eine groĂe Rolle beim Klimaschutz"
Regenwald und COP30: Die tropischen WĂ€lder sind wichtig beim Klimaschutz. Um sie zu bewahren, will Brasilien den Fonds TFFF auflegen.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/tropenwaelder-ihre-rolle-beim-klimaschutz-und-wie-man-ihren-schutz-finanziert-100.html
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EGU announces the 2026 awards and-medals Prof. Thorsten Wagener will receive the John Dalton Medal. This medal was established by the Hydrological Sciences Division and is awarded for distinguished contributions to hydrological science.
www.egu.eu/news/1551/eg...
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EGU announces the 2026 awards and medals!
<p>The European Geosciences Union is honouring 52 people at all stages of their careers who have made substantial contributions to the Earth, planetary, and space sciences.</p>
https://www.egu.eu/news/1551/egu-announces-the-2026-awards-and-medals/
3 months ago
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UniversitÀt Potsdam
4 months ago
Ein internationales Forschungsteam mit Beteiligung der UniversitÀt Potsdam hat nun drei neue Arten von
#Baumkröten
aus
#Tansania
beschrieben, die voll entwickelte Jungtiere zur Welt bringen. Die Entdeckung wurde jetzt in âVertebrate Zoologyâ veröffentlicht:
www.uni-potsdam.de/de/medieninf...
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Drei neue Krötenarten springen ins Rampenlicht
Medieninformation 06-11-2025 / Nr. 098
https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/medieninformationen/detail/2025-11-06-drei-neue-kroetenarten-springen-ins-rampenlicht
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UÄur ĂztĂŒrk
4 months ago
We will keep underestimating the scale and complexity of cascading
#geohazards
in high mountains without a fundamental shift in perspective, policies, and their implementation.âïžDeveloping scenarios to facilitate impact based forecasting schemes is a way forward
doi.org/10.1038/s41561
@univie.ac.at
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Impressions from the On Water dialog "Innovations for a water-resilient region" initiated by the Berlin University Alliance.
#WasserWissen
4 months ago
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Eva P. S. Eibl
4 months ago
NEW PAPER by Eibl et al. in Scientific Reports:
rdcu.be/eOcYm
Pool
#geyser
#Strokkur
,
#Iceland
reacts to the weather: The higher the wind speed the longer the recurrence intervals. This effect can be observed down to the bubble reservoir at 24 m depth!
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Winds of change: meteorological influences on Strokkurâs geyser eruptions, Iceland
Scientific Reports - Winds of change: meteorological influences on Strokkurâs geyser eruptions, Iceland
https://rdcu.be/eOcYm
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Prof. Thorsten Wagener introduced the Potsdam WaterHub during his keynote at the Geo.X Annual Meeting 2025. The theme of this year's Geo.X meeting was "Water in Motion".
5 months ago
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UÄur ĂztĂŒrk
5 months ago
đ± Every second person dies from unnecessary risk-taking behavior during
#disasters
. We need to educate the public to reduce
#disaster
mortality further. đ
#ClimateChange
is kicking in; we are facing more and more socio-natural
#hazards
without prior experience.
doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae034f
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A new study in NHESS investigates the decreasing groundwater recharge rates in Brandenburg. Francke, T. and Heistermann, M. (2025): Groundwater recharge in Brandenburg is declining â but why?, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 2783â2802,
doi.org/10.5194/nhes...
6 months ago
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Attribution of flood impacts shows strong benefits of adaptation in Europe since 1950 | Science Advances
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Attribution of flood impacts shows strong benefits of adaptation in Europe since 1950
Flood impacts in Europe (1950â2020) were driven mainly by changes in exposure and vulnerability, not long-term change in climate.
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adt7068
6 months ago
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Rodolfo Nobrega
7 months ago
A few years ago, we visited the soil-survey archives of a region in Brazil. We digitised the data and began developing a framework for developing soil maps that accurately (pedologically) represent soil profiles in the tropics. The result is here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A scalable framework for soil property mapping tested across a highly diverse tropical data-scarce region
Reliable soil property maps are essential for environmental modeling, yet conventional mapping methods remain costly and time-consuming. We developed âŠ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950289625000326?via%3Dihub
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Sedimentary Systems Group - FU Berlin
9 months ago
Just out in Science Advances with
@topotoolbox.bsky.social
: Submarine canyons preferentially form where the seafloor is steepestânot where rivers bring much sediment. Our global study reveals what controls canyon distribution and the worldâs oceans.
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Seafloor slopes control submarine canyon distribution: A global analysis
Submarine canyon distribution is driven by slope inclination, linking tectonic and thermal forces to canyon formation.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv3942
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Origin of North America's deepest canyon revealed
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
...with contributions from a member of the WaterHub. This work has also been featured on scinexx:
www.scinexx.de/news/geowiss...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2413069122
9 months ago
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UniversitÀt Potsdam
10 months ago
FĂŒr ihre herausragenden BeitrĂ€ge zum VerstĂ€ndnis und zur Minderung von Hochwasserrisiken sowie zur Entwicklung von kommunalen Anpassungsstrategien wurde Prof. Dr. Annegret Thieken durch die
@egu.eu
die Plinius-Medaille 2025 verliehen. Mehr Infos:
www.uni-potsdam.de/de/medieninf...
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HochwasserschĂ€den reduzieren â Plinius-Medaille der EGU fĂŒr Potsdamer Umweltwissenschaftlerin Annegret Thieken
Medieninformation 29-04-2025 / Nr. 043
https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/medieninformationen/detail/2025-04-29-hochwasserschaeden-reduzieren-plinius-medaille-der-egu-fuer-potsdamer-umweltwissenschaft
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EGU Natural Hazards Division
10 months ago
đ Celebrating outstanding science at
#EGU25
đ Annegret Thieken â for shaping flood risk management pratices đ Mariana Madruga de Brito â for her innovative use of NLP for climate impacts đ Sergio M. Vicente Serrano â for advancing drought assessment tools Really inspiring work! đ
#NHDivision
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Analysing 1,686 glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs), Veh et al. (2025) found that despite growing glacier lakes from climate change, GLOFs are getting smaller. Most dangerous ice-dammed lakes are declining.
@unipotsdam.bsky.social
@natureportfolio.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
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Progressively smaller glacier lake outburst floods despite worldwide growth in lake area - Nature Water
By quantifying changes in lake area before glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs) worldwide from 1990 to 2023, this study shows that despite the overall growth in total lake area and hazard potential, p...
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-025-00388-w
10 months ago
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Nature Communications
11 months ago
New study uses global observations and shows that large-scale
#irrigation
changes local
#rainfall
, leading to more afternoon rain events 10 to 50 km downwind of irrigated areas. This can help constrain
#climate
models and support
#WaterManagement
.
@gerics.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Observational evidence of increased afternoon rainfall downwind of irrigated areas - Nature Communications
Large-scale irrigation changes local rainfall patterns, leading to more afternoon rain events 10 to 50 km downwind of irrigated areas. These findings will help constrain climate and weather forecastin...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58729-y
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Wolfgang Schwanghart
10 months ago
Here's my first blog entry on using
#TopoToolbox
with
#Python
. See how to run Boris Gailleton's GraphFlood and display water depth along with a longitudinal river profile.
topotoolbox.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/p...
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Python TopoToolbox and GraphFlood
Many have probably waited for this. And here we go. Letâs try out TopoToolboxâ Python version. Our aim will be to calculate flow depth along the Big Tujunga river and display the resultâŠ
https://topotoolbox.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/python-topotoolbox-and-graphflood/
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UÄur ĂztĂŒrk
11 months ago
#Urbanisation
has long raised
#LandslideRisks
. In
#MedellĂn
, we traced this link back nearly a century.
#InformalSettlements
face 2â3.5Ă more fatalities/kmÂČ than formal areas. Urban development strategies must consider
#Geohazards
.
dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748...
@humboldt-foundation.de
@gfz.bsky.social
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Lina Stein
over 1 year ago
Do we do research, where it matters? Globally research on floods, droughts, and landslides is so biased that 100 times more people need to be affected in low-income countries before they receive a similar research attention than high-income countries
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UÄur ĂztĂŒrk
about 1 year ago
There is no need to use full landslide polygons in hazard models! We use topology & morphology to separate source & runout areas with <20% accuracy. DOI:
doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
Code:
github.com/kushanavbhuy...
Soon in
#landsifier
for easy use:
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