High northern latitudes exhibit enhanced near-surface warming in a climate with increasing greenhouse gases compared to other parts of the globe, indicating an amplified climate response to external forcing. Decadal to multidecadal variability sometimes enhances and at other times reduces the long-term trends. Therefore, the influence of internal v...
De Wageningen Lowland Runoff Simulator (WALRUS) is een nieuw neerslag-afvoermodel dat het gat moet vullen tussen complexe, ruimtelijk gedistribueerde modellen die vaak gebruikt worden in laaglandstroomgebieden en simpele, ruimtelijk geïntegreerde, parametrische modellen die voornamelijk zijn ontwikkeld voor hellende stroomgebieden. WALRUS houdt exp...
In the EU the risk of leaching of plant protection products is assessed according to the new regulation 1107/2009. For the assessment of this risk the FOCUS Groundwater scenarios have been developed. The PEARL model is one of the models that can be used to calculate the leaching concentration in groundwaterfor these scenarios. At the national level...
In the S2Biom project the logistical case study in Burgundy was the first that wasperformed. The data were based on the results of the LogistEC project, which had already performed a thorough assessment of the case. Therefore, the S2Biom case study was especially used to develop the new tool LocaGIStics, and to illustrate the possibilities of such ...
For the Letaba basin situated in the South African part of the Limpopo basin, a hydrological study was carried out in order to quantify the effect of smallholder farming on river flows. Important was to study the consequences of improved agricultural systems on the river flows, in particular for the Kruger National Park situated in the lower part o...
Summary Tourism can have a broad range of impacts, including impact on the economy, on the natural and built environment, on the local population, and on visitors themselves. This PhD thesis discussed the measurement of regional economic impacts of tourism, including impacts on output, value added, and employment caused by visitor expenditure. The ...
Om inzicht te krijgen in de herkomst en beïnvloedbaarheid van stikstof en fosfor in het oppervlaktewater in het beheergebied van Wetterskip Fryslân zijn met de ECHO-methodiek stofbalansen opgesteld voor een zestal polders. De beïnvloedbaarheid van bronnen is afgeleid conform de werkwijze die wordt toegepast door de Nutriëntenwerkgroep Rijn-West. Da...
In this report we describe results of a one-year TO2 institutes project on the development of big data technologies within the milk production chain. The goal of this project is to ‘create’ an integration platform for big data analysis for smart farming and to develop a show case. This includes both technical (hard/software) and organizational inte...
In certain conditions, (part of) an oil spill can disappear from the water surface through a process called natural dispersion. One available oil spill response option is to enhance this process by addition of dispersants (chemical dispersion). An informed decision for such response requires insight in the oil slick size WITH and WITHOUT treatment....
Rijkswaterstaat wil modellen en modeltoepassingen, die de komende jaren voor het beheer van rijkswateren op het gebied van waterkwaliteit en ecologie nodig geacht worden, onder beheer en onderhoud brengen. Alterra heeft modellen voor waterkwaliteit en ecologie die voor beheervragen van Rijkswaterstaat gebruikt kunnen worden. Dit rapport geeft daar ...
