The main aim of this thesis is to analyse the climate change uncertainties that are important to take into account for long term water management and to explore the communication of these uncertainties. The study design combines natural and social scientific theories and methods and consists of three different elements: 1) an assessment of the domi...
In this study, we investigate the change in multi-day precipitation extremes in late winter in Europe using observations and climate models. The objectives of the analysis are to determine whether climate models can accurately reproduce observed trends and, if not, to find the causes of the difference in trends. Similarly to an earlier finding for ...
Chapter 1. This thesis presents studies on the variability of precipitation in the Netherlands from datasets collected by radars, rain gauges and disdrometers. Accurate rainfall estimates are highly relevant in hydrology, meteorology and climatology as precipitation has a large impact on society. Precipitation has been studied extensively in the pa...
The relative contribution of topography and land use on precipitation is analyzed in this paper for a forested area in the Netherlands. This area has an average yearly precipitation sum that can be 75–100 mm higher than the rest of the country. To analyze this contribution, different configurations of land use and topography are fed into a mesoscal...
Het CBS heeft aangegeven behoefte te hebben aan cijfers over het watergebruik in de land- en tuinbouwsectoren naar de 7 stroomgebieden in Nederland. Het watergebruik wordt in dit achtergronddocument voor 5 landbouwsectoren (akkerbouw, fruit, tuinbouw, veehouderij, overige landbouw) en de visserijsector bepaald. De 5 sectoren bestaan uit meerdere (2...
Clear precipitation trends have been observed in Europe over the past century. In winter, precipitation has increased in north-western Europe. In summer, there has been an increase along many coasts in the same area. Over the second half of the past century precipitation also decreased in southern Europe in winter. An investigation of precipitation...
Op verzoek van OBN deskundigenteam Duin- en Kustlandschap, Provincie Zeeland, en de twee grote duinbeheerders Staatsbosbeheer en Natuurmonumenten op Schouwen is een verkenning uitgevoerd naar de herstelmogelijkheden van duindynamiek in de Meeuwenduinen en de Zeepeduinen (beide onder de noemer Westduinen Schouwen in dit rapport). De herstelmaatregel...
Op woensdag 20 juni 2012 belegde het Netwerk Land en Water een studiemiddag over het thema ‘Nieuwe wegen in de hydrologie’. Dit thema is ingegeven vanuit de verwachting dat door klimaatverandering extreme neerslaggebeurtenissen frequenter zullen optreden, wat kan leiden tot grote wateroverlast. Om voor deze gebeurtenissen adequate oplossingen te vi...
This thesis focuses specifically on weather radar rainfall measurements in strati form precipitation. In North-Western Europe this type of precipitation is most dominant in winter and leads to the largest hydro logical response of catchments. Unfortunately, the quality of uncorrected radar rainfall estimates starts decreasing at relatively close ra...
