In a new study by Ted Veldkamp (VU Amsterdam), Yoshi Wada et al. that appeared in Nature Communications it is shown, by using a multi-model ensemble from ISI-MIP 2a (PCR-GLOBWB among these), that human interventions in the global water system may decrease water scarcity upstream while aggravating water scarcity downstream.
The link to the paper can be found here!
Former members of our group Yoshihide Wada and Niko Wanders were involved in new high impact publications using PCR-GLOBWB:
Yoshi was co-author on a paper in Nature assessing how groundwater depletion is embedded in international food trade. See this link for a nice BBC news item.
Both Niko and Yoshi were involved in a GRL paper looking how water management can both mitigate and intensify hydrological drought. The PNAS website had a nice item about this work.
We are happy to announce that Inge de Graaf published a paper about our newly-developed global two-layer transient groundwater model. This version is coupled one-way with the global hydrology and water resources model PCR-GLOBWB. A newer version also has a two-way (at time-step) coupling with PCR-GLOBWB and will be reported on shortly. You can find the paper here!
Furthermore, Yoshihide Wada (vice-director Water at IIASA and senior research associate at UU) and colleagues published a new paper in Nature Geoscience in which they show from analyses of satellite and local well data spanning the past decade that long-term changes in monsoon precipitation are driving groundwater storage variability in most parts of India either directly by changing recharge or indirectly by changing abstraction.
Marc Bierkens has been elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
Citation: For contributions in understanding hydrological
processes across scales and the modeling
and analysis of climate change and human water use
on global groundwater stocks.
He will be honored at the current AGU General assembly.
See also this announcement or this issue EOS magazine!
Members of our group (and former members) are presenting their work at AGU.
The dates, times and titles of their presentations can be found here!
Inge de Graaf his defending her PhD thesis entitled “Limits to global groundwater consumption” on April 1 2016.
See also this UU link!
Worldwide economic losses from river flooding could increase 20-fold by the end of the 21st century if no further actions on flood risk reduction are taken. Over 70% of this increase can be attributed to economic growth in flood prone areas
This follows from a recent study by a Dutch consortium that includes our research group.
See the study in Nature Climate Change!
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-12-climate-main-prone-areas.html#jCp
Marc Bierkens contributed the paper entitled “Global hydrology 2015: state, trends and directions” to the 50th anniversary of Water Resources Research special collection issue. The papers in this issue are freely downloadable!
Note this nice article in Desert Sun and USA Today that highlights our past work on global groundwater depletion and sea-level rise.
H13R-01 Development of human impact modeling in global hydrology
Monday, 14 December 2015 13:40 – 13:55 Moscone West – 3011
Marc Bierkens and Yoshihide Wada
H13R-06 eWaterCycle: Recent progress in a global operational hydrological forecasting model
Monday, 14 December 2015 14:55 – 15:10 Moscone West – 3011
Nick Van De Giesen, Edwin Sutanudjaja, Marc Bierkens, Niels Drost, Rolf Hut
H13R-08 Limits to Global Groundwater Consumption
Inge de Graaf et al.
Monday, 14 December 2015 15:25 – 15:40 Moscone West – 3011
H23E-1622 The HyperHydro (H^2) experiment for comparing different large-scale models at various resolutions
Edwin Sutanudjaja et al.
Tuesday, 15 December 2015 13:40 – 18:00 Moscone South – Poster Hall
GC32B-05 Reducing water scarcity possible by 2050: Linking global assessments to policy dimensions
Yoshihide Wada et al.
Wednesday, 16 December 2015 11:20 – 11:35 Moscone West – 3001
H43J-04 Improved Large-Scale Inundation Modelling by 1D-2D Coupling and Consideration of Hydrologic and Hydrodynamic Processes – a Case Study in the Amazon
Jannis Hoch et al.
Thursday, 17 December 2015 14:25 – 14:40 Moscone West – 3020
H43E-1545 Simulating the impact of past and future land cover and climate change on the global hydrological system using PCR-GLOBWB
Joyce Bosmans et al.
Thursday, 17 December 2015 13:40 – 18:00 Moscone South – Poster Hall
G52A-08 A century-long simulation of terrestrial water storage change and its contribution to global sea-level
Marc Bierkens et al.
Friday, 18 December 2015 12:05 – 12:20 Moscone West – 2002
H53L-04 Improved Large-Scale Hydrological Modelling Through The Assimilation Of Streamflow And Downscaled Satellite Soil Moisture Observations
Patricia Lopez-Lopez et al.
Friday, 18 December 2015 14:25 – 14:40 Moscone West – 3022
And Yoshi Wada’s many co-operative papers: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/meetingapp.cgi/Person/90990
And Niko Wanders (former PhD) seeding his many oats:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/meetingapp.cgi/Person/61864