The global hydrology group is presenting at EGU 2018 in Vienna. A list of our presentations can be found here!

Hydrology from Utrecht has over 25 contributions to the AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans. Check out where we will be Here!

We are very proud that our PhD alumnus Yoshihide Wada has won the EGU 2018 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientist! See the EGU Press release here!

We published a paper in Nature projecting that under a 1.5  degree warming, as agreed upon under the Paris Agreement, the glaciers in High Mountain Asia will have lost about 35% of their mass. Under more realistic climate scenarios the mass loss could add up to 65%, with dire consequences for people that depend on the melt water…

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…

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…

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…

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!