Review of GPM IMERG performance: A global perspective

Remote Sensing of Environment | Pradhan et al. [2021] Accurate, reliable, and high spatio-temporal resolution precipitation data are vital for many applications, including the study of extreme events, hydrological modeling, water resource management, and hydroclimatic research in general. In this study, we performed a systematic review of the available literature to assess the performance of …

The Global Water Cycle Budget: A Chronological Review

Surveys in Geophysics | Vargas Godoy et al. [2021] Like civilization and technology, our understanding of the global water cycle has been continuously evolving, and we have adapted our quantification methods to better exploit new technological resources. The accurate quantification of global water fluxes and storages is crucial in studying the global water cycle. These …

The rise of compound warm-season droughts in Europe

Science Advances | Markonis et al. [2021] Drought is one of the main threats to food security and ecosystem productivity. During the past decades, Europe has experienced a series of droughts that caused substantial socioeconomic losses and environmental impacts. A key question is whether there are some similar characteristics in these droughts, especially when compared …

Atmospheric circulation as a factor contributing to increasing drought severity in Central Europe

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | Lhotka et al. [2020] Long‐lasting and severe droughts seriously threaten agriculture, ecosystems, and society. Summer 2018 in central Europe was characterized by unusually persistent heat and drought, causing substantial economic losses, and became a part of a several years long dry period observed across this region. This study assesses …

Increased future occurrences of the exceptional 2018–2019 central European drought under global warming

Scientific Reports | Hari al. [2020] Since the spring 2018, a large part of Europe has been in the midst of a record-setting drought. Using long-term observations, we demonstrate that the occurrence of the 2018–2019 (consecutive) summer drought is unprecedented in the last 250 years, and its combined impact on the growing season vegetation activities …

Representation of European hydroclimatic patterns with self-organizing maps

The Holocene | Markonis and Strnad [2020] Self-organizing maps provide a powerful, non-linear technique of dimensionality reduction that can be used to identify clusters with similar attributes. Here, they were constructed from a 1000-year-long gridded palaeoclimatic dataset, namely the Old World Drought Atlas, to detect regions of homogeneous hydroclimatic variability across the European continent. A …

eXtreme EuRopean drOughtS: Multimodel synthesis of past, present and future events

Recent European droughts are mostly evaluated within the context of hydroclimatic conditions of the second half of the 20th century. It is thus possible, that recent European drought events are less (or more) severe than previously thought. The XEROS project aims at (1) assessing the extremity of recent European drought events in the perspective of …

A 250‐year European drought inventory derived from ensemble hydrologic modelling

Geophysical Research Letters | Moravec et al. [2019]

ESA award to study drought in the Earth System Data Lab

The Earth system data lab is a new virtual lab developed by an ESA project to simultaneously access a wide array of Earth observations across space, time and variables. The principle idea is to explore the joint information of derived data streams as produced by several international scientific teams. Essentially, the ESDL consist of two …

The effect of climate type on timescales of drought propagation in an ensemble of global hydrological models

Hydrology & Earth System Sciences | Gevaert et al. [2018]