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'The lived experience of climate change': creating open educational resources and virtual mobility for an innovative, integrative and competence-based track at Masters level

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A Hybrid Model for Fast and Probabilistic Urban Pluvial Flood Prediction

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A Methodology for the Design of RTC Strategies for Combined Sewer Networks

A data-driven analysis, and its limitations, of the spatial flood archive of Flanders, Belgium to assess the impact of soil sealing on flood volume and extent

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

A flexible and efficient multi-model framework in support of water management

A holistic model for coastal flooding using system diagrams and the Source-Pathway-Receptor (SPR) concept

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A non-parametric data-based approach for probabilistic flood forecasting in support of uncertainty communication

article published in 2012

A survey of temperature and precipitation based aridity indices in Iran

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Amplified Drought and Flood Risk Under Future Socioeconomic and Climatic Change

scientific article published in 2021

Analyses of rainfall trends in the Nile River Basin

scientific article published on 24 October 2015

Analysis of the climate variability on Lake Nasser evaporation based on the Bowen ratio energy budget method

scientific article published on April 1, 2012

Assessing the impact of land use change on hydrology by ensemble modeling (LUCHEM) III: Scenario analysis

scholarly article by J.A. Huisman et al published February 2009 in Advances in Water Resources

Assessing the impact of land use change on hydrology by ensemble modeling (LUCHEM). I: Model intercomparison with current land use

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Assessing the impact of land use change on hydrology by ensemble modelling (LUCHEM) II: Ensemble combinations and predictions

scholarly article by Neil R. Viney et al published February 2009 in Advances in Water Resources

Assessment of natural climate variability using a weather generator

scholarly article by Erwan Brisson et al published 30 April 2014 in Climate Dynamics

Author’s response to the commentary by S.Fischer & A.Schumann on “Multidecadal oscillatory behaviour of rainfall extremes in Europe (Climatic Change, 120(4), 931–944)”

scientific article published in 2015

Bias correction in hydrologic GPD based extreme value analysis by means of a slowly varying function

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Changing extreme sea levels along European coasts

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Climate change impact assessment on pluvial flooding using a distribution-based bias correction of regional climate model simulations

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Climate change impact on river flows and catchment hydrology: a comparison of two spatially distributed models

scholarly article by Thomas Vansteenkiste et al published 25 August 2012 in Hydrological Processes

Climate change impact on salinization of drinking water inlets along the Campine Canals, Belgium

scientific article published in 2022

Climate changes of hydrometeorological and hydrological extremes in the Paute basin, Ecuadorean Andes

scientific article published on 19 February 2014

Comparing climate change impacts on cereals based on CMIP3 and EU-ENSEMBLES climate scenarios

scholarly article by Eline Vanuytrecht et al published September 2014 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Conceptual river water quality model with flexible model structure

scientific article published in 2018

Considering sink strength to model crop production under elevated atmospheric CO2

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Design of self-cleansing sanitary sewer systems with the use of flushing devices.

scientific article published in January 2009

Development and Comparison of Two Fast Surrogate Models for Urban Pluvial Flood Simulations

scholarly article in Water Resources Management, vol. 32 no. 8, March 2018

Development and testing of a fast conceptual river water quality model

scientific article published in February 2017

Development of a semi-automated model identification and calibration tool for conceptual modelling of sewer systems

scientific article published in January 2013

Does drought advance the onset of autumn leaf senescence in temperate deciduous forest trees?

scientific article published in 2021

Early warnings of hazardous thunderstorms over Lake Victoria

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Effect of watershed delineation and areal rainfall distribution on runoff prediction using the SWAT model

article published in 2009

Evaluation of a data-based hydrological model for simulating the runoff of medium sized Andean basins

Evaluation of change factor-based statistical downscaling methods for impact analysis in urban hydrology

scientific article published in 2020

Evaporation estimates from Nasser Lake, Egypt, based on three floating station data and Bowen ratio energy budget

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Flash-Flood Forecasting in an Andean Mountain Catchment—Development of a Step-Wise Methodology Based on the Random Forest Algorithm

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Flood regulation using nonlinear model predictive control

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Fractal analysis of urban catchments and their representation in semi-distributed models: imperviousness and sewer system

Greenhouse gas emissions from integrated urban drainage systems: Where do we stand?

article by Giorgio Mannina et al published April 2018 in Journal of Hydrology

Heat stress increase under climate change twice as large in cities as in rural areas: A study for a densely populated midlatitude maritime region

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Impact of urban WWTP and CSO fluxes on river peak flow extremes under current and future climate conditions

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Impacts of Climate Change on Rainfall Extremes and Urban Drainage Systems

scientific article published in 2012

Implications of climate change on hydrological extremes in the Blue Nile basin: A review

scientific article published on 23 July 2015

Influence of climate variability on representative QDF predictions of the upper Blue Nile basin

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Integrated Modeling System for Water Resources Management of Tarim River Basin

Investigating regionalization techniques for large-scale hydrological modelling

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Invigorating Hydrological Research through Journal Publications

Invigorating hydrological research through journal publications

Invigorating hydrological research through journal publications

Invigorating hydrological research through journal publications

Joint Editorial Invigorating Hydrological Research through Journal Publications

Joint Editorial: Invigorating Hydrological Research through Journal Publications

scientific article published in 2018

Joint Editorial: Invigorating hydrological research through journal publications

Joint editorial: Invigorating hydrological research through journal publications

Joint editorial: Invigorating hydrological research through journal publications

Lagged influence of Atlantic and Pacific climate patterns on European extreme precipitation.

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

Large-scale hydrological simulations using the soil water assessment tool, protocol development, and application in the danube basin

scientific article published on January 2014

Latitudinal heterogeneity and hotspots of uncertainty in projected extreme precipitation

Lessons from the 2018–2019 European droughts: a collective need for unifying drought risk management

scientific article published in 2022

Local impact analysis of climate change on precipitation extremes: are high-resolution climate models needed for realistic simulations?

scholarly article by Hossein Tabari et al published 14 September 2016 in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Long-term variations of water quality in the Inner Murchison Bay, Lake Victoria.

scientific article published on 16 December 2016

Looking beyond general metrics for model comparison – lessons from an international model intercomparison study

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Method for testing the accuracy of rainfall–runoff models in predicting peak flow changes due to rainfall changes, in a climate changing context

Modelling real-time control of WWTP influent flow under data scarcity

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More prolonged droughts by the end of the century in the Middle East

scientific article published in 2018

Multi-model approach to quantify groundwater-level prediction uncertainty using an ensemble of global climate models and multiple abstraction scenarios

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Multidecadal convection permitting climate simulations over Belgium: sensitivity of future precipitation extremes

scholarly article by Sajjad Saeed et al published 19 December 2016 in Atmospheric Science Letters

Multidecadal oscillatory behaviour of rainfall extremes in Europe

scholarly article by Patrick Willems published 30 July 2013 in Climatic Change

Multisource remote sensing supported large scale fully distributed hydrological modeling of the Tarim River Basin in Central Asia

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On the Below- and Aboveground Phenology in Deciduous Trees: Observing the Fine-Root Lifespan, Turnover Rate, and Phenology of Fagus sylvatica L., Quercus robur L., and Betula pendula Roth for Two Growing Seasons

scientific article published on 02 December 2021

On the correlation between precipitation and potential evapotranspiration climate change signals for hydrological impact analyses

scientific article published in 2019

On the usefulness of remote sensing input data for spatially distributed hydrological modelling: case of the Tarim River basin in China

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Parsimonious Model for Combined Sewer Overflow Pollution

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Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Precipitation over Lake Victoria, East Africa, in the 21st Century

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Probabilistic flood risk assessment over large geographical regions

Probabilistic modelling of overflow, surcharge and flooding in urban drainage using the first-order reliability method and parameterization of local rain series.

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Quantification and relative comparison of different types of uncertainties in sewer water quality modeling

scientific article published on 20 May 2008

Quantifying Climate Change Effects on Future Forest Biomass Availability Using Yield Tables Improved by Mechanistic Scaling

scientific article published in 2022

Quantifying climate change effects on future forest biomass availability using yield tables improved by mechanistic scaling

scientific article published on 13 April 2022

Rainfall in the urban context: Forecasting, risk and climate change

scholarly article by Patrick Willems et al published January 2012 in Atmospheric Research

Rainfall input requirements for hydrological calculations

Real-Time River Flood Control under Historical and Future Climatic Conditions: Flanders Case Study

scientific article published in 2020

Regional frequency analysis of extreme rainfall in Belgium based on radar estimates

Runoff and vegetation stress of green roofs under different climate change scenarios

Satellite-based data driven quantification of pluvial floods over Europe under future climatic and socioeconomic changes

scientific article published on 05 March 2020

Science-policy interfacing in support of the Water Framework Directive implementation

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Seasonally varying footprint of climate change on precipitation in the Middle East.

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

Soil moisture content retrieval based on apparent thermal inertia for Xinjiang province in China

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Space-time variability of extreme rainfall in the River Nile basin

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Space–time rainfall variability in the Paute basin, Ecuadorian Andes

Spatial and temporal rainfall variability in mountainous areas: A case study from the south Ecuadorian Andes

Temporal variability of hydroclimatic extremes in the Blue Nile basin

The CORDEX.be initiative as a foundation for climate services in Belgium

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The SPR systems model as a conceptual foundation for rapid integrated risk appraisals: Lessons from Europe

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The essential role of expertise on natural resources in climate change Master's education

scholarly article by Patrick Willems et al published 2012 in International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development

The relative impact of climate change and urban expansion on peak flows: a case study in central Belgium

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Timing leaf senescence: A generalized additive models for location, scale and shape approach

scientific article published on 20 January 2022

Trends and multidecadal oscillations in rainfall extremes, based on a more than 100-year time series of 10 min rainfall intensities at Uccle, Belgium

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Trivariate Analysis of Changes in Drought Characteristics in the CMIP6 Multimodel Ensemble at Global Warming Levels of 1.5°, 2°, and 3°C

scientific article published in 2022

Uncertainties in Flow-Duration-Frequency Relationships of High and Low Flow Extremes in Lake Victoria Basin

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Uncertainty in calibrating generalised Pareto distribution to rainfall extremes in Lake Victoria basin

scientific article published in 2014

Urban flood hazard analysis in present and future climate after statistical downscaling: a case study in Ha Tinh city, Vietnam

scientific article published in 2021

Using Local Weather Radar Data for Sewer System Modeling: Case Study in Flanders, Belgium

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Weather radar rainfall data in urban hydrology

scientific article published on 7 March 2017