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Vegetation dielectric constant as a measure of water stress

Research interest Microwave emission and backscatter of vegetated surfaces are influenced by the dielectric constant of vegetation, which is…

Changes

Marie Charrière (1986) graduated in February 2011 in Environmental Geosciences, MSc program Analysis, Monitoring and Presentation of Natural…

Flood Mitigation through Optimal Operation of a Network of Multipurpose Reservoirs

Sittaung River system is one of four major rivers system in Myanmar. Mitigation of flood risk is major task for water resources management…

Soil moisture estimation with distributed temperature sensing

Soil moisture is very important for land surface modeling. Since land surface processes are nonlinear, it is important to represent the…

Adaptation to the climate change in urban areas: assessing rainfall-induced flooding events

On January 2012, Santiago started his PhD at Delft University of Technology. His work aims to assess and develop alternatives for building…

Analysis of multi-source and multi-resolution soil moisture data

Yang Lu entered the Water Resources Management Section in Delft University of Technology as a PhD candidate in October, 2013. He obtained…

Impacts of small water retention structures on infiltration

Projects Groundwater recharge due to contour trenching in Phuoc Nam, Vietnam The long term impacts of contour trenching in Amboseli, Kenya…

Climate change

Global warming and climate change refer to an increase in average global temperatures and its effects on the local weather and climate. [1]…

Irrigation Systems

Irrigation is the basis for human civilization. The value human societies place on water – for food, domestic use, economic production, and…

Droughts

A drought is defined as "a period of abnormally dry weather sufficiently prolonged for the lack of water to cause serious hydrologic…