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Soil moisture estimation using Distributed Temperature Sensing
Soil moisture is a key state variable in surface hydrology and land-atmosphere interactions. It is a storage term in the water balance,…
Modeling irrigation in ancient Americas
Ancient irrigation has had its fair share of studies, particularly on canals on the Peruvian North coast. Despite this valuable research,…
Modeling water in ancient Jordan
As much as elsewhere, in ancient times human survival in the Zerqa triangle in the Jordan Valley depended on human ability to adapt to the…
Irrigation in colonial and post-colonial Africa
Left figure: Gezira system (from Gaitskell 1959) Right figure: Kano system Aiming at full control over farmer actions was a shared…
Vegetation: A novel soil moisture sensor
In the next 5 years, NASA and ESA plan dedicated satellite missions to provide global observations of soil moisture, a crucial variable in…
Irrigation in the Netherlands East Indies
The figure below is based on the popular game in which one has to spot the differences between two images. In this case, the two images are…
Optimization of Everything
The Project “Optimization of Everything”, more formally “Prediction and Control of the Entire Delta and River System of The Netherlands”…
Blog
Blog 4: Rijdende regenmeters Rolf Hut Read the blog: Rijdende regenmeters Blog 3: One meter of sea level rise: 2.6 million additional Dutch…
Assimilating GRACE terrestrial water storage data into a conceptual hydrology model for the River Rhine
Terrestrial water storage refers to all water stored on the land surface including surface water, soil moisture, groundwater, vegetation…
Integrated modeling of urban water systems
Objective To improve integrated urban drainage modeling, including the integration of the modeling of stormwater runoff, stormwater…