GloFAS-ERA5 reanalysis: River discharge ‘maps without gaps’ from 1979-present

GloFAS-ERA5 reanalysis: River discharge ‘maps without gaps’ from 1979-present

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Contributed by Shaun Harrigan, ECMWF. In an ideal world we would have river discharge measurements for every river spanning many decades and updated in real time. We all know this is very far from reality with severe gaps in the global observing network (Lavers et al., 2019), and provides a fundamental challenge for hydrological monitoring and forecasting. A way forward pioneered in the field of meteorology and climate is to optimally combine available in situ and satellite Earth system observations…

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HEPEX Advances and Applications at MODSIM

HEPEX Advances and Applications at MODSIM

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At the 23rd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2019), from 1-6 December 2019 in Canberra, Australia, a HEPEX session highlighted recent work in hydrometeorological forecasting. Seline Ng from CSIRO discusses HEPEX highlights from MODSIM2019: We are glad to report that our session titled “Advances and applications in hydrometeorological forecasting” at the recent MODSIM2019 conference in Canberra, Australia went well, with a strong showing by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), CSIRO Land & Water and University of Melbourne. Ours…

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Forecasting session at AOGS 2020 – Hongcheon, South Korea

Forecasting session at AOGS 2020 – Hongcheon, South Korea

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Contributed by Durgal Lal Shrestha This year, the 17th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society will be held in Hongcheon, South Korea from 28 June to 4 July 2020, and will include a session organised under the auspices of HEPEX. This session aims to discuss recent developments in methods for ensemble hydro-meteorological forecasting and the challenges in the application of forecasts for real-world water resources planning and management. The session has a broad scope and seeks to bring…

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HEPEX 2019 Year in Review

HEPEX 2019 Year in Review

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In the last HEPEX blog post of the year, we’re taking a look back at our highlights of 2019! This year, we published 25 blog posts, with contributions from HEPEX-ers across the globe. But first of all, a quick reminder of important HEPEX events coming up soon: The abstract deadline for EGU 2019 (3-8 May, Vienna) is fast approaching – don’t forget to submit your abstract by 15th January! Click here for information on the Hydrological Forecasting sub-division over the past 10…

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Can we foresee drought and its impacts?

Can we foresee drought and its impacts?

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Contributed by Samuel J. Sutanto and Henny A.J. Van Lanen; Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. The 2018 and 2019 droughts are still fresh in our memory, when extended areas in Europe suffered, once more, from extreme drought. Climate projection studies show that drought very likely will become more frequent. Similar to the 2015 drought (Van Lanen et al., 2016), impacts of the 2018 drought in Europe were tremendous and affected many sectors. For example, farmers…

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