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Editorial

How to include AI methods in your next proposal

How to include AI methods in your next proposal

For all those of us who write research funding proposals, the massive avenue of powerful AI methods poses a serious challenge: how can we appropriately include such methods in our next research project? Is it mandatory, or can we happily focus on our field, lab or numerical methods that we used to always work with? For proposal evaluators, on the other hand, there is this feeling that many proposa ...[Read More]

World Water Day & World Glacier Day

World Water Day & World Glacier Day

The this year’s UN World Water Day on 22 March 2025 is under the theme of ‘Glacier Preservation’, a nice opportunity to recall that 2025 is also the UN year on glacier preservation and that this year, we celebrate the first World Glaciers Day on 21 March 2025. Glaciers play the role of ambassadors for climate change awareness, highlighting the urgent need for global action to protect these vital f ...[Read More]

Shaping the HS-programme of EGU25: Session Review, Merging, and Co-Organization Updates

Shaping the HS-programme of  EGU25: Session Review, Merging, and Co-Organization Updates

September has arrived. The Hydrological Sciences (HS) community has been very active, as usual, submitting 152 sessions during the open session call, which is more than 10% of all sessions that are proposed for the entire EGU (overall 1,273 sessions were submitted, slightly more than at EGU24). This is amazing and I would like to thank all the conveners for their excellent ideas and nice work so f ...[Read More]

Hortonian overland flow: when theory becomes reality

Hortonian overland flow: when theory becomes reality

Hortonian overland flow – if you have ever followed a hydrology class, you have certainly come across this jargon:  this is the name of a hydrological process – when rainfall flows off at the terrain surface because the rainfall intensity is so high that not all the water can infiltrate into the soil (rainfall intensity is higher than infiltration capacity). Almost every hydrological m ...[Read More]