Hydrological Sciences

Hydrological modelling in times of flooding

Bettina Schaefli July 14, 2021

Flood warning issued in Switzerland on 14 July 2021

What a strange summer! Depending on where you live, you might currently be suffering from heat. In Switzerland, we are suffering from an exceptionally rainy and stormy weather situation, with high to very high flood danger issued for many major rivers and lakes (see warning map above, taken from the Federal Office for the Environment FOEN on Wednesday 14 July). For certain rivers, controlled flood ...[Read More]

Listening to a bouquet of articles: review papers

Nilay Dogulu June 30, 2021

Photo by Aleksander Vlad (from Unsplash)

Let me guess from which city in the world you are reading this post: Lima, Lahore or Louisville? It might be that you are modelling one of these rivers: Nile, Rhine or Lena? Or studying the Caribbean Sea, the Arabian Sea or the Caspian Sea? The country you live might be Uganda, Philippines or maybe Iceland and your home continent could well be Europe, Latin America or even Antarctica. I assume you ...[Read More]

Slow science in times of COVID

Bettina Schaefli June 9, 2021

One of the earliest events of vEGU2021 was a debate on slow science organized by three early career scientists, with four invited speakers, Withney Behr, Valeria Cigala, Stuart Lane and Doerthe Tetzlaff. Before following this debate at vEGU21, I only knew the above door posting (on Stuart’s office door) and did not dig more into what is actually behind the movement – in my understanding it was sim ...[Read More]

Brian Berkowitz (2021 John Dalton Medallist) on modelling fluid flow and chemical transport in hydrology: complexity vs. simplicity

Brian Berkowitz June 2, 2021

Simplicity vs Complexity - Composition with photos by Daniele Levis Pelusi and Eleventh Wave on Unsplash

The EGU 2021 John Dalton Medal of the EGU Division on Hydrological Sciences was awarded to Brian Berkowitz for his seminal contributions to analysis of flow and anomalous transport in natural porous and fractured media, with pioneering experimental methods and novel conceptual frameworks. His medal lecture was presented at the online vEGU 2021 meeting. We invited Brian to contribute a blog post to ...[Read More]