Hydrological Sciences

Featured catchment series: The San Carlos Catchment in northeast Costa Rica, a multi-scale hydrological observatory to leapfrog data scarcity in the tropics

EGU Guest blogger February 19, 2020

The San Carlos Catchment in northeast Costa Rica, photograph taken at 660 m a.s.l. shows the active volcano Arenal and the catchment boundary formed by the hydropower reservoir Lake Arenal (dam is visible in the foreground), one of the sites for isotope and water quality monitoring in rivers. Photo credit: Christian Birkel

Tropical ecosystems are of major hydrological importance for regional and global climate systems and are characterized by greater energy inputs, higher rate of change and dynamics compared to other hydroclimatic regions. Nowadays, the anthropogenic influence in the climate crisis exerts enormous pressure on tropical hydrological systems. This growing pressure affects water quality and quantity, wh ...[Read More]

Andreas Hartmann (EGU ECS Awardee) on Doing What You Love Will Pay Off

EGU Guest blogger January 8, 2020

Andreas Hartmann makes a point to attend Hofer Filmtage – or the Hof International Film Festival – every year to keep up a tradition he started when he was 12. As a professor, he sets down research to make the yearly pilgrimage to his German hometown to visit with his best friends and family. This year, he couldn’t completely separate from work. After getting out of a film, he got a note saying th ...[Read More]

2019 Recap of the HS Blog

Matthias Sprenger December 31, 2019

Let’s look back on the first 22 HS blog posts published since our first Welcome to the HS division blog post in March. First and foremost, thanks to all the authors who contributed to the successful start of our blog in 2019! We hope to continue with the fortnightly publication of posts covering various topics related to hydrological sciences. If you have an idea for a topic, would like to write s ...[Read More]

Meeting and networking outside the EGU GA: feedback on the 2019 EGU Leonardo conference

Maria-Helena Ramos December 18, 2019

Participants of the 2019 Edition of the EGU Leonardo Conference

In order to encourage cohesion and sustained dialogue among researchers outside the GA in Vienna, the EGU hosts a number of conference series, targeted at a specific disciplinary or interdisciplinary group within the Union. Closely related to the HS Division is the Leonardo Conference series on Earth’s Hydrological Cycle. These meetings are organized by members of the division. They usually ...[Read More]