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Extreme Hazards

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Hazard refers specifically to physical manifestations of climatic variability or change, such as droughts, floods, episodes of heavy rainfall. For the theme ‘Extreme Hazards’ the research focuses on achieving a better understanding of river basin response to extreme weather events and climate drivers. Such an understanding would enable informed decision making of measures to reduce this hazard and, consequently, the impacts of this hazard.

Within this theme we will focus on 4 research topics:

  1. Effectiveness of (nature-based) solutions (for extreme floods and droughts)
  2. Upstream and downstream measures
  3. Climate scenarios in flood hazard analysis
  4. Forecasting for the future