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Key publications Water and Climate Risk

List of key publications

Aerts, J.C.J.H. & Wagenaar, D. (2021). Improved transferability of multi-variable damage models through sample selection bias correction. Risk Analysis, 41(1), 37–55. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13575

Aerts, J.C., Botzen, W.J., Clarke, K.C., Cutter, S.L., Hall, J.W., Merz, B., ... & Kunreuther, H. (2018). Integrating human behaviour dynamics into flood disaster risk assessment. Nature Climate Change, 8(3), 193–199.

Ascott, M.J., Bloomfield, J.P., Karapanos, I., Jackson, C.R., Ward, R.S., McBride, A.B., Dobson, B., Kieboom, N., Holman, I P., van Loon, A.F., Crane, E.J., Brauns, B., Rodriguez-Yebra, A. & Upton, K.A. (2021). Managing groundwater supplies subject to drought: perspectives on current status and future priorities from England (UK). Hydrogeology Journal, 29(3), 921–924. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-020-02249-0

Bates, P.D., Quinn, N., Sampson, C., Smith, A., … Couason, A, ... Krajewski, W.F. (2021). Combined Modeling of US Fluvial, Pluvial, and Coastal Flood Hazard Under Current and Future Climates. Water Resources Research, 57(2), e2020WR028673. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028673

Bevacqua, E., De Michele, C., Manning, C., Couasnon, A., Ribeiro, A.F.S., Ramos, A.M., Vignotto, E., Bastos, A., Blesić, S., Durante, F., Hillier, J., Oliveira, S.C., Pinto, J.G., Ragno, E., Rivoire, P., Saunders, K., van der Wiel, K., Wu, W., Zhang, T. & Zscheischler, J. (2021). Guidelines for Studying Diverse Types of Compound Weather and Climate Events. Earth's Future, 9(11), e2021EF002340. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002340

Bloemendaal, N., de Moel, H., Mol, J.M., Bosma, P.R.M., Polen, A.N. & Collins, J.M. (2021). Adequately reflecting the severity of tropical cyclones using the new Tropical Cyclone Severity Scale. Environmental Research Letters, 16, 014048. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abd131

Bloemendaal, N., Haigh, I.D., de Moel, H., Muis, S., Haarsma, R.J. & Aerts, J.C.J.H.. Generation of a global synthetic tropical cyclone hazard dataset using STORM. Scientific Data, 7, 40 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0381-2

Bouaziz, L.J.E., Aalbers, E.E., Weerts, A.H., Hegnauer, M., Buiteveld, H., Lammersen, R., Stam, J., Sprokkereef, E., Savenije, H.H.G. & Hrachowitz, M. (2022). Ecosystem adaptation to climate change: The sensitivity of hydrological predictions to time-dynamic model parameters. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26(5), 1295–1318. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-1295-2022

Busker, T., de Moel, H., Haer, T., Schmeits, M., van den Hurk, B., Myers, K., Cirkel, D.G. & Aerts, J. (2022). Blue-green roofs with forecast-based operation to reduce the impact of weather extremes. Journal of Environmental Management, 301, 113750. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113750

Couasnon, A., Eilander, D., Muis, S., Veldkamp, T.I.E., Haigh, I.D., Wahl, T., Winsemius, H.C., & Ward, P.J. (2020). Measuring compound flood potential from river discharge and storm surge extremes at the global scale. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 20, 489–504.  https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-489-2020

Couasnon, A., Scussolini, P., Tran, T.V.T., Eilander, D., Muis, S., Wang, H., Keesom, J., Dullaart, J., Xuan, Y., Nguyen, H.Q., Winsemius, H.C. & Ward, P.J. (2022). A flood risk framework capturing the seasonality of and dependence between rainfall and sea levels – an application to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Water Resources Research, 58(2), e2021WR030002. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR030002

Croghan, D., Khamis, K., Bradley, C., van Loon, A. F., Sadler, J. & Hannah, D. M. (2021). Combining in-situ fluorometry and distributed rainfall data provides new insights into natural organic matter transport dynamics in an urban river. Science of the Total Environment, 755(Part 1), 142731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142731

Coumou, D., Di Capua, G., Vavrus, S., Wang, L. & Wang, S. (2018). The influence of Arctic amplification on mid-latitude summer circulation. Nature Communications, 9(1), 1-12.

de Bruijn, J.A., de Moel, H., Jongman, B., de Ruiter, M.C., Wagemaker, J., & Aerts, J. C. (2019). A global database of historic and real-time flood events based on social media. Scientific Data, 6(1), 1–2.

de Bruijn, J.A., Daniell, J. E., Pomonis, A., Gunasekera, R., Macabuag, J., de Ruiter, M.C., Koopman, S.J., Bloemendaal, N., de Moel, H. & Aerts, J.C.J.H. (2022). Using rapid damage observations for Bayesian updating of hurricane vulnerability functions: A case study of Hurricane Dorian using social media. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 72, 102839. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.102839

de Ruig, L.T., Barnard, P. L., Botzen, W.W., Grifman, P., Hart, J. F., de Moel, H., ... & Aerts, J.C. (2019). An economic evaluation of adaptation pathways in coastal mega cities: An illustration for Los Angeles. Science of the Total Environment, 678, 647–659.

de Ruiter, M.C., Couasnon, A. & Ward, P.J. (2021). Breaking the Silos: An online serious game for multi-risk disaster risk reduction (DRR) management. Geoscience Communication, 4(3), 383–397. https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-4-383-2021

de Ruiter, M., de Bruijn, J., Englhardt, J., Daniell, J.E., de Moel, H. & Ward, P. (2021). The Asynergies of Structural Disaster Risk Reduction Measures: Comparing Floods and Earthquakes. Earth's Future, 9(1), e2020EF001531. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001531

de Ruiter, M.C., Couasnon, A., van den Homberg, M.J., Daniell, J.E., Gill, J.C. & Ward, P.J. (2019). Why we can no longer ignore consecutive disasters. Earth’s Future.

Di Baldassarre, Giuliano, Wanders, N., AghaKouchak, A., Kuil, L., Rangecroft, S., Veldkamp, T.I.E., Garcia, M., van Oel, P.R., Breinl, K. & van Loon, A.F. (2018). Water shortages worsened by reservoir effects. Nature Sustainability, 11, 617–622.

Di Capua, G., Sparrow, S., Kornhuber, K., Rousi, E., Osprey, S., Wallom, D., van den Hurk, B. & Coumou, D. (2021). Drivers behind the summer 2010 wave train leading to Russian heatwave and Pakistan flooding. NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science, 4, 55. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-021-00211-9

Eilander, D., van Verseveld, W., Yamazaki, D., Weerts, A., Winsemius, H.C. & Ward, P.J. (2021). A hydrography upscaling method for scale-invariant parametrization of distributed hydrological models. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25(9), 5287–5313. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-5287-2021

Fang, J., Wahl, T., Zhang, Q., Muis, S., Hu, P., Fang, J., Du, S., Dou, T. & Shi, P. (2021). Extreme sea levels along coastal China: uncertainties and implications. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 35(2), 405–418. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-020-01964-0

Haasnoot, M., Winter, G., Brown, S., Dawson, R.J., Ward, P.J. & Eilander, D. (2021). Long-term sea-level rise necessitates a commitment to adaptation: A first order assessment. Climate Risk Management, 34, 100355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2021.100355

Haer, T., Botzen, W.W., & Aerts, J.C. (2019). Advancing disaster policies by integrating dynamic adaptive behaviour in risk assessments using an agent-based modelling approach. Environmental Research Letters, 14(4), 044022.

Hamed, R., van Loon, A.F., Aerts, J. & Coumou, D. (2021). Impacts of compound hot-dry extremes on US soybean yields. Earth System Dynamics, 12(4), 1371–1391. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-1371-2021

Harwood, N., Hall, R., Di Capua, G., Russell, A. & Tucker, A. (2021). Using Bayesian networks to investigate the influence of subseasonal arctic variability on midlatitude North Atlantic circulation. Journal of Climate, 34(6), 2319–2335. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0369.1

Hinkel, J., Feyen, L., Hemer, M., Le Cozannet, G., Lincke, D., Marcos, M., Mentaschi, L., Merkens, J.L., de Moel, H., Muis, S., Nicholls, R.J., Vafeidis, A.T., van de Wal, R.S.W., Vousdoukas, M.I., Wahl, T., Ward, P.J. & Wolff, C. (2021). Uncertainty and Bias in Global to Regional Scale Assessments of Current and Future Coastal Flood Risk. Earth's Future, 9(7), e2020EF001882. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001882

Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Schinko, T., Hof, A. & Ward, P.J. (2021). Adaptive risk management strategies for governments under future climate and socioeconomic change: An application to riverine flood risk at the global level. Environmental Science and Policy, 125, 10–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.08.010

Holtrop, T., Huisman, J., Stomp, M., Biersteker, L., Aerts, J., Grébert, T., Partensky, F., Garczarek, L. & van der Woerd, H.J. (2021). Vibrational modes of water predict spectral niches for photosynthesis in lakes and oceans. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5(1), 55–66. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01330-x

Holtrop, T. & van der Woerd, H.J. (2021). Hydropt: An open-source framework for fast inverse modelling of multi-and hyperspectral observations from oceans, coastal and inland waters. Remote Sensing, 13(15), 3006. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13153006

Khanal, S., Lutz, A.F., Kraaijenbrink, P.D.A., van den Hurk, B., Yao, T. & Immerzeel, W.W. (2021). Variable 21st Century Climate Change Response for Rivers in High Mountain Asia at Seasonal to Decadal Time Scales. Water Resources Research, 57(5), e2020WR029266. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR029266

Koks, E.E., Thissen, M., Alfieri, L., de Moel, H., Feyen, L., Jongman, B., & Aerts, J.C.J.H. (2019). The macroeconomic impacts of future river flooding in Europe. Environmental Research Letters, 14(8), 084042.

Kornhuber, K., Coumou, D., Vogel, E., Lesk, C., Donges, J. F., Lehmann, J., & Horton, R.M. (2020). Amplified Rossby waves enhance risk of concurrent heatwaves in major breadbasket regions. Nature Climate Change, 10(1), 48–53.

Kreibich, H., de Ruiter, M., Goda, K., Keiler, M., Suppasri, A. & Malamud, B.D. (2021). Critical research in the water-related multi-hazard field. Nature Sustainability, 5(2), 90–91. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00833-0

Liu, X., Fu, D., Zevenbergen, C., Busker, T. & Yu, M. (2021). Assessing sponge cities performance at city scale using remotely sensed LULC changes: Case study Nanjing. Remote Sensing, 13(4), 580. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040580

Luu, L.N., Scussolini, P., Kew, S., Philip, S., Hariadi, M. H., Vautard, R., Van Mai, K., Van Vu, T., Truong, K. B., Otto, F., van der Schrier, G., van Aalst, M.K. & van Oldenborgh, G. J. (2021). Attribution of typhoon-induced torrential precipitation in Central Vietnam, October 2020. Climatic Change, 169(3-4), 24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03261-3

Messori, G., Bevacqua, E., Caballero, R., Coumou, D., De Luca, P., Faranda, D., Kornhuber, K., Martius, O., Pons, F., Raymond, C., Ye, K., Yiou, P. & Zscheischler, J. (2021). Compound climate events and extremes in the midlatitudes: Dynamics, simulation, and statistical characterization. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(4), E774–E781. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0289.1

Moreno Dumont Goulart, H., van der Wiel, K., Folberth, C., Balkovic, J. & van den Hurk, B. (2021). Storylines of weather-induced crop failure events under climate change. Earth System Dynamics, 12(4), 1503–1527. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-1503-2021

Mortensen, E., Fuller, S., Wolf, J., Smith, A., Faust, B. & Thompson, A.M. (2022). Holistic Management Assessment of an Urbanized Watershed and Kettle Pond in Southern Wisconsin: Finding Paths Forward for a Local Natural Resource. Case Studies in the Environment, 6(1), 1347685. https://doi.org/10.1525/cse.2022.1347685

Muis, S., Verlaan, M., Winsemius, H.C., Aerts, J.C., & Ward, P.J. (2016). A global reanalysis of storm surges and extreme sea levels. Nature Communications, 7(1), 1–12.

Muis, S., Lin, N., Verlaan, M., Winsemius, H.C., Ward, P.J. & Aerts, J.C.J.H. (2019). Spatiotemporal patterns of extreme sea levels along the western North-Atlantic coasts. Scientific Reports, 9, 3391. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-40157-w

Nobre, G.G., Davenport, F., Bischiniotis, K., Veldkamp, T., Jongman, B., Funk, C.C., ... & Aerts, J.C. (2019). Financing agricultural drought risk through ex-ante cash transfers. Science of the Total Environment, 653, 523–535.

Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Brady, E.C., Zhao, A., Brierley, C.M., Axford, Y., Capron, E., Govin, A., Hoffman, J.S., Isaacs, E., Kageyama, M., Scussolini, P., Tzedakis, P.C., Williams, C.J.R., Wolff, E., Abe-Ouchi, A., Braconnot, P., Ramos Buarque, S., Cao, J., De Vernal, A., ... Zheng, W. (2021). Large-scale features of Last Interglacial climate: Results from evaluating the lig127k simulations for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)-Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP4). Climate of the Past, 17(1), 632021. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-63-2021

Pastori, M., Margheriti, L., De Gori, P., Govoni, A., Lucente, F.P., Moretti, M., Marchetti, A., Di Giovambattista, R., Anselmi, M., De Luca, P., Nardi, A., Agostinetti, N.P., Latorre, D., Piccinini, D., Passarelli, L. & Chiarabba, C. (2021). The 2011–2014 Pollino Seismic Swarm: Complex Fault Systems Imaged by 1D Refined Location and Shear Wave Splitting Analysis at the Apennines–Calabrian Arc Boundary. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9(April), 618293. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.618293

Pitarch, J., Bellacicco, M., Marullo, S. & van der Woerd, H.J. (2021). Global maps of Forel-Ule index, hue angle and Secchi disk depth derived from 21 years of monthly ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative data. Earth System Science Data, 13(2), 481–490. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-481-2021

Pfleiderer, P., Schleussner, C. F., Kornhuber, K. & Coumou, D. (2019). Summer weather becomes more persistent in a 2° C world. Nature Climate Change, 9(9), 666–671.

Rangecroft, S., Rohse, M., Banks, E.W., Day, R., Di Baldassarre, G., Frommen, T., Hayashi, Y., Höllermann, B., Lebek, K., Mondino, E., Rusca, M., Wens, M. & van Loon, A. F. (2021). Guiding principles for hydrologists conducting interdisciplinary research and fieldwork with participants. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 66(2), 214–225. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2020.1852241

Reimann, L., Jones, B., Nikoletopoulos, T. & Vafeidis, A. T. (2021). Accounting for internal migration in spatial population projections – A gravity-based modeling approach using the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways. Environmental Research Letters, 16(7), 074025. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac0b66, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac0b66

Ringsmuth, A.K., Otto, I.M., van den Hurk, B., Lahn, G., Reyer, C.P.O., Carter, T.R., Magnuszewski, P., Monasterolo, I., Aerts, J.C.J.H., Benzie, M., Campiglio, E., Fronzek, S., Gaupp, F., Jarzabek, L., Klein, R.J.T., Knaepen, H., Mechler, R., Mysiak, J., Sillmann, J., ... West, C. (2022). Lessons from COVID-19 for managing transboundary climate risks and building resilience. Climate Risk Management, 35, 100395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2022.100395

Robinson, A., Lehmann, J., Barriopedro, D., Rahmstorf, S. & Coumou, D. (2021). Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate. NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science, 4(1), 45. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-021-00202-w

Roebroek, C.T.J., Harrigan, S., van Emmerik, T.H.M., Baugh, C., Eilander, D., Prudhomme, C. & Pappenberger, F. (2021). Plastic in global rivers: Are floods making it worse? Environmental Research Letters, 16(2), 025003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abd5df

Rousi, E., Selten, F., Rahmstorf, S. & Coumou, D. (2021). Changes in North Atlantic atmospheric circulation in a warmer climate favor winter flooding and summer drought over Europe. Journal of Climate, 34(6), 2277–2295. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0311.1

Schrieks, T., Botzen, W.J.W., Wens, M., Haer, T. & Aerts, J.C.J.H. (2021). Integrating Behavioral Theories in Agent-Based Models for Agricultural Drought Risk Assessments. Frontiers in Water, 3, 686329. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2021.686329

Scussolini, P., Bakker, P., Guo, C., Stepanek, C., Zhang, Q., Braconnot, P., ... & Ward, P.J. (2019). Agreement between reconstructed and modeled boreal precipitation of the Last Interglacial. Science Advances, 5(11), eaax7047.

Strauss, B.H., Orton, P. M., Bittermann, K., Buchanan, M. K., Gilford, D.M., Kopp, R.E., Kulp, S., Massey, C., de Moel, H. & Vinogradov, S. (2021). Economic damages from Hurricane Sandy attributable to sea level rise caused by anthropogenic climate change. Nature Communications, 12(1), 2720. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22838-1

Streefkerk, I.N., van den Homberg, M.J.C., Whitfield, S., Mittal, N., Pope, E., Werner, M., Winsemius, H.C., Comes, T. & Ertsen, M.W. (2022). Contextualising seasonal climate forecasts by integrating local knowledge on drought in Malawi. Climate Services, 25, 100268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2021.100268

Tesselaar, M., Botzen, W., Robinson, P.J., Aerts, J. & Zhou, F. (2022). Charity hazard and the flood insurance protection gap: An EU scale assessment under climate change. Ecological Economics, 193, 107289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107289

Tierolf, L., de Moel, H. & van Vliet, J. (2021). Modeling urban development and its exposure to river flood risk in Southeast Asia. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 87, 101620. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2021.101620

Tiggeloven, T., Couasnon, A., van Straaten, C., Muis, S. & Ward, P.J. (2021). Exploring deep learning capabilities for surge predictions in coastal areas. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 17224. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96674-0

van den Hurk, B., Bisaro, A., Haasnoot, M., Nicholls, R.J., Rehdanz, K. & Stuparu, D. (2022). Living with sea-level rise in North-West Europe: Science-policy challenges across scales. Climate Risk Management, 35, 100403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2022.100403

van Ginkel, K.C.H., Dottori, F., Alfieri, L., Feyen, L. & Koks, E E. (2021). Flood risk assessment of the European road network. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 21(3), 1011–1027. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1011-2021

van Loon, A.F. (2015). Hydrological drought explained. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews:Water, 2(4), 359–392.

van Oldenborgh, G.J., Hendon, H., Stockdale, T., L’Heureux, M., Coughlan De Perez, E., Singh, R. & van Aalst, M. (2021). Defining El Nio indices in a warming climate. Environmental Research Letters, 16(4), 044003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abe9ed

van Tiel, M., van Loon, A.F., Seibert, J. & Stahl, K. (2021). Hydrological response to warm and dry weather: Do glaciers compensate? Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25(6), 3245–3265. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-3245-2021

van Zelst, V.T.M., Dijkstra, J.T., van Wesenbeeck, B.K., Eilander, D., Morris, E.P., Winsemius, H.C., Ward, P.J. & de Vries, M.B. (2021). Cutting the costs of coastal protection by integrating vegetation in flood defences. Nature Communications, 12(1), 6533. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26887-4

Verschuur, J., Koks, E.E. & Hall, J.W. (2021). Global economic impacts of COVID-19 lockdown measures stand out in highfrequency shipping data. PLoS ONE, 16(4), e0248818. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248818

Vijverberg, S. & Coumou, D. (2022). The role of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and ocean-atmosphere interactions in driving US temperature variability. NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science, 5(1), 18] https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-022-00237-7

Vousdoukas, M.I., Clarke, J., Ranasinghe, R., Reimann, L., Khalaf, N., Duong, T.M., Ouweneel, B., Sabour, S., Iles, C. E., Trisos, C.H., Feyen, L., Mentaschi, L. & Simpson, N.P. (2022). African heritage sites threatened as sea-level rise accelerates. Nature Climate Change, 12(3), 256–262. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01280-1

Wang, D., Scussolini, P. & Du, S. (2021). Assessing Chinese flood protection and its social divergence. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 21(2), 743–755. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-743-2021

Wang, Q., Liu, K., Wang, M. & Koks, E.E. (2021). A River Flood and Earthquake Risk Assessment of Railway Assets along the Belt and Road. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 12(4), 553–567. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-021-00358-2

Ward, P.J., Couasnon, A., Eilander, D., Haigh, I.D., Hendry, A., Muis, S., Veldkamp, T.I.E., Winsemius, H.C. & Wahl, T. (2018). Dependence between high sea-level and high river discharge increases flood hazard in global deltas and estuaries. Environmental Research Letters, 13, 084012. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aad400

Weiland, R.S., van der Wiel, K., Selten, F. & Coumou, D. (2021). Intransitive atmosphere dynamics leading to persistent hot-dry or cold-wet European summers. Journal of Climate, 34(15), 6303–6317. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0943.1

Wendt, D.E., van Loon, A.F., Scanlon, B.R. & Hannah, D.M. (2021). Managed aquifer recharge as a drought mitigation strategy in heavily-stressed aquifers. Environmental Research Letters, 16(1), 014046. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abcfe1

Wendt, D.E., Bloomfield, J.P., van Loon, A.F., Garcia, M., Heudorfer, B., Larsen, J. & Hannah, D.M. (2021). Evaluating integrated water management strategies to inform hydrological drought mitigation. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 21(10), 3113–3139. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-3113-2021

Wens, M.L.K., Mwangi, M.N., van Loon, A.F. & Aerts, J.C.J.H. (2021). Complexities of drought adaptive behaviour: Linking theory to data on smallholder farmer adaptation decisions. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 63, 102435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102435

Westerveld, J.J.L., van den Homberg, M.J.C., Nobre, G., van den Berg, D.L.J., Teklesadik, A.D. & Stuit, S.M. (2021). Forecasting transitions in the state of food security with machine learning using transferable features. Science of the Total Environment, 786, 147366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147366

Wouters, L., Couasnon, A., de Ruiter, M.C., van den Homberg, M.J C., Teklesadik, A. & de Moel, H. (2021). Improving flood damage assessments in data-scarce areas by retrieval of building characteristics through UAV image segmentation and machine learning - A case study of the 2019 floods in southern Malawi. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 21(10), 3199–3218. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-3199-2021

Zscheischler, J., Westra, S., van Den Hurk, B. J., Seneviratne, S. I., Ward, P.J., Pitman, A., ... & Zhang, X. (2018). Future climate risk from compound events. Nature Climate Change, 8(6), 469–477.

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