The African continent hosts some of the largest freshwater systems worldwide, characterized
by a large distribution and variability of surface waters that play a key role in the water …

Human activities have caused various changes to the Earth system, and hence the
interconnections between human activities and the Earth system should be recognized and …

Terrestrial water storage (TWS) modulates the hydrological cycle and is a key determinant of
water availability and an indicator of drought. While historical TWS variations have been …

To sustain growing food demand and increasing standard of living, global water use
increased by nearly 6 times during the last 100 years, and continues to grow. As water …

A warmer climate would increase the risk of floods. So far, only a few studies, have projected
changes in floods on a global scale. None of these studies relied on multiple climate …

To sustain growing food demand and increasing standard of living, global water withdrawal
and consumptive water use have been increasing rapidly. To analyze the human …

Progress in machine learning in conjunction with the increasing availability of relevant Earth
observation data streams may help to overcome uncertainties of global hydrological models …

Increasing Earth's surface air temperature yields an intensification of its hydrological cycle.
As a consequence, the risk of river floods will increase regionally within the next two …

Current global river routing models do not represent floodplain inundation dynamics
realistically because the storage and movement of surface waters are regulated by small …

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