Extreme sea levels predicted to increase along global coastlines

6 July 2018

Future risk of extreme sea levels Extreme sea levels occur through a combination of high tides and extreme weather events, which can generate storm surges and high wind waves. These phenomena are exacerbated by progressive…

Willows are an asset in natural flood defences

29 June 2018

In the Netherlands, nature and flood risk management sometimes conflict. Trees in the river area are sometimes removed where they could help to break waves. Learning more about how trees dampen waves could help to…

Global hydraulic model crucial in new distance record during the Volvo Ocean Race

28 June 2018

Tailored charts for forecasting tides and currents Deltares produced specific forecast charts for the team based on the ‘Global Tide and Surge Model’, using Delft3D FM. The team and Deltares met regularly during the final…

Peeking into the future with adaptive pathways

26 June 2018

Hunter Water’s Water Resilience team and Deltares organised a workshop on the 17th of May 2018 to further develop planning tools for an uncertain future. These tools help planners create a strategic vision of the…

KICT and Deltares: another three years of joint research

22 June 2018

Over the last three years these good relations intensified further especially due to joint research and experiments at KICT’s River Experiment Center (REC), and exchange of scientific staff and students between The Netherlands and Korea….

New edition of R&D Highlights

20 June 2018

This is just a selection of all our projects but it does provide a picture of how wide-ranging water and the subsurface are: from how research helps cut the costs of offshore wind to how…

Blockchain increases confidence in subsidence data for Gouda

20 June 2018

Land subsidence in this city results in high costs every year due to damage and flooding. Land subsidence is complex: it is a challenge both technically and administratively to unravel the mechanisms properly, to understand…

Taolinkou Reservoir management project in China

14 June 2018

The mission started with a visit to the dam, followed by a detailed introduction of the dam and reservoir by Mr. Lv Baoliang, Director of TRA. A meeting was organized at the office building of…

Deforestation over the past fifty years mapped out using smoke from forest fires

14 June 2018

Satellite data and weather stations Until now, estimates of deforestation have been based primarily on data supplied by the countries themselves, as a result of which it was often not known where the deforestation was…

Water knowledge vital to military missions

13 June 2018

Rijkswaterstaat specifically opted for a defence scenario based on the Rijkswaterstaat partnership with WTEc (Water Risk Training Expertise centre), which includes the water partners Rijkswaterstaat, water management authorities and the Ministry of Defence. The exercise…