Dutch team in The Ocean Race 2022-23 will work with research world to cut carbon emissions

13 May 2022

The Ocean Race 2022-23 is a yacht race around the world. The teams will visit nine iconic cities in a six-month period. The race sets off from Alicante (Spain) on 15 January 2023 and returns…

Can the Mekong Delta be saved from drowning?

6 May 2022

Only concerted action by the six countries in the Mekong basin and better management of water and sediments within the delta could avoid such a devastating outcome, argues an interdisciplinary research team in a commentary…

Climate change will more than double the risk of intense tropical cyclones by 2050

29 April 2022

Despite being amongst the world’s most destructive extreme weather events, tropical cyclones are relatively rare. In a given year, only around 80-100 tropical cyclones form globally, most of which never make landfall. In addition, accurate…

The Water Forecast from the Wylerbergmeer

26 April 2022

Monitoring buoy and weather station Leisurelands, the owner of the Wylerbergmeer lake, is very enthusiastic about the project, and the company was happy to open up the lake as a trial location for the researchers….

How can we avert a global sand crisis?

26 April 2022

Sand crisis? What crisis? Globally, sand is the second most used material, second only to water.  We use it to build houses, hospitals, schools and roads, but also to manufacture computer chips and glass.  We…

Bringing order to the chaos of sea level projections

19 April 2022

Aimée Slangen is a climate scientist at the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and co-author of the IPCC climate report. Together with climate adaptation experts Marjolijn Haasnoot and Gundula Winter from Deltares and…

TCOMS and Deltares sign memorandum of understanding for joint research and co-development of knowledge in the field of hydrodynamics

19 April 2022

Professor Chan Eng Soon, CEO TCOMS: “The agreement marks the start of an exciting partnership with Deltares to co-create cutting edge capabilities in hydrodynamic modelling and knowledge of coastal fluid-structure interactions.  This will mutually strengthen…

Latest addition to San Francisco Bay-Delta Community Model: simulation of extreme water levels

31 March 2022

Open source platform The San Francisco Bay-Delta system is complex in its physical and environmental dynamics. Modeling tools integrating hydrodynamics and water quality dynamics are essential to unravel the governing processes. This is relevant to…

Doctorate research: Using flood probabilities to improve the effectiveness of the monitoring, reinforcement and maintenance of dikes

28 March 2022

In the AllRisk research programme, researcher Wouter Jan Klerk delved into how we improve our management practices on the basis of flood probabilities when reinforcing, managing and maintaining dikes. He focused on three main topics:…

Towards the improvement of discharge forecasts: an analysis of nowcasting using radar precipitation for water management

24 March 2022

Forecasting continues to be challenging Despite ongoing improvements in weather models in recent decades, predicting the exact location and amount of precipitation remains challenging, even several hours ahead. And the smaller the catchment, the more…