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The role of city leadership in European recovery (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Hambleton, R. (2021, May). The role of city leadership in European recovery. Presented at Cities Social Summit: Delivering social rights and supporting an inclusive recovery, Virtual (Hosted by Eurocities in Brussels)

This keynote speech to the Eurocities Cities Social Summit has five parts: 1) Context: The importance of the European Pillar of Social Rights; 2) The complex challenges cities face in the post COVID-19 era; 3) Why cities matter; 4) The role of city l... Read More about The role of city leadership in European recovery.

Law commission conference: Voice of the child and art (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Whewell, E. (2021, April). Law commission conference: Voice of the child and art. Presented at Law Commission Conference (14th Programme of Law Reform), London

This is the slide I created and relied on for my 'pitch' for law reform at the Law Commission Conference (14th Programme of Law Reform) on 23rd April 2021.

Article 12 UNCRC and the voice of the child (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Whewell, E. (2021, April). Article 12 UNCRC and the voice of the child. Presented at The Law Commission Conference (14th Law Reform Programme), 2021, London

Research conducted by the University of the West of England into pre-proceedings in the field of children's social care indicates that children and young people are not being listened to sufficiently or given an effective voice before, during or outs... Read More about Article 12 UNCRC and the voice of the child.

From public leadership to civic leadership: How place-based innovation can help societies recover from COVID-19 (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Hambleton, R. (2021, April). From public leadership to civic leadership: How place-based innovation can help societies recover from COVID-19. Paper presented at Public management, governance and policy in extraordinary times: Challenges and opportunities, Virtual (Hosted by Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey)

Societies across the world now face at least four major challenges at once: 1) The COVID-19 health emergency; 2) A sharp economic downturn arising from the pandemic; 3) The global climate and ecological emergencies; and 4) Disturbing increases in soc... Read More about From public leadership to civic leadership: How place-based innovation can help societies recover from COVID-19.

Investigation of long-term changes of coastal wave directionality patterns and their connections with NAO climatic index: UK case study (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Chatzirodou, A. (2021, April). Investigation of long-term changes of coastal wave directionality patterns and their connections with NAO climatic index: UK case study. Presented at vEGU21, the 23rd EGU General Assembly, held online 19-30 April, 2021, id.EGU21-16438, Online

The effects of climate change are at the spotlight of scientific research. In coastal science the effects of sea-level rise (SLR) on coastal areas, mainly as a result of melting of ice sheets and thermal volume expansion consist an intensive area of... Read More about Investigation of long-term changes of coastal wave directionality patterns and their connections with NAO climatic index: UK case study.

Improving regional rainfall forecasts using convolutional-neural networks (2021)
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Barnes, A., McCullen, N., & Kjeldsen, T. R. (2021, April). Improving regional rainfall forecasts using convolutional-neural networks. Paper presented at EGU General Assembly 2021, Online

Traditional weather forecasting approaches utilize numerous numerical simulations and empirical models to produce a gridded estimate of rainfall, the cells of which often span multiple regions and struggle to capture extreme events. The approach pres... Read More about Improving regional rainfall forecasts using convolutional-neural networks.

Sediment and surface water microplastic contamination along the Ganges River, from the Himalayan foothills to the tidal reach downstream of Kolkata, India (2021)
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Nel, H., Fox, B., Reynolds, D., Thorn, R., Clayton, G., Perrin, E., …Magnone, D. (2021, April). Sediment and surface water microplastic contamination along the Ganges River, from the Himalayan foothills to the tidal reach downstream of Kolkata, India. Presented at EGU General Assembly 2021

Twenty rivers have been estimated previously to account for almost 70% of global plastic emissions to the marine environment. Of these, the Ganges River was second only to the Yangtze River. Yet, scale and complexity of the Ganges River network make... Read More about Sediment and surface water microplastic contamination along the Ganges River, from the Himalayan foothills to the tidal reach downstream of Kolkata, India.

Taking the pulse of Mother Ganga - Revealing the visible and invisible water pollution crisis along the Ganges River (2021)
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Krause, S., Fox, B., Reynolds, D., Thorn, R., Clayton, G., Perrin, E., …Magnone, D. (2021, April). Taking the pulse of Mother Ganga - Revealing the visible and invisible water pollution crisis along the Ganges River. Presented at EGU General Assembly 2021

It is probably hard to overestimate the significance of the River Ganges for its spiritual, cultural and religious importance. As the worlds’ most populated river basin and a major water resource for the 400 million people inhabiting its catchment, t... Read More about Taking the pulse of Mother Ganga - Revealing the visible and invisible water pollution crisis along the Ganges River.

Using in-situ sensors to quantify spatial variability in nutrient concentrations across the Ganges river basin (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Khamis, K., Fox, B., Reynolds, D., Thorn, R., Clayton, G., Perrin, E., …Magnone, D. (2021, April). Using in-situ sensors to quantify spatial variability in nutrient concentrations across the Ganges river basin. Presented at EGU General Assembly 2021

There is increasing interest in monitoring spatial variability in biogeochemical processes using field deployable sensors. Despite this, rigorous assessments of accuracy and optimal sensor configurations remain limited for such applications. We under... Read More about Using in-situ sensors to quantify spatial variability in nutrient concentrations across the Ganges river basin.

Water quality across the River Ganga basin in India: Trends, dominant geochemical processes and impacts (2021)
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Richards, L. A., Fox, B., Reynolds, D., Thorn, R., Clayton, G., Perrin, E., …Magnone, D. (2021, April). Water quality across the River Ganga basin in India: Trends, dominant geochemical processes and impacts. Presented at EGU General Assembly 2021

In a basin-wide survey of the River Ganga and key tributaries, from the Himalayan source to the Bay of Bengal in India, we aim to improve the conceptual understanding of downstream water quality trends along > 2000 km. Here we explore the spatial di... Read More about Water quality across the River Ganga basin in India: Trends, dominant geochemical processes and impacts.

A case study: The deployment of a novel in situ fluorimeter for monitoring biological contamination within the urban surface waters of Kolkata, India (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Fox, B., Thorn, R., Dutta, T., & Reynolds, D. (2021, April). A case study: The deployment of a novel in situ fluorimeter for monitoring biological contamination within the urban surface waters of Kolkata, India. Presented at EGU General Assembly 2021

With increasing pressures on water resources due to population, industrialization, agriculture, urbanization and climatic changes, improved temporal and spatial understanding of water quality is required. The development of new monitoring parameters,... Read More about A case study: The deployment of a novel in situ fluorimeter for monitoring biological contamination within the urban surface waters of Kolkata, India.

A novel and robust procedure for upscaling sap velocity data based on the species-specific role of DBH and slope for explaining tree-to-tree variability (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Schoppach, R., Pan Chun, K., He, Q., Ginevra, F., & Klaus, J. (2021, April). A novel and robust procedure for upscaling sap velocity data based on the species-specific role of DBH and slope for explaining tree-to-tree variability. Paper presented at EGU, Vienna

Multi-species forests display a substantial tree-to-tree variability in transpiration induced by various vegetation and landscape characteristics. However, how to model transpiration accounting for tree-to-tree variability still needs to be developed... Read More about A novel and robust procedure for upscaling sap velocity data based on the species-specific role of DBH and slope for explaining tree-to-tree variability.

Applicability of the North Sea Caspian pattern as an indicator of the Euro-Mediterranean climate variability (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Çağlar, F., Yetemen, O., Pan Chun, K., & Lutfi Sen, O. (2021, April). Applicability of the North Sea Caspian pattern as an indicator of the Euro-Mediterranean climate variability. Paper presented at EGU, Vienna

Climate variability related to trough locations in the Euro-Mediterranean region is determined by various semi-permanent pressure centers of teleconnections and synoptic features. These features are resulted from the interactions between mesoscale an... Read More about Applicability of the North Sea Caspian pattern as an indicator of the Euro-Mediterranean climate variability.

Drought variability driven by interannual and decadal teleconnection patterns in monsoon regions of Southeast China (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Pan Chun, K., He, Q., Dieppois, B., Pohl, B., Yetemen, Ö., Chen, L., …Massei, N. (2021, April). Drought variability driven by interannual and decadal teleconnection patterns in monsoon regions of Southeast China. Paper presented at EGU, Vienna

Drought conditions of Southeast China are associated with the sea surface temperature warm pool in the tropical Western Pacific, which is related to low-frequency hydroclimatic patterns and their teleconnections. Empirically, the moisture influx to t... Read More about Drought variability driven by interannual and decadal teleconnection patterns in monsoon regions of Southeast China.

Impacts of climate and land use changes on water variability, using a Budyko framework: case study in Gansu, China (2021)
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He, Q., Pan Chun, K., Yetemen, O., Dieppois, B., Chen, L., & Pan, X. (2021, April). Impacts of climate and land use changes on water variability, using a Budyko framework: case study in Gansu, China

Disentangling the effects of climate and land use changes on regional hydrological conditions is critical for local water and food security. The water variability over climate transition regions at the midlatitudes is sensitive to changes in regional... Read More about Impacts of climate and land use changes on water variability, using a Budyko framework: case study in Gansu, China.

Detecting drought conditions related to vegetation at west continental Europe based on variations from the North and Caspian Seas (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Xu, B., He, Q., Pan Chun, K., Klaus, J., Schoppach, R., & Yetemen, Ö. (2021, April). Detecting drought conditions related to vegetation at west continental Europe based on variations from the North and Caspian Seas. Paper presented at EGU, Vienna

Teleconnections relate regional pressure patterns to local climate anomalies, influencing the variation of vegetation patterns. Over west continental Europe, droughts have been widely investigated with persistent low-frequency atmospheric circulation... Read More about Detecting drought conditions related to vegetation at west continental Europe based on variations from the North and Caspian Seas.

The nature and extent of bomb tritium remaining in deep soils (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Evaristo, J., Huang, Y., Li, Z., Chun, K. P., Sutanudjaja, E. H., & Bierkens, M. F. (2021, April). The nature and extent of bomb tritium remaining in deep soils. Paper presented at EGU, Vienna

Understanding the movement of water in soils is important for estimating subsurface water reserves. Despite the advances made in understanding water movement, very few tools can directly "follow the water". Tritium, a tracer that decays with time and... Read More about The nature and extent of bomb tritium remaining in deep soils.

Land use and cover changes related to green and blue infrastructure planning for water resources management based on a Budyko framework (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Fan, P. Y., Pan Chun, K., Mijic, A., Tan, M. L., Yetemen, O., & Evaristo, J. (2021, April). Land use and cover changes related to green and blue infrastructure planning for water resources management based on a Budyko framework. Paper presented at EGU, Vienna

Based on the interplays between land use and water resources, the green and blue infrastructure (GBI) is a central landscape approach for hydrological environment management. However, evidence-based principles of regional GBI planning are not well de... Read More about Land use and cover changes related to green and blue infrastructure planning for water resources management based on a Budyko framework.

How reliable are crowd-sourced data in hydrology? Lessons learned from a citizen science experiment (2021)
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Klaus, J., Hannah, D., & Pan Chun, K. (2021, April). How reliable are crowd-sourced data in hydrology? Lessons learned from a citizen science experiment. Paper presented at EGU, Vienna

Crowd-sourcing of hydrological data with volunteering citizen scientists has the potential to overcome severe data limitations in space and time. However, several aspects on the reliability, quality, and value of crowd-sourced data are under debate.... Read More about How reliable are crowd-sourced data in hydrology? Lessons learned from a citizen science experiment.