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Bruno Merz
Head of Section Hydrology, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
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Observational Evidence Reveals Compound Humid Heat Stress‐Extreme Rainfall Hotspots in India
EARTH'S FUTURE
11 february 2024
Poulomi Ganguli, Bruno Merz
Sequential climate hazards, such as “warm and wet” compound extremes, have direct societal implications for highly urbanized regions an...
Deep learning based super-resolution of flood inundation grids
GLOBAL WATER RISKS: ADVANCES IN LARGE-SCALE FLOOD AND DROUGHT RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE III ELIGHTNING
hydrology | 14 december 2023
Seth Bryant, Shahin Khosh Bin Ghomash, Kasra Rafie...
High-resolution flood inundation maps are needed for more effective flood risk assessment and communication. Producing such maps directly with hydrody...
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A Multivariate Conditional Probability Framework to Estimate Compound Sub-daily Rainfall Extremes Preconditioned by Humid Heatwaves
HEAT WAVES BEHIND THE SCENES: DRIVERS, MECHANISMS, AND IMPACTS II ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 11 december 2023
Poulomi Ganguli, Bruno Merz
Heatwaves are becoming more frequent and severe in a warming climate. The compounding behavior of heatwaves and extreme rainfall tends to impact socie...
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Bias in Flood Hazard Grid Aggregation
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
08 september 2023
Seth Bryant, Heidi Kreibich, Bruno Merz
Reducing flood risk through disaster planning and risk management requires accurate estimates of exposure, damage, casualties, and environmental im...
Controls on Flood Trends Across the United States
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
30 january 2023
Matthias Kemter, Norbert Marwan, Bruno Merz, Gabri...
Trends in flood magnitudes vary across the conterminous USA (CONUS). There have been attempts to identify what controls these regionally varying tr...
Effect of reference period on the likelihood of the compound dry and hot event
COMPOUND, CONSECUTIVE, AND CASCADING EVENTS: CHALLENGES FOR RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF MULTI-HAZARDS III ORAL
natural hazards | 15 december 2022
Ravikumar K. Guntu, Bruno Merz, Ankit Agarwal
The effects of compound dry and hot events (CDHE) in a region simultaneously are more adverse than those of individual dry or hot events. The likeliho...
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COMPLEX NETWORKS IN HYDROLOGIC SCIENCES
EXTREME VARIABILITY AND COMPLEXITY: BRIDGING MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS, AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FROM URBAN SYSTEMS TO CLIMATE, GEOPHYSICS, AND PANDEMICS I ORAL
nonlinear geophysics | 13 december 2022
sujata kulkarni, Ugur Ozturk, Norbert Marwan, Jur...
Complex network science is a stemming interdisciplinary field of research spreading to diverse branches of sciences such as physics, engineering, soci...
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Understanding Heavy Tails of Flood Peak Distributions
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
27 june 2022
Bruno Merz, Stefano Basso, Svenja Fischer, David L...
Statistical distributions of flood peak discharge often show heavy tail behavior, that is, extreme floods are more likely to occur than would be pr...