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Hester Biemans
Researcher at Wageningen University and Research Centre
Publications - 65
Citations - 5222
Hester Biemans is an academic researcher from Wageningen University and Research Centre. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Water resources. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 54 publications receiving 3431 citations. Previous affiliations of Hester Biemans include Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency & International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development.
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Global water resources affected by human interventions and climate change
Ingjerd Haddeland,Jens Heinke,Jens Heinke,Hester Biemans,Stephanie Eisner,Martina Flörke,Naota Hanasaki,Markus Konzmann,Fulco Ludwig,Yoshimitsu Masaki,Jacob Schewe,Tobias Stacke,Z. D. Tessler,Yoshihide Wada,Dominik Wisser,Dominik Wisser +15 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that direct human impacts on the water cycle in some regions, e.g., parts of Asia and in the western United States, are of the same order of magnitude, or even exceed impacts to be expected for moderate levels of global warming (+2 K).
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Importance and vulnerability of the world's water towers
Walter W. Immerzeel,A. F. Lutz,M. Andrade,M. Andrade,A. Bahl,Hester Biemans,Tobias Bolch,S. Hyde,Steven P. Brumby,Bethan J. Davies,Aurora C. Elmore,Adam Emmer,Min Feng,Alfonso Fernández,Umesh K. Haritashya,Jeffrey S. Kargel,Michele Koppes,Philip Kraaijenbrink,Anil V. Kulkarni,Paul Andrew Mayewski,Santosh Nepal,P. Pacheco,Thomas H. Painter,Francesca Pellicciotti,Harihar Rajaram,Summer Rupper,Anna Sinisalo,Arun Bhakta Shrestha,Daniel Viviroli,Yoshihide Wada,C. Xiao,Tandong Yao,J.E.M. Baillie +32 more
TL;DR: The worldwide distribution and water supply of water towers (snowy or glacierized mountain ranges) is indexed, showing that the most important water towers are also the most vulnerable to socio-economic and climate-change stresses, with huge potential negative impacts on populations downstream.
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Impact of reservoirs on river discharge and irrigation water supply during the 20th century
Hester Biemans,Ingjerd Haddeland,Ingjerd Haddeland,Pavel Kabat,Fulco Ludwig,Ronald Hutjes,Jens Heinke,W. von Bloh,Dieter Gerten +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a quantitative estimation of the impact of reservoirs on discharge and irrigation water supply during the 20th century at global, continental, and river basin scale.
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Accounting for environmental flow requirements in global water assessments
TL;DR: In this paper, five EF methods for calculating environmental flow requirements (EFRs) were compared with 11 case studies of locally assessed EFRs and the results showed that, on average, 37% of annual discharge was required to sustain environmental flow requirement.
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Selecting representative climate models for climate change impact studies : An advanced envelope-based selection approach
A. F. Lutz,Herbert ter Maat,Hester Biemans,Arun Bhakta Shrestha,Philippus Wester,Walter W. Immerzeel +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a three-step sequential climate model selection procedure was proposed for a study area covering the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra river basins, and the results showed that the future climate projections in this area are highly uncertain but that changes are imminent.