Korbinian Breinl

TL;DR: In this article, a community initiative to identify major unsolved scientific problems in hydrology motivated by a need for stronger harmonisation of research efforts is described. But despite the diversity of the participants (230 scientists in total), the process revealed much about community priorities and the state of our science: a preference for continuity in research questions rather than radical departures or redirections from past and current work.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that there are two counterintuitive dynamics that should be considered when considering the expansion of reservoirs to cope with droughts and water shortages in many places around the world.

TL;DR: In this paper, climate change, globalization, urbanization, social isolation, and increased interconnectedness between physical, human, and technological systems pose major challenges to disaster risk reduction(DR...

TL;DR: In this paper, a semi-parametric algorithm for multi-site precipitation has been published recently by Breinl et al., who used a univariate Markov process to simulate precipitation occurrence at multiple sites for two small rain gauge networks.

TL;DR: The performance of the reduced-complexity multi-site precipitation generator TripleM is investigated for the first time as a function of the extent of the gauge network and the network density and indicates a more accurate performance in wet temperate climates compared to drier climates.