News and Events

On this page you find an overview with news articles from the WATCH Project and general climate change news. You can also find here the events from the WATCH project and Workshops.  


WATCH Project News


  • WATCH paper on Streamflow trends in Europe published in HESS-D for discussion The WATCH paper "Streamflow trends in Europe: evidence from a dataset of near-natural catchments" is now published in HESS-D and open for Interactive Public Discussion until 11 October 2010.
    WATCH Secretary / K. Stahl, H. Hisdal, J. Hannaford, L. M. Tallaksen, H. A. J. van Lanen, E. Sauquet, S. Demuth, M. Fendekova, and J. Jódar, August 17, 2010

  • WATCH and WaterMIP workshop on global scale modelling held in Wageningen, NL The WATCH and WaterMIP workshop on global scale modelling took place in June 2010 in Wageningen, the Netherlands.
    WATCH Secretary, June 25, 2010

  • WATCH General Assembly (KNAW, Amsterdam NL) The WATCH General Assembly will be held in 2010 at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from October 31 - November 4.
    WATCH Secretary, June 24, 2010

  • "Watching water dry" New satellite data and sophisticated computer models are transforming our understanding of the water cycle. WATCH member Eleanor Blyth explains in Planet Earth how insights into evaporation could improve our ability to predict the climate of the future.
    Planet Earth, May 31, 2010

  • WATCH Research in Correspondence in Nature Geoscience WATCH members Dolman and De Jeu from the Department of Earth Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, have published in Correspondence in Nature Geoscience the article "Evaporation in focus". Reference: doi:10.1038/ngeo849.
    Nature Geoscience / A. J. Dolman & R. A. M. de Jeu, May 20, 2010

  • WATCH Paper accepted in Journal of Geophysical Research Article from WATCH members Miralles et al., with title "Global canopy interception from satellite observations" has been accepted Journal of Geophysical Research".
    WATCH Secretary / Miralles, Gash, Holmes, De Jeu, Dolman, May 18, 2010