Tide gauge data were used to identify the occurrence, characteristics, and cause of tsunamis of meteorological origin (termed ‘meteotsunamis’) along the Western Australian coast. This is the first study to identify meteotsunamis in this region, and the results indicated that they occur frequently. Although meteotsunamis are not catastrophic to the extent of major seismically induced basin-scale...

The effect of sensor resolution on the number of cloud-free observations from space J. M. Krijger, M. van Weele, I. Aben, and R. Frey SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Sorbonnelaan 2, 3584 CA Utrecht, The Netherlands KNMI, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, The Netherlands Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison...

Sustainable water management requires the quantification of the spatial and temporal changes of water balance variables. Fully distributed hydrological simulations of these variables are especially in regions with weak infrastructure challenging, because the required meteorological input data are often not available in a sufficient spatial and temporal resolution. One possibility to deal with t...

Understanding the hydro-meteorological processes that control flash flooding is extremely important from both scientific and societal perspectives. On the one hand, flash floods rank highly among natural disasters in terms of the number of people affected and the number of fatalities. The potential for flash flood casualties and damage is increasing in many parts of the world due to the social ...