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From ‘flood defence’ to ‘flood risk management’ …. What mixes of disciplines creatively co-working might contribute new insights to this ‘wicked problem’ and community resilience building?

By Lindsey McEwen (University of the West of England, Bristol) The floods of winter 2013-14 brought the tensions and schisms […]

2015 Chinese New Year resolutions – HEPEX’s future in China

Contributed by Yi He, Qingyun Duan, Desmond Manful and Florian Pappenberger Let’s celebrate! Let’s get ready, because the goats are […]

Ensemble Hydrological Forecasting in China: Status and Prospects

Contributed by Qingyun Duan, Beijing Normal University, China The hydrometeorological services of the western countries, including the United States, Canada, […]

HEPEX site outage

Returning visitors may have found the HEPEX site apparently "down" in the last few days. While direct links to posts […]

The importance of parameterizations for better continental forecast systems

Contributed by Luis Samaniego (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ) Parameterization: An old, ubiquitous, and recurring problem Modeling is […]

HEPEX Webinar: Statistical post-processing of ensemble weather forecasts: current development and future directions

This webinar is co-hosted together with ECMWF and will be longer than usual, approximately 1 hour. Otherwise the procedure is as usual. Speaker: […]