On 17 June 2025 — coinciding with the UN’s Desertification and Drought Day — the European Commission unveiled two flagship initiatives aimed at bolstering resilience against desertification and drought in
We are pleased to share the third STARS4Water Newsletter, designed to keep you updated on our project’s progress, outcomes, and other significant developments in the fields of water resource management
Europe is grappling with an early and intensifying drought in 2025, with nearly 40% of EU territory under official drought warning or alert conditions. Spring 2025 has been exceptionally dry:
The Nordic Hydrological Conference on “Water and Climate Change: Impacts and Adaptation” has been implemented from June 3 to 5, 2025, in Reykjavík, Iceland. The conference delved into the effects
Global water models allow to explore the terrestrial water cycle in Earth-sized digital laboratories. In this review, primary sources of uncertainties are identified and it is discussed how they can
Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and Geological and Mining Institute of Spain-CSIC (IGME), STARS4Water partners, participated in the XIII Iberian Congress on Water Management and Planning with two presentations of
STARS4Water partners participated in EGU25 with the following oral and poster presentations of the project: Purnamasari, D., van Verseveld, W., Buitink, J., Sperna Weiland, F., Dalmijn, B., Teuling, A., and
Within STARS4Water we are focusing on multi-scale model integration through the benchmarking of land surface and hydrological models. The primary objective of this activity is to evaluate the ability of
New datasets on daily precipitation deficit from 2025-2060 have been developed and released by the STARS4Water for each of its seven River Basin Hubs. Precipitation deficit is a common measure
STARS4Waters supports adaptive, resilient, and sustainable freshwater management by improving how climate and water-related data are accessed and used in planning. Among the project goals is to unlock and enhance