Niko Wanders

Biographic Data

ID6569887
NAMENiko Wanders
GIVEN NAMESNiko
FAMILY NAMEWanders
SIGNATUREWANDERS N
AFFILIATIONSUtrecht University
ORCID0000-0002-7102-5454
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Global hydroclimatic risks and strategic decommissioning pathways for thermal power units

    Open AccessShiyu Li, Yong Liu et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2025References: 7

  • Key drivers and pressures of global water scarcity hotspots

    Open AccessMyrthe Leijnse, Marc F P Bierkens et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Global freshwater resources are vital to humanity and Earth’s ecosystems, yet about one third of the global population is affected by water scarcity for at least one month per year. In these areas, the overuse of freshwater resources can lead to the threat of depletion, marking them as the global ‘water scarcity hotspots’. This study combines outputs from a global hydrological model (PCR-GLOBWB 2) with an extensive literature search to provide a …

  • Interpreting extreme climate impacts from large ensemble simulations—are they unseen or unrealistic

    Open AccessTimo Kelder, Niko Wanders et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Large-ensemble climate model simulations can provide deeper understanding of the characteristics and causes of extreme events than historical observations, due to their larger sample size. However, adequate evaluation of simulated ‘unseen’ events that are more extreme than those seen in historical records is complicated by observational uncertainties and natural variability. Consequently, conventional evaluation and correction methods cannot dete…

  • Streamflow droughts aggravated by human activities despite management

    Open AccessAnne F Van Loon, Sally Rangecroft et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Human activities both aggravate and alleviate streamflow drought. Here we show that aggravation is dominant in contrasting cases around the world analysed with a consistent methodology. Our 28 cases included different combinations of human-water interactions. We found that water abstraction aggravated all drought characteristics, with increases of 20%–305% in total time in drought found across the case studies, and increases in total deficit of u…

  • Projecting armed conflict risk in Africa towards 2050 along the SSP-RCP scenarios: A machine learning approach

    Open AccessJeffrey Hoch, Sophie de Bruin et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    In the past decade, several efforts have been made to project armed conflict risk into the future. This study broadens current approaches by presenting a first-of-its-kind application of machine learning (ML) methods to project sub-national armed conflict risk over the African continent along three Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) scenarios and three Representative Concentration Pathways towards 2050. Results of the open-source ML framework CoP…

  • Validity of estimating flood and drought characteristics under equilibrium climates from transient simulations

    Open AccessJulien Boulange, Naota Hanasaki et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Future flood and drought risks have been predicted to transition from moderate to high levels at global warmings of 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C above pre-industrial levels, respectively. However, these results were obtained by approximating the equilibrium climate using transient simulations with steadily warming. This approach was recently criticised due to the warmer global land temperature and higher mean precipitation intensities of the transient clima…

  • Projecting long-term armed conflict risk: An underappreciated field of inquiry

    Open AccessSophie de Bruin, Sophie P de Bruin et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2021References: 15

    Little research has been done on projecting long-term conflict risks. Such projections are currently neither included in the development of socioeconomic scenarios or climate change impact assessments nor part of global agenda-setting policy processes. In contrast, in other fields of inquiry, long-term projections and scenario studies are established and relevant for both strategical agenda-setting and applied policies. Although making projection…

  • Global ecosystem service values in climate class transitions

    Open AccessLisa Watson, Menno Straatsma et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Ecosystem service assessments facilitate the valuation of nature and support decision-making. Ecosystem services are connected to climate; however, ecosystem service values affected by climate change remain unclear. We mapped global ecosystem service values totaling ∼1.3 trillion international dollars for 2005. Transitions in Köppen–Geiger climate classes projected with General Circulation Models under the four IPCC Representative Concentration P…

  • Water shortages worsened by reservoir effects

    Open AccessGiuliano Di Baldassarre, Niko Wanders et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2018Cited by: 3References: 10

  • Multi-model ensemble projections of European river floods and high flows at 1.5, 2, and 3 degrees global warming

    Open AccessStephan Thober, Rohini Kumar et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    Severe river floods often result in huge economic losses and fatalities. Since 1980, almost 1500 such events have been reported in Europe. This study investigates climate change impacts on European floods under 1.5, 2, and 3 K global warming. The impacts are assessed employing a multi-model ensemble containing three hydrologic models (HMs: mHM, Noah-MP, PCR-GLOBWB) forced by five CMIP5 general circulation models (GCMs) under three Representative …

  • Drought in the Anthropocene

    Open AccessAnne F Van Loon, Tom Gleeson et al.ARTICLENature Geoscience2016

  • Improved sub-seasonal meteorological forecast skill using weighted multi-model ensemble simulations

    Open AccessNiko Wanders, E F WoodARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    Sub-seasonal to seasonal weather and hydrological forecasts have the potential to provide vital information for a variety of water-related decision makers. Here, we investigate the skill of four sub-seasonal forecast models from phase-2 of the North American Multi-Model Ensemble using reforecasts for the period 1982-2012. Two weighted multi-model ensemble means from the models have been developed for predictions of both sub-seasonal precipitation…

  • Human water consumption intensifies hydrological drought worldwide

    Open AccessYoshihide Wada, Rens van Beek et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2013

    Over the past 50 years, human water use has more than doubled and affected streamflow over various regions of the world. However, it remains unclear to what degree human water consumption intensifies hydrological drought (the occurrence of anomalously low streamflow). Here, we quantify over the period 1960–2010 the impact of human water consumption on the intensity and frequency of hydrological drought worldwide. The results show that human water…