Hessel Winsemius

Biographic Data

ID6820067
NAMEHessel Winsemius
GIVEN NAMESHessel
FAMILY NAMEWinsemius
SIGNATUREWINSEMIUS H
AFFILIATIONSDeltares
ORCID0000-0001-5471-172X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX0

  • The effect of surge on riverine flood hazard and impact in deltas globally

    Open AccessDirk Eilander, Anaïs Couasnon et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Current global riverine flood risk studies assume a constant mean sea level boundary. In reality high sea levels can propagate up a river, impede high river discharge, thus leading to elevated water levels. Riverine flood risk in deltas may therefore be underestimated. This paper presents the first global scale assessment of the joint influence of riverine and coastal drivers of flooding in deltas. We show that if storm surge is ignored, flood de…

  • Disaster risk, climate change, and poverty

    Open AccessHessel Winsemius, Hessel C Winsemius et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Development…2018

    People living in poverty are particularly vulnerable to shocks, including those caused by natural disasters such as floods and droughts. This paper analyses household survey data and hydrological riverine flood and drought data for 52 countries to find out whether poor people are disproportionally exposed to floods and droughts, and how this exposure may change in a future climate. We find that poor people are often disproportionally exposed to d…

  • A first collective validation of global fluvial flood models for major floods in Nigeria and Mozambique

    Open AccessMark Bernhofen, Charlie Whyman et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Global flood models (GFMs) are becoming increasingly important for disaster risk management internationally. However, these models have had little validation against observed flood events, making it difficult to compare model performance. In this paper, we introduce the first collective validation of multiple GFMs against the same events and we analyse how different model structures influence performance. We identify three hydraulically diverse r…

  • Dependence between high sea-level and high river discharge increases flood hazard in global deltas and estuaries

    Open AccessPhilip J Ward, Anaïs Couasnon et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    When river and coastal floods coincide, their impacts are often worse than when they occur in isolation; such floods are examples of 'compound events'. To better understand the impacts of these compound events, we require an improved understanding of the dependence between coastal and river flooding on a global scale. Therefore, in this letter, we: provide the first assessment and mapping of the dependence between observed high sea-levels and hig…

  • The credibility challenge for global fluvial flood risk analysis

    Open AccessMark A Trigg, Cyril Birch et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

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  • Declining vulnerability to river floods and the global benefits of adaptation

    Open AccessBrenden Jongman, Hessel Winsemius et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2015

    Significance Understanding the vulnerability of societies around the world is crucial for understanding historical trends in flood risk and for producing accurate projections of fatalities and losses. We reproduced historical river flood occurrence using daily climate data for the period 1980–2010 and quantified the natural and socioeconomic contributions to flood risk trends. We show that the fatalities and losses as a share of the exposed popul…

  • The co-incidence of storm surges and extreme discharges within the Rhine–Meuse Delta

    Open AccessWouter Jan Klerk, Hessel Winsemius et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    The Netherlands is a low-lying coastal area and therefore threatened by both extreme river discharges from the Meuse and Rhine rivers and storm surges along the North Sea coastline. To date, in most flood risk analyses these two hazardous phenomena are considered independent. However, if there were a dependence between high sea water levels and extreme discharges this might result in higher design water levels, which might consequently have impli…

  • Assessing flood risk at the global scale

    Open AccessPhilip J Ward, Brenden Jongman et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2013

    Globally, economic losses from flooding exceeded $19 billion in 2012, and are rising rapidly. Hence, there is an increasing need for global-scale flood risk assessments, also within the context of integrated global assessments. We have developed and validated a model cascade for producing global flood risk maps, based on numerous flood return-periods. Validation results indicate that the model simulates interannual fluctuations in flood impacts w…