Peter Burek
Biographic Data
| ID | 6820547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Burek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Burek |
| SIGNATURE | BUREK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6390-8487 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Seasonal variability in the global relevance of mountains to satisfy lowland water demand
Mountain areas play a vital role in global water resources as they often generate disproportionally high runoff and seasonally delay runoff due to storage as snow and ice. Water originating from mountains is used to satisfy human water demand further downstream in the lowlands of the corresponding river basins. Although the relevance of mountains for water supply is widely acknowledged, our current quantitative knowledge of their relevance for hu…
Global hydrological models continue to overestimate river discharge
Global hydrological models (GHMs) are widely used to assess the impact of climate change on streamflow, floods, and hydrological droughts. For the ‘model evaluation and impact attribution’ part of the current round of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP3a), modelling teams generated historical simulations based on observed climate and direct human forcings with updated model versions. Here we provide a comprehensive ev…
Low flow sensitivity to water withdrawals in Central and Southwestern Europe under 2 K global warming
A sufficient freshwater supply is vital for humans, ecosystems, and economies, but anticipated climate and socio-economic change are expected to substantially alter water availability. Across Europe, about two-third of the abstracted freshwater comes from rivers and streams. Various hydrological studies address the resulting need for projections on changes in river discharge. However, those assessments rarely specifically account for the impact o…
Water circles—a tool to assess and communicate the water cycle
‘Water circles’ are presented as flexible water cycle diagrams aggregating the flows through a system for a specific region and time period, categorized by flow type and organized by magnitude. Water circles for an entire system and separate storage components can be interpreted as water cycle speedometers and can help compare and communicate different climate and human impacts on different regions, time periods, and storage components. Water cir…
Macroeconomic co-benefits of DRR investment
Purpose The authors present a dynamic macroeconomic model for assessment of disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies under multiple hazards. The model can be used to analyze and compare various potential policies in terms of their economic consequences. The decomposition of these effects into multiple benefits helps policy makers and other stakeholders better understand the ex ante and ex-post advantages of DRR investments. The purpose of this pape…
Co-development of East African regional water scenarios for 2050
A quantitative evaluation of the issue of drought definition
Droughts are anticipated to intensify in many parts of the world due to climate change. However, the issue of drought definition, namely the diversity of drought indices, makes it difficult to compare drought assessments. This issue is widely known, but its relative importance has never been quantitatively evaluated in comparison to other sources of uncertainty. Here, encompassing three drought categories (meteorological, agricultural, and hydrol…
Validity of estimating flood and drought characteristics under equilibrium climates from transient simulations
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…
Co-designing Indus Water-Energy-Land Futures
The Indus River Basin covers an area of around 1 million square kilometers and connects four countries: Afghanistan, China, India, and Pakistan. More than 300 million people depend to some extent on the basin’s water, yet a growing population, increasing food and energy demands, climate change, and shifting monsoon patterns are exerting increasing pressure. Under these pressures, a “business as usual” (BAU) approach is no longer sustainable, and …
A nexus modeling framework for assessing water scarcity solutions
Global exposure and vulnerability to multi-sector development and climate change hotspots
Understanding the interplay between multiple climate change risks and socioeconomic development is increasingly required to inform effective actions to manage these risks and pursue sustainable development. We calculate a set of 14 impact indicators at different levels of global mean temperature (GMT) change and socioeconomic development covering water, energy and land sectors from an ensemble of global climate, integrated assessment and impact m…
Global assessment of water challenges under uncertainty in water scarcity projections
Bridging global, basin and local-scale water quality modeling towards enhancing water quality management worldwide
Global WQ models need sufficient consideration of mechanistic understanding. • Multiscale WQ modeling facilitates more consistent water management across scales. • Process-based parsimonious models are proposed for global WQ model development. • Water management requires active collaboration among WQ modelers and policy-makers. Global water quality (WQ) modeling is an emerging field. In this article, we identify the missing linkages between globa…
Global exposure and vulnerability to multi-sector development and climate change hotspots
Understanding the interplay between multiple climate change risks and socioeconomic development is increasingly required to inform effective actions to manage these risks and pursue sustainable development. We calculate a set of 14 impact indicators at different levels of global mean temperature (GMT) change and socioeconomic development covering water, energy and land sectors from an ensemble of global climate, integrated assessment and impact m…
Global assessment of water challenges under uncertainty in water scarcity projections
Bridging global, basin and local-scale water quality modeling towards enhancing water quality management worldwide
Global WQ models need sufficient consideration of mechanistic understanding. • Multiscale WQ modeling facilitates more consistent water management across scales. • Process-based parsimonious models are proposed for global WQ model development. • Water management requires active collaboration among WQ modelers and policy-makers. Global water quality (WQ) modeling is an emerging field. In this article, we identify the missing linkages between globa…
Co-designing Indus Water-Energy-Land Futures
The Indus River Basin covers an area of around 1 million square kilometers and connects four countries: Afghanistan, China, India, and Pakistan. More than 300 million people depend to some extent on the basin’s water, yet a growing population, increasing food and energy demands, climate change, and shifting monsoon patterns are exerting increasing pressure. Under these pressures, a “business as usual” (BAU) approach is no longer sustainable, and …
A nexus modeling framework for assessing water scarcity solutions
Co-development of East African regional water scenarios for 2050
A quantitative evaluation of the issue of drought definition
Droughts are anticipated to intensify in many parts of the world due to climate change. However, the issue of drought definition, namely the diversity of drought indices, makes it difficult to compare drought assessments. This issue is widely known, but its relative importance has never been quantitatively evaluated in comparison to other sources of uncertainty. Here, encompassing three drought categories (meteorological, agricultural, and hydrol…
Validity of estimating flood and drought characteristics under equilibrium climates from transient simulations
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…
Macroeconomic co-benefits of DRR investment
Purpose The authors present a dynamic macroeconomic model for assessment of disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies under multiple hazards. The model can be used to analyze and compare various potential policies in terms of their economic consequences. The decomposition of these effects into multiple benefits helps policy makers and other stakeholders better understand the ex ante and ex-post advantages of DRR investments. The purpose of this pape…
Low flow sensitivity to water withdrawals in Central and Southwestern Europe under 2 K global warming
A sufficient freshwater supply is vital for humans, ecosystems, and economies, but anticipated climate and socio-economic change are expected to substantially alter water availability. Across Europe, about two-third of the abstracted freshwater comes from rivers and streams. Various hydrological studies address the resulting need for projections on changes in river discharge. However, those assessments rarely specifically account for the impact o…
Water circles—a tool to assess and communicate the water cycle
‘Water circles’ are presented as flexible water cycle diagrams aggregating the flows through a system for a specific region and time period, categorized by flow type and organized by magnitude. Water circles for an entire system and separate storage components can be interpreted as water cycle speedometers and can help compare and communicate different climate and human impacts on different regions, time periods, and storage components. Water cir…
Seasonal variability in the global relevance of mountains to satisfy lowland water demand
Mountain areas play a vital role in global water resources as they often generate disproportionally high runoff and seasonally delay runoff due to storage as snow and ice. Water originating from mountains is used to satisfy human water demand further downstream in the lowlands of the corresponding river basins. Although the relevance of mountains for water supply is widely acknowledged, our current quantitative knowledge of their relevance for hu…
Global hydrological models continue to overestimate river discharge
Global hydrological models (GHMs) are widely used to assess the impact of climate change on streamflow, floods, and hydrological droughts. For the ‘model evaluation and impact attribution’ part of the current round of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP3a), modelling teams generated historical simulations based on observed climate and direct human forcings with updated model versions. Here we provide a comprehensive ev…
Environmental Science (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Geology (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (7 works) · Climatology (6 works) · Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (6 works) · Climate change (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works)