Selected relevant publications (team members in bold):
Štovíček, V., Hanel, M., Kumar, R., Moravec, V., Markonis, Y., Cammalleri, C., Řehoř, J., Trnka, M., & Rakovec, O. (2026). A global dataset of spatiotemporal drought events from reanalysis and hydrological model data for 1980–2024. Scientific Data. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07750-x
Kettaren, R., Sánchez-Benítez, A., Goessling, H., Athanase, M., Kumar, R., Samaniego, L., & Rakovec, O. (2026). Storyline-based climate attribution reveals strong intensification of 2018–2022 multi-year droughts in Europe. Earth’s Future, 14(3), e2025EF007547. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EF007547
García-García, A., Stradiotti, P., Di Paolo, F., Filippucci, P., Fischer, M., Orság, M., Brocca, L., Peng, J., Dorigo, W., Gruber, A., Droppers, B., Wanders, N., Haag, A., Weerts, A., Modiri, E., Rakovec, O., Francés, F., Dall’Amico, M., Anderson, M., Hain, C., & Samaniego, L. (2026). Intercomparison of Earth Observation products for hyper-resolution hydrological modelling over Europe. Remote Sensing of Environment, 333, 115131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2025.115131
Yadav, D., Kumar, R., Shah, J., Thakur, V., Hanel, M., & Rakovec, O. (2025). Increasing spatial extent and frequency of flash drought in Europe with each degree of global warming. Environmental Research Letters, 20(11), 114046. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae11c8
Thakur, V., Markonis, Y., Kumar, R., Thomson, J. R., Vargas Godoy, M. R., Hanel, M., & Rakovec, O. (2025). Unveiling the impact of potential evapotranspiration method selection on trends in hydrological cycle components across Europe. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 29, 4395–4416. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-4395-2025
Fang, B., Rakovec, O., Bevacqua, E., Kumar, R., & Zscheischler, J. (2025). Diverging trends in large floods across Europe in a warming climate. Communications Earth & Environment, 6, 717. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02734-y
Kumar, R., Samaniego, L., Thober, S., Rakovec, O., Marx, A., Wanders, N., Pan, M., Hesse, F., & Attinger, S. (2025). Multi-model assessment of groundwater recharge across Europe under warming climate. Earth’s Future, 13(1), e2024EF005020. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF005020
Bevacqua, E., Rakovec, O., Schumacher, D. L., Kumar, R., Thober, S., Samaniego, L., Seneviratne, S. I., & Zscheischler, J. (2024). Direct and lagged climate change effects intensified the 2022 European drought. Nature Geoscience, 17, 1100–1107. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01559-2
Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Hari, V., Markonis, Y., Moravec, V., Thober, S., Hanel, M., & Kumar, R. (2022). The 2018–2020 multi-year drought sets a new benchmark in Europe. Earth’s Future, 10(3), e2021EF002394. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002394
Rakovec, O., Kumar, R., Attinger, S., & Samaniego, L. (2016). Improving the realism of hydrologic model functioning through multivariate parameter estimation. Water Resources Research, 52(10), 7779–7792. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR019430