Selected relevant publications (team members in bold):
Miersch, P., Dunkl, I., Sánchez-Benítez, A., Athanase, M., Rakovec, O., Klotz, D., Sippel, S., Goessling, H. and Zscheischler, J., 2026. Evidence from 2024 Storm Boris indicates anthropogenic climate change amplifies floods more than extreme precipitation. Science Advances, 12(44), eaef7703. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aef7703
Moravec, V., Řehoř, J., Šťovíček, V., Balek, J., Brázdil, R., Hlavsová, M., Fischer, M., Hanel, M., Kumar, R., Rakovec, O. and Trnka, M., 2026. Catalogue of global land soil moisture drought events. Geoscience Data Journal, 13(4), e70108. https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.70108
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