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Articles by Gregor Laaha
Flood Types Reveal Non-Stationarity in Flood Peaks Masked by Annual-Maximum Series
1 Introduction Floods are among the most disastrous natural hazards, affecting countries around the globe (Spiridonov et al., 2025). To assess the extremity and frequency of flood events, and to determine design floods used in water management and flood protection, flood frequency analysis (FFA) is frequently applied. Traditional FFA is based on the central assumption of independent, identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables (Gumbel, 1941).
Increasing Trends of Shallow Groundwater Warming in Vienna's Urban Aquifers
1 Introduction Groundwater warming is observed globally (Benz et al. 2024), and many cities worldwide like Berlin, Paris, Karlsruhe, Milano or Vienna (Blum et al. 2021; Epting, Händel, and Huggenberger 2013; Hemmerle et al. 2019; Previati and Crosta 2021; Tissen et al. 2017) show an increase in groundwater temperature (GWT) with the formation of subsurface Urban Heat Islands in the shallow groundwater.
Profitability and investment risk of Texan power system winterization - Nature Energy
Abstract A lack of winterization of power system infrastructure resulted in substantial rolling blackouts in Texas in 2021, but debate about the cost of winterization continues. Here we assess if incentives for winterization on the energy-only market are sufficient. We combine power demand estimates with estimates of power plant outages to derive power deficits and scarcity prices. Expected profits from winterization of a large share of existing capacity are positive.
Occurrence of the invasive Spanish slug in gardens: can a citizen science approach help deciphering underlying factors?
Our results indicate that meteorological parameters and plant diversity have a significant impact on the abundance of slugs in Austrian gardens. This confirms general results found in previous studies also on the level of individual gardens and indicates that citizen science is a suitable method for assessing the abundance of slugs on private properties.
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