Markus Andrews

Global classification of precipitation regimes In this study, we first classify the global land regions into distinct hydroclimatic regimes based on annual means and seasonal variations using observed monthly gridded precipitation data from the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC) (See “Methods”)30. For quantifying seasonality, we used apportionment entropy (AE), which provides a descriptive non-parametric measure […] More

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The Central Bureau of Statistics of DPRK with support from UNICEF integrated water quality testing (and other service indicators) for the first time allowing for the assessment of safely managed drinking water services. Currently, based on the latest census figures (population 24,052,231) and 2017 DPRK MICS results, it is estimated that around 19 million people […] More

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Study area The Hunter River estuary (151.8°E, 32.9°S) is situated on the temperate southeast coastline of NSW, Australia (Fig. 1). The Hunter River estuary is a typical wave-dominated, mature barrier estuary23 with a large tidal pool that extends 60 km inland to its tidal limits. The Hunter River estuary has semi-diurnal tides and a mean tidal range […] More

The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 6.2 is achievement of universal access to a ‘safely managed’ sanitation facility and elimination of open defecation. The effort required to achieve this target is significant, as ~5.6 billion more people will need to use safely managed services, and ~1.3 billion will need to shift from open defecation to […] More

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