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Earth and Planetary Sciences
- India
- Probability Theory
- Debris Flow
- Indonesia
- Transportation
- Flash Flood
- Return Period
- Landscape

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NWOChair research grant panel NWO VIDI

Throughout my career I have been working on natural hazards and land degradation, fascinated by creating models that simulate these processes. Starting with biomass and grazing capacity in Afrika, followed by the effects of logging on the rain forest water balance, I moved to soil erosion and land degradation processes as a result of land use management and overgrazing. From there I became interested in extreme events leading to natural disasters, not only in rural but also in urban envrironments. I strongly believe that these processes should not be studied and modeled as separate disciplines but in a much more holistic way than we currently do. In the context of Natural Disasters stakeholders are confronted with domino and compounding effects multiple hazards. I think science has to be useful for society and my aim is to provide timely and actionable spatial information in disaster preparedness, prevention and response.

Publications

2026

Tropical cyclone rainfall spatial asymmetries in the Lesser Antilles (2026)International journal of climatology, 46(8). Article e70382. Nabukulu, C., Ettema, J., van den Bout, B. & Jetten, V. G.https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.70382Assessing the potential of implementing room for the river in Taiwan to enhance flood resilience (2026)International journal of disaster risk reduction, 140. Article 106164. Lo, T. H., de Boer, C. & Jetten, V. G.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106164Evaluate the impact of soil erosion on local food security during the rainy season in Libokemkem and Ebinat District, Northwestern Ethiopia: an application of the daily soil loss model (DSL) (2026)Modeling earth systems and environment, 12(2). Article 100. Zewga Getaneh, M., Jetten, V., Ettema, J. & Meshesha, D. T.https://doi.org/10.1007/s40808-026-02739-2Food insecurity and the role of drought and soil erosion: A case study, North West Ethiopia (2026)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Getaneh, M. Z.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036571036Risk assessment of sediment deposition in built-up environments caused by extreme meteorological events (2026)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). Emtehani, S.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036570930Evaluating catchment-scale physically based modeling of sediment deposition during an extreme rainfall event (2026)Geosciences (Switzerland), 16(2). Article 88. Emtehani, S., Jetten, V., van Westen, C. & van den Bout, B.https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences16020088

2025

Spatio-temporal characteristics of drought and its impact on local food security: the case of Libokemkem and Ebinat district, Northwestern Ethiopia (2025)Natural hazards, 121(17), 19993-20020. Getaneh, M. Z., Jetten, V. G., Ettema, J. & Meshesha, D. T.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-025-07613-5

2024

Implications of tropical cyclone rainfall spatial–temporal variability on flood hazard assessments in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles (2024)GeoHazards, 5(4), 1275-1293. Nabukulu, C., Jetten, V. G. & Ettema, J.https://doi.org/10.3390/geohazards5040060Deriving tropical cyclone-associated flood hazard information using clustered GPM-IMERG rainfall signatures: Case study in Dominica (2024)Atmosphere, 15(9). Nabukulu, C., Jetten, V. G., Ettema, J., van den Bout, B. & Haarsma, R. J.https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15091042

2023

Dynamic rainfall thresholds for landslide early warning in Progo Catchment, Java, Indonesia (2023)Natural hazards, 119(3), 2133-2158. Satyaningsih, R., Jetten, V., Ettema, J., Sopaheluwakan, A., Lombardo, L. & Nuryanto, D. E.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-023-06208-2

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