Research fields:
- Impact of climate change on terrestrial hydrology: high resolution regional climate simulations and distributed hydrological simulations
- Joint and coupled atmospheric-hydrological modelling
- Hydro-meteorological decision support in sustainable water management
- Assimilation of satellite derived land surface properties in hydrological modelling
- Propagation of precipitation uncertainties in water balance estimations using geostatistical methods
Current projects:
- PREFEED: Long Term Land Use - Precipitation Feedbacks in the Hai River and Poyang Lake Regionsin China funded by NSFC/DFD joint program “Land Use and Water Resources Management under Changing Environmental Conditions"
- “Flood hazard in a changing climate” funded by CEDIM (Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology, http://www.cedim.de)
- WASCAL: West African Science Service Center on Climate and Adapted Land Use
Finished projects:
- GLOWA Volta: Analysis of the physical and socio-economic determinants of the hydrological cycle in the Volta Basin in the face of global change (http://www.glowa.org/ ; http://www.glowa-volta.de/)
Lecture
- Training course in Hydro-Meteorological Decision Support for the Volta Basin at the United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources (UNU-INRA) in Accra (Ghana) from 14. – 17.01.2008 and at the Direction Générale des Ressources en Eau (DGRE) in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) from 22. – 25.01.2008
