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Regional Climate and Hydrology: Methods

General Contact: Harald Kunstmann

 

Dynamical Downscaling of global fields representing

- climate scenarios  (Contact: Hans Richard Knoche, Harald Kunstmann)

- decadal prediction (Contact: Michael Warscher)

- seasonal forecast (Contact: Jonatan Siegmund)

- weather forecasts  (Contact: Johannes Werhahn) or

- weather and climate hindcasts  (Contact:  Hans Richard Knoche)

 using  Nested regional simulations with the meteorological/climatological models

WRF  (Contact:  Benjamin Fersch, Sven Wagner, Christof Lorenz)

- MM5  (Contact: Hans Richard Knoche, Sven Wagner)

- COSMO-CLM  (Contact: Gerhard Smiatek)

 

Statistical downscaling

- by circulation pattern analysis (Contact: Patrick Laux)

- copula based multivariate statistics (Contact: Patrick Laux Stefanie Vogl)

 

Distributed hydrological modelling
with hydrological models WaSiM, HMS, NDHMS and GEOtop
Contact: Harald Kunstmann, Gerhard Smiatek

 

Coupled atmosphere-hydrological modelling
with model systems WRF-hydro, WRF-Noah LSM-HMS
Contact:  Benjamin Fersch, Harald Kunstmann

 

Integration and assimilation of remote sensing information using

- Radar data (Contact: Johannes Werhahn)

- MODIS data  (Contact: Sven Wagner)

- Terrestrial Microvawes Link Data  (Contact: Christian Chwala)

- GRACE Satellite Data (Contact: Christof Lorenz)

 

Hydrometeorological observations
for water and energy fluxes performed in the projects TERENO and PROCEMA.
Contact: Christian Chwala,  Harald Kunstmann

 

Hydrological process analysis with stable water isotops
Contact: Benjamin Busl , Harald Kunstmann