Research and Teaching at Augsburg University:
www.geo.uni-augsburg.de/en/professorships/regklima/
Research fields:
- Impact of climate change and land use change on terrestrial hydrology: high resolution regional climate simulations and distributed hydrological simulations
- Dynamical and statistical downscaling of meteorological fields
- Development of coupled atmosphere-hydrosphere model systems
- Stochastic hydrological modelling and inverse hydrological modeling
- Modeling and observation of joint water- and energy fluxes in alpine terrain
- Line integrated precipitation observation by microwave attenuation and phase shift analysis
Recent Third-Party Funded Projects:
- BMBF: "West African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL)"
- HGF Water Science Alliance (http://www.watersciencealliance.de/)
- HGF Remote Sensing Alliance (http://www.dlr.de/hr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-8082/13911_read-35331/)
- HGF Regional Climate Initiative (REKLIM)
- DFG-NSFC: "Long term land use - precipitation feedbacks in the Hai River and Poyang Lake regions (PREFEED)"
- DFG Priority Programme 1257 (Mass Transport and Mass Distribution in the Earth System, http://www.massentransporte.de/): "The global continental water balance using GRACE spaceborn gravimetry and high resolution consistent geodetic-hydrometeorological data analysis"
- HGF TERENO (http://www.imk-ifu.kit.edu/387.php): "Setup, coordination and operation of the Alpine terrestrial observatory"
- BMBF: "Decadal prediction of African rainfall and Atlantic hurricane activity (DEPARTURE)"
Finished Projects:
- Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW): "Impact of climate change on the Figeh-Spring, Damascus/Syria"
- CEDIM: "Flood Hazards in a changing climate"
- StMUG & Nationalpark Berchtesgaden: "Water balance of Nationalpark Berchtesgaden and improvement of snow modeling
- BMBF: "GLOWA-Jordan: An international study of the future of the scarce Jordan River basin under the impact of climate and global change" (http://www.glowa-jordan-river.de/)
- BMBF: "Food security in Eastern Africa: Steering rice productivity towards climate resilience (RICE-EA)"
- HGF Virtual Institute PROCEMA (http://www.imk-ifu.kit.edu/1179.php): "Regional precipitation observation by cellular network microwave attenuation and application to water resources management"
- GTZ/BMZ: Adaptation of Land Use to Climate Change in Sub-Saharan Africa (ALUCCSA)
- GLOWA-Volta (http://www.glowa-volta.de/): Sustainable water use under changing land use patterns, rainfall reliability and water demand in the Volta BasinInterreg IIIb Alpine Space Programme & StMUV (Land Bayern): (http://www.alpinespace.org/climchalp.html) Climate Change, Impacts and Adaptation Strategies in the Alpine Space
- Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt (LfU): “Modelltechnische Erweiterung des Wasserhaushaltsmodells WaSiM-ETH und Aufbau, Test und Anwendung am Beispiel des Einzugsgebietes der Alz”
- Chiemgau-Studie (http://www.klimazwei.de/) (BMBF): Klimaschutz- und Anpassungspotenziale einer Region und ihre Erschließung – Fallstudie „Chiemgau - Inn – Salzach-Berchtesgaden“
- AMMA-EU (http://www.amma-eu.org/): African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis
