Research interests:
- Statistical and Dynamical Downscaling of GCMs
- Bias correction and local refinement of regional climate simulations
- Impact of climate change and climate variability on terrestrial water balance and agriculture
- Hydro-meteorological decision support for sustainable water management and agriculture
- Weekly weather cycles of hydro-meteorological variables
Recent projects:
- LUCCi: Land Use and Climate Change Interactions in the Vu Gia Thu Bon River Basin, Central Vietnam; coordinator of WP3 “Climate Modeling”
- 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.org> ; http://www.glowa-volta.de <http://www.glowa-volta.de>)
- GLOWA Jordan: Jordan River - An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Management (http://www.glowa-jordan-river.de <http://www.glowa-jordan-river.de> )
Lectures:
- Training courses on „Modeling the onset of the rainy season and potential implications for agriculture in West Africa“ at Cape Coast University, Cape Coast (Ghana) from 8.2.2010 - 12.2.2010 and at the Direction de la Météorologie Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso from 15.2.2010 - 19.2.2010
- 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 DirectionGénérale des Ressources en Eau (DGRE) in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) from 22.-25.01.2008
- Training course in Statistics at International Summer School, University of Würzburg (Germany) from 21.-26.07.2008. Topic: Land Cover and Climate Change in West Africa, Elite Network of Bavaria Graduate Program Global Change Ecology (M.Sc.), organized by Universities of Augsburg, Würzburg and Bayreuth (Germany)
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