About the research group
Freshwater scarcity is one of today’s major global environmental problems.
Hydrology focuses on the development of science-based management and decision support tools. Research areas span both the sub-disciplines of hydrology and hydrogeology and are interlinked with neighboring disciplines such as remote sensing, geophysics, geochemistry and economics.
Numerical models are built and used to simulate flow and transport phenomena in surface and subsurface water. Natural resource system models are coupled to models of the socio-economic system components. State-of-the-art optimization methods provide information on the trade-offs between various management objectives.
Coordinator: Peter Bauer-Gottwein
List over projects: Current Projects
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Integrated Water Resources Management: Environmental flows, hydrologic extremes, coupled hydro-economic modeling, water resources risk assessment
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Catchment Hydrology: Catchment modelling, reservoir design, flood hydrology, data assimilation, parameter identification and uncertainty, scaling of rainfall
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Groundwater: Well field analysis, groundwater-surface water interaction, gas transport in the unsaturated zone |
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Hydrogeophysics and remote sensing methods in hydrology: Using gravity-derived storage changes for hydrological model calibration, saline groundwater quality monitoring and modeling, mapping and modeling of structurally complex hydrological systems, hydrogeophysical data fusion
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Computational methods in water resources: Mathematical modelling, inverse methods, stochastic simulation, parameter estimation, validation and calibration techniques |
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