Institut für Bio- und Geowissenschaften (IBG)

Agrosphäre (IBG-3)

Development of models for balancing and forecasting water and nutrient fluxes on the level of Federal States and river basins

Scientific support for the emerging issues of water policies in Germany and beyond, e.g. for implementing the EU water framework directive

Water balance and climate change

To quantify water balance components in high spatial and temporal resolution
To assess total runoff and groundwater recharge for regional water resources management
To predict the impact of climate change on sustainably manageable groundwater recharge, soil water balance and irrigation demands
Models: GROWA, mGROWA

Nutrients

To identify input pathways and to analyze the actual N and P pollution of groundwater, surface waters and coastal areas
To locate “hot spot areas” and to determine the nutrient reduction required to reach environmental quality targets
To predict the impact of management adaptations
Models: DENUZ-WEKU-MEPhos