Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG)

Agrosphere (IBG-3)

Modelling and management of catchments

About

The aim of the research group "Modelling and management of catchments" ist the development of models for balancing and forecasting water and nutrient fluxes on the level of Federal States and river basins and offering scientific support for the emerging issues of water policies in Germany and beyond, e.g. for implementing the EU water framework directive.

Research Topics

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

Contact

Prof. Dr. Frank Wendland

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Building 16.6 / Room R 307

+49 2461/61-3165

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Team

Dr. Frank Herrmann

Researcher in water balance modelling

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Building 16.6 /
Room 3048

+49 2461/61-3847

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Walter Hettler

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Building 16.6z /
Room 3047

+49 2461/61-3165

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Dr. Ralf Kunkel

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Building 16.6z /
Room 3046

+49 2461/61-3262

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Johannes Scherer

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Building 16.6z /
Room 3046

+49 2461/61-5309

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Dr. Björn Tetzlaff

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Building 16.6z /
Room 2044

+49 2461/61-3648

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Dr. Tim Wolters

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Building 16.6z /
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+49 2461/61-5786

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Projects

Publications

Wolters, T.; Berthold, G.; Kunkel, R.; Tetzlaff, B.; Thomas, A.; Zacharias, M.; Wendland, F. Multi-Tier Validation of a Macroscale Nitrogen Model for Groundwater Management in Watersheds Using Data from Different Monitoring Networks. Water 2023, 15, 2277
Pisinaras, V.; Herrmann, F.; Panagopoulos, A.; Tziritis, E.; McNamara, I.; Wendland, F. (2023): Fully Distributed Water Balance Modelling in Large Agricultural Areas—The Pinios River Basin (Greece) Case Study.- Sustainability, 15, 4343
Wolters, T.; Bach, T.; Eisele, M.; Eschenbach, W.; Kunkel, R.; McNamara, I.; Well, R.; Wendland, F. (2022). The derivation of denitrification conditions in groundwater: com-bined method approach and application for Germany. Ecological Indicators, Volume 144, 109564, ISSN 1470-160X
Eysholdt, M., Kunkel, R., Rösemann, C., Wendland, F., Wolters, T., Zinnbauer, M. & Fuß, R. (2022). A model based estimate of nitrate leaching in Germany for GHG report-ing. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science,1–14
Wolters, T., Cremer, N., Eisele, M., Herrmann, F., Kreins, P., Kunkel, R., Wendland, F (2021): Checking the plausibility of modelled nitrate concentrations in the leachate on federal state scale in Germany.- Water 2021, 13(2), 226
Wendland, F.; Bergmann, S. ; Eisele, M. ; Gömann, H. ; Herrmann, F. ; Kreins, P. ; Kunkel, R. (2020): Model-Based Analysis of Nitrate Concentration in the Leachate—The North Rhine-Westfalia Case Study, Germany Water 12(2), 550 - (2020)

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