Dr. Michael Rode
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Brueckstr. 3a
D-39114 Magdeburg
Tel.: +49 391 810-9650
Fax: +49 391 810-9699
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Dr. Michael Rode
Field of Work
- Water quality modelling, non point source pollution , system analysis of runoff generation and soil erosion, GIS-based hydrological modelling, river basin management
Career History
2008
Habilitation, subject: "Analysis and modelling of nutrient transport and transformation processes on the catchment scale"
2007
Deputy Head of Department of Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis and Management at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ. Head of catchment modelling section
2003
Head of the Department of Hydrological Modelling at the UFZ
1998
Head of the Interdisciplinary Dep. of Riverine and Lacustrine Landscapes at the UFZ
1997
Leader of the research group "GIS, Water Quality & Modelling"
1996
Scientist to the UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Dep. of Inland Water Research
1990
Assistant lecturer at the Dep. of Landscape Development, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
1995
Ph.D., subject: "Quantification of non point source phosphorus inputs to surface waters"
1991-1995
Ph.D.-student at the Dep. of Landscape Development, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, grant of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation
1989
German Diploma (Master of Science) in Agronomy, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany
Review-Article
Rode, M., Klauer, B., Petry, D., Volk, M., Wenk, G, & Wagenschein, D. (2008) Integrated Nutrient Transport Modelling with respect to the Implementation of the European WFD: The Weisse Elster Case Study, Germany. Water SA, 34,4, 490-469.
Shrestha, R. R., Rode, M. (2008) Multi-objective calibration and fuzzy preference selection of a distributed hydrological model. Environ. Modell. Softw. 23, 1384-1395.
Wagenschein, D., Rode, M. (2008) Modelling the impact of river morphology on nitrogen retention – a case study of the Weisse Elster River (Germany). Ecol. Model. 211, 224-232
Wriedt, G., Spindler, J., Neef, T., Meissner, R., & M. Rode (2007) Modelling nitrate export of a lowland catchment system – the influence of groundwater dynamics. J. of Hydrol., 343, 154-168.
Shrestha, R.R., Bárdossy, A. & Rode, M. (2007) Modelling Nitrate dynamics at a catchment scale: A combined deterministic and fuzzy rule based model. J. of Hydrol., 342, 143-156.
Guse, B., Bronstert, A. , Rode, M., Tetzlaff, B., & Wendland, F. (2007) Application of two phosphorus models with different complexities in a mesoscale river catchment. Adv. Geosci., 11, 77–84.
Rode, M., Suhr, U. & G. Wriedt (2007) Multi-objective calibration of a river water quality model – information content of calibration data. Ecol. Model., 204, 129-142.
Rode, M. and U. Suhr (2007) Uncertainties in selected river water quality data. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci , 11(2), 863-874.
Wriedt, G., & Rode, M. (2006) Investigation of parameter uncertainty and indefatigability of the hydrological model WaSiM-ETH, Advances in Geosciences, 9 145-150.
Buettner, O., Otte-Witte, K., Krueger, F., Meon, G. and Rode, M. (2006) Numerical modelling of floodplain hydraulics, suspended sediment transport and deposition at the event scale in the River Elbe, Germany. Acta Hydroch. Hydrob. 34 (3)265-278
Wriedt, G. & Rode, M. (2006) Modelling the Fate of nitrate in a lowland catchment system. J. of Hydrol., 328 (1-2) 157-176
Lindenschmidt, K.-E., Poser, K. & Rode, M. (2005) Impact of morphological parameters on water quality variables using a computer modelling simulation of a regulated, lowland river. Water Science & Technology 52 (6) 187-193.
Lindenschmidt, K.–E., Hesser, F.B. & Rode, M. (2005) Integrating Water Quality Models in the High Level Architecture (HLA) Environment. – Advances in Geoscience, 4, 51-56.
Ollesch, G., Sukhanovski, Y., Kistner, I., Rode, M. and Meissner R. (2005) Characterisation and modelling of the spatial heterogeneity of snowmelt erosion. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 30,197-211.
Lindenschmidt, K.-E., Ollesch, G. & Rode, M. (2004) Implementing more physically-based hydrological modelling to improve the simulation of non-point dissolved phosphorus transport in small and medium-sized river basins. Hydrological Sciences Journal 49(3) 495-510.
Sukhanovskii Y.P., Ollesch G., Khan K.Y., Meissner R, Rode, M., Volokitin M.P., & Son B.K. (2003) Applicability of the Universal Soil Loss Equation for European Russia, Eurasian Soil Science, 36 (6) 658-663.
Rode, M. , Klauer, B., Krause, P. & Lindenschmidt, K.-E. (2002) Integrated river basin management: a new ecologically-based modelling approach. Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology 2 (1-4): 171-179.
Rode, M., Ollesch, G., & Meissner, R. (2002) Ermittlung von landwirtschaftlichen Phosphoreinträgen in Fließgewässer durch Oberflächenabfluss. KA - Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser, Abfall, 49, 837-843.
Rode, M. & Lindenschmidt K.-E. (2001) Distributed sediment and phosphorus transport modeling in a medium sized catchment in Central Germany. Phys. Chem. Earth, Part B 26(7-8) 635-640.
Lehmann, A. & M. Rode, (2001) Long-term behavior and cross-correlation analysis of water quality parameters of the Elbe river at Magdeburg, Germany. Water Research 35(9) 2153-2160.
Rode, M. & H.G. Frede, (1999) Testing AGNPS for soil erosion and water quality modelling in agricultural catchments in Hesse (Germany). Phys. Chem. Earth (B), 24 (4) 297-301.
Rode, M. & H.-G. Frede, (1997) Modification of AGNPS for agricultural land and climat condition in central Germany. J. of Environmental Quality 26(1), 165-172.
Rode, M. & H.-G. Frede, (1996) Überprüfung des N-A-Modells AGNPS für erosionsbedingte Nährstoffeinträge in hessischen Mittelgebirgseinzugsgebieten. Deutsche Gewässerkundliche Mitteilungen, Heft 6, 244-251.
Rode, M., M. Bach & H.-G. Frede, (1996) Bewertung von Landnutzungsänderungen zur Reduzierung des Nährstoffeintrags in Fließgewässer mit dem N-A-Modell AGNPS. Wasserwirtschaft 86, Heft 2, 82-87.
Rode, M., S. Grunwald & H-G. Frede, (1995) Methodik zur GIS-gestützten Berechnung von diffusen Nährstoffeinträgen in Fließgewässer mit dem N-A-Modell AGNPS. Z. Kulturtechnik Landentwicklung, Vol. 36(2), 63-68.
Books
Klauer, B.; Rode, M. & Petry, D. (Hrsg.) 2008: Flussgebietsmanagement nach EU-Wasserrahmenrichtlinie. Metropolis Verlag, Marburg, 399 S.
Kerjentsev, A. S., Meissner, R., Demidov, V.V., Ollesch, G., Sukhanovski, Y.P., Wolokitin, M.P., Kistner, I., Kolomizev, N.W., Rode, M., Son, B.K., Boichowez, S.S., Demin, D.W., Piskunov, A.N., Iljina, T.A. & Kiselewa, O.E. (2006) Modellierung von Erosionsprozessen in kleinen Wassereinzugsgebieten (in Russisch). Moskau, Nauka Verlag, 224 S.
Bronstert, A., Thieken, A., Merz, B., Rode, M., Menzel, L. (2004) Wasser- und Stofftransport in heterogenen Einzugsgebieten. Beiträge zum Tag der Hydrologie 2004 am 22./23. März 2004 in Potsdam. Forum für Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung 5 (4)/1 und 5(4)/2, Potsdam, S. 315 und 221,, ISBN 3-937758-18-6
Hennrich, K., Rode, M., & Bronstert, A. (2003) 6. Workshop zur großskaligen Modellierung in der Hydrologie: Flussgebietsmanagement , Kassel University Press GmbH, 200 S.
Rode, M., Henle, K., & Schellenberger, A. (Hrsg.) (2001): Erhalt und Regenerierung der Flusslandschaft Saale. Nova Acta Leopoldina, Nummer 319, Band 84, 208 S.
Friese K., Witter B., Miehlich G. & Rode M., (Hrsg.) (2000) Stoffhaushalt von Auenökosystemen –Böden und Hydrologie, Schadstoffe, Bewertung. Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 434 S.
