Dr. Seifeddine Jomaa
Contact / Address
Dr. Seifeddine Jomaa
Scientist
Department of Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis and Management (ASAM)
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research - UFZ
Brückstr. 3a, 39114 Magdeburg, Germany
phone +49 391 810 9135

Education
since June 2015
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ,
Department of Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis and Management (ASAM)
March 2012 - Dec 2015
UFZ Department of Bioenergy, Scientist-Post Doc
Aug 2007- Feb 2012
PhD student at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) - Switzerland
2006-2007
Advanced degree in hydrology
University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse (UPS) – France
2005-2006
Master of science in hydrology
National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (INPT) – France
2002-2005
Engineering degree in hydraulics (ESIER) – Tunisia
Project
MIRACLE: Mediating integrated actions for sustainable ecosystem services in a changing climate
Publications
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2023 (3)
- Abbas, G., Jomaa, S., Bronstert, A., Rode, M. (2023):
Downstream changes in riverbank sediment sources and the effect of catchment size
J. Hydrol. 46 , art. 101340
full text (doi) - Miglino, D., Jomaa, S., Rode, M., Isgro, F., Saddi, K.C., Manfreda, S. (2023):
The use of optical camera for river turbidity monitoring
EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, p. EGU23-14960
full text (doi) - Varouchakis, E.A., Solomatine, D., Corzo Perez, G.A., Jomaa, S., Karatzas, G.P. (2023):
Combination of geostatistics and self-organizing maps for the spatial analysis of groundwater level variations in complex hydrogeological systems
Stoch. Environ. Res. Risk Assess.
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2022 (8)
- Ben Nsir, S., Jomaa, S., Yıldırım, Ü., Zhou, X., D’Oria, M., Rode, M., Khlifi, S. (2022):
Assessment of climate change impact on discharge of the Lakhmass catchment (Northwest Tunisia)
Water 14 (14), art. 2242
full text (doi) - Cheraghi, M., Rinaldo, A., Sander, G.C., Perona, P., Cimatoribus, A., Jomaa, S., Barry, D.A. (2022):
Applicability of the landscape evolution model in the absence of rills
Front. Earth Sci. 10 , art. 872711
full text (doi) - Fouad, S.S., Heggy, E., Abotalib, Z.A., Ramah, M., Jomaa, S., Weilacher, U. (2022):
Landscape-based regeneration of the Nile Delta’s waterways in support of water conservation and environmental protection
Ecol. Indic. 145 , art. 109660
full text (doi) - Kong, X., Ghaffar, S., Determann, M., Friese, K., Jomaa, S., Mi, C., Shatwell, T., Rinke, K., Rode, M. (2022):
Reservoir water quality deterioration due to deforestation emphasizes the indirect effects of global change
Water Res. 221 , art. 118721
full text (doi) - Miglino, D., Jomaa, S., Rode, M., Isgro, F., Manfreda, S. (2022):
Monitoring water turbidity using remote sensing techniques
Environ. Sci. Proc. 21 (1), art. 63
full text (doi) - Wachholz, A., Jawitz, J.W., Büttner, O., Jomaa, S., Merz, R., Yang, S., Borchardt, D. (2022):
Drivers of multi-decadal nitrate regime shifts in a large European catchment
Environ. Res. Lett. 17 (6), art. 064039
full text (doi) - Yang, X., Rode, M., Jomaa, S., Merbach, I., Tetzlaff, D., Soulsby, C., Borchardt, D. (2022):
Functional multi-scale integration of agricultural nitrogen-budgets into catchment water quality modeling
Geophys. Res. Lett. 49 (4), e2021GL096833
full text (doi) - Zhou, X., Jomaa, S., Yang, X., Merz, R., Wang, Y., Rode, M. (2022):
Exploring the relations between sequential droughts and stream nitrogen dynamics in central Germany through catchment-scale mechanistic modelling
J. Hydrol. 614, Part B , art. 128615
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2021 (3)
- Ben Zaied, M., Jomaa, S., Ouessar, M. (2021):
Soil erosion estimates in arid region: a case study of the Koutine catchment, southeastern Tunisia
Appl. Sci. 11 (15), art. 6763
full text (doi) - Ghaffar, S., Jomaa, S., Meon, G., Rode, M. (2021):
Spatial validation of a semi-distributed hydrological nutrient transport model
J. Hydrol. 593 , art. 125818
full text (doi) - Yıldırım, Ü., Güler, C., Önol, B., Rode, M., Jomaa, S. (2021):
Modelling of the discharge response to climate change under RCP8.5 scenario in the Alata River Basin (Mersin, SE Turkey)
Water 13 (4), art. 483
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2020 (3)
- Carolus, J.F., Bartosova, A., Olsen, S.B., Jomaa, S., Veinbergs, A., Zīlāns, A., Pedersen, S.M., Schwarz, G., Rode, M., Tonderski, K. (2020):
Nutrient mitigation under the impact of climate and land-use changes: A hydro-economic approach to participatory catchment management
J. Environ. Manage. 271 , art. 110976
full text (doi) - Chukalla, A.D., Reidsma, P., van Vliet, M.T.H., Silva, J.V., van Ittersum, M.K., Jomaa, S., Rode, M., Merbach, I., van Oel, P.R. (2020):
Balancing indicators for sustainable intensification of crop production at field and river basin levels
Sci. Total Environ. 705 , art. 135925
full text (doi) - Zhang, X., Yang, X., Jomaa, S., Rode, M. (2020):
Analyzing impacts of seasonality and landscape gradient on event-scale nitrate-discharge dynamics based on nested high-frequency monitoring
J. Hydrol. 591 , art. 125585
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2019 (5)
- Ben-Salem, N., Anane, M., Jomaa, S., Jellali, S. (2019):
Impact of anthropogenic activities on physiochemical properties of Wadi El Bey (Northeast of Tunisia)
Hydrolink (3), 70 - 73 - Huang, J., Yin, H., Jomaa, S., Rode, M., Zhou, Q. (2019):
Limited nitrogen retention in an urban river receiving raw sewage and wastewater treatment plant effluent
Environ. Sci.-Proc. Imp. 21 (9), 1477 - 1488
full text (doi) - Jiang, S.Y., Zhang, Q., Werner, A.D., Wellen, C., Jomaa, S., Zhu, Q.D., Büttner, O., Meon, G., Rode, M. (2019):
Effects of stream nitrate data frequency on watershed model performance and prediction uncertainty
J. Hydrol. 569 , 22 - 36
full text (doi) - Yang, X., Jomaa, S., Büttner, O., Rode, M. (2019):
Autotrophic nitrate uptake in river networks: A modeling approach using continuous high-frequency data
Water Res. 157 , 258 - 268
full text (doi) - Yang, X., Jomaa, S., Rode, M. (2019):
Sensitivity analysis of fully distributed parameterization reveals insights into heterogeneous catchment responses for water quality modeling
Water Resour. Res. 55 (12), 10935 - 10953
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2018 (4)
- Jiang, S., Zhu, Q., Jomaa, S. (2018):
Field-controlled hydrological experiments in red soil-covered areas (South China): a review
In: Liu, J.-F., Gu, W.-Z. (eds.)
Hydrology of artificial and controlled experiments
InTechOpen, London, p. 185 - 196
full text (doi) - Jomaa, S., Aboud, I., Dupas, R., Yang, X., Rozemeijer, J., Rode, M. (2018):
Improving nitrate load estimates in an agricultural catchment using Event Response Reconstruction
Environ. Monit. Assess. 190 (6), art. 330
full text (doi) - Reusch, T.B.H., Dierking, J., Andersson, H.C., Bonsdorff, E., Carstensen, J., Casini, M., Czajkowski, M., Hasler, B., Hinsby, K., Hyytiäinen, K., Johannesson, K., Jomaa, S., Jormalainen, V., Kuosa, H., Kurland, S., Laikre, L., MacKenzie, B.R., Margonski, P., Melzner, F., Oesterwind, D., Ojaveer, H., Refsgaard, J.C., Sandström, A., Schwarz, G., Tonderski, K., Winder, M., Zandersen, M. (2018):
The Baltic Sea as a time machine for the future coastal ocean
Sci. Adv. 4 (5), eaar8195
full text (doi) - Yang, X., Jomaa, S., Zink, M., Fleckenstein, J.H., Borchardt, D., Rode, M. (2018):
A new fully distributed model of nitrate transport and removal at catchment scale
Water Resour. Res. 54 (8), 5856 - 5877
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2017 (3)
- Jomaa, S., Barry, D.A., Rode, M., Sander, G.C., Parlange, J.-Y. (2017):
Linear scaling of precipitation-driven soil erosion in laboratory flumes
Catena 152 , 285 - 291
full text (doi) - Lisle, I.G., Sander, G.C., Parlange, J.-Y., Rose, C.W., Hogarth, W.L., Braddock, R.D., Stagnitti, F., Lockington, D.A., Jomaa, S., Cheraghi, M., Barry, D.A. (2017):
Transport time scales in soil erosion modeling
Vadose Zone J. 16 (12), 10.2136/vzj2017.06.0121
full text (doi) - Moeder, M., Carranza-Diaz, O., López-Angulo, G., Vega-Aviña, R., Chávez-Durán, F.A., Jomaa, S., Winkler, U., Schrader, S., Reemtsma, T., Delgado-Vargas, F. (2017):
Potential of vegetated ditches to manage organic pollutants derived from agricultural runoff and domestic sewage: A case study in Sinaloa (Mexico)
Sci. Total Environ. 598 , 1106 - 1115
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2016 (7)
- Bärlund, I., da Costa, M.P., Modak, P., Mensah, A.M., Gordon, C., Babel, M.S., Kamphaengthong, P.L., Dickens, C., Jomaa, S., Benabdallah, S., Riahi, K., Ollesch, G., Swaney, D., Limburg, K., Farrar, K., Alcamo, J. (2016):
Water pollution in river basins
UNEP 2016. A snapshot of the world’s water quality: towards a global assessment
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi, p. 49 - 80
full text (url) - Chaibou Begou, J., Jomaa, S., Benabdallah, S., Bazie, P., Afouda, A., Rode, M. (2016):
Multi-site validation of the SWAT model on the Bani catchment: model performance and predictive uncertainty
Water 8 (5), art. 178
full text (doi) - Cheraghi, M., Jomaa, S., Sander, G.C., Barry, D.A. (2016):
Hysteretic sediment fluxes in rainfall-driven soil erosion: Particle size effects
Water Resour. Res. 52 (11), 8613 - 8629
full text (doi) - Dupas, R., Jomaa, S., Musolff, A., Borchardt, D., Rode, M. (2016):
Disentangling the influence of hydroclimatic patterns and agricultural management on river nitrate dynamics from sub-hourly to decadal time scales
Sci. Total Environ. 571 , 791 - 800
full text (doi) - Ghazouani, M., Akrout, H., Jomaa, S., Jellali, S., Bousselmi, L. (2016):
Enhancing removal of nitrates from highly concentrated synthetic wastewaters using bipolar Si/BDD cell: Optimization and mechanism study
J. Electroanal. Chem. 783 , 28 - 40
full text (doi) - Jomaa, S., Jiang, S., Thraen, D., Rode, M. (2016):
Modelling the effect of different agricultural practices on stream nitrogen load in central Germany
Energy Sustain. Soc. 6 , art. 11
full text (doi) - Rode, M., Wade, A.J., Cohen, M.J., Hensley, R.T., Bowes, M.J., Kirchner, J.W., Arhonditsis, G.B., Jordan, P., Kronvang, B., Halliday, S.J., Skeffington, R.A., Rozemeijer, J.C., Aubert, A.H., Rinke, K., Jomaa, S. (2016):
Sensors in the stream: the high-frequency wave of the present
Environ. Sci. Technol. 50 (19), 10297 - 10307
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2015 (2)
- Cheraghi, M., Jomaa, S., Sander, G.C., Barry, D.A. (2015):
Hysteresis effects in splash sediment transport
17th International Conference Transport & Sedimentation of Solid Particles, September 22-25, 2015, Delft, The Netherlands
p. 1 - 9 - Jiang, S., Jomaa, S., Büttner, O., Meon, G., Rode, M. (2015):
Multi-site identification of a distributed hydrological nitrogen model using Bayesian uncertainty analysis
J. Hydrol. 529 , 940 - 950
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2014 (1)
- Jiang, S., Jomaa, S., Rode, M. (2014):
Modelling inorganic nitrogen leaching in nested mesoscale catchments in central Germany
Ecohydrology 7 (5), 1345 - 1362
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2013 (2)
- Barry, D.A., Sander, G.C., Jomaa, S., Yeghiazarian, L., Steenhuis, T.S., Selker, J.S. (2013):
Solute and sediment transport at laboratory and field scale: contributions of J.-Y. Parlange
Water Resour. Res. 49 (10), 6111 - 6136
full text (doi) - Jomaa, S., Barry, D.A., Heng, B.C.P., Brovelli, A., Sander, G.C., Parlange, J.-Y. (2013):
Effect of antecedent conditions and specific rock fragment cover on soil erosion dynamics through multiple rainfall events
J. Hydrol. 484 , 115 - 127
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2012 (2)
- S. Jomaa, Barry, D.A., Brovelli, A., Heng B.C.P., Sander, G.C., Parlange, J-Y. and Rose, C.W. 2012. Rain splash soil erosion estimation in the presence of rock fragments. Catena, 92(1), 38−48.doi
- S. Jomaa, D.A. Barry, B.C.P. Heng, A. Brovelli, G.C. Sander, and Parlange, J.-Y. 2012. Effect of stone coverage on soil erosion and hydrological responses: Laboratory flume experiments and modeling. Water Resources Research, 48, W05535.doi
2011 (1)
- J-Y. Parlange, Hogarth, W.L., Heng, B.C.P., Sander, G.C., Barry, D.A., Brovelli, A., Jomaa, S., Parlange, M., Hairsine, P.B., Steenhuis, T.S., Tromp-van Meerveld, H.J. and Rose, C.W. 2011. Erosion of soils due to rainfall impact – an interpolation method. Ecohydrology, doi: 10.1002/eco.1257.doi
2010 (2)
- D.A. Barry, Sander, G.C., Jomaa, S., Heng, B.C.P., Parlange, J.-Y., Lisle, I.G. and Hogarth, W.L. 2010. Exact solutions of the Hairsine-Rose precipitation-driven erosion model for a uniform grain size soil. Journal of Hydrology, 389(3–4), 399–405.doi
- S. Jomaa, Barry, D.A., Brovelli, A., Sander, G.C., Parlange, J.-Y., Heng, B.C.P. and Tromp-van Meerveld, H.J. 2010. Effect of raindrop splash and transversal width on soil erosion: Laboratory flume experiments and analysis with the Hairsine-Rose model. Journal of Hydrology, 395(1–2), 117–132.doi