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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2024 (6)
- Abbas, G., Jomaa, S., Fink, P., Brosinsky, A., Nowak, K.M., Kümmel, S., Schkade, U.-K., Rode, M. (2024):
Investigating sediment sources using compound-specific stable isotopes and conventional fingerprinting methods in an agricultural loess catchment
Catena 246 , art. 108336 10.1016/j.catena.2024.108336 - Chávez García Silva, R., Reinecke, R., Copty, N.K., Barry, D.A., Heggy, E., Labat, D., Roggero, P.P., Borchardt, D., Rode, M., Gómez-Hernández, J.J., Jomaa, S. (2024):
Multi-decadal groundwater observations reveal surprisingly stable levels in southwestern Europe
Commun. Earth Environ. 5 , art. 387 10.1038/s43247-024-01554-w - Chen, M., Jomaa, S., Lausch, A., Beudert, B., Ghaffar, S., Jia, W., Rode, M. (2024):
Impact of forest dieback on hydrology and nitrogen export using a new dynamic water quality model
Water Resour. Res. 60 (11), e2024WR037341 10.1029/2024wr037341 - Ghaffar, S., Zhou, X., Jomaa, S., Yang, X., Meon, G., Rode, M. (2024):
Toward a data-effective calibration of a fully distributed catchment water quality model
Water Resour. Res. 60 (9), e2023WR036527 10.1029/2023wr036527 - Jomaa, S. (2024):
Figures 1-3 and data needed to reproduce these Figures for the paper titled: Multi-decadal groundwater observations in southwestern Europe reveal largely stable levels, published by Chavez et al. (2024) in Communications Earth & Environment
figshare 10.6084/m9.figshare.26069383.v1 - Manfreda, S., Miglino, D., Saddi, K.C., Jomaa, S., Eltner, A., Perks, M., Peña-Haro. S., , Bogaard, T., van Emmerik, T.H.M., Mariani, S., Maddock, I., Tauro, F., Grimaldi, S., Zeng, Y., Gonçalves, G., Strelnikova, D., Bussettini, M., Marchetti, G., Lastoria, B., Su, Z., Rode, M. (2024):
Advancing river monitoring using image-based techniques: challenges and opportunities
Hydrol. Sci. J.-J. Sci. Hydrol. 69 (6), 657 - 677 10.1080/02626667.2024.2333846
2023 (8)
- 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 10.1016/j.ejrh.2023.101340 - Ben-Salem, N., Reinecke, R., Copty, N.K., Gómez-Hernández, J.J., Varouchakis, E.A., Karatzas, G.P., Rode, M., Jomaa, S. (2023):
Mapping steady-state groundwater levels in the Mediterranean region: The Iberian Peninsula as a benchmark
J. Hydrol. 626, Part A , art. 130207 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130207 - Fouad, S.S., Heggy, E., Ramah, M., Abotalib, Z.A., Palmer, E.M., Jomaa, S., Weilacher, U. (2023):
Egypt's waterways conservation campaigns under growing intrinsic demand and Nile upstream damming
J. Hydrol. Reg. Stud. 50 , art. 101537 10.1016/j.ejrh.2023.101537 - Jomaa, S., Chavez, R., Ben-Salem, N., Varouchakis, E., Copty, N.K., Karatzas, G.P., Rode, M., Gómez-Hernández, J.J. (2023):
Power of groundwater data sharing in the Mediterranean region
EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, EGU23-13827 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-13827 - 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, EGU23-14960 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-14960 - Schmidt, C., Jomaa, S., Bärlund, I., Büttner, O., Borchardt, D., Kumar, R., Batool, M., Schenk, K., Heege, T., Bauer, P., Bernert, H., Flörke, M., Rivera, J., Dürr, H., Kynast, E., Paulsen, H., Rothstein, U., Blitza, H. (2023):
Quality known. GlobeWQ final report
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ [u.a.], Leipzig, 90 pp. - 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. 37 (8), 3009 - 3020 10.1007/s00477-023-02436-x - Zhou, X., Jomaa, S., Yang, X., Merz, R., Wang, Y., Rode, M. (2023):
Stream restoration can reduce nitrate levels in agricultural landscapes
Sci. Total Environ. 896 , art. 164911 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164911
2022 (13)
- 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 10.3390/w14142242 - Chavez Garcia Silva, R., Ben-Salem, N., Reinecke, R., Rode, M., Jomaa, S. (2022):
Understanding groundwater drivers in the Mediterranean region using a combination of modeling and in-situ data at a regional scale
IAHS-AISH Scientific Assembly 2022, Montpellier, France, 29 May–3 Jun 2022
IAHS Publ.
International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), Wallingford, Oxfordshire, IAHS2022-344 10.5194/iahs2022-344 - Chavez Garcia Silva, R., Reinecke, R., Varouchakis, E., Gómez-Hernández, J., Rode, M., Jomaa, S. (2022):
Identification of large-scale aquifer behavior across three decades of groundwater storage change in the western Mediterranean region
EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, EGU22-7966 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-7966 - 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 10.3389/feart.2022.872711 - 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 10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109660 - Jomaa, S., Ben-Salem, N., Chávez, R., Reinecke, R., Varouchakis, E., Silva, J.V., Ceseracciu, C., Nguyen, T.P.L., Cetinkaya, I.D., Saysel, A.K., Copty, N.K., Rouhani, A., Oueslati, M., Mino, E., Karatzas, G.P., Roggero, P.P., Rode, M., Gómez-Hernández, J.J. (2022):
Inclusive and resilient groundwater assessment towards sustainable development in the Mediterranean region
IAHS-AISH Scientific Assembly 2022, Montpellier, France, 29 May–3 Jun 2022
IAHS Publ.
International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), Wallingford, Oxfordshire, IAHS2022-419 10.5194/iahs2022-419 - 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 [Data set]. In Water Research (1.0, Vol. 221, Number 118721)
Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.6617108 - 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 10.1016/j.watres.2022.118721 - 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 10.3390/environsciproc2022021063 - 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 10.1088/1748-9326/ac6f6a - 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 10.1029/2021GL096833 - Yang, X., Rode, M., Jomaa, S., Merbach, I., Tetzlaff, D., Soulsby, C., Borchardt, D. (2022):
Crop N-uptake responses to fertilization and its upscaling for catchment water quality modeling
Data Investigation Portal UFZ 10.48758/ufz.12211 - 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 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128615
2021 (4)
- 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 10.3390/app11156763 - Chavez Garcia Silva, R., Reinecke, R., Varouchakis, E., Gómez-Hernández, J., Rode, M., Jomaa, S. (2021):
Long-term groundwater database and assessment for the Mediterranean region
EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, EGU21-10989 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-10989 - Ghaffar, S., Jomaa, S., Meon, G., Rode, M. (2021):
Spatial validation of a semi-distributed hydrological nutrient transport model
J. Hydrol. 593 , art. 125818 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125818 - 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 10.3390/w13040483
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 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110976 - 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 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135925 - 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 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125585
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.-Process Impacts 21 (9), 1477 - 1488 10.1039/C9EM00201D - 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 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.11.049 - 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 10.1016/j.watres.2019.02.059 - 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 10.1029/2019WR025575
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 10.5772/intechopen.70547 - 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 10.1007/s10661-018-6700-9 - 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 10.1126/sciadv.aar8195 - 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 10.1029/2017WR022380
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 10.1016/j.catena.2017.01.025 - 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 - 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 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.04.149
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 - 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 10.3390/w8050178 - 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 10.1002/2016WR019314 - 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 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.07.053 - 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 10.1016/j.jelechem.2016.10.048 - 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 10.1186/s13705-016-0077-9 - 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 10.1021/acs.est.6b02155
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
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 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.09.009
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 10.1002/eco.1462
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 10.1002/wrcr.20510 - 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 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.01.021
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