Sebastian Gimper - Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Sebastian Gimper

Engineer at Helmholtz Centrum for Enviromental Research GmbH - UFZ
Regional Ecophysiology Group
Department Computational Hydrosystems

Email
Phone
Fax
Adress

Sebastian.Gimper@ufz.de 0341 235 1060
0341 235 45 1060
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig

Projects

Education

Studied Enviromental Measuring Technologies at Ernst-Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena

Topic diploma thesis:
Evaluierung bestehender Messsensoren zur Ermittlung des Matrixpotenzials in Böden
diploma thesis

Contact

Head
Prof. Dr. Sabine Attinger
Department of Computational Hydrosystems
sabine.attinger@ufz.de

Deputy Head
Dr. Luis Samaniego
Department of Computational Hydrosystems
luis.samaniego@ufz.de

Assistance
Nora Pabst
Phone +49 341 235-1281

Sindy Bleiholder
Phone +49 341 235-1250

Anne Dornfeld
Phone +49 341 235-482427

sekces@ufz.de

Permoserstraße 15 | 04318 Leipzig

News / Press

Jul 22, 2021

We are happy to announce the next release of mHM: v5.11.2 .

May 19, 2021

In October 2020 a new Helmholtz Young Investigator group ( link ) led by Jakob Zscheischler started in CHS. The group will work on compound weather and climate events with a particular focus on using novel ideas from explainable machine learning to identify compounding weather drivers of extreme impacts such as vegetation mortality, crop failure and floods. Recently the group was awarded a Helmholtz AI project called CausalFlood, in which compounding drivers of floods will be identified based on causal inference in collaboration with the group of Jakob Runge from DLR.

Apr 15, 2021

We are happy to announce the release of the massive update v1.3.0 of GSTools.

Feb 23, 2021

Dr. Luis Samaniego defended his Habilitation work on the 23^rd February at the Faculty of Science at the University of Potsdam. The topic of his Habilitation was: "DROUGHT MODELING AND FORECASTING - from Local to Global Scales -”. The commission unanimously conferred him the venia legendi in hydrology.

Nov 12, 2020

Starting next year, two Helmholtz knowledge transfer projects will be funded at the UFZ. The Water Resources Information System Germany WIS-D ( see here ) lead in CHS and the forest monitor headed in the Department CLE.

Nov 8, 2020

FALLING WALLS CIRCLE TABLE: BREAKTHROUGHS IN WATER DIAGNOSIS
with A. CURRY, J. MCDONNELL, J. ROSE, L. SAMANIEGO

Three international experts working on Water Diagnosis methods meet at the World Science Summit (last Nov. 8) to discuss insights of past achievements and the next walls that need to be torn-down to improve water management.

Jun 5, 2019

Release of mHM 5.10

2018

Our group contributed to the IPCC report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C with three contributions from the HOKLIM and EDgE projects

May 3, 2018

WRR Editors’ Highlight: Zink et al. 2018: "Conditioning a Hydrologic Model Using Patterns of Remotely Sensed Land Surface Temperature"

Nov 16, 2017

... and the UFZ Research Award 2017 goes to the mHM-Team

New publications

Najafi H, Robertson AW, Massah Bavani AR, Irannejad P, Wanders N, Wood EF. Improved multi-model ensemble forecasts of Iran's precipitation and temperature using a hybrid dynamical-statistical approach during fall and winter seasons. Int
J Climatol. 2021;1–28. DOI: 10.1002/joc.7148

Hari, V., Rakovec, O., Markonis, Y. et al. Increased future occurrences of the exceptional 2018–2019 Central European drought under global warming. Sci Rep 10, 12207 (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-68872-9

Schmidt, L., Heße, F., Attinger, S., Kumar, R., (2020): "Challenges in applying machine learning models for hydrological inference: A case study for flooding events across Germany", Water Resources Research DOI: 10.1029/2019WR025924

Jing, M., Kumar, R., Heße, F., Thober, S., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Attinger, S., (2020): "Assessing the response of groundwater quantity and travel time distribution to 1.5, 2, and 3 °C global warming in a mesoscale central German basin", Hydrology and Earth System Sciences DOI: 10.5194/hess-24-1511-2020

News Archive

Samaniego et al. (2019): "Hydrological Forecasts and Projections for Improved Decision-Making in the Water Sector in Europe", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Rakovec et al. (2019): "Diagnostic Evaluation of Large‐Domain Hydrologic Models Calibrated Across the Contiguous United States", Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Samaniego et al. (2018): "Anthropogenic warming exacerbates European soil moisture droughts", Nature Climate Change

Thober et al. (2018): "Multi-model ensemble projections of European river floods and high flows at 1.5, 2, and 3 degree global warming", ERL

Jing, M. et al. (2018): "Improved regional-scale groundwater representation by the coupling of the mesoscale Hydrologic Model (mHM v5.7) to the groundwater model OpenGeoSys (OGS)" Geosci. Model Dev.

Zink, M. (2018): "Conditioning a hydrologic model using patterns of remotely sensed land surface temperature" Water Resour. Res.

Samaniego et al. (2017), "Toward seamless hydrologic predictions across spatial scales", HESS

Climate Tower inauguration (MDR.de) lead by C. Rebmann and M. Cuntz

Inauguration of the Climate Tower in Hohes Holz

Zech et al. (2015), "Sauna, sweat and science", Isotopes in Environm. and Health Studie

Dürrer wird's noch (ZEIT online) feat. the UFZ Drought Monitor and M. Zink

Drought in Germany, Aug 2015, ZEIT online

Eos Research Spotlight Inflexibility of Some Hydrological Models Limits Accuracy feat. Mendoza et al. 2015

HEPEX Blog The importance of parameterizations for better continental forecast systems by Luis Samaniego

Climate Office German Drought Monitor beta version online

Comparison of two extreme flood events in Germany in 2002 and 2013

Does parameterization technique affect simulations of water fluxes? selected for the Eos Research Spotlight in AGU's weekly newspaper.
Featured article

Nationwide agricultural drought reconstruction for Germany since 1950 at a spatial resolution of 4×4 km².
Journal article

WRR-Editor's Choice Awards 2010: Multiscale parameter regionalization of a grid-based hydrologic model at the mesoscale.
Journal article

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Sebastian Gimper Engineer at Helmholtz Centrum for Enviromental Research GmbH - UFZ Regional Ecophysiology Group Department Computational Hydrosystems EmailPhoneFaxAdress Sebastian.Gimper@ufz.de 0341 235 10600341 235 45 1060Permoserstraße 1504318 Leipzig Projects

Engineer at Helmholtz Centrum for Enviromental Research GmbH - UFZ

Regional Ecophysiology Group Department Computational Hydrosystems

EmailPhoneFaxAdress Sebastian.Gimper@ufz.de 0341 235 10600341 235 45 1060Permoserstraße 1504318 Leipzig

EmailPhoneFaxAdress

Sebastian.Gimper@ufz.de 0341 235 10600341 235 45 1060Permoserstraße 1504318 Leipzig

Education

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Sebastian Gimper

Engineer at Helmholtz Centrum for Enviromental Research GmbH - UFZ
Regional Ecophysiology Group
Department Computational Hydrosystems

Email
Phone
Fax
Adress

Sebastian.Gimper@ufz.de 0341 235 1060
0341 235 45 1060
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig

Projects

Regional Ecophysiology Group
Department Computational Hydrosystems

Email
Phone
Fax
Adress

Sebastian.Gimper@ufz.de 0341 235 1060
0341 235 45 1060
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig

Email
Phone
Fax
Adress

Sebastian.Gimper@ufz.de 0341 235 1060
0341 235 45 1060
Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig