Dr. Oldrich Rakovec
Scientist
Department Computational Hydrosystems
Stochastic and Land Surface Hydrology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
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Permoserstraße 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
+49 341 602-51677
oldrich.rakovec(at)ufz.de
Research interest/topics:
- Mesoscale Hydrologic Model
- Large domain hydrologic simulations (from regional to global) using the mesoscale hydrologic model (mHM)
- XEROS eXtreme EuRopean drOughtS: Multimodel synthesis of past, present and future events
- Examining the effects of parameter regionalization schemes on parameter transferability on large basin sampling (in collaboration with RAL-NCAR, US)
- Paleo-hydrology: Hydrological analysis of continental wide water cycle (in collaboration with the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Modeling, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague)
- Making the Most out of a Hydrological Model Dataset: Sensitivity Analyses to Open the Model Black-Box (in collaboration with the Kansas University, US and the Bocconi University, Italy)
- Evaluating the suitability of hydrological models for flood impact assessments (in collaboration with RAL-NCAR, US)
CV / Scientific Career
since 12/2013
11/2009 - 11/2013
09/2007 - 08/2009
09/2006 - 08/2009
Scientist at the UFZ: data assimilation, parameter uncertainty, and global hydrology with mHM
PhD thesis: "Improving operational flood forecasting using data assimilation" at the Wageningen University (The Netherlands). Promotor: Prof. Dr Remko Uijlenhoet, co-promotor: Dr Albrecht Weerts, graduation date: 25.04.2014
MSc in Hydrology and Water Quality at the Wageningen University (The Netherlands)
Ing. (MSc equivalent) in Environmental modelling at the Czech University of Life Science in Prague (The Czech Republic)
Peer-reviewed publications
2026 (1)
- García-García, A., Stradiotti, P., Di Paolo, F., Filippucci, P., Fischer, M., Orság, M., Brocca, L., Peng, J., Dorigo, W., Gruber, A., Droppers, B., Wanders, N., Haag, A., Weerts, A., Modiri, E., Rakovec, O., Francés, F., Dall’Amico, M., Anderson, M., Hain, C., Samaniego, L. (2026):
Intercomparison of Earth Observation products for hyper-resolution hydrological modelling over Europe
Remote Sens. Environ. 333 , art. 115131
10.1016/j.rse.2025.115131
2025 (13)
- Boeing, F., Attinger, S., Wagener, T., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Thober, S., Schlaak, J., Müller, S., Teichmann, C., Kumar, R., Marx, A. (2025):
Spatially and seasonally differentiated response of soil moisture droughts to climate change in Germany
Earth Future 13 (5), e2024EF005495
10.1029/2024EF005495 - Řehoř, J., Brázdil, R., Rakovec, O., Hanel, M., Fischer, M., Kumar, R., Balek, J., Poděbradská, M., Moravec, V., Samaniego, L., Markonis, Y., Trnka, M. (2025):
Global catalog of soil moisture droughts over the past four decades
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 29 (14), 3341 - 3358
10.5194/hess-29-3341-2025 - Fang, B., Rakovec, O., Bevacqua, E., Kumar, R., Zscheischler, J. (2025):
Diverging trends in large floods across Europe in a warming climate
Commun. Earth Environ. 6 , art. 717
10.1038/s43247-025-02734-y - Fatima, E., Kumar, R., Altdorff, D., Attinger, S., Boeing, F., Oswald, S., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Zacharias, S., Schrön, M. (2025):
On the value of mobile cosmic-ray neutron measurements for spatio-temporal soil moisture simulations
Front. Water 7 , art. 1630051
10.3389/frwa.2025.1630051 - Handwerker, J., Barthlott, C., Bauckholt, M., Belleflamme, A., Böhmländer, A., Borg, E., Dick, G., Dietrich, P., Fichtelmann, B., Geppert, G., Goergen, K., Güntner, A., Hammoudeh, S., Hervo, M., Hühn, E., Kaniyodical, M., Keller, J., Kohler, M., Knippertz, P., Kunz, M., Landmark, S., Li, Y., Mohannazadeh, M., Möhler, O., Morsy, M., Najafi, H., Nallasamy, N.D., Oertel, A., Rakovec, O., Reich, H., Reich, M., Saathoff, H., Samaniego, L., Schrön, M., Schuetze, C., Steinert, T., Vogel, F., Vorogushyn, S., Weber, U., Wieser, A., Zhang, H. (2025):
From initiation of convective storms to their impact - the Swabian MOSES 2023 campaign in southwestern Germany
Front. Earth Sci. 13 , art. 1555755
10.3389/feart.2025.1555755 - Kholis, A., Kalbacher, T., Rakovec, O., Boeing, F., Cuntz, M., Samaniego, L. (2025):
Evaluating Richards equation and infiltration capacity approaches in mesoscale hydrologic modelling
Water Resour. Res. 61 (8), e2024WR039625
10.1029/2024WR039625 - Kumar, R., Samaniego, L., Thober, S., Rakovec, O., Marx, A., Wanders, N., Pan, M., Hesse, F., Attinger, S. (2025):
Multi-model assessment of groundwater recharge across Europe under warming climate
Earth Future 13 (1), e2024EF005020
10.1029/2024ef005020 - Müller Schmied, H., Newland Gosling, S., Garnsworthy, M., Müller, L., Telteu, C.-E., Ahmed, A.K., Andersen, L.S., Boulange, J., Buek, P., Chang, J., Chen, H., Gudmunsson, L., Grillakis, M., Guillaumot, L., Hanasaki, N., Koutroulis, A., Kumar, R., Leng, G., Liu, J., Liu, X., Menke, I., Mishra, V., Pokhrel, Y., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Satoh, Y., Lovekumar Shah, H., Smilovic, M., Stacke, T., Sutanudjaja, E., Thiery, W., Tsilimigkras, A., Wada, Y., Wanders, N., Yokohata, T. (2025):
Graphical representation of global water models
Geosci. Model Dev. 18 (8), 2409 - 2425
10.5194/gmd-18-2409-2025 - Reichmuth, A., Rakovec, O., Boeing, F., Müller, S., Samaniego, L., Marx, A., Komischke, H., Schmidt, A., Doktor, D. (2025):
BioVars - A bioclimatic dataset for Europe based on a large regional climate ensemble for periods in 1971–2098
Sci. Data 12 , art. 217
10.1038/s41597-025-04507-w - Shrestha, P.K., Samaniego, L., Rakovec, O., Kumar, R., Thober, S. (2025):
A novel stream network upscaling scheme for accurate local streamflow simulations in gridded global hydrological models
Water Resour. Res. 61 (6), e2024WR038183
10.1029/2024WR038183 - Vorogushyn, S., Han, L., Apel, H., Nguyen, V.D., Guse, B., Guan, X., Rakovec, O., Najafi, H., Samaniego, L., Merz, B. (2025):
It could have been much worse: spatial counterfactuals of the July 2021 flood in the Ahr Valley, Germany
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 25 (6), 2007 - 2029
10.5194/nhess-25-2007-2025 - Vorogushyn, S., Han, L., Apel, H., Nguyen, V.D., Guse, B., Guan, X., Rakovec, O., Najafi, H., Samaniego, L., Merz, B. (2025):
Spatial counterfactuals of the July 2021 flood in the Ahr valley, Germany [Dataset]
GFZ Data Services
10.5880/GFZ.RDOQ.2025.002 - Yadav, D., Kumar, R., Shah, J., Thakur, V., Hanel, M., Rakovec, O. (2025):
Data for "increasing spatial extent and frequency of flash drought in Europe with each degree of global warming"
Zenodo
10.5281/zenodo.17300658
2024 (23)
- Bevacqua, E., Rakovec, O., Schumacher, D.L., Kumar, R., Thober, S., Samaniego, L., Seneviratne, S.I., Zscheischler, J. (2024):
Direct and lagged climate change effects intensified the 2022 European drought
Nat. Geosci. 17 (11), 1100 - 1107
10.1038/s41561-024-01559-2 - Boeing, F., Wagener, T., Marx, A., Rakovec, O., Kumar, R., Samaniego, L., Attinger, S. (2024):
Increasing influence of evapotranspiration on prolonged water storage recovery in Germany
Environ. Res. Lett. 19 (2), art. 024047
10.1088/1748-9326/ad24ce - Chandrasekar, A., Boeing, F., Marx, A., Rakovec, O., Müller, S., Sharifi, E., Leal Rojas, J.J., Samaniego, L., Thober, S. (2024):
Climate adaptation to change in high-flows: Comparison of high-resolution climate model projections
EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, EGU24-9553
10.5194/egusphere-egu24-9553 - Demirel, M.C., Koch, J., Rakovec, O., Kumar, R., Mai, J., Müller, S., Thober, S., Samaniego, L., Stisen, S. (2024):
Tradeoffs between temporal and spatial pattern calibration and their impacts on robustness and transferability of hydrologic model parameters to ungauged basins
Water Resour. Res. 60 (1), e2022WR034193
10.1029/2022WR034193 - Droppers, B., Rakovec, O., Avila, L., Azimi, S., Cortés-Torres, N., De León Pérez, D., Imhoff, R., Francés, F., Kollet, S., Rigon, R., Weerts, A., Samaniego, L. (2024):
Multi-model hydrological reference dataset over continental Europe and an African basin
Sci. Data 11 , art. 1009
10.1038/s41597-024-03825-9 - Řehoř, J., Brázdil, R., Rakovec, O., Hanel, M., Fischer, M., Kumar, R., Balek, J., Poděbradská, M., Moravec, V., Samaniego, L., Trnka, M. (2024):
Global soil moisture simulated by SoilClim and mHM models at 0.5° resolution for the 1980–2022 period [Data set]
Zenodo
10.5281/zenodo.11395946 - Fang, B., Bevacqua, E., Rakovec, O., Zscheischler, J. (2024):
An increase in the spatial extent of European floods over the last 70 years
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 28 (16), 3755 - 3775
10.5194/hess-28-3755-2024 - Fatima, E., Kumar, R., Attinger, S., Kaluza, M., Rakovec, O., Rebmann, C., Rosolem, R., Oswald, S.E., Samaniego, L., Zacharias, S., Schrön, M. (2024):
Improved representation of soil moisture processes through incorporation of cosmic-ray neutron count measurements in a large-scale hydrologic model
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 28 (24), 5419 - 5441
10.5194/hess-28-5419-2024 - Guse, B., Han, L., Kumar, R., Rakovec, O., Luedtke, S., Herzog, A., Thober, S., Samaniego, L., Wagener, T. (2024):
Spatio-temporal consistency and variability in parameter dominance on simulated hydrological fluxes and state variables
Water Resour. Res. 60 (12), e2023WR036822
10.1029/2023WR036822 - Hari, V., Rakovec, O., Zhang, W., Koppa, A., Collins, M., Kumar, R. (2024):
On the role of the Atlantic Meridional Mode in eastern European temperature variability
Atmos. Res. 297 , art. 107082
10.1016/j.atmosres.2023.107082 - Merz, B., Nguyen, V.D., Guse, B., Han, L., Guan, X., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Ahrens, B., Vorogushyn, S. (2024):
Spatial counterfactuals to explore disastrous flooding
Environ. Res. Lett. 19 (4), art. 044022
10.1088/1748-9326/ad22b9 - Modiri, E., Samaniego, L., Schweppe, R., Shrestha, P.K., Rakovec, O., Kelbling, M., Kumar, R., Leal Rojas, J.J., Martinez-de la Torre, A., Robinson, E.L., Chevuturi, A., Facer-Childs, K., Blyth, E., Sutanudjaja, E., Wanders, N., Thober, S. (2024):
Understanding hydrological model performance through variability analysis of observed water balance components and meteorological forcings
EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, EGU24-17758
10.5194/egusphere-egu24-17758 - Najafi, H., Shrestha, P.K., Rakovec, O., Apel, H., Vorogushyn, S., Kumar, R., Thober, S., Merz, B., Samaniego, L. (2024):
High-resolution impact-based early warning system for riverine flooding
Nat. Commun. 15 , art. 3726
10.1038/s41467-024-48065-y - Najafi, H., Shrestha, P.K., Rakovec, O., Thober, S., Kumar, R., Samaniego, L. (2024):
Data and Scripts for Advancing a High-Resolution Impact-based Early Warning System for Riverine Flooding (Najafi et al., 2024)
Data Investigation Portal UFZ
10.48758/ufz.14607 - Nguyen, T.T., Staneva, J., Grayek, S., Bonaduce, A., Hagemann, S., Pham, N.T., Kumar, R., Rakovec, O. (2024):
Impacts of extreme river discharge on coastal dynamics and eEnvironment: Insights from high-resolution modeling in the German Bight
Reg. Stud. Mar. Sci. 73 , art. 103476
10.1016/j.rsma.2024.103476 - Nguyen, V.D., Merz, B., Guse, B., Han, L., Guan, X., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Ahrens, B., Vorogushyn, S. (2024):
Event peak flow dataset for spatial counterfactual events, Germany
GFZ Data Services
10.5880/GFZ.4.4.2024.002 - Ogbu, K.N., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Okafor, G.C., Tischbein, B., Meresa, H. (2024):
Evaluating the skill of the mesoscale Hydrologic Model (mHM) for discharge simulation in sparsely-gauged basins in Nigeria
In: Cudennec, C., Grimaldi, S. (eds.)
Hydrological Sciences in the Anthropocene. Vol. 2: Variability and change across space, time, extremes, and interfaces - IAHS Scientific Assembly 2022, Montpellier, 29 May-3 June 2022
Proceedings of IAHS 385
International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), Wallingford, Oxfordshire, 211 - 218
10.5194/piahs-385-211-2024 - Reichmuth, A., Rakovec, O., Boeing, F., Müller, S., Samaniego, L., Marx, A., Komischke, H., Doktor, D. (2024):
BioVars - bioclimatic datasets for Europe based on a large regional climate ensemble for periods between 1971 to 2098 (1.1.0) [Data set]
Zenodo
10.5281/zenodo.14624171 - Samaniego, L., Modiri, E., Sutanudjaja, E.H., Shrestha, P.K., Martinez-de la Torre, A., Rakovec, O., Schweppe, R., Kelbling, M., Facer-Childs, K., Chevuturi, A., Tanguy, M., Wanders, N., Kumar, R., Thober, S. (2024):
On the predictability of the seasonal droughts at global scale
EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, EGU24-11049
10.5194/egusphere-egu24-11049 - Schlaak, J., Boeing, F., Rakovec, O., Samaniego-Eguiguren, L., Thober, S., Marx, A. (2024):
[HICAM] climate projection; monthly SMI 1971-2098 in depth 0-30cm, full ensemble (88 members) cdf 1971 -2020, mHM, DE domain [Data set]
Data Investigation Portal UFZ
10.48758/ufz.14922 - Shrestha, P.K., Samaniego, L., Rakovec, O., Kumar, R., Mi, C., Rinke, K., Thober, S. (2024):
Toward improved simulations of disruptive reservoirs in global hydrological modeling
Water Resour. Res. 60 (4), e2023WR035433
10.1029/2023WR035433 - Vargas Godoy, M.R., Markonis, Y., Rakovec, O., Jenicek, M., Dutta, R., Pradhan, R.K., Bešťáková, Z., Kyselý, J., Juras, R., Papalexiou, S.M., Hanel, M. (2024):
Water cycle changes in Czechia: a multi-source water budget perspective
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 28 (1), 1 - 19
10.5194/hess-28-1-2024 - Wang, C., Jiang, S., Zheng, Y., Han, F., Kumar, R., Rakovec, O., Li, S. (2024):
Distributed hydrological modeling with physics-encoded deep learning: A general framework and its application in the Amazon
Water Resour. Res. 60 (4), e2023WR036170
10.1029/2023WR036170
2023 (13)
- Chevuturi, A., Tanguy, M., Facer-Childs, K., Martinez-de la Torre, A., Sarkar, S., Thober, S., Samaniego, L., Rakovec, O., Kelbling, M., Sutanudjaja, E.H., Wanders, N., Blyth, E. (2023):
Improving global hydrological simulations through bias-correction and multi-model blending
J. Hydrol. 621 , art. 129607
10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129607 - Demirel, M.C., Koch, J., Rakovec, O., Kumar, R., Mai, J., Müller, S., Thober, S., Samaniego, L., Stisen, S. (2023):
2022WR034193 (Version v1) [Data set]
Zenodo
10.5281/zenodo.7931276 - Egerer, S., Fajardo Puente, A., Peichl, M., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Schneider, U. A. (2023):
Limited potential of irrigation to prevent potato yield losses in Germany under climate change
Agric. Syst. 207 , art. 103633
10.1016/j.agsy.2023.103633 - Modiri, E., Samaniego, L., Schweppe, R., Shrestha, P.K., Rakovec, O., Kelbling, M., Martinez-de la Torre, A., Sutanudjaja, E., Blyth, E., Wanders, N., Thober, S. (2023):
Global Budyko water balance assessment application as a diagnostic tool to improve seasonal forecasts
EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, EGU23-14943
10.5194/egusphere-egu23-14943 - Pohl, F., Rakovec, O., Rebmann, C., Hildebrandt, A., Boeing, F., Hermanns, F., Attinger, S., Samaniego, L., Kumar, R. (2023):
Long-term daily hydrometeorological drought indices, soil moisture, and evapotranspiration for ICOS sites
Sci. Data 10 , art. 281
10.1038/s41597-023-02192-1 - Pujades, E., Kumar, R., Houben, T., Jing, M., Rakovec, O.R., Kalbacher, T., Attinger, S. (2023):
Towards the construction of representative regional hydro(geo)logical numerical models: Modelling the Upper Danube basin as a starting point
Front. Earth Sci. 11 , art. 1061420
10.3389/feart.2023.1061420 - Rakovec, O., Kumar, R., Samaniego, L. (2023):
Mesoscale Hydrologic Model based historical streamflow simulation over Europe at 1/8 degree
Data Investigation Portal UFZ
10.48758/ufz.14403 - Rottler, E., Bronstert, A., Bürger, G., Rakovec, O. (2023):
Rhine flood stories: Spatio-temporal analysis of historic and projected flood genesis in the Rhine River basin
Hydrol. Process. 37 (6), e14918
10.1002/hyp.14918 - Samaniego, L., Kumar, R., Zink, M., Cuntz, M., Mai, J., Thober, S., Schneider, C., Dalmasso, G., Musuuza, J., Rakovec, O., Craven, J., Schäfer, D., Prykhodko, V., Schrön, M., Spieler, D., Brenner, J., Langenberg, B., Schüler, L., Stisen, S., Demirel, M.C., Jing, M., Kaluza, M., Schweppe, R., Shrestha, P.K., Döring, N., Müller, S. (2023):
mhm-ufz/mHM
Version: v5.13.1 Zenodo
10.5281/zenodo.8279545 - Shah, J., Kumar, R., Samaniego, L., Markonis, Y., Hanel, M., Attinger, S., Hari, V., Rakovec, O. (2023):
On the role of antecedent meteorological conditions on flash drought initialization in Europe
Environ. Res. Lett. 18 (6), art. 064039
10.1088/1748-9326/acd8d3 - Shrestha, P.K., Samaniego, L., Rakovec, O., Thober, S. (2023):
The quest for scalable hydrological system for reservoir modeling
EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, EGU23-7545
10.5194/egusphere-egu23-7545 - Tarasova, L., Lun, D., Merz, R., Blöschl, G., Basso, S., Bertola, M., Miniussi, A., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Thober, S., Kumar, R. (2023):
Shifts in flood generation processes exacerbate regional flood anomalies in Europe
Commun. Earth Environ. 4 , art. 49
10.1038/s43247-023-00714-8 - Torbenson, M.C.A., Brázdil, R., Stagge, J.H., Esper, J., Büntgen, U., Vizina, A., Hanel, M., Rakovec, O., Fischer, M., Urban, O., Treml, V., Reinig, F., Martinez del Castillo, E., Rybníček, M., Kolář, T., Trnka, M. (2023):
Increasing volatility of reconstructed Morava River warm-season flow, Czech Republic
J. Hydrol. Reg. Stud. 50 , art. 101534
10.1016/j.ejrh.2023.101534
2022 (11)
- Bahrami, B., Hildebrandt, A., Thober, S., Rebmann, C., Fischer, R., Samaniego, L., Rakovec, O., Kumar, R. (2022):
Parsimonious Canopy Model (PCM) v1.0
Version: v1.0 Zenodo
10.5281/zenodo.6373776 - Bahrami, B., Hildebrandt, A., Thober, S., Rebmann, C., Fischer, R., Samaniego, L., Rakovec, O., Kumar, R. (2022):
Developing a parsimonious canopy model (PCM v1.0) to predict forest gross primary productivity and leaf area index of deciduous broad-leaved forest
Geosci. Model Dev. 15 (18), 6957 - 6984
10.5194/gmd-15-6957-2022 - Boeing, F., Kleidon-Hildebrandt, A., Rebmann, C., Kumar, R., Samaniego-Eguiguren, L., Marx, A., Rakovec, O., Schrön, M., Thober, S., Müller, S., Schneider, K., Zacharias, S., Bogena, H., Kiese, R. (2022):
[German Drought Monitor] HESS publication deseasonalized soil moisture data [Data set]
Data Investigation Portal UFZ
10.48758/ufz.12541 - Boeing, F., Rakovec, O., Kumar, R., Samaniego, L., Schrön, M., Hildebrandt, A., Rebmann, C., Thober, S., Müller, S., Zacharias, S., Bogena, H., Schneider, K., Kiese, R., Attinger, S., Marx, A. (2022):
High-resolution drought simulations and comparison to soil moisture observations in Germany
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 26 (19), 5137 - 5161
10.5194/hess-26-5137-2022 - Nasreen, S., Hanel, M., Součková, M., Vargas Godoy, M.R., Singh, U., Markonis, Y., Kumar, R., Rakovec, O. (2022):
A 500-year runoff reconstruction for European catchments [Dataset]
figshare
10.6084/m9.figshare.15178107.v10 - Nasreen, S., Součková, M., Vargas Godoy, M.R., Singh, U., Markonis, Y., Kumar, R., Rakovec, O., Hanel, M. (2022):
A 500-year annual runoff reconstruction for 14 selected European catchments
Earth Syst. Sci. Data 14 (9), 4035 - 4056
10.5194/essd-14-4035-2022 - Ogbu, K.N., Rakovec, O., Shrestha, P.K., Samaniego, L., Tischbein, B., Meresa, H. (2022):
Testing the mHM-MPR reliability for parameter transferability across locations in North-Central Nigeria
Hydrology 9 (9), art. 158
10.3390/hydrology9090158 - Pohl, F., Rakovec, O., Rebmann, C., Hildebrandt, A., Boeing, F., Hermanns, F., Samaniego, L., Attinger, S., Kumar, R. (2022):
Long-term daily hydrometeorological drought indices, soil moisture, and evapotranspiration for ICOS sites
Zenodo
10.5281/zenodo.7561854 - Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Hari, V., Markonis, Y., Moravec, V., Thober, S., Hanel, M., Kumar, R. (2022):
The 2018–20 multi-year drought sets a new benchmark in Europe
Earth Future 10 (3), e2021EF002394
10.1029/2021EF002394 - Shah, J., Hari, V., Rakovec, O., Markonis, Y., Samaniego, L., Mishra, V., Hanel, M., Hinz, C., Kumar, R. (2022):
Increasing footprint of climate warming on flash droughts occurrence in Europe
Environ. Res. Lett. 17 (6), art. 064017
10.1088/1748-9326/ac6888 - Shrestha, P.K., Samaniego, L., Thober, S., Martinez-de la Torre, A., Sutanudjaja, E., Rakovec, O., Kelbling, M., Blyth, E., Wanders, N. (2022):
Assessing skills of the ULYSSES global multi-model hydrological seasonal prediction system
EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria & Online, 23-27 May 2022
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, EGU22-6456
10.5194/egusphere-egu22-6456
2021 (8)
- Brunner, M.I., Melsen, L.A., Wood, A.W., Rakovec, O., Mizukami, N., Knoben, W.J.M., Clark, M.P. (2021):
Flood spatial coherence, triggers, and performance in hydrological simulations: large-sample evaluation of four streamflow-calibrated models
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 25 (1), 105 - 119
10.5194/hess-25-105-2021 - Mai, J., Tolson, B.A., Shen, H., Gaborit, E., Fortin, V., Gasset, N., Awoye, H., Stadnyk, T.A., Fry, L.M., Bradley, E.A., Seglenieks, F., Temgoua, A.G.T., Princz, D.G., Gharari, S., Haghnegahdar, A., Elshamy, M.E., Razavi, S., Gauch, M., Lin, J., Ni, X., Yuan, Y., McLeod, M., Basu, N.B., Kumar, R., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Attinger, S., Shrestha, N.K., Daggupati, P., Roy, T., Wi, S., Hunter, T., Craig, J.R., Pietroniro, A. (2021):
Great Lakes Runoff Intercomparison Project phase 3: Lake Erie (GRIP-E)
J. Hydrol. Eng. 26 (9), art. 05021020
10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0002097 - Markonis, Y., Kumar, R., Hanel, M., Rakovec, O., Máca, P., AghaKouchak, A. (2021):
The rise of compound warm-season droughts in Europe
Sci. Adv. 7 (6), eabb9668
10.1126/sciadv.abb9668 - Marx, A., Boeing, F., Rakovec, O., Müller, S., Can, Ö., Malla, C., Peichl, M., Samaniego, L. (2021):
Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf Wasserbedarf und -dargebot. Climate impacts on water demand and supply in Germany
WasserWirtschaft 111 (11), 14 - 19
10.1007/s35147-021-0905-5 - Moravec, V., Markonis, Y., Rakovec, O., Svoboda, M., Trnka, M., Kumar, R., Hanel, M. (2021):
Europe under multi-year droughts: how severe was the 2014-2018 drought period?
Environ. Res. Lett. 16 (3), art. 034062
10.1088/1748-9326/abe828 - Rottler, E., Bronstert, A., Bürger, G., Rakovec, O. (2021):
Projected changes in Rhine River flood seasonality under global warming
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 25 (5), 2353 - 2371
10.5194/hess-25-2353-2021 - Saha, T.R., Shrestha, P.K., Rakovec, O., Thober, S., Samaniego, L. (2021):
A drought monitoring tool for South Asia
Environ. Res. Lett. 16 (5), art. 054014
10.1088/1748-9326/abf525 - Telteu, C.-E., Müller Schmied, H., Thiery, W., Leng, G., Burek, P., Liu, X., Boulange, J.E.S., Andersen, L.S., Grillakis, M., Newland Gosling, S., Satoh, Y., Rakovec, O., Stacke, T., Chang, J., Wanders, N., Shah, H.L., Trautmann, T., Mao, G., Hanasaki, N., Koutroulis, A., Pokhrel, Y., Samaniego, L., Wada, Y., Mishra, V., Liu, J., Döll, P., Zhao, F., Gädeke, A., Rabin, S.S., Herz, F. (2021):
Understanding each other's models: an introduction and a standard representation of 16 global water models to support intercomparison, improvement, and communication
Geosci. Model Dev. 14 (6), 3843 - 3878
10.5194/gmd-14-3843-2021
2020 (5)
- Hari, V., Rakovec, O., Markonis, Y., Hanel, M., Kumar, R. (2020):
Increased future occurrences of the exceptional 2018–2019 Central European drought under global warming
Sci. Rep. 10 , art. 12207
10.1038/s41598-020-68872-9 - Ionita, M., Nagavciuc, V., Kumar, R., Rakovec, O. (2020):
On the curious case of the recent decade, mid-spring precipitation deficit in central Europe
npj Clim. Atmos. Sci. 3 , art. 49
10.1038/s41612-020-00153-8 - 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
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 24 (3), 1511 - 1526
10.5194/hess-24-1511-2020 - Kumar, R., Heße, F., Rao, P.S.C., Musolff, A., Jawitz, J.W., Sarrazin, F., Samaniego, L., Fleckenstein, J.H., Rakovec, O., Thober, S., Attinger, S. (2020):
Strong hydroclimatic controls on vulnerability to subsurface nitrate contamination across Europe
Nat. Commun. 11 , art. 6302
10.1038/s41467-020-19955-8 - Shrestha, P.K., Lorenz, C., Najafi, H., Thober, S., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L. (2020):
Towards scale independent hydrological forecasting in regulated semi-arid regions
EGU General Assembly 2024, Online, 4-8 May 2020
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, EGU20-6047
10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-6047
2019 (7)
- Baroni, G., Schalge, B., Rakovec, O., Kumar, R., Schüler, L., Samaniego, L., Simmer, C., Attinger, S. (2019):
A comprehensive distributed hydrological modeling intercomparison to support processes representation and data collection strategies
Water Resour. Res. 55 (2), 990 - 1010
10.1029/2018WR023941 - Mizukami, N., Rakovec, O., Newman, A.J., Clark, M.P., Wood, A.W., Gupta, H.V., Kumar, R. (2019):
On the choice of calibration metrics for “high-flow” estimation using hydrologic models
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 23 (6), 2601 - 2614
10.5194/hess-23-2601-2019 - Moravec, V., Markonis, Y., Rakovec, O., Kumar, R., Hanel, M. (2019):
A 250‐year European drought inventory derived from ensemble hydrologic modeling
Geophys. Res. Lett. 46 (11), 5909 - 5917
10.1029/2019GL082783 - Noh, S.J., Weerts, A., Rakovec, O., Lee, H., Seo, D.-J. (2019):
Assimilation of streamflow observations
In: Duan, Q., Pappenberger, F., Thielen, J., Wood, A., Cloke, H., Schaake, J. (eds.)
Handbook of hydrometeorological ensemble forecasting, Vol. 1
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p. 745 - 780
10.1007/978-3-642-39925-1_33 - Rakovec, O., Mizukami, N., Kumar, R., Newman, A.J., Thober, S., Wood, A.W., Clark, M.P., Samaniego, L. (2019):
Diagnostic evaluation of large-domain hydrologic models calibrated across the contiguous United States
J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos. 124 (24), 13991 - 14007
10.1029/2019JD030767 - Samaniego, L., Thober, S., Wanders, N., Pan, M., Rakovec, O., Sheffield, J., Wood, E.F., Prudhomme, C., Rees, G., Houghton-Carr, H., Fry, M., Smith, K., Watts, G., Hisdal, H., Estrela, T., Buontempo, C., Marx, A., Kumar, R. (2019):
Hydrological forecasts and projections for improved decision-making in the water sector in Europe
Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 100 (12), 2451 - 2471
10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0274.1 - Shrestha, P.K., Samaniego, L., Thober, S., Kumar, R., Behnia, S., Rakovec, O. (2019):
Towards scale independent lake-hydrology modeling in semi-arid regions: mHM lake module (mLM) development
EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 7-12 April 2019
Geophysical Research Abstracts 21
European Geosciences Union (EGU), EGU2019-8054
2018 (6)
- Hanel, M., Rakovec, O., Markonis, Y., Máca, P., Samaniego, L., Kyselý, J., Kumar, R. (2018):
Revisiting the recent European droughts from a long-term perspective
Sci. Rep. 8 , art. 9499
10.1038/s41598-018-27464-4 - Huang, S., Kumar, R., Rakovec, O., Aich, V., Wang, X., Samaniego, L., Liersch, S., Krysanova, V. (2018):
Multimodel assessment of flood characteristics in four large river basins at global warming of 1.5, 2.0 and 3.0 K above the pre-industrial level
Environ. Res. Lett. 13 (12), art. 124005
10.1088/1748-9326/aae94b - Marx, A., Kumar, R., Thober, S., Rakovec, O., Wanders, N., Zink, M., Wood, E.F., Pan, M., Sheffield, J., Samaniego, L. (2018):
Climate change alters low flows in Europe under global warming of 1.5, 2, and 3 °C
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 22 (2), 1017 - 1032
10.5194/hess-22-1017-2018 - Samaniego, L., Thober, S., Kumar, R., Wanders, N., Rakovec, O., Pan, M., Zink, M., Sheffield, J., Wood, E.F., Marx, A. (2018):
Anthropogenic warming exacerbates European soil moisture droughts
Nat. Clim. Chang. 8 (5), 421 - 426
10.1038/s41558-018-0138-5 - Shrestha, P.K., Samaniego, L., Rakovec, O., Thober, S., Kumar, R. (2018):
Augmenting the meso-scale hydrological model (mHM) for seasonal forecasting of lake-hydrology systems
EGU General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria, 8-13 April, 2018
Geophysical Research Abstracts 20
European Geosciences Union (EGU), EGU2018-12940-1 - Thober, S., Kumar, R., Wanders, N., Marx, A., Pan, M., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Sheffield, J., Wood, E.F., Zink, M. (2018):
Multi-model ensemble projections of European river floods and high flows at 1.5, 2, and 3 degrees global warming
Environ. Res. Lett. 13 (1), art. 014003
10.1088/1748-9326/aa9e35
2017 (3)
- Borgonovo, E., Lu, X., Plischke, E., Rakovec, O., Hill, M.C. (2017):
Making the most out of a hydrological model data set: Sensitivity analyses to open the model black-box
Water Resour. Res. 53 (9), 7933 - 7950
10.1002/2017WR020767 - Mizukami, N., Clark, M.P., Newman, A.J., Wood, A.W., Gutmann, E.D., Nijssen, B., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L. (2017):
Towards seamless large-domain parameter estimation for hydrologic models
Water Resour. Res. 53 (9), 8020 - 8040
10.1002/2017WR020401 - Samaniego, L., Kumar, R., Thober, S., Rakovec, O., Zink, M., Wanders, N., Eisner, S., Müller Schmied, H., Sutanudjaja, E.H., Warrach-Sagi, K., Attinger, S. (2017):
Toward seamless hydrologic predictions across spatial scales
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 21 (9), 4323 - 4346
10.5194/hess-21-4323-2017
2016 (3)
- Hill, M.C., Foglia, L., Christensen, S., Rakovec, O., Borgonovo, E. (2016):
Model validation: testing models using data and sensitivity analysis
In: Cushman, J.H., Tartakovsky, D. (eds.)
The handbook of groundwater engineering. 3rd edition
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, p. 597 - 620
10.1201/9781315371801-22 - Rakovec, O., Kumar, R., Attinger, S., Samaniego, L. (2016):
Improving the realism of hydrologic model functioning through multivariate parameter estimation
Water Resour. Res. 52 (10), 7779 - 7792
10.1002/2016WR019430 - Rakovec, O., Kumar, R., Mai, J., Cuntz, M., Thober, S., Zink, M., Attinger, S., Schäfer, D., Schrön, M., Samaniego, L. (2016):
Multiscale and multivariate evaluation of water fluxes and states over European river basins
J. Hydrometeorol. 17 (1), 287 - 307
10.1175/JHM-D-15-0054.1
2015 (2)
- Cuntz, M., Mai, J., Zink, M., Thober, S., Kumar, R., Schäfer, D., Schrön, M., Craven, J., Rakovec, O., Spieler, D., Prykhodko, V., Dalmasso, G., Musuuza, J., Langenberg, B., Attinger, S., Samaniego, L. (2015):
Computationally inexpensive identification of noninformative model parameters by sequential screening
Water Resour. Res. 51 (8), 6417 - 6441
10.1002/2015WR016907 - Rakovec, O., Weerts, A.H., Sumihar, J., Uijlenhoet, R. (2015):
Operational aspects of asynchronous filtering for flood forecasting
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 19 (6), 2911 - 2924
10.5194/hess-19-2911-2015
2014 (3)
- Noh, S.J., Rakovec, O., Weerts, A.H., Tachikawa, Y. (2014):
On noise specification in data assimilation schemes for improved flood forecasting using distributed hydrological models
J. Hydrol. 519 (Part D), 2707 - 2721
10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.07.049 - Rakovec, O. (2014):
Improving operational flood forecasting using data assimilation
Dissertation, Wageningen University
138 pp. - Rakovec, O., Hill, M.C., Clark, M.P., Weerts, A.H., Teuling, A.J., Uijlenhoet, R. (2014):
Distributed Evaluation of Local Sensitivity Analysis (DELSA), with application to hydrologic models
Water Resour. Res. 50 (1), 409 - 426
10.1002/2013WR014063
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