Dr. Oldrich Rakovec
Scientist
Department Computational Hydrosystems
Stochastic and Land Surface Hydrology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
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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
2025 (3)
- 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
2024 (22)
- 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., Attinger, S., Wagener, T., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Thober, S., Schlaack, J., Müller, S., Teichmann, C., Kumar, R., Marx, A. (2024):
Spatially and seasonally differentiated response of soil moisture droughts to climate change in Germany
ESS Open Archive 10.22541/essoar.173324874.41657715/v1 - 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
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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 - 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
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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
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Copernicus Publications, EGU24-11049 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-11049 - 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
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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
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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
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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
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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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