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Ecosystem observations and process understanding

  • Sap flow
  • Plant physiology with hyperspectral remote sensing
  • Process understanding of different ecosystems
  • Micrometeorological and ecohydrological measurements


Ecosystem and land surface models

  • Carbon fluxes with forest gap models
  • Isotope diagnostics in ecosystem analysis and land surface models
  • Analysis of land surface models
  • Scale independent formulations og land surface models
  • Biomass of the Amazon rainforest

Contact

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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

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Nora Pabst
Phone +49 341 235-1281

Sindy Bleiholder

Phone +49 341 235-1250

Catharina Reul
Phone +49 341 235-48 2335

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News / Press

  • Release of mHM 5.10
mHM 5.5
  • 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
  • WRR Editors’ Highlight: Zink et al. 2018: "Conditioning a Hydrologic Model Using Patterns of Remotely Sensed Land Surface Temperature"
  • ... and the UFZ Research Award 2017 goes to the mHM-Team

New publications


  • 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

News Archive

News Archive

  • 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
Zech et al: Sauna, Sweat, Science
  • Dürrer wird's noch (ZEIT online) feat. the UFZ Drought Monitor and M. Zink
Drought in Germany, Aug 2015, ZEIT online
Inflexibility of Some Hydrological Models Limits Accuracy
Eos Research Spotlight Inflexibility of Some Hydro­logical Models Limits Accu­racy feat. Mendoza et al. 2015
The importance of parameterizations for better continental forecast systems
HEPEX Blog The importance of para­meteri­zations for better conti­nental forecast systems by Luis Samaniego
German Drought Monitor
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

Zink, Kunar, Cuntz, Samaniego (2017), HESS
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