Johannes Brenner
Ph.D. student
Department Computational Hydrosystems
Helmholtz-Zentrum
für Umweltforschung - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig
You can see me in building 7.1, office 418
or write to me: johannes.brenner@ufz.de
My Ph.D. project
Model verification with CRNS proximal sensing in semi-arid regions.
Researchers revealed the potential for improving model estimates of evapotranspiration (ET) and soil water content (SWC) in Europe's water scarce regions. For these semi-arid regions I will improve the meso-scale hydrological model (mHM).
An inter-model comparison of state-of-the-art hydrological simulations helps to discredit mHM model structures that account for insufficient ET and SWC estimates. I plan to advance these model structures, in order to find a soil-vegetation-athmosphere transfer scheme as simple as possible and as complex as necessary. Eventually, mHM should estimate ET and SMC accurately in semi-arid regions with an optimal complex model structure. To winkle out this intermediate complexity I apply Baysian model averaging (BMA). I calibrate and verify the model based on data from cosmic ray neutron sensing (CRNS), a novel non-invasive method for estimating soil moisture at the meso-scale, latent heat fluxes at eddy-covariance sites, and remote sensing products. This data pin down model uncertainty and thous enable an accurate parameterization of advanced model process descriptions.
My work is incorporated in the UFZ Integrated Project T34: Water Scarcity.
Besides my Ph.D. I am actively involved in following research projects:
- HydroAlp - Modelling the interaction between water cycle, vegetation and climate in Alpine environments (2011 - 2014)
- HiResAlp - An innovative framework for the integration of multi-source data to determine soil moisture and evapotranspiration at high resolution in Alpine regions (2013 - 2015)
- MONALISA - Monitoring key environmental parameters in the Alpine Environment involving science, technology and application (2013 - 2016)
Short CV
2011 - 2014
Publications
Conference contributions (first author)
- Brenner J., Schrön M., Thober S., Rakovec O., Kumar R., Pan M., Wanders N., Samaniego L. (2019). Multi-model evaluation and diagnosis of evapotranspiration in the Iberian Peninsula. In Geophysical Research Abstracts (Vol. 21, pp. EGU2019-8325-1). Vienna, Austria: EGU General Assembly 2019.
- Brenner J., Bertoldi G., Della Chiesa S., Niedrist G., & Bronstert, A. (2014). Modeling impacts of climate change on evapotranspiration and soil moisture spatial patterns in an alpine catchment. In Geophysical Research Abstracts (Vol. 16, pp. EGU2014-10838). Vienna, Austria: EGU General Assembly 2014.
- Brenner J., Zink M., Schrön M., Thober S., Rakovec O., Cuntz M., Merz R., & Luis Samaniego (2017). Towards reliable ET estimates in the semi-arid Júcar region in Spain. In: Geophysical Research Abstracts (Vol. 19, pp. EGU2017-9910-1). Vienna, Austria: EGU General Assembly 2017.
- Brenner J., Schrön M., Thober S., Rakovec O., Kumar R., & Luis Samaniego (2018). Towards reliable evapotranspiration estimates over the Iberian Peninsula. In: Geophysical Research Abstracts (Vol. 20, pp. EGU2018-5380). Vienna, Austria: EGU General Assembly 2018.