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Department of Computational Hydrosystems
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News / Press

Apr 15, 2021

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


Feb 23, 2021

Luis Samaniego
Dr. Luis Samaniego defended his Habilitation work on the 23rd 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.
Feb 15, 2021
The new mHM version v5.11.0 just got released.

Check out the new documentation .


Feb 11, 2021
A preprint of the article "Data Driven High Resolution Modeling and Spatial Analyses of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany" by Schüler et al. is now available.


Feb 4, 2021

Press release Shorter but more intense - Changes in the European droughts


Dec 9, 2020
New paper on "Strong hydroclimatic controls on vulnerability to subsurface nitrate contamination across Europe" by Kumar et al., published in Nature Communications


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 Tabel

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
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


  • Hari et al. (2020): "Increased future occurrences of the exceptional 2018–2019 Central European drought under global warming", Scientific reports
  • 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
  • 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

News Archive

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
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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