Larisa Tarasova
Contact
Department Catchment Hydrology
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ
Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4
06120 Halle/Saale, Germany
+49 345 558 5481
Research interests
- large scale analysis of hydrological events EMPLACE & DYNAMO
- causative classification of runoff and flood events SPATE & PREDICTED
- catchment characterization and regionalization CAMELS-DE
- uncertainty in hydrological modeling and data-based approaches
- glacio-hydrological modeling and model intercomparison IMPRO
Academic background
| since 2020/06 |
PostDoc at the Department of Catchment Hydrology, UFZ Project: SPATE - Space-Time Dynamics of Extreme Floods |
| 2022/11-2022/12 | Visiting PostDoc at the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA |
| 2022/01-2022/07 | Visiting PostDoc at the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Columbia Water Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA |
| 2016/04-2020/05 |
PhD student at the Department Catchment Hydrology, UFZ Dissertation: Process-Based Characterization and Typology of Runoff Events in Germany |
| 2013/10-2015/09 |
M.Sc. Water Resources and Environmental Management WATENV Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodetic Science, Leibniz University of Hanover |
| 2013/02-2013/06 |
International College for Chinese Studies Nanjing Normal University, China |
| 2012/09-2013/01 |
Overseas Education College Xiamen University, China |
| 2007/09-2012/06 |
B.Sc. Ecology and Environmental Engineering Peoples' Friendship University of Russia |
Index:
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2023 (3)
- Basso, S., Merz, R., Tarasova, L., Miniussi, A. (2023):
Extreme flooding controlled by stream network organization and flow regime
Nat. Geosci. 16 (4), 339 - 343
full text (doi) - 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
full text (doi) - Wang, H.-J., Merz, R., Yang, S., Tarasova, L., Basso, S. (2023):
Emergence of heavy tails in streamflow distributions: the role of spatial rainfall variability
Adv. Water Resour. 171 , art. 104359
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2022 (7)
- Giani, G., Tarasova, L., Woods, R.A., Rico-Ramirez, M.A. (2022):
An objective time-series-analysis method for rainfall-runoff event identification
Water Resour. Res. 58 (2), e2021WR031283
full text (doi) - Merz, R., Miniussi, A., Basso, S., Petersen, K.-J., Tarasova, L. (2022):
More complex is not necessarily better in large-scale hydrological modelling: A model complexity experiment across the contiguous United States
Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 103 (8), E1947 - E1967
full text (doi) - Peña-Guerrero, M.D., Umirbekov, A., Tarasova, L., Müller, D. (2022):
Comparing the performance of high-resolution global precipitation products across topographic and climatic gradients of Central Asia
Int. J. Climatol. 42 (11), 5554 - 5569
full text (doi) - Saavedra, F.A., Musolff, A., von Freyberg, J., Merz, R., Basso, S., Tarasova, L. (2022):
Disentangling scatter in long-term concentration–discharge relationships: the role of event types
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 26 (23), 6227 - 6245
full text (doi) - Tarasova, L. (2022):
Code: flood generation processes and flood anomalies
Version: 1 ZENODO 10.5281/zenodo.6403860 - Tarasova, L. (2022):
Processed data: flood generation processes and flood anomalies [Data set]
ZENODO 10.5281/zenodo.6403851 - Winter, C., Tarasova, L., Lutz, S.R., Musolff, A., Kumar, R., Fleckenstein, J.H. (2022):
Explaining the variability in high-frequency nitrate export patterns using long-term hydrological event classification
Water Resour. Res. 58 (1), e2021WR030938
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2021 (1)
- Basso, S., Ghazanchaei, Z., Tarasova, L. (2021):
Characterizing hydrograph recessions from satellite-derived soil moisture
Sci. Total Environ. 756 , art. 143469
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2020 (4)
- Merz, R., Tarasova, L., Basso, S. (2020):
Parameter's controls of distributed catchment models—How much information is in conventional catchment descriptors?
Water Resour. Res. 56 (2), e2019WR026008
full text (doi) - Merz, R., Tarasova, L., Basso, S. (2020):
The flood cooking book: ingredients and regional flavors of floods across Germany
Environ. Res. Lett. 15 (11), art. 114024
full text (doi) - Tarasova, L., Basso, S., Merz, R. (2020):
Transformation of generation processes from small runoff events to large floods
Geophys. Res. Lett. 47 (22), e2020GL090547
full text (doi) - Tarasova, L., Basso, S., Wendi, D., Viglione, A., Kumar, R., Merz, R. (2020):
A process‐based framework to characterize and classify runoff events – the event typology of Germany
Water Resour. Res. 56 (5), e2019WR026951
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2019 (1)
- Tarasova, L., Merz, R., Kiss, A., Basso, S., Blöschl, G., Merz, B., Viglione, A., Plötner, S., Guse, B., Schumann, A., Fischer, S., Ahrens, B., Anwar, F., Bárdossy, A., Bühler, P., Haberlandt, U., Kreibich, H., Krug, A., Lun, D., Müller‐Thomy, H., Pidoto, R., Primo, C., Seidel, J., Vorogushyn, S., Wietzke, L. (2019):
Causative classification of river flood events
Wiley Interdiscip. Rev.-Water 6 (4), e1353
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2018 (3)
- Müller, C., Musolff, A., Strachauer, U., Brauns, M., Tarasova, L., Merz, R., Knöller, K. (2018):
Tomography of anthropogenic nitrate contribution along a mesoscale river
Sci. Total Environ. 615 , 773 - 783
full text (doi) - Tarasova, L., Basso, S., Poncelet, C., Merz, R. (2018):
Exploring controls on rainfall‐runoff events: 2. Regional patterns and spatial controls of event characteristics in Germany
Water Resour. Res. 54 (10), 7688 - 7710
full text (doi) - Tarasova, L., Basso, S., Zink, M., Merz, R. (2018):
Exploring controls on rainfall‐runoff events: 1. Time series‐based event separation and temporal dynamics of event runoff response in Germany
Water Resour. Res. 54 (10), 7711 - 7732
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2016 (1)
- Tarasova, L., Knoche, M., Dietrich, J., Merz, R. (2016):
Effects of input discretization, model complexity, and calibration strategy on model performance in a data-scarce glacierized catchment in Central Asia
Water Resour. Res. 52 (6), 4674 - 4699
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Web of Science Larisa Tarasova
Journals:
- Nature Climate Change
- Wiley interdisciplinary Reviews: Water
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Earth's Future
- Water Resources Research
- Hydrological Processes
- Journal of Hydrology
- Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
- Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
- Environmental Modeling and Software
- Journal of Hydrometeorology
- Geoderma
- International Water and Soil Conservation Research
- Journal of Hydroinformatics
- Hydrological Sciences Journal
- Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
Funding agencies:
- National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
- Hungarian Academy of Science (Lendület), Hungary
AGU Fall Meeting 2023 Hydrometeorological extremes: prediction, simulation and change (Primary convener)
Gordon Research Seminar 2023: Catchment Science in the Anthropocene (Discussion Leader)
EGU General Assembly 2023 Space-time dynamics of floods: processes, controls and risk (Primary convener)
AGU Fall Meeting 2022 Hydrometeorological extremes: prediction, simulation and change (Co-convener)
EGU General Assembly 2022 Space-time dynamics of floods: processes, controls and risk (Co-convener)
Awards
- AGU Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing 2022 - Geophysical Research Letters
- AGU Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing 2021 - Water Resources Research
AGU
- Best Dissertation Award in Hydrology 2021, German Hydrological Society
- UFZ Best PhD Award 2021, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
- WRR Editor's Choice Award 2018 for paper Tarasova et al. "Exploring controls on rainfall-runoff events: 2. Regional patterns and spatial controls of event characteristics in Germany"
- Wiley Top Downloaded Paper Award 2018-2019 for paper Tarasova et al. "Causative classification of river flood events"