Dr. Larisa Tarasova
Group Leader
Department Catchment Hydrology
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ
Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4
06120 Halle/Saale, Germany
+49 341 60254481
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 2024/01 | Tenured Research Group Leader "Watershed Dynamics and Hydrological Extremes" at the Department Catchment Hydrology, UFZ |
| 2020/06-2023/12 |
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 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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2025 (1)
- Wagner, P.D., Duethmann, D., Kiesel, J., Pool, S., Hrachowitz, M., Ceola, S., Herzog, A., Houska, T., Loritz, R., Spieler, D., Staudinger, M., Tarasova, L., Thober, S., Fohrer, N., Tetzlaff, D., Wagener, T., Guse, B. (2025):
The unexploited treasures of hydrological observations beyond streamflow for catchment modeling
Wiley Interdiscip. Rev.-Water 12 (2), e70018 10.1002/wat2.70018
2024 (8)
- Dolich, A., Acuña Espinoza, E., Ebeling, P., Guse, B., Götte, J., Hassler, S.K., Hauffe, C., Kiesel, J., Heidbüchel, I., Mälicke, M., Müller-Thomy, H., Stölzle, M., Tarasova, L., Loritz, R. (2024):
CAMELS-DE: hydrometeorological time series and attributes for 1582 catchments in Germany [Dataset]
Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.13837553 - Jiang, S., Tarasova, L., Yu, G., Zscheischler, J. (2024):
Compounding effects in flood drivers challenge estimates of extreme river floods
Sci. Adv. 10 (13), eadl4005 10.1126/sciadv.adl4005 - Loritz, R., Dolich, A., Acuña Espinoza, E., Ebeling, P., Guse, B., Götte, J., Hassler, S.K., Hauffe, C., Heidbüchel, I., Kiesel, J., Mälicke, M., Müller-Thomy, H., Stölzle, M., Tarasova, L. (2024):
CAMELS-DE: hydro-meteorological time series and attributes for 1582 catchments in Germany
Earth Syst. Sci. Data 16 (12), 5625 - 5642 10.5194/essd-16-5625-2024 - Musolff, A., Tarasova, L., Rinke, K., Ledesma, J.L.J. (2024):
Forest dieback alters nutrient pathways in a temperate headwater catchment
Hydrol. Process. 38 (10), e15308 10.1002/hyp.15308 - Pesce, M., Viglione, A., von Hardenberg, J., Tarasova, L., Basso, S., Merz, R., Parajka, J., Tong, R. (2024):
Regional multi-objective calibration for distributed hydrological modelling: a decision tree based approach
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, 65 - 69 10.5194/piahs-385-65-2024 - Saavedra, F., Musolff, A., von Freyberg, J., Merz, R., Knöller, K., Müller, C., Brunner, M., Tarasova, L. (2024):
Winter post-droughts amplify extreme nitrate concentrations in German rivers
Environ. Res. Lett. 19 (2), art. 024007 10.1088/1748-9326/ad19ed - Tarasova, L., Ahrens, B., Hoff, A., Lall, U. (2024):
The value of large-scale climatic indices for monthly forecasting severity of widespread flooding using dilated convolutional neural networks
Earth Future 12 (2), e2023EF003680 10.1029/2023ef003680 - Tarasova, L., Gnann, S., Yang, S., Hartmann, A., Wagener, T. (2024):
Catchment characterization: Current descriptors, knowledge gaps and future opportunities
Earth-Sci. Rev. 252 , art. 104739 10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104739
2023 (6)
- 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 10.1038/s41561-023-01155-w - Mushtaq, S., Miniussi, A., Merz, R., Tarasova, L., Marra, F., Basso, S. (2023):
Prediction of extraordinarily high floods emerging from heterogeneous flow generation processes
Geophys. Res. Lett. 50 (20), e2023GL105429 10.1029/2023GL105429 - Tarasova, L. (2023):
Widespread flood severity index time series for Germany [Data set]
Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.7688006 - 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 - Tarasova, L., Merz, R. (2023):
Großräumige Analyse von Abflussereignissen: Entstehungsprozesse und deren Effekt auf die räumliche und zeitliche Variabilität der Abflussdynamik – Large scale analysis of runoff events: generation processes and their effect on the spatio-temporal variability of runoff event dynamics
Hydrol. Wasserbewirtsch. 67 (5), 275 - 286 10.5675/HyWa_2023.5_4 - 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 10.1016/j.advwatres.2022.104359
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 10.1029/2021WR031283 - 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 10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0284.1 - 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 10.1002/joc.7548 - 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 10.5194/hess-26-6227-2022 - Tarasova, L. (2022):
Processed data: flood generation processes and flood anomalies [Data set]
Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.6403851 - Tarasova, L. (2022):
Code: flood generation processes and flood anomalies
Version: 1 Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.6403860 - 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 10.1029/2021WR030938
2021 (1)
- Basso, S., Ghazanchaei, Z., Tarasova, L. (2021):
Characterizing hydrograph recessions from satellite-derived soil moisture
Sci. Total Environ. 756 , art. 143469 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143469
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 10.1029/2019WR026008 - 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 10.1088/1748-9326/abb9dd - Tarasova, L., Basso, S., Merz, R. (2020):
Transformation of generation processes from small runoff events to large floods
Geophys. Res. Lett. 47 (22), e2020GL090547 10.1029/2020GL090547 - 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 10.1029/2019WR026951
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 10.1002/wat2.1353
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 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.09.297 - 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 10.1029/2018WR022588 - 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 10.1029/2018WR022587
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 10.1002/2015WR018551
Web of Science Larisa Tarasova
Journals:
- Science
- 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
- Stochastic Environmntal Research and Risk Assessment
- npj Natural Hazards
- 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)
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
- Gordon Research Conference Rising Star Award for talk Tarasova et al. "Catchment caracterization: current descriptors, gaps and future opportunities"
- Wiley Top Downloaded Paper Award 2022 for paper Giani et al. "An objective time-series-analysis method for rainfall-runoff event identification"
- Wiley Top Downloaded Paper Award 2022 for paper Pena-Guerrero et al. "Comparing the performance of high-resolution global precipitation products across topographic and climatic gradients of Central Asia"
- AGU Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing 2022 - Geophysical Research Letters AGU
- 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 2019 for paper Tarasova et al. "Causative classification of river flood events"