Dr. Ingo Heidbüchel
Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany
Research Topics
I'm interested in how hydrologic processes interact to create the hydrologic and hydrochemical catchment response that we observe. How fast do catchments conduct water (transit time) and what controls the speed of their reaction to rain events (response time)?
Curriculum vitae
2021
Postdoc at the University of Bayreuth, Professorship of Hydrological Modeling
· DFG project: “Defining archetypal transit time distributions and their dynamics in real-world catchments”
2017-2020
Postdoc at the UFZ (Leipzig), Department of Hydrogeology
2013-2016
Postdoc at the GFZ (Potsdam) within the TERENO project
2008-2012
PhD in Hydrology at the University of Arizona in Tucson (USA)
· PhD Thesis: “On the Variability of Hydrologic Catchment Response: Inherent and External Controls”
Oct-Dec 2007
Hydrogeologist at Bittner Water Consult in Windhoek (Namibia)
Jul-Aug 2007
Research Assistant at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid (Spain)
2000-2007
Diploma (≈Master) in Hydrology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg
· Diploma Thesis: “Groundwater Recharge in Ephemeral Streams, Application of a Coupled Surface Water / Groundwater Model”
Jul-Oct 2005
Internship at the University of Stockholm (Sweden), Department of Physical Geography
2003
Study Abroad at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch (New Zealand)
Publications
Heidbüchel, I., Yang, J., Musolff, A., Troch, P., Ferré, T., and Fleckenstein, J. H. (2020): On the shape of forward transit time distributions in low-order catchments. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24, p. 2895-2920, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-2895-2020.
Heidbüchel, I., Güntner, A., Blume, T. (2016): Use of cosmic-ray neutron sensors for soil moisture monitoring in forests. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 20, p. 1269-1288, https://doi.org/ 10.5194/hess-20-1269-2016.
van der Velde, Y., Heidbüchel, I., Lyon, S. W., Nyberg, L., Rodhe, A., Bishop, K., Troch, P. A. (2015): Consequences of mixing assumptions for time-variable travel time distributions. Hydrological Processes, 29, 16, p. 3460-3474, https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10372.
Heidbüchel, I., Troch, P. A., Lyon, S. W. (2013): Separating physical and meteorological controls of variable transit times in zero-order catchments. Water Resources Research, 49, 11, p. 7644-7657, https://doi.org/10.1002/2012WR013149.
Heidbüchel, I., Troch, P. A., Lyon, S. W., Weiler, M. (2012): The master transit time distribution of variable flow systems. Water Resources Research, 48, 6, https://doi.org/10.1029/2011WR011293.
Index:
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2023 (2)
- Orlowski, N., Rinderer, M., Dubbert, M., Ceperley, N., Hrachowitz, M., Gessler, A., Rothfuss, Y., Sprenger, M., Heidbüchel, I., Kübert, A., Beyer, M., Zuecco, G., McCarter, C. (2023):
Challenges in studying water fluxes within the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum: A tracer-based perspective on pathways to progress
Sci. Total Environ. 881 , art. 163510 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163510 - Wang, Q., Yang, J., Heidbüchel, I., Yu, X., Lu, C. (2023):
Flow paths and wetness conditions explain spatiotemporal variation of nitrogen retention for a temperate, humid catchment
J. Hydrol. 625, Part A , art. 130024 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130024
2022 (1)
- Yang, J., Wang, Q., Heidbüchel, I., Lu, C., Xie, Y., Musolff, A., Fleckenstein, J.H. (2022):
Effect of topographic slope on the export of nitrate in humid catchments: a 3D model study
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 26 (19), 5051 - 5068 10.5194/hess-26-5051-2022
2021 (2)
- Le Duy, N., Nguyen, V.T.K., Tran, A.T., Nguyen, H.T., Heidbüchel, I., Merz, B., Apel, H. (2021):
Groundwater dynamics in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: Trends, memory effects, and response times
J. Hydrol. Reg. Stud. 33 , art. 100746 10.1016/j.ejrh.2020.100746 - Yang, J., Heidbüchel, I., Musolff, A., Xie, Y., Lu, C., Fleckenstein, J.H. (2021):
Using nitrate as a tracer to constrain age selection preferences in catchments with strong seasonality
J. Hydrol. 603 , art. 126889 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126889
2020 (1)
- Heidbüchel, I., Yang, J., Musolff, A., Troch, P., Ferré, T., Fleckenstein, J.H. (2020):
On the shape of forward transit time distributions in low-order catchments
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 24 (6), 2895 - 2920 10.5194/hess-24-2895-2020
2019 (1)
- Le Duy, N., Dung, N.V., Heidbüchel, I., Meyer, H., Weiler, M., Merz, B., Apel, H. (2019):
Identification of groundwater mean transit times of precipitation and riverbank infiltration by two‐component lumped parameter models
Hydrol. Process. 33 (24), 3098 - 3118 10.1002/hyp.13549
2018 (2)
- Le Duy, N., Heidbüchel, I., Meyer, H., Merz, B., Apel, H. (2018):
What controls the stable isotope composition of precipitation in the Mekong Delta? A model-based statistical approach
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 22 (2), 1239 - 1262 10.5194/hess-22-1239-2018 - Yang, J., Heidbüchel, I., Musolff, A., Reinstorf, F., Fleckenstein, J.H. (2018):
Exploring the dynamics of transit times and subsurface mixing in a small agricultural catchment
Water Resour. Res. 54 (3), 2317 - 2335 10.1002/2017WR021896