Friedrich Boeing

Computational Hydrosystems (CHS) /

Climate Office for Central Germany

Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany

Tel.: +49 341 60251519

Research focus

My research focuses on improving the quantification and understanding of droughts and water resources in Germany with a strong goal of successful knowledge transfer. I am currently working in the knowledge transfer project WIS-D, in which we are developing an innovative information platform for monitoring, forecasting and climate change impacts on water resources in Germany together with stakeholders from different water sectors.

I am currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Potsdam and UFZ under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sabine Attinger, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Wagener and Dr. Andreas Marx.

Working Experience

Since 2021/07:

Scientific assistant in the knowledge transfer project "WIS-D":

- generating high resolution water cycle information for Germany

- support of stakeholder processes

- development and calculation of tailor-made indicators for monitoring water cycle components and estimating climate change impacts on the water cycle in Germany

2019/08 - 2021/06

Scientific assistant at the climate office for Central Germany:

operational maintenance and development of the UFZ-Droughtmonitor
operationalization of an Iberian Drought Monitor for the CLIMALERT project
Data processing and preparation

2019/01 - 2019/07

Master thesis "Development of Soil Moisture Drought in the Iberian Peninsula" under supervision of Dr. Andreas Marx and Prof. Dr. Ralf Merz

2018/01 - 2018/12

student assistant in the HOKLIM Project.

- generating figures for the final publication Impacts of a 1.5°C, 2°C and 3°C global warming on the water cycle in Germany

- Data archiving for country based results the Datainvestigationportal

2017/07 - 2017/12

student assistant in the MigSoko research group

2017/10 - 2017/12

student assistant in the remote sensing group at the Martin Luther University in Halle

Publications:

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2025 (2)

Boeing, F., Attinger, S., Wagener, T., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Thober, S., Schlaak, J., Müller, S., Teichmann, C., Kumar, R., Marx, A. (2025):
Spatially and seasonally differentiated response of soil moisture droughts to climate change in Germany
Earth Future 13 (5), e2024EF005495 10.1029/2024EF005495
Reichmuth, A., Rakovec, O., Boeing, F., Müller, S., Samaniego, L., Marx, A., Komischke, H., Schmidt, A., Doktor, D. (2025):
BioVars - A bioclimatic dataset for Europe based on a large regional climate ensemble for periods in 1971–2098
Sci. Data 12 , art. 217 10.1038/s41597-025-04507-w

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2024 (6)

Boeing, F., Wagener, T., Marx, A., Rakovec, O., Kumar, R., Samaniego, L., Attinger, S. (2024):
Increasing influence of evapotranspiration on prolonged water storage recovery in Germany
Environ. Res. Lett. 19 (2), art. 024047 10.1088/1748-9326/ad24ce
Brill, F., Lima Alencar, P.H., Zhang, H., Boeing, F., Hüttel, S., Lakes, T. (2024):
Exploring drought hazard, vulnerability, and related impacts on agriculture in Brandenburg
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 24 (12), 4237 - 4265 10.5194/nhess-24-4237-2024
Chandrasekar, A., Boeing, F., Marx, A., Rakovec, O., Müller, S., Sharifi, E., Leal Rojas, J.J., Samaniego, L., Thober, S. (2024):
Climate adaptation to change in high-flows: Comparison of high-resolution climate model projections
EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, EGU24-9553 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-9553
Heilemann, J., Klassert, C., Samaniego, L., Thober, S., Marx, A., Boeing, F., Klauer, B., Gawel, E. (2024):
Projecting impacts of extreme weather events on crop yields using LASSO regression
Weather Clim. Extremes 46 , art. 100738 10.1016/j.wace.2024.100738
Reichmuth, A., Rakovec, O., Boeing, F., Müller, S., Samaniego, L., Marx, A., Komischke, H., Doktor, D. (2024):
BioVars - bioclimatic datasets for Europe based on a large regional climate ensemble for periods between 1971 to 2098 (1.1.0) [Data set]
Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.14624171
Schlaak, J., Boeing, F., Rakovec, O., Samaniego-Eguiguren, L., Thober, S., Marx, A. (2024):
[HICAM] climate projection; monthly SMI 1971-2098 in depth 0-30cm, full ensemble (88 members) cdf 1971 -2020, mHM, DE domain [Data set]
Data Investigation Portal UFZ 10.48758/ufz.14922

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2023 (3)

Boeing, F. (2023):
Data and Scripts for Boeing et al "Increasing influence of evapotranspiration on prolonged water storage recovery in Germany" (ERL-116852) (Version 1.0) [Data set]
Data Investigation Portal UFZ 10.48758/ufz.14272
Marx, A., Blauhut, V., Boeing, F., Forkel, M., Hagenlocher, M., Herbst, M., Hoffmann, P., Kuhlicke, C., Kumar, R., de Brito, M.M., Samaniego, L., Thonicke, K., Ziese, M. (2023):
Dürren und Waldbrände unter Klimawandel
In: Brasseur, G.P., Jacob, D., Schuck-Zöller, S. (Hrsg.)
Klimawandel in Deutschland: Entwicklung, Folgen, Risiken und Perspektiven
Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg, S. 131 - 142 10.1007/978-3-662-66696-8_11
Pohl, F., Rakovec, O., Rebmann, C., Hildebrandt, A., Boeing, F., Hermanns, F., Attinger, S., Samaniego, L., Kumar, R. (2023):
Long-term daily hydrometeorological drought indices, soil moisture, and evapotranspiration for ICOS sites
Sci. Data 10 , art. 281 10.1038/s41597-023-02192-1

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2022 (6)

Akmatov, M.K., Holstiege, J., Dammertz, J., Heuer, J., Kohring, C., Lotto-Batista, M., Boeing, F., Ghozzi, S., Castell, S., Bätzing, J. (2022):
Epidemiology of Lyme borreliosis based on outpatient claims data of all people with statutory health insurance, Germany, 2019
Eurosurveillance 27 (32), art. 2101193 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.32.2101193
Boeing, F., Kleidon-Hildebrandt, A., Rebmann, C., Kumar, R., Samaniego-Eguiguren, L., Marx, A., Rakovec, O., Schrön, M., Thober, S., Müller, S., Schneider, K., Zacharias, S., Bogena, H., Kiese, R. (2022):
[German Drought Monitor] HESS publication deseasonalized soil moisture data [Data set]
Data Investigation Portal UFZ 10.48758/ufz.12541
Boeing, F., Kumar, R., Samaniego-Eguiguren, L., Marx, A., Thober, S., Müller, S. (2022):
[German Drought Monitor] HESS publication SMI based drought characteristics, GDM-v1-2016 and GDM-v2-2021 setups [Data set]
Data Investigation Portal UFZ 10.48758/ufz.12534
Boeing, F., Rakovec, O., Kumar, R., Samaniego, L., Schrön, M., Hildebrandt, A., Rebmann, C., Thober, S., Müller, S., Zacharias, S., Bogena, H., Schneider, K., Kiese, R., Attinger, S., Marx, A. (2022):
High-resolution drought simulations and comparison to soil moisture observations in Germany
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 26 (19), 5137 - 5161 10.5194/hess-26-5137-2022
Pohl, F., Rakovec, O., Rebmann, C., Hildebrandt, A., Boeing, F., Hermanns, F., Samaniego, L., Attinger, S., Kumar, R. (2022):
Long-term daily hydrometeorological drought indices, soil moisture, and evapotranspiration for ICOS sites
Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.7561854
Samaniego, L., Kumar, R., Zink, M., Mai, J., Boeing, F., Shrestha, P.K., Kaluza, M., Schäfer, D., Thober, S. (2022):
The Soil Moisture Index - SMI program (2.0.5)
Version: 2.0.5 Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.5842486

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2021 (2)

Marx, A., Boeing, F., Rakovec, O., Müller, S., Can, Ö., Malla, C., Peichl, M., Samaniego, L. (2021):
Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf Wasserbedarf und -dargebot. Climate impacts on water demand and supply in Germany
WasserWirtschaft 111 (11), 14 - 19 10.1007/s35147-021-0905-5
Pace, G., Gutiérrez-Cánovas, C., Henriques, R., Boeing, F., Cássio, F., Pascoal, C. (2021):
Remote sensing depicts riparian vegetation responses to water stress in a humid Atlantic region
Sci. Total Environ. 772 , art. 145526 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145526

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2022

Samaniego, L., Remke, T., Kevin S., Boeing, F., Rakovec, O., Marx, A., Thober. S. Müller, S. (2022). High-resolution bias-adjusted and disaggregated climate simulation ensemble. In: Helmholtz Climate Initiative. Final report. https://www.helmholtz-klima.de/projekte/veroeffentlichungen

Marx, A., Rakovec, O., Boeing, F., Kelbling M., Thober S., Müller S., Samaniego, L. (2022). Towards high-resolution multi-model climate-hydrology indicators for Germany. In: Helmholtz Climate Initiative. Final report. https://www.helmholtz-klima.de/projekte/veroeffentlichungen

Marx A., Boeing F. & Samaniego L. (2022) Zur Entwicklung des Wasserdargebotes im Kontext des Klimawandels, energie | wasser-praxis, https://www.dvgw.de/medien/dvgw/forschung/berichte/2208marx.pdf

2020

Planer-Friedrich, B., Forberg, J., Lohmayer, R., Kerl, C. F., Boeing, F., Kaasalainen, H., & Stefánsson, A. (2020). Relative Abundance of Thiolated Species of As, Mo, W, and Sb in Hot Springs of Yellowstone National Park and Iceland. In Environmental Science & Technology (Vol. 54, Issue 7, pp. 4295–4304). American Chemical Society (ACS).

2018

S. Thober, A. Marx, F. Boeing (2018): Auswirkungen der globalen Erwärmung auf hydrologische und agrarische Dürren und Hochwasser in Deutschland. Condensed result brochure for regional decision makers in Germany, available in German language only. Download HOKLIM brochure

Contact

Head
Prof. Dr. Sabine Attinger
Department of Computational Hydrosystems
tbl-modmon@ufz.de

Deputy Head
Prof. Dr. Luis Samaniego
Department of Computational Hydrosystems
luis.samaniego@ufz.de

Assistance
Nora Pabst
Phone +49 341 6025-2367

Sindy Bleiholder
Phone +49 341 6025-1250

Susanne Gangloff
Phone +49 341 6025-2533

sekces@ufz.de

Permoserstraße 15 | 04318 Leipzig

News / Press

May 2024

New research published in Nature Communications by Hussian et al., (2024) emphasizes the game-changing potential of near-real-time and impact-based flood prediction. Their study demonstrates a 10-meter floodplain inundation hindcast of the 2021 European Summer Flood, showcasing a 17-hour lead time for better disaster preparedness. Impact-based early warnings can empower local authorities with crucial data on citizens at-risk for targeted emergency responses.

July 30, 2023

Hitze und Dürre - Interview with climate researcher Jakob Zscheischler
in Deutschlandfunk (only in German, 10:50 min) Link to interview

May 16, 2023

Start of ESA funded project 4DHydro

The overarching objective of 4DHydro is to foster collaborations between the Earth Observation (EO) water cycle community developing novel high-resolution EO data products, and the land surface and hydrological modelling community (LSM/HM) engaged in advancing hyperresolution modelling of the hydrological cycle at regional and continental scales. By involving several European institutions 4DHydro will assess and improve data sets of EO as well as synchronize EO products and LSM/HM models in order to improve predictions of the hydrological system. Overall, it will assist end-users and decisions-makers as well as the EU Destination Earth initiative. The project’s kick-off meeting will take place in Leipzig on 21st of June 2023.

Jan 30, 2023

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The following paper received the ASCE-EWRI 2023 Award for Best Case Study in the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering.

Mai, J. , B. A. Tolson, H. Shen, É. Gaborit, V. Fortin, N. Gasset, H. Awoye, T. A. Stadnyk, L. M. Fry, E. A. Bradley, F. Seglenieks, A. G. Temgoua, D. G. Princz, S. Gharari, A. Haghnegahdar, M. E. Elshamy, S. Razavi, M. Gauch, J. Lin, X. Ni, Y. Yuan, M. McLeod, N. B. Basu, R. Kumar, O. Rakovec, L. Samaniego, S. Attinger, N. K. Shrestha, P. Daggupati, T. Roy, S. Wi, T. Hunter, J. R. Craig, and A. Pietroniro (2021):
The Great Lakes Runoff Intercomparison Project Phase 3: Lake Erie (GRIP-E)
Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 26(9), 05021020. Accepted Feb 16, 2021.

https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/%28ASCE%29HE.1943-5584.0002097

Dec 1, 2022

Award Poster Masooma Batool

Masooma Batool won the "Best student poster award" at the XXI International Nitrogen Workshop.
This conference, hosted by ETSIAAB, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, brought together nearly 300 papers from authors from 40 countries in Madrid, Spain, October 24-28, 2022.
At the conference, Masooma and her colleagues presented long-term trends in soil nitrogen (N) surplus across Europe (1850-2019). Excess N provides information on the trends and spatial distribution of N surplus in soil systems across Europe, highlighting agricultural areas in Central Europe as nitrogen hotspots. These areas have undergone dramatic changes over the past 150 years. Importantly, we show that estimates of N surplus are subject to large uncertainties, requiring explicit consideration of these uncertainties when analyzing past trends in N surplus.

Nov 15, 2022

Earthrise - Mission Klima
How our research contributes to climate mitigation and adaptation is demonstrated in this WELT report.

Video at www.welt.de (only in German)

05:50': Hohes Holz research station
10:40': FORMIND in the Vislab
15:45': Fragmentation of forests
43:00': FORMIND and climate scenarios

Oct 12, 2022

Dr. Husain Najafi won the UFZ Young Scientist Award for Applied Research 2022. The award goes to him for his excellence and dedication in development of the operational drought forecasting system in Germany and investigation of 2021 summer flood predictability. Hydrological forecasting systems are the fundamental component of early warning systems - disaster risk reduction.

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New publications

Najafi, H., Shrestha, P.K., Rakovec, O. et al. High-resolution impact-based early warning system for riverine flooding. Nat Commun 15, 3726 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48065-y
Henniger, H., Huth, A., Frank, K., & Bohn, F. J. (2023). Creating virtual forests around the globe and analysing their state space. Ecological Modelling, 483, 110404. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2023.110404

In this paper we present the "Forest Factory 2.0″ algorithm, which generates various virtual forest stands for different biomes on Earth. To demonstrate the potential of this approach, we analyse different forest-structure->ecosystem-function relationships across biomes.
Friedrich Boeing, Oldrich Rakovec, Rohini Kumar, Luis Samaniego, Martin Schrön, Anke Hildebrandt, Corinna Rebmann, Stephan Thober, Sebastian Müller, Steffen Zacharias, Heye Bogena, Katrin Schneider, Ralf Kiese, Sabine Attinger, and Andreas Marx. High-resolution drought simulations and comparison to soil moisture observations in Germany. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 26, 5137–5161, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-5137-2022

In this paper, we deliver an evaluation of the second generation operational German drought monitor ( https://www.ufz.de/duerremonitor ) with a state-of-the-art compilation of observed soil moisture data from 40 locations and four different measurement methods in Germany. We show that the expressed stakeholder needs for higher resolution drought information at the one-kilometer scale can be met and that the agreement of simulated and observed soil moisture dynamics can be moderately improved.
Mahnken, M., Cailleret, M., Collalti, A., Trotta, C., Biondo, C., D’Andrea, E., ... & Reyer, C. P. O. (2022). Accuracy, realism and general applicability of European forest models. Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16384
Pacheco-Labrador, J., Weber, U., Ma, X., Mahecha, M. D., Carvalhais, N., Wirth, C., Huth, A., Bohn, F. J., Kraemer, G., Heiden, U., FunDivEUROPE members, and Migliavacca, M.: EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL OF DESIS TO INFER PLANT TAXONOMICAL AND FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITIES IN EUROPEAN FORESTS, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVI-1/W1-2021, 49–55, 2022. DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVI-1-W1-2021-49-2022
Bevacqua, E., De Michele, C., Manning, C., Couasnon, A., Ribeiro, A.F.S., Ramos, A.M., Vignotto, E., Bastos, A., Blesić, S., Durante, F., Hillier, J., Oliveira, S.C., Pinto, J.G., Ragno, E., Rivoire, P., Saunders, K., van der Wiel, K., Wu, W., Zhang, T., Zscheischler, J. (2021): Guidelines for Studying Diverse Types of Compound Weather and Climate Events. Earth Future. 10.1029/2021EF002340
Najafi H, Robertson AW, Massah Bavani AR, Irannejad P, Wanders N, Wood EF. Improved multi-model ensemble forecasts of Iran's precipitation and temperature using a hybrid dynamical-statistical approach during fall and winter seasons. Int
J Climatol. 2021;1–28. DOI: 10.1002/joc.7148

Hari, V., Rakovec, O., Markonis, Y. et al. Increased future occurrences of the exceptional 2018–2019 Central European drought under global warming. Sci Rep 10, 12207 (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-68872-9

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 DOI: 10.1029/2019WR025924

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 DOI: 10.5194/hess-24-1511-2020

Sep 2, 2022

The collaborative project "Standardisiertes Monitoring von Wachstumsreaktionen wichtiger Waldbaumarten auf klimatische Extremereignisse" (MW³) with participation of the UFZ will develop a standardized monitoring system and protocol to record growth responses of important Central European forest tree species with a focus on climatic extremes. Future extreme events and their impact on forest carbon fluxes in Germany will be analyzed using smart models.