In den vergangenen Jahren kam es in Europa vermehrt zu sommerlichen Dürreperioden mit erheblichen Beeinträchtigungen der Ökosysteme sowie für Land- und Forstwirtschaft. Die dadurch zunehmenden Herausforderungen an das Wasserressourcenmanagement fordern ein erweitertes Systemverständnis, welches durch realitätsnahe hydrologische Modellierung gewonnen werden kann. Integrierte hydrologische Modelle ermöglichen die räumlich und zeitlich differenzierte Abbildung ober- und unterirdischer Abflüsse und derer Wechselwirkungen. ...

The core of the present Doctoral study deals with glacier simulations for calculating mass balance and discharge in the Artesonraju glacier and Artesoncocha basin, in the Cordillera Blanca (CB), Peru. For this purpose, two different models are used. One is an energy-model (EBM) which is physically based and uses energy fluxes measurements on the glaciers, whereas the other one is a temperature index model (TIM) which is empirical and uses mainly temperature and precipitation as its main input data. An analysis of ...

Lakes and reservoirs, as the endpoint of their upstream catchment, collect their water as the resultant of the hydrological and ecosystem processes and, thus, act as a gauge of their catchment’s management. Physical processes, e.g. stratification and mixing and propagation of density currents, are the main drivers of the biochemical factors in lakes and reservoirs and are prone to be altered and affected by climate change. Hydrodynamic models are the tools to simulate the behavior of the water body under various ...