Abgeschlossene Forschungsprojekte / Completed Research Projects
Methods for transdisciplinary knowledge integration and participatory processes
- Riparian forests in arid regions of Central Asia under pressure by use and limited water resources: definition of tipping points to ensure sustainable management (ForeCeA) (completed in 2018)
- Participatory methods for supporting an accelerated development and implementation of renewable energy sources (PM Renewable) (completed in 2016)
- Eliciting and integrating stakeholder perspectives of land and water management in the Tarim River Basin (SuMaRiO) (completed in 2015)
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Systemic risks - Management strategies for pharmaceuticals in drinking water (start) ( completed in 2008, final report)
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Integrated analysis of mobile organic xenobiotics in rivers(INTAFERE) (completed in 2008)
Global water modelling
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ISIpedia: The climate impact encyclopedia (ISIpedia)
Sub-project: Contribution of the global water sector to ISIpedia -
Global-scale tool for characterization of droughts and for quantifying their impact on water resources, crop productivity, food trade and the need for international food relief (GlobeDrought)
Sub-project: Global and regional modeling of hydrological droughts - An integrated assessment of groundwater resources and their sustainable use in the Lake Kyoga basin, Uganda
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CCI Sea Level Budget Closure (ESA SLBC_cci)
Sub-project: Land water contribution to ocean mass change - Development of a global gradient-based groundwater model
- Climate and climate impact projections at 1.5 °C as compared to 2 °C global warming in the framework of the HAPPI initiative (HAPPI-DE) (completed in 2018)
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Assessing the spatiotemporal dynamics of water volumes in large wetlands and lakes by combining remote sensing with macro-scale hydrological modelling (WLDYN) (completed in 2017)
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Global-scale modeling and quantification of indicators for assessing transboundary aquifers (Transboundary Waters Assessment Programme) (completed in 2015)
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Mapping of the historical irrigation extent back to year 1900 (completed in 2015)
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Estimating flow requirements of freshwater ecosystems in China with the global hydrology and water use model WaterGAP (completed in 2015)
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EcoWater: global-scale assessment of effects of changed discharge regimes on the occurrence of benthic invertebrates in rivers (completed in 2014)
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Combined Hydrological Modelling and Regional Geodetic Estimation of Water Storage Variations in Large River Basins using GRACE Data (REGHYDRO) (completed in 2014)
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Estimation of global groundwater status with the WaterGAP model (EU WATCH) (completed in 2011)
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Improved global scale modelling of potential and actual evapotranspiration
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Improved approaches to model low flows and droughts with the global water model WaterGAP
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Consistent assessment of global fluxes of blue and green virtual water (completed in 2010)
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Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission of the European Space Agency - support of the German project office (SMOS) (completed in 2008)
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Time-variable gravity and surface mass processes: validation, processing and first application of new satellite gravity data (TIVAGAM) (completed in 2008)
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Development of the global terrestrial nitrogen model WaterGAP-N (completed in 2005)