Abgeschlossene Forschungsprojekte / Completed Research Projects

Methods for transdisciplinary knowledge integration and participatory processes

• Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf aquatische Ökosysteme und Wasserversorgung im Biosphärenreservat Rhön: Partizipative Risikobewertung und Entwicklung von Anpassungsmaßnahmen (KlimaRhön).
  Teilprojekt: Analyse der potentiellen Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf die Wasserressourcen sowie transdisziplinäre Wissensintegration und Entwicklung von Anpassungsmaßnahmen im Biosphärenreservat Rhön (completed in 2023)
• Supporting risk assessment and adaptation at multiple spatial scales: Co-development of methods for utilizing uncertain multi-model based information on freshwater-related hazards of climate change (CO-MICC).
  Sub-project: Design for co-development of suitable methods, global hydrological modeling and coordination.(completed in 2021)
• 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)
• Systemic risks - Management strategies for pharmaceuticals in drinking water (start) ( completed in 2008, final report)
• Integrated analysis of mobile organic xenobiotics in rivers(INTAFERE) (completed in 2008)

Global water modelling

• Supporting risk assessment and adaptation at multiple spatial scales: Co-development of methods for utilizing uncertain multi-model based information on freshwater-related hazards of climate change (CO-MICC).
  Sub-project: Design for co-development of suitable methods, global hydrological modeling and coordination (completed in 2021)
• 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
• 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)
• 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)
• Global-scale modeling and quantification of indicators for assessing transboundary aquifers (Transboundary Waters Assessment Programme) (completed in 2015)
• Mapping of the historical irrigation extent back to year 1900 (completed in 2015)
• Estimating flow requirements of freshwater ecosystems in China with the global hydrology and water use model WaterGAP (completed in 2015)
• EcoWater: global-scale assessment of effects of changed discharge regimes on the occurrence of benthic invertebrates in rivers (completed in 2014)
• Combined Hydrological Modelling and Regional Geodetic Estimation of Water Storage Variations in Large River Basins using GRACE Data (REGHYDRO) (completed in 2014)
• Estimation of global groundwater status with the WaterGAP model (EU WATCH) (completed in 2011)
• Improved global scale modelling of potential and actual evapotranspiration
• Improved approaches to model low flows and droughts with the global water model WaterGAP
• Consistent assessment of global fluxes of blue and green virtual water (completed in 2010)
• Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission of the European Space Agency - support of the German project office (SMOS) (completed in 2008)
• Time-variable gravity and surface mass processes: validation, processing and first application of new satellite gravity data (TIVAGAM) (completed in 2008)
• Development of a digital global map of irrigation areas
• Development of the global terrestrial nitrogen model WaterGAP-N (completed in 2005)