PyCatch: component based hydrological catchment modelling

Multiscale investigations in a mesoscale catchment – hydrological modelling in the Gera catchment

The application of the hydrological processoriented model J2000 (J2K) is part of a cooperation project between the Thuringian Environmental Agency (Thüringer Landesanstalt für Umwelt und Geologie – TLUG) and the Department of Geoinformatics of the Friedrich-SchillerUniversity Jena focussing on the implementation of the EU water framework directive (WFD). In the first project phase J2K was param...

Catchment classification: hydrological analysis of catchment behavior through process-based modeling along a climate gradient

Catchment classification is an efficient method to synthesize our understanding of how climate variability and catchment characteristics interact to define hydrological response. One way to accomplish catchment classification is to empirically relate climate and catchment characteristics to hydrologic behavior and to quantify the skill of predicting hydrologic response based on the combination ...

Catchment hydrological functioning in a Mediterranean context

This study explores how catchment heterogeneity and variability can be summarized in simplified models, representing the dominant hydrological processes. It focuses on Mediterranean catchments, characterized by heterogeneous geology, pedology, and land use, as well as steep topography and a rainfall regime in which summer 5 droughts contrast with high-rainfall periods in autumn. The Ardèche cat...

Hydrological modelling from the plot to the catchment scales in a tropical cultivated area

Mike She-ecolab – an Integrated Catchment-scale Eco- Hydrological Modelling Tool

Two of the key objectives of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) are: 1) to protect and enhance the status of aquatic ecosystems (and terrestrial ecosystems and wetlands directly dependent on aquatic ecosystems) and 2) to provide for sufficient supply of good quality surface water and groundwater as needed for sustainable, balanced and equitable water use. These requirements, together ...