Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. Andras Bardossy
apl. Prof. Dr. Sergey Oladyshkin
Type:
Lecture with Exercises
Semester hours:
2
Teaching Language:
English
Semester:
SS 25
Organisation:
Hydromechanik und Hydrosystemmodellierung
Content:
What happens to the rain? This is the basic question that needs to be addressed in order to predict the amount of discharge at a certain location in a river system at a given time. Which parts of the fate of rainfall can be determined on a physical basis, and which are still left to empirical searching? Beside the qualitative determination of e.g. the processes of evapotranspiration, infiltration, interflow etc. we also need to describe the quantities of these processes to be able to forecast e.g. flood events. Hydrological watershed modelling is fundamental to integrated water management. There are complex interactions between the elements of the environmental continuum. In order to predict future behaviour and to quantify effects of management changes, quantitative mathematical descriptions are needed. A number of advanced hydrological watershed models have been developed in the last 30 years. A few of them will be reviewed in terms of their data needs and there predictive power. The participants are encouraged to form groups and to use their selected models for the same catchment so that the different approaches are compared.
