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In the research line “hydrology” attention is given
to the analysis of the transport of water and solutes in the land
phase of the hydrologic cycle of catchments using spatial distributed,
conceptual and physical based, deterministic and stochastic models.
This research line is mainly developed to assess quantitatively
the impact of changes in land use and farming practices on the quantity
and quality of surface water and groundwater.
Research activities hereby are focused on:
- the assessment of the potential of field scale conceptual models
in combination with GIS to predict the concentration of nitrate
nitrogen in river water of rural catchments;
- the testing of conceptual lumped, physical semi- and fully distributed
hydrologic models with respect to their capacity of simulating
the rainfall-runoff process and the natural recharge of aquifers;
- the investigation of the relationship between basin properties
and model parameters;
- the assessment of the uncertainty associated with predictions
of hydrologic models; and
- the use of hydrologic models in scenario analyses as a basis
for decision making and integrated catchment management.
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