Research topics and accomplishments

• Seasonal forecast of land water resources
• Land-atmosphere interactions and hydrologic cycle at regional scale
• Atmospheric-hydrological modeling improvement with cosmic-ray neutron soil moisture information
• Development of a water tracing procedure and a water budget calculation tool in a coupled regional model
• Development of a stable water isotopologue modeling procedure in a coupled regional model
• Gravity wave dynamics and turbulence
• Tropical cyclogenesis
• Development of momentum, energy and vorticity budget calculation tools in a regional model

Current research projects

• Co-HYDIM-SA (Co-Design of Hydrometeorological Information system for Sustainable Water Resource Management in South Africa, BMBF)

• LAFI (Land Atmosphere feedback Inititative, DFG)