Mass fluxes and budgets at catchment and continental scales (D07)

• Subject Area: Geodesy, Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Geoinformatics, Cartography
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 450058266

This project will analyse terrestrial/atmospheric and surface water mass fluxes and associated budget contributions from models and observations for all larger catchments in the model region. Boundary fluxes at all catchments will be estimated jointly while enforcing mass conservation and internal consistency, and model outputs will be first consistently adjusted to fit catchment-integrating observations like GRACE/-FO derived water storage variability and river discharge at larger scales. We will also be able to quantify the terrestrial-atmospheric contribution of the modelling region to sea level budgets.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1502: Regional Climate Change: Disentangling the Role of Land Use and Water Management
• Applicant Institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• Project Head: Professor Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Kusche