• Long-term simulation of soil water balance and groundwater recharge 1951-2010 (part of KLIWA project, Federal States of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Rhineland-Palatinate)

• Runoff generation and runoff components: spatially distributed simulation and mapping for the Water and Soil Atlas of Baden-Württemberg

• Direct runoff generation caused by the 100 year extreme storm precipitation: spatially distributed simulation and mapping for the Water and Soil Atlas of Baden-Württemberg

• Simulation of soil water balance and groundwater recharge for the State of Hessen, extended sensitivity analysis on input data and model uncertainty

• Simulation of soil water balance and groundwater recharge on the basis of the regional climate change scenarios WETTREG (part of KLIWA project, Federal States of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Rhineland-Palatinate)

• Research Project “Emission Control”: Agrar-Eco-System modelling approach to describe spatial distributed nitrogen turnover and assess land use impact to groundwater system “Staufener Bucht”

• Spatially distributed simulation of soil water balance and groundwater recharge for the State of Bavaria (70000 km²)

• Detailed hydrological modelling of the Weser catchment (43000 km², 1961-2005) with regard to tritium balance

• Spatially distributed investigations on the frequency of periods with critical shortage of plant available soil water content ("drought index ") for the State of Baden-Württemberg

• Calculation of spatially distributed time-series of groundwater recharge for the French-German trans-boundary EU project "INTERREG III MoNit"

• Dimensioning of flood water retention basins

keywords

rainfall-runoff simulation, storm precipitation, heavy rainfall, storm flow, flash flood, runoff generation, overland flow, surface runoff, flow accumulation, stream routing, river runoff, low flow, flow regime, catchment, water balance studies, large scale modelling, model calibration, non-calibrated rainfall-runoff model, physically based model, hydro-ecological impact assessment, evaporation, transpiration, interception, infiltration, groundwater recharge, soil water balance, soil erosion, climate change assessment, dimensioning and operation of retention basins