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The Hydrology & Climate Impacts in Mountain Regions research group at SLF quantifies hazard potential and water availability in mountain regions under global change.

Its research focuses on three core areas:

Understanding processes governing multivariate hydro-climatic extreme events.
Assessing climate impacts on water and climate extremes in mountain regions with a particular focus on the Alps.
Improving predictions of extreme events by exploiting new datasets and the latest methodological advances in statistics, data science, and climate modeling.

The new group Hydrology & Climate Impacts in Mountain Regions with focus on water and climate extremes covers one of the six main topics of the CERC research centre.

The group is operated in collaboration with the chair for Hydrology and Climate Impacts at ETH Zurich in the framework of a joint professorship by Manuela Brunner.

Topics and goals of the group are summarised in this video.

For student projects please check Open Theses Projects.

Team HYCLIMM 2023 Jan — from left to right: Amber van Hamel, Joren Janzing, Manuela Brunner, Julia Miller, Jonas Götte

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Employees

Hydrology & Climate Impacts in Mountain Regions

Prof. Dr. Manuela Brunner	Gruppenleiterin / Joint assi. professor
Jonas Götte	PhD student
Gregor Joren Janzing	PhD student
Julia Miller	PhD student
Amber van Hamel	PhD student
Dr. Raul Wood	Postdoc

Projects

Consecutive drought-flood events in a warming world

This project aims to enhance our understanding of rapid drought-flood transitions in a warming world.

Water quality extremes in mountain rivers

WAQUEX – a project on water quality extremes in mountain rivers – investigates the occurrence and drivers of water temperature and sediment load extremes, especially under conditions with increasing droughts, heat waves and floods.

Forest fire extremes in mountain regions

FoFiX tackles questions on the emerging fire hazard in regions not yet affected by forest fires, e. g. mountain regions of Central Europe.

Floods and droughts under global change

This project aims to enhance our understanding and modeling capability of regional hydrologic extremes in the Alps in a global change context.

Drought and flood statistics in regulated catchments

This project aims to enhance our understanding of the statistical behavior of multivariate hydrologic extremes in the Alps in a global change context where streamflow is increasingly regulated through reservoir operation or water abstraction.