ENAC Seminar Series by Dr M. Brunner
Event details
| Date | 26.05.2021 |
| Hour | 08:45 › 09:30 |
| Speaker | Dr Manuela Brunner |
| Location | Online |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
08:45 – 09:30 – Dr M. Brunner
Lecturer / Senior Researcher at University of Freiburg, Germany
Water resources and hazards in mountainous regions under global change
Mountainous regions are crucial for reliable and high-quality water supply extending down to lowland catchments thanks to their abundance in precipitation and snow and glacier storage. At the same time, they can represent a threat because they produce hydrologic extremes ranging from droughts to floods, which can negatively affect society, economy, and ecology. Both their water supply function and affectedness by extremes are changing because of global change. Such change includes a warming climate, which is comparably strong in mountainous regions, and direct human intervention through water regulations such as reservoir operation or water abstraction for irrigation and artificial snow production. It is crucial to understand these changes in extremes and water resources in order to develop suitable and sustainable adaptation measures and water management practices.
In this talk, I discuss prediction challenges related to local and spatial extremes and direct and indirect human impacts on water resources. I further discuss how research can tackle these challenges. I present methods to predict extremes for data scarce conditions, i.e. regions where few or no streamflow observations are available, quantify the spatial connectedness of floods, assess climate impacts on flow regimes, water demand, and water scarcity, and quantify the impact of reservoir regulation on hydrologic extremes.
Short bio:
Manuela Brunner is a lecturer in the group of Environmental Hydrological Systems at the University of Freiburg. Her research focus lies on hydrological extremes and changes in water resources. She develops novel methods to simulate and predict floods and droughts and to assess past and future changes in the water cycle under global change. Manuela Brunner has obtained her PhD from the Universities of Zurich and Grenoble-Alpes in 2018 and has since worked as a postdoc at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) in Birmensdorf and the National Center of Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, United States. Her current research covers regional droughts and floods, water scarcity, stochastic streamflow simulation, predictions in ungauged basins, and the impact of global change on hydrological extremes and the water cycle.
Lecturer / Senior Researcher at University of Freiburg, Germany
Water resources and hazards in mountainous regions under global change
Mountainous regions are crucial for reliable and high-quality water supply extending down to lowland catchments thanks to their abundance in precipitation and snow and glacier storage. At the same time, they can represent a threat because they produce hydrologic extremes ranging from droughts to floods, which can negatively affect society, economy, and ecology. Both their water supply function and affectedness by extremes are changing because of global change. Such change includes a warming climate, which is comparably strong in mountainous regions, and direct human intervention through water regulations such as reservoir operation or water abstraction for irrigation and artificial snow production. It is crucial to understand these changes in extremes and water resources in order to develop suitable and sustainable adaptation measures and water management practices.
In this talk, I discuss prediction challenges related to local and spatial extremes and direct and indirect human impacts on water resources. I further discuss how research can tackle these challenges. I present methods to predict extremes for data scarce conditions, i.e. regions where few or no streamflow observations are available, quantify the spatial connectedness of floods, assess climate impacts on flow regimes, water demand, and water scarcity, and quantify the impact of reservoir regulation on hydrologic extremes.
Short bio:
Manuela Brunner is a lecturer in the group of Environmental Hydrological Systems at the University of Freiburg. Her research focus lies on hydrological extremes and changes in water resources. She develops novel methods to simulate and predict floods and droughts and to assess past and future changes in the water cycle under global change. Manuela Brunner has obtained her PhD from the Universities of Zurich and Grenoble-Alpes in 2018 and has since worked as a postdoc at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) in Birmensdorf and the National Center of Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, United States. Her current research covers regional droughts and floods, water scarcity, stochastic streamflow simulation, predictions in ungauged basins, and the impact of global change on hydrological extremes and the water cycle.
Practical information
- General public
- Invitation required
- This event is internal
Organizer
- ENAC
Contact
- Cristina Perez