Technical Reports


  • WATCH Technical Report Number 8: International Summer School on Hydrological Drought and Global Change Objectives, procedure of the selection of candidates and the programme of the International Summer School on Hydrological Drought and Global Change (Trieste, Italy, 22-27 June 2008) are summarized. The report has a comprehensive set of annexes (e.g. flyer, application form, list of lecturers, list of participants, detailed programme of summer school and handouts for parallel workshops, title of contributions from participants, questionnaire, certificate) which might be useful for following courses. The evaluation of the summer school, which is based upon an extended questionnaire (86% response), covers the major part of the report. The vast majority of the participants was very happy with the summer school. About 90% of the students classified it as good to excellent.
    Henny A.J. van Lanen, Lena M. Tallaksen, Claudio Piani & Pandora Pieri, October 28, 2008

  • WATCH Technical Report Number 7: Analysis of existing climate model results over Europe This Technical Report is not yet publicly available, contact author for copy.
    Stefan Hagemann (MPI-M), Peter Berg (DMI), Jens H. Christensen (DMI), Jan Härter (MPI-M), September 11, 2008

  • WATCH Technical Report Number 6: Practical methodologies to correct biases in climate model output, and to quantify and handle resulting uncertainties in estimates of future components of the global water cycle This report presents the methodologies to correct biases in climate model output, and to quantify and handle resulting uncertainties in estimates of future components of the global water cycle.
    Claudio Piani (ICTP), Jan Härter (MPI-M), Stefan Hagemann (MPI-M), Myles Allen (UOXF), Sue Rosier (UOXF), September 10, 2008

  • WATCH Technical Report Number 5: Definition of socioeconomic scenarios for land surface hydrology simulations of the 21st century This deliverable reports on discussions and progress made to define scenarios for the 21st century that reflect regional and global changes in socio-economic conditions, which shall be used to prescribe temporal, and spatially distributed, boundary conditions for the later global and regional hydrological sensitivity simulations.
    Dieter Gerten (PIK), Ingjerd Haddeland (WUR), Stefan Hagemann (MPI-M), Fulco Ludwig (WUR), David Wiberg (IIASA), August 20, 2008

  • WATCH Technical Report Number 4: Database with hydrometeorological variables for selected river basins: metadata catalogue Information is provided on available data for selected river basins in Europe (i.e. Glomma, Norway; Nitra, Slovakia; Upper-Elbe, Czech Republic; Upper-Guadiana, Spain; Thames, United Kingdom). The river basins differ in climate and physical basin structure. Information is given for the whole basin and for one or two sub-basins (focal areas). The river basins play a key role in the validation of large-scale models. Observed hydro-meteorological variables in the selected river basins, which are complemented with simulation results from detailed River Basin Hydrological Models, will be used to evaluate the ability of large-scale models to satisfactory represent hydrological processes that control the propagation of drought (from meteorological droughts to hydrological droughts) and the generation of large-scale floods.
    Henny A.J. van Lanen, Lena M. Tallaksen, Miguel Candel, Jesus Carrera, Sue Crooks, Kolbjørn Engeland, Miriam Fendeková, Ingjerd Haddeland, Hege Hisdal, Stanislav Horacek, Jorge Jódar Bermúdez, Anne F. van Loon, Andrej Machlica, Vicente Navarro, Oldřich Novický & Christel Prudhomme, August 19, 2008

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