Roel Burgers, Msc.

Roel Burgers completed a study on ‘Transnational Ecosystem based water management’ at the University of Duisburg-Essen and then worked for an consultant and a municipality in Norway in the field of hydrology, GIS and dredging. He has been working for Rijkswaterstaat since 2016. Since 2017 he has been involved in projects in the field of water distribution in the Dutch river systems, salt water intrusion (also as a member of the PIANC working group salt water intrusion) and the 2018 drought.

Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Helmut Habersack

2019 - Head of the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and River Research
2018 - President of the International Commission for the Hydrology of the Rhine Basin (CHR)
2016 - UNESCO IHP Vice President of Intergovernmental Council
2016 - Vice President of the World Association for Sedimentation and Erosion Research (WASER)
2015 - Visiting Professor at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan

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Annual report of the CHR 2019

Editor
Sprokkereef, E. (red.)
Date of publication

Code

R-
18-E
Document language
English
annual report 2019 -
Niedrigwasser am Rhein/Low water level in the Rhine
Annual report 2019
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E_Annual_report_2019_0.pdf [2.25 MB]
Teaser

Overview of the meteorological and hydrological course of 2019 for the Rhine basin.

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The snow and glacier melt components of streamflow of the river Rhine and its tributaries considering the influence of climate change

Subtitle
Synthesis report
Author
Kerstin Stahl, Markus Weiler, Irene Kohn, Daphné Freudiger, Jan Seibert, Marc Vis, Kai Gerlinger, Mario Böhm
Date of publication

Code

I-
25
Document language
English
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Synthesis report ASG Rhine [5.74 MB]
Summary

The ASG-Rhine project quantified the daily fractions of rain, snowmelt, and glacier ice melt components vof streamflow over the long period from 1901-2006 for the entire Rhine basin. As with every model simulation, the results contain a number of uncertainties due to  uncertainties in the underlying data, the simplified process representation by the models, and model parameterization. The project carried out a number of analyses to improve the understanding of these uncertainties. Overall, the conclusion is that they do not affect the principal findings, which is owed in particular to the detailed consideration of observation-based data of glacier change as well as of the dynamics of snow and runoff generation processes in the models. The elaborate model chain adapted for this project, which allows the tracking and analysis of the three streamflow components through the system, also offers a new tool for the analysis of climate and regulation scenarios.

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