Dr. Ralf Merz
professor
Department of Catchment Hydrology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Germany
Biography
Dr. Ralf Merz is a hydrologist and Head of the Department of Catchment Hydrology at the UFZ in Halle. He is also a Professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. He is spokesperson for the "Water Scarcity" Integrated Project in the Helmholtz "Terrestrial Environment" programme. His work focuses on the analysis and modelling of changes to the regional water cycle, on extreme hydrological events such as floods and drought and on better models to predict future water availability in regions of water scarcity on the basis of less data. He and his team in the Department of Catchment Hydrology are involved in several national and international projects, mainly in Europe and the Middle East.
Research Interest
Catchment Modelling, Comparative Hydrology, Regional monitoring and process analysis Hydrology of (semi) arid regions, Flood risk assessment and flood estimation
Publications
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Viglione, A., Merz, R., Salinas, J. & Blöschl, G. (2013) Flood Frequency Hydrology: 3. Bayesian framework, Water Resour. Res., 49, 1–18, DOI:10.1029/2011WR010782
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Schulz, St., Siebert, Ch., Rödiger, T., Al-Raggad, M., Merz, R. (2013) Application of the water balance model J2000 to estimate groundwater recharge in a semiarid environment – a case study in the Zarqa River catchment, NW-Jordan, Environ Earth Sci 69:605–615, DOI 10.1007/s12665-013-2342-y
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Mallast, U., Siebert, C., Wagner, B., Sauter, M., Gloaguen, R., Geyer, S., Merz, R. (2013) Localisation of groundwater inflow and temporal discharge variability along the Dead Sea using thermal satellite data, Environ Earth Sci 69:587–603, DOI 10.1007/s12665-013-2371-6
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Meier, Ch., Knoche, M., Merz, R., Weise, St. (2013) Stable isotopes in river waters in the Tajik Pamirs: regional and temporal characteristics, Isotopes in Environmental & Health Studies, in press
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Rödiger, T., Siebert, Ch., Krause, P., Geyer, St., Mallast, U., Merz, R. (2013) Multi-response calibration of a conceptual hydrological model in the semiarid catchment of Wadial Arab, Jordan, accepted for J. Hydrol.
