Dr.ing. T.h.m. Rientjes

Biography

In 2004 Tom Rientjes started to work at ITC. By his long term affiliation (18 years) at Delft University of Technology (DUT), Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Water Resources, his background is in Water Resources Engineering and Hydrologic and Hydraulic modeling. At DUT he was involved involved in various lecturs in groundwater hydrology, watershed hydrology and field measurments including geophysical sounding. He was responsible for the MSc-lecture ‘Modeling in Hydrology’ (since 1992). His key qualifications are in deterministic and stochastic modeling of hydrologic systems and encompass surface water, groundwater, catchment and river systems. His PhD at DUT was in the field of Physically Based Rainfall-Runoff modeling with a specific focus on Inverse Modeling and Automated model Calibration. Since 0ctober 2005 he is employed full time at ITC were he is involved in Water Resources Management and Quantitative Hydrology but now with a focus on performance assessments of, and assimilating of i) remote sensing data and ii) data from climate models in hydrologic and hydraulic modeling. Much work aims at at i) sptially distributed water resourse assesssments and at ii) climate change and landuse change impact assessments.

Research Interest

hydrologic modeling approaches by use of "space borne" data types such as Satellite data and Climate model-data from General and Regional Circulation Models (GCM-RCM). Modellingis at the core of the research and aims at resourcs assessments under climate and/or land use change projections, or on calamities such as floods and droughts. Model performance is commonly assessed by multi-objective model calibration.