NatRiskChange aims to develop methods to improve hazard and risk analysis and quantification based on the transient, nonstationary nature of hazards and risks in response to changing natural and anthropogenically altered components of the Earth system. The following PhD projects are supervised within section 5.4 Hydrology:

• Q1: Regional flood hazard changes from a space-time recurrence perspective
• Q2: Complex network analysis based on event synchronization of natural hazards
• Q4: Analysing changes in micro-scale flood related vulnerability of companies

Project website : NatRiskChange

Publications:

Agarwal, A., Marwan, N., Rathinasamy, M., Merz, B., Kurths, J. (2017): Multi-scale event synchronization analysis for unravelling climate processes: a wavelet-based approach. - Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 24, p. 599-611

Bronstert, A., Agarwal, A., Boessenkool, B., Fischer, M., Heistermann, M., Köhn-Reich, L., Moran, T., Wendi, D. (2017): Die Sturzflut von Braunsbach am 29. Mai 2016 – Entstehung, Ablauf und Schäden eines „Jahrhundertereignisses“. Teil 1: Meteorologische und hydrologische Analyse. The Braunsbach Flashflood of Mai 29th, 2016 – Origin, Pathways and Impacts of an Extreme Hydro-Meteorological Event. Part 1: Meteorological and Hydrological Analysis. - Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung, 61, p. 150-162.

Vogel, K., Ozturk, U., Riemer, A., Laudan, J., Sieg, T., Wendi, D., Agarwal, A., Rözer, V., Korup, O., Thieken, A. (2017): Die Sturzflut von Braunsbach am 29. Mai 2016 – Entstehung, Ablauf und Schäden eines „Jahrhundertereignisses“. Teil 2: Geomorphologische Prozesse und Schadensanalyse. The Braunsbach Flashflood of Mai 29th, 2016 – Origin, Pathways and Impacts of an Extreme Hydro-Meteorological Event. Part 2: Geomorphological Processes and Damage Analysis. - Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung, 61, 3, p. 163-175.

Sieg, T., Vogel, K., Merz, B., Kreibich, H. (2017): Tree-based flood damage modeling of companies: Damage processes and model performance. - Water Resources Research, 53, 7, p. 6050-6068.