DFF DREAM

Drought Resilience through satellite-integrated Early warning And Monitoring (DREAM)

by M. Schumacher

This project aims to revolutionize hydrological drought prediction and understanding, ensuring sustainable water resources. We will develop a km-resolution, open-access satellite-integrated early warning and monitoring system for hydro-meteorological droughts across Denmark and the Rhine River basin, Germany. This innovative system will tackle long-standing scientific challenges by

  • coupling an open-access community land surface model with a physical groundwater model to fully represent the water balance;
  • integrating satellite-based observations into this coupled system via new data-model fusion techniques; and
  • advancing probabilistic data-driven algorithms to refine modelling and prediction of hydrological processes leading to droughts.

The research outcomes have high potential to be directly integrated into operational 14-days to seasonal hydrological drought prediction systems, e.g., nationally at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) and by European initiatives.

Project Members:

  • External Team Members:
    • Dr. Thomas Jagdhuber (German Aerospace Centre)
    • Prof. Albert van Dijk (Australian National University)

  • Advisory Board Members:
    • Prof. Petra Döll (Goethe University Frankfurt)

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