Publications

Journal Publications

• Deggim, S., Eicker, A., Schawohl, L., Gerdener, H., Schulze, K., Engels, O., Kusche, J., Saraswati, A., van Dam, T., Ellenbeck, L., Dettmering, D., Schwatke, C., Mayr, S.,Klein, I., and Longuevergne, L. (2020) RECOG RL01: Correcting GRACE total water storage estimates for global lakes/reservoirs and earthquakes, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2020-256, in review.
• Dettmering, D., Ellenbeck, L., Scherer, D., Schwatke, C., and Niemann, C. (2020): Potential and Limitations of Satellite Altimetry Constellations for Monitoring Surface Water Storage Changes – A Case Study in the Mississippi Basin. Remote Sensing, 12(20), 3320. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12203320
• Elmi, O., Tourian, M. J., Bárdossy, A., and Sneeuw, N. (2020): Spaceborne River Discharge from a Nonparametric Stochastic Quantile Mapping Function. In review.
• Hoeser, T., Bachofer, F., and Kuenzer, C. (2020): Object Detection and Image Segmentation with Deep Learning on Earth Observation Data: A Review – Part II: Applications. Remote Sensing 12.18. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12183053
• King, O., Bhattacharya, A., Bhambri, R., and Bolch, T. (2019): Glacier lake expansion exacerbates Himalayan glacier mass loss. Scientific Reports, 9 (18145). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-53733-x.
• Löcher, A. and Kusche, J. (2021): A hybrid approach for recovering high-resolution temporal gravity fields from satellite laser ranging. Journal of Geodesy 95.1, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-020-01460-x
• Mayr, S., Kuenzer, C., Gessner, U., Klein, I., and Rutzinger, M. (2019): Validation of Earth Observation Time-Series: A Review for Large-Area and Temporally Dense Land Surface Products. Remote Sens. 2019, 11, 2616. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11222616.
• Müller Schmied, H., Cáceres, D., Eisner, S., Flörke, M., Herbert, C., Niemann, C., Peiris, T.A., Popat, E., Portmann, F. T., Reinecke, R., Schumacher, M., Shadkam, S., Telteu C.-E., Trautmann, T., and Döll, P. (2020): The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2d: Model description and evaluation. Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, 1-69. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2020-225
• Saemian, P., Elmi, O., Vishwakarma, B. D., Tourian, M. J., and Sneeuw, N. (2020): Analyzing the Lake Urmia restoration progress using ground-based and spaceborne observations. Science of The Total Environment, 139857. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139857

Conference Presentations

2020

• Engels, O., Schulze, K., Kusche, J., Deggim, S., Eicker, A., Mayr, S., Klein, I., Ellenbeck, L., Dettmering, D., Schwatke, C., Elmi, O., Tourian, M. and Döll, P. (2020): Analyzing different ways of assimilating volume change estimates for surface bodies into a hydrological model. EGU General Assembly, 2020, Online, 4-8 may 2020, EGU2020-7196, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-7196. (PDF)
• Hsu, K.-H., Longuevergne, L. and Eicker, A. (2020): How to validate calibrated/assimilated global hydrological outputs with high resolution groundwater data and regional models: an investigation of WaterGAP performance over France , EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-6587, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-6587.
• Mielke, C., Engels, O., Uebbing, U., Gerdener, H., Börger, L., Schulze, K., Döll, P., and Kusche, J. (2020): How accurate is hydrological contribution to global sea level based on modelling compared to obser-vational data?. EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-5802, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-5802. (PDF)

• Schulze, K., Kusche, J., Engels, O., Döll, P., Shadkam, S., and Niemann, C. (2020): Effect of joint assimilation of GRACE and discharge observations on simulated water storages and fluxes. EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-13235, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-13235. (PDF)

2019

• Bolch, T., Bhattacharya, A. King, O. and Allen, S. (2019): Characteristics and changes of glaciers, rock glaciers and glacial lakes in High Mountain Asia since the 1960s (invited). American Geophysical Union fall meeting, 9.-13.12.2019, San Francisco, U.S.A.
• Bolch, T. (2019): National and global glacier inventories and glacier volume changes with a focus on Central Asia and High Mountain Asia (invited keynote). General Assembly of the World Glacier Monitoring Service, 10.-14.9.2019, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
• Bolch, T. (2019): Heterogenous Glacier Mass Changes in High-Mountain Asia Revealed by Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Data. 8.7.2019, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI), Beijing, China.
• Bolch, T. (2019): Status and Change of the Cryosphere in the Himalayan Region. 6.2.2019, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.
• Bolch, T. (2019): Status and Change of the Cryosphere in the Himalayan Region. International Workshop on the Asian Water Tower, 26.01.2019, Beijing, China.
• Bolch, T. (2019): Heterogeneous Glacier Mass Changes on the Asian Water Tower During the Last 50 Years and the Importance of Glacial Lakes. International Workshop on the Asian Water Tower, 11.7.2019, Beijing, China.
• Bhattacharya, A., Bolch, T., King, O. and Yao, T.D. (2019): Reanalyses of glacier mass budgets in High Mountain Asia based on geodetic measurements since 1960s. AGUs Fall Meeting, December 9-13 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA, Abstract ID: 520697.
• Bhattacharya, A., King, O., Bhambri, R. and Bolch, T. (2019): Glacier lakes drives increasing mass loss of Himalayan glaciers. 27th IUGG General Assembly, July 8-18 2019, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• Bolch, T., King, O., Bhattacharya, A., Bhambri, R. and Yao, T. (2019): Glacier lake expansion exacerbates Himalayan glacier mass loss. 2019 Dragon 4 symposium, June 24-28 2019, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Deggim, S. and Eicker, A. (2019): Separating surface water body mass changes from GRACE water storage estimates. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 21, EGU2019-18606, EGU General Assembly, 2019.
• Ellenbeck, L., Dettmering, D., Schwatke, C. and Seitz, F. (2019): Improving Altimetry-Derived Water Level Time Series of Small Inland Water Bodies: Impact of Introducing Time-Dependent Land-Water Masks. ESA Living Planet Symposium, Milan, 2019.
• Engels, O., Kusche, J., Schulze, K., Gerdener, H., Lück, C. and Döll, P. (2019): How large is the added value of Swarm time-variable gravity if assimilated into WGHM?. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 21, EGU2019-7297, EGU General Assembly, 2019.
• Hasan, M., Güntner, A. and Papa, F. (2019): Multi-criterial calibration of WGHM in the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 21, EGU2019-8301, EGU General Assembly, 2019.
• Saraswati, A. and van Dam, T. (2019): Comparison of GPS displacements and simulated deformation due to hydrological loading; Study case: Mississippi Basin. Second Summer School of DAAD Thematic Network “Modern Geodetic Space Techniques for Global Change Monitoring”, Stuttgart, 2019.
• Schulze, K., Kusche, J., and Engels, O. (2019): Joint assimilation of Total Water Storage Anomalies (TWSA) and discharge observations into a hydrological model. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 21, EGU2019-6654, EGU General Assembly, 2019.
• Shadkam, S., Niemann, C., and Doell, P. (2019): Advance the understanding of the Mississippi basin freshwater system by comparing multiple observational data types with the Water Global Assessment and Prognosis (WaterGAP) model outputs. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 21, EGU2019-10962, EGU General Assembly, 2019.

2018

• Deggim, S. and Eicker, A. (2018): The influence of small-scale mass variations on GRACE water storage estimates. Geodetic Week at the INTERGEO in Frankfurt, 2018 (PDF).
• Schulze, K., Kusche, J., Engels, O. and Schumacher, M. (2018): Assimilation of GRACE Data into a Hydrological Model for the Mississippi Basin. Geodetic Week at the INTERGEO in Frankfurt, 2018.

Conference Papers