Following the successful completion of the predecessor project TASK, the successor project TASK2 was launched in 2021. The joint partners are the city of Erfurt and TFW (Thüringer Fernwasserversorgung). The project is funded by the BMU (German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety). The aim is to develop a tool for […]
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Transboundary Water Management
About 60% of global freshwater flows cross national boundaries and almost 50% of the globe’s land surface are transboundary river basins. Growing population and water demand in combination with climate change pose a risk of resource depletion leading to competition and conflicts between riparian countries. Transboundary water management is therefore one of the mounting issues […]
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Annual Mekong Flood Report 2017 published
The Annual Mekong Flood Report for 2017 has been published on the website of the Mekong River Commission (MRC). You can download it here. This publication is the 13th in a sequence of Annual Mekong Flood Reports by the MRC. The report argues that from the hydrological viewpoint, the year 2017 was rather normal without […]
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Dr. Hubert Lohr joins the GIZ project Transboundary Water Cooperation in the Lower Mekong Basin as key hydrology expert. ICEM (International Centre for Environmental Management) will carry out this project, which, after Georgia/Azerbaijan, Eastern Nile and Equatorial Nile, is another building block in transboundary water management in which experts from SYDRO are involved in.
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TASK – Early Detection of Droughts
After three years of research, the project TASK, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, is now ready for operational use. Reservoir operators and all those who are in need of seasonal forecasts for foresighted water management can now apply TASK in order to detect drought situations as early […]
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Real-Time Streamflow Simulations in South Sudan with Talsim-NG
Our colleagues from HYDROC have successfully implemented real-time simulations of rainfall-runoff and streamflow in South Sudan waterways using Talsim-NG as a model. It uses near real-time precipitation data from the Global Forecasting System GFS and with 546 modeled river reaches with a total length of 2700 km, covers a large part of the Baro-Akobo-Sobat river […]
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Quarks: Drought and Dams
Quarks, the science show of the German WDR television channel, is showing two episodes dealing with drought and dams. The German dams for which SYDRO has been developing the operating rules for the past 20 years are also showcased. Dr. Hubert Lohr was active as an advisor for the WDR during the preparations for these […]
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Annual Mekong Flood Report 2017
Dr. Hubert Lohr from SYDRO took part in the Regional Consultation Meeting on the Annual Mekong Flood Report 2017 held in Vientiane, Lao PDR, on September 6, 2019. The first meeting in May was held by Dr. Jens Kiesel. As in previous years, the Mekong River Commission (MRC) engaged Dr. Hubert Lohr as International Consultant […]
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Field Trip to the Source of the Nile
The project on Development Scenarios for Coordinated Operation of Cascade of Dams (see also previous post) was originally conceived only for the Eastern Nile. In the course of the project, the scope was expanded to the Equatorial Lake System as coordination regarding water storage and operation is an issue in the Lake Victoria region as […]
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Precipitation-Runoff Model of the Water System of the Danube Moss
As part of the project “Digitization, Modeling and Visualization of the Danube Water System”, Sydro Consult is working on a precipitation runoff model for Arcadis Germany for the largest fenland in southern Germany, the Danube Moss. The fenland does not only hold flood protection functions, but it also acts as a carbon sink, as well […]
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