Research group of hydrology

We are systematically investigating hydrological and hydrometeorological processes in the context of climate and landscape change.

Head of the team: Prof. RNDr. Jakub Langhammer, Ph.D.

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Based at the Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University
Albertov 6, Prague, Czechia

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3-year postdoc position in mountain hydrology

Published: Wednesday 29.1.2025

We offer a postdoctoral position in mountain hydrology focusing on snowmelt water distribution in the critical zone under climate variability using modelling approaches applied to a large set of mountain catchments in different regions.

PragueHydro – join the mailing list!

Published: Saturday 25.1.2025

Dear hydrologists! To support the information exchange within Prague (or elsewhere) hydrological community, we created an e-mail group named PragueHydro. Everybody can became a member of this e-mail group, just follow the instructions.

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The research group of hydrology represents the team of scientists from the Faculty of Science of the Charles University in Prague and scientists from other research institutions, who are systematically working on research focusing on hydrological and hydrometeorological processes.

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Research interest

Impact of landscape changes on rainfall-runoff processes and flood risk
Retention potential of headwater areas and flood plains
Dynamics of snow cover accumulation and melting processes in mountain areas
Risk processes in alpine regions
Erosion and material transport from basins
Hydromorphological monitoring of streams and restoration of the fluvial ecosystems
Water quality changes of surface waters

Research activities

Research activities combine experimental research methods bearing on instrument equipment and methods of geoinformation analysis and mathematical modelling.

The monitoring network of rainfall-runoff and climatologic processes in the Czech Republic and the world represents the basic component of the research. This network enables high-temporal resolution continual monitoring and an online data approach. An automatic suspended load sampler is available for sediment transport research and basic instruments for hydrometrics, field survey and mobile geodetic survey are ready to use.

An important aspect represents an accent to geoinformation methods and mathematical modelling of rainfall-runoff processes as the standard hydrologic and climatologic assessment tools.