Impact of landscape changes on rainfall-runoff processes and flood risk

  • analysis of processes changing ecosystems in floodplains as a result of extreme floods
  • identification and classification of critical regions
  • proposal of the methodology of systematic monitoring in these regions.

Retention potential of headwater areas and flood plains

  • Evaluation of hydrological regime in catchments with different characteristics
  • Identification of critical climate change scenarios concerning hydrological extremes
  • Assessment of peat bogs hydrological function based on hydrological, hydrochemical and geochemical data

Snow accumulation and snowmelt processes in mountain areas

  • Analysing the importance of snowmelt, compared to rainfall, in generating runoff
  • Investigating processes controlling snowmelt runoff extremes
  • Analysing how the changes in snow affect catchment storage and runoff in a warming climate

Risk processes in alpine regions

  • Monitoring of fluvial processes dynamics in the light of the potential threat of inhabitants in the alpine valleys in the selected areas.
  • Headwater part of the Amazon River and selected localities in the Tian-Shan Mountains
 

Water quality changes in surface waters

Erosion and material transport from basins

  
   

Hydromorphological monitoring of streams and restoration of the fluvial ecosystems