DJORET Daira1, SARA Vassolo2 1 Lake Chad Basin Commission, Ndjamena (LCBC), Tchad, Ndjamena 2 Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Hanover, Germany, djoreda@yahoo.fr   svassolo@yahoo.fr   Abstract The Lake Chad Basin is a large endorheic basin of some 2,400,000 km² that occupies part of Chad, Cameroon Nigeria, Niger, Libya, Algeria, Sudan and the Central African Republic. […]

Michael Natschke, Robert Gal  Kisters A. G., Germany. robert.gal@kisters.de   Abstract KISTERS as a member of Hydrology Domain Working Group, the joint working group of WMO and OGC, is taking active part also Groundwater and Surface Water Interoperability Experiments. KISTERS Web Interoperability Solution KIWIS has been developed as a contribution to Surface Water Interoperability Experiments […]

2010-512 ANALYSIS OF THE ISTANBUL FLOOD 2009Thomas Einfalt 1, Fatih Keskin 21 hydro & meteo GmbH & Co. KG, Germany2 DSI, Turkey Abstract:In September 2009, a severe flood hit Istanbul and caused the death of more than 30 people resulting from heavy rainfall of more than 300 mm. In this paper, we are going to […]

2010-457 WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES ANALYSIS USING MULTI-CRITERIA TECHNIQUES TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF NORTHERN GAZA STRIPBernd Rusteberg 1, Mohammad Azizur Rahman 1, Muath Abu  Saadah 2, Ayman Rabi 2, Martin Sauter 11 Geoscience Center, University of Gottingen, Germany2 Palestine Hydrology Group, Palestine Abstract:Gaza Strip is located on the southeastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. In this […]

2010-449 MODELLING GROUNDWATER RECHARGE OF AN URBAN AREA IN GERMANYSabine Tesch 1, Volkmar Dunger 1, Joerg Matschullat 11 TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany Abstract:Groundwater recharge is an important part of the natural water cycle. Particularly in urban areas is an enormous encroachment on the natural water cycle caused by gradually increasing land use of areas and […]

2010-265 ASSESSMENT OF WATER HARVEST AND STORAGE POTENTIALS USING GIS AND REMOTE SENSINGHarshi Weerasinghe 1, Uwe A. Schneider 2, Alexander Loew 31 Research unit Sustainability and Global Change – University of Hamburg, International Max Plank Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM), Hamburg, Germany 2 Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Departments of Geosciences and […]

2010-411 A GIS-BASED METHODOLOGY TO BETTER ESTIMATE EUTROPHICATION AT EUROPEAN COASTAL ZONESJutta Reumann-Schwichtenberg 11 University of Stuttgart, Germany Abstract: One of the most threatening impacts on coastal zones is eutrophication and harmful algae blooms caused by the critical exceedance of nutrient input, especially of nitrogen and phosphorous. Besides coastal parameters, e.g. bathymetry and currents, nutrient […]

078 – Web-based Information System for Multi-scale physical state variables   Frank Molkenthin 1 and Reinhardt Hinkelmann 2 1 Scientist, Lehrstuhl Bauinformatik, BTU Cottbus, Germany(e-mail: frank@bauinf.tu-cottbus.de)2 Professor, Water Resources Management and Hydroinformatics, TU Berlin, Germany (e-mail: reinhard.hinkelmann@wahyd.tu-berlin.de)       Abstract   Projects in water related research and engineering are using mass of information originated from […]

A-225 : Monitoring and Alarming in Real Time on the example of PSI econtrol   Stefan Löffler Sales manager, PSI Information Management GmbH – Dircksenstr. 42-44 – 10178 Berlin – Germany Tel. +49/30/2801-1355    –    Mobil: +49/172/3200355     Fax. +49/30/2801-2981355 sloeffler@psi.de      www.psi.de Abstract The German country of Saxony has released the system PSI econtrol in the country’s […]

A-088 : Impacts of Forestation and Land Use on Water Balance and Low Flows in Northwest Germany Wittenberg, Hartmut wittenberg@uni-lueneburg.de     The extensive transformation of North Germany’s heath into forests and agricultural lands since 1860 had a strong influence on the water balance of the Lunenburg Heath (Lüneburger Heide). Within a hundred years, forest […]