Director Water Problems Institute of RAS
Contacts:
Water Problems Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
3 Gubkina ul., 119333 Moscow, Russia
Phone: +7 (499)135-5456
E-mail: hydrowpi@iwp.ru
Education:
1977-1982 Studies in Moscow State University, Dep. of Hydrology, Faculty of Geography, Moscow, Russia
1982 M.Sс. (Hydrology), Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Moscow, Russia
1989 Ph.D. Geography (Hydrology and Water Resources), Water Problems Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Dissertation: Dynamic-stochastic models of river runoff generation, Advisor: Prof. Lev Kuchment
Degree
2019 Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2007 Doctor of Science (Habilitation), Physics and Mathematics (Hydrology and Water Resources), Water Problems Institute of RAS, Moscow, Russia
Professional Experience:
2018- to date, Director, Water Problems Institute of RAS
2016-to date, Professor of Hydrology, Moscow State University, Dep. of Hydrology, Faculty of Geography
2011- to date, Head of Watershed Hydrology Lab., Water Problems Institute of RAS 1995-1996, Visiting Scientist in the Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI, USA)
1985-2018, Young to Senior Scientist to Deputy Director, Water Problems Institute of RAS
1982-1985, Post-graduate student, Water Problems Institute of RAS
Areas of Expertise:
Hydrological cycle processes
Cold region hydrology
Hydrological modeling
Climate impact assessment
Flood risk assessment
Ensemble hydrological forecasts
Awards and Scholarships
2019 Honorary Worker in Science and High Technologies, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russian Federation
1995 One-year scholarship from the Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI, USA) in the framework of the project “Development and Applications of a Deterministic-Stochastic Model of Urban Runoff and Water Quality”
Participation in Professional Associations
2007-2018 – International Commission on Snow and Ice Hydrology (ICSIH) of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS), Vice-President (elected in 2007), Secretary (elected in 2016) 2013 – to date – Chair of the IAHS “Panta Rhei” Working Group on Physics of Hydrological Predictability
Professional Activities:
2017-to date Leading Author of the IPCC WGII 6th Assessment Report
2015 – to date – Bureau member of the National Geophysical Committee of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)
2013- to date – Member of the Scientific Council on Climate of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2010- to date – Member of the National Committee on System Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2009- to date – Vice-Chairman of the National Council on Water Resources of the Russian Academy of Sciences
International and Russian Research Projects Management (since 2015)
2016 – to date Water-Regional sector in the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP) (Group Leader)
2019-to date Project “Research and modeling of possible scenarios for the formation of extreme paleohydrological phenomena in the Caspian basin after the Last Glacial Maximum” Russian Science Foundation (Coordinator and Principal Investigator)
2019-2020 Project “Developing recommendations for flood risk management and protection of the Tulun city within the Iya River Basin” Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Irkutsk Region (Group Leader)
2015-2019 Project “Modeling physical mechanisms of sensitivity of hydrological extremes to climate change” Russian Science Foundation (Coordinator and Principal Investigator)
2015-2017 Project “Uncertainty of large-basin hydrological response to climate change: research on the basis of ensemble experiments with hydrological and climate models”, Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Coordinator and Principal Investigator)
Editorial Activities in International Journals
2004- 2019 – Topical Editor, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS).
2009- to date – Topical Editor, Earth System Science Data (ESSD)
2009- to date – Editor, Water Resources (in Russ.)
2017-to date – Editor, Russian J. Earth Sciences
Director
HYCAR Research Unit
Fields of expertise
Hydrology – Watershed Management – Water Resources – Hydrological Modelling – Floods
– Low-flows – Forest Hydrology
Degrees
2005 Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
2002 PhD in Hydrology, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
1992 Ingénieur du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts, ENGREF, Paris
1992 Master of Sciences, Watershed Management, University of Arizona, Tucson
1990 Agricultural Engineer, Institut National Agronomique, Paris
Languages
French, English & Armenian - fluent
German - almost fluent
Russian - notions
Publications in Scientific Journals [by themes]
n° ORCID: 0000-0001-7124-9303 H-index according to the WOS: 38
1 ‘GR’ Models
2 Turc-Mezentsev Formula & Turc-Budyko nondimensional graph
3 Philosophical Issues in Hydrology
4 Hydrology of Ungaged Basins
5 Quantitative Evaluation of Hydrological models
6 Calibration of Hydrological Models
7 Sensitivity Analysis of Hydrological Models
8 Rainfall Input to Hydrological Models
9 Snow Hydrology and High Mountains
10 Hydrology and Uncertainties
11 Low Flows Simulation and Forecasting
12 Evapotranspiration Input to Hydrological Models
13 Intercatchment Groundwater Flows
14 Hydrological Models: Lumping and Distribution
15 Flood Forecasting & Model Updating
16 Inundation Modeling
17 Forest Hydrology
18 Climatic Variability, Climate Change, Changing Catchments &
Model Extrapolation Capacity
19 Smart Tricks for Hydrological Modelling
20 Model Comparisons
21 Model Coupling
22 Water Resources
23 Water Quality Modelling
24 Satellite Rainfall
25 Hydrological Maps
26 Other Topics
27 For children
Professor, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Zhou, X., Polcher, J., Yang, T., Hirabayashi, Y. & Nguyen-Quang, T., 2018 Nov 28, In :Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 22, 11, p. 6087-6108 22 p.
· Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources
· 151 talents in Zhejiang Province
Prof. Dr. rer.nat. Dr.-Ing.
· Bartels, J., Bliefernicht, J., Seidel, J., Bárdossy, A., Kunstmann, H., Johst, M., & Demuth, N. (2017). Bewertung von Ensemble-Abflussvorhersagen für die operationelle Hochwasserwarnung. Hydrologie Und Wasserbewirtschaftung, 61. https://doi.org/10.5675/HyWa_2017,5_1
Professor, Hydrology and Analysis of Hydrosystems in the National Technical University of Athens, Greece
· G. Papacharalampous, H. Tyralis, and D. Koutsoyiannis, One-step ahead forecasting of geophysical processes within a purely statistical framework, Geoscience Letters, 5, 12, doi:10.1186/s40562-018-0111-1, 2018.
Global Institute for Water Security, School of Environment and Sustainability
Spence, C., J. Wolfe, C. Whitfield, H. Baulch, N. Basu, A. Bedard-Haughn, K. Belcher, R. Clark, G. Ferguson, M. Hayashi, K. Liber, J.J. McDonnell, C. Morrissey, J. Pomeroy, M. Reed and G. Strickert, 2018. Prairie Water: A Global Water Futures project to enhance the resilience of Prairie communities through sustainable water management. Canadian Water Resources Journal, 44(2):115-126, DOI:10.1080/07011784.2018.1527256.
Forecast Department at the European Centre For Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Raoult B., Di Fatta G., Pappenberger F., Lawrence B. (2018) Fast Retrieval of Weather Analogues in a Multi-petabytes Archive Using Wavelet-Based Fingerprints, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 697-710. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93701-4_55