Our research develops through collaboration with colleagues in Czechia and internationally. We bring together expertise in hydrological modelling, climate science, Earth observation and data analysis to investigate hydrological extremes and improve their prediction.
CzechGlobe, Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
– We collaborate with CzechGlobe through AdAgriF, HEDA and DynamicDrought, connecting hydrological modelling and drought-event analysis with research on climate impacts and long-term drought variability.
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, Germany
– Building on Oldrich Rakovec’s years at UFZ, we maintain close scientific collaborations with the Computational Hydrosystem group. Our joint research covers large-scale hydrological modelling, droughts and floods, compound extremes and climate-change attribution.
Alfred Wegener Institute, AWI, Germany
– Our collaboration with AWI focuses on climate storylines. By combining climate experiments with hydrological simulations, we investigate how particular drought, low-flow, or flooding events would unfold under different levels of global warming.
Hydrology and Water Resources Lab (Noh Lab), Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea
– Our collaboration focuses on hydrological early warning, data assimilation and flood forecasting. Shared interests include combining process-based models with observations and new computational approaches to improve predictions.
University of Reading, United Kingdom
– We collaborate with Dr. Akash Koppa on tracing the sources and transport of atmospheric moisture using FLEXPART and HAMSTER. This work investigates how evaporation from land and oceans contributes to precipitation, and how changes in moisture supply shape droughts and heavy rainfall.
University of Ghent, Belgium
– We collaborate with Prof. Diego Miralles and his team to study land-atmosphere interaction processes during flash drought events and heatwaves. We are also interested to quantify the role of vegetation in these phenomena and vice versa.
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
– We collaborate with Dr. Carmelo Cammalleri to understand how droughts develop, persist and move across regions. Our joint work includes a global catalogue of spatiotemporal drought events tracking droughts in precipitation, soil moisture and runoff to better understand their evolution and connections.