Inhaltsbereich
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Dr.-Ing. Bruno Merz
Helmholtz Centre PotsdamGFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Head of Section 5.4, Hydrology
Telegrafenberg, C4 2.14
D-14473 Potsdam
Phone: +49 331 288 1500
Fax: +49 331 288 1570
Mail: bruno.merz@gfz-potsdam.de
Scientific interests:
- Monitoring and simulation of hydrological / hydraulic processes
- Flood risk analysis
Career:
| 2009 - today | Director Department Earth Surface processes, GFZ |
| 2007 - 2009 | Director Department Geoengineering, GFZ |
| 2002 - today | Head of section 5.4 Hydrology, GFZ |
| 2000 - 2002 | Scientist, Section Geomechanics, GFZ |
| 1996 - 2000 | Secretary of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Committee for Disaster Mitigation |
| 1990 - 1997 | Scientist, Institute for Hydrology and Water Resources Planning, University Karlsruhe |
| 1988 - 1990 | Research scholarship, Chair of River Engineering, University Kyoto, Japan |
Experience:
| 2006 | Professor, University of Potsdam |
| 2005 | Habilitation in Geoecology (Dr. rer. nat. habil), University of Potsdam |
| 1996 | Dissertation in Water Resources Management (Dr.-Ing.), University of Karlsruhe |
| 1988 | Diploma in Civil Engineering, University of Karlsruhe |
Selected publications:
Merz, B., Vorogushyn, S., Uhlemann, S., Delgado, J., Hundecha, Y. (2012): HESS Opinions “More efforts and scientific rigour are needed to attribute trends in flood time series”, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 16, 1379–1387.
Delgado, J. M., Apel, H., Merz, B. (2010): Flood trends and variability in the Mekong river. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS), 14, 3, 407-418.
Creutzfeldt, B., Güntner, A., Vorogushyn, S., and Merz, B., 2010: The benefits of gravimeter observations for modelling water storage changes at the field scale, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 14, 1715 – 1730, doi:10.5194/hess-14-1715-201010
Merz, B., Hall, J., Disse, M., Schumann, A. (2010): Fluvial flood risk management in a changing world. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS), 10, 3, 509-527.
Vorogushyn, S., Merz, B., Lindenschmidt, K.-E., Apel, H. (2010): A new methodology for flood hazard assessment considering dike breaches. Water Resources Research, 46, W08541.
Uhlemann, S., Thieken, A. H., Merz, B. (2010): A consistent set of trans-basin floods in Germany between 1952 – 2002. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 14, 1277 – 1295 (HESS Jim Dooge Best Paper Award 2010).
Merz, B., Thieken, A. H. (2009): Flood risk curves and uncertainty bounds. Natural Hazards, 51, 3, 437-458.
Petrow, T., Merz, B. (2009): Trends in flood magnitude, frequency and seasonality in Germany in the period 1951 - 2002. Journal of Hydrology, 371, 1-4, 129-141.
Grünthal, G., Thieken, A., Schwarz, J., Radtke, K., Smolka, A., Merz, B., 2006: Comparative risk assessments for the city of Cologne – storms, floods, earthquakes. Natural Hazards 38(1-2), 21-44, DOI 10.1007/s11069-005-8598-0
Güntner, A., Stuck, J., Döll, P., Schulze, K., Merz, B., 2006: A global analysis of temporal and spatial variations in continental water storage. Water Resources Research, 43, W05416, 10.1029/2006WR005247
Merz, B., Thieken, A. (2005): Separating natural and epistemic uncertainty in flood frequency analysis, Journal of Hydrology, 309, 114-132.
Merz, B., Kreibich, H., Thieken, A., Schmidtke, R. (2004): Estimation uncertainty of direct monetary flood damage to buildings. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 4, 153-163.
Apel, H., Thieken, A., Merz, B., Blöschl, G. (2004): Flood risk assessment and associated uncertainty. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 4, 295-308.