Franz Lennartz

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Scientific staff

Name

Dr. Franz Lennartz

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Organization Name

Chair of Hydrology

Chair of Hydrology

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Visiting address:

Neubau Chemische Institute, Room 366 Bergstr. 66

01069 Dresden

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participation in research projects

• REGKLAM
  BMBF Project. Projekt section 3.2.1 Water balance in the catchment areas of reservoirs.
• IWAS
  BMBF Project. Middle East / Oman
• World Bank / GEF project: "Conservation and utilization of agro-biodiversity for climate change adaptation in Yemen"
• Multi objective optimisation for the sustainable planning and operation of irrigation set-ups, with special attention to rainfall variability

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• The evaluation of soil-hydraulic characteristics and of methods for the parametrisation of varied scale soil models
• The evaluation of the output information of hydrological model parameters in relation to the respective model structure and the available input data.
• The development of approaches for a scaling up / down transformation of soil-hydraulic parameters
• The development of process oriented approaches for the reality-based calculation of an area's water balance under changed climate boundary conditions.
• The development of "on farm" hydrological approaches and water management methods for semi arid regions
• The use of process oriented methods for irrigation control
• Flood forecasting in fast responding catchment areas

TEACHING

• Lecture Hydrometry
• Lecture Waterbalance
• Lecture Soil waterbalance
• Lecture Hydromelioration/Irrigation
• Lecture Fundamentals and Basics of Hydrology in Hydro Science & Engineering
• Watershed Management
• Lecture Basics of Hydrology in Water Resources Management, UNEP Course
• Lecture Irrigation in Water Resources Management, UNEP Course
• Practical experiments and hands-on, in conjunction with the appropriate lectures
• Student seminar

Refereed articles in journals

• Lennartz, F., Mueller, H.O., Nollau, V. and G.H. Schmitz.,2008: Statistical Evaluation and Choice of Soil Water Retention Models, Water Resour. Res., 44, W12424, doi:10.1029/2007WR006138.
• Damodhara R Mailapalli, Narendra S Raghuwanshi, R Singh, G H Schmitz, F Lennartz: Spatial and Temporal Variation of Manning's Roughness Coefficient in Furrow Irrigation. Journal of Irrigation and Dainage Eng., in print (No. IRENG5148R1).
• M. Damodhara Rao, N. S. Raghuwanshi, R. Singh, G. H. Schmitz and F. Lennartz. Evaluation of Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) for Estimating Furrow Infiltration. Journal of Hydrology Jan. 2006.
• Woehling, T., Lennartz, F.and M. Zappa. Real-Time Updating Procedure for Flood Forecasting with PREVAH Model. HESS Vol.10, 2006, Pages 783-788.
• Schmitz, G. H., Cullmann, J., Görner, W., Lennartz,.F., and Dröge, W. :PAI-OFF: Eine neue Strategie zur Hochwasservorhersage in schnellreagierenden Einzugsgebieten. Zeitschr. f. Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung, Oktober 2005.
• G.H. Schmitz, J. Cullmann W. Görner, F. Lennartz, W. Dröge.2005: PAI-OFF: A new methodology for online flood forecasting in mountainous catchments. Proceedings IAHS, 7th Scientific Assembly, Foz do Iguacu, Braz.
• G. H. Schmitz, H. Puhlmann, W. Dröge, F. Lennartz: Artificial neural networks for estimating soil hydraulic parameters from dynamic flow experiments. European Journal of Soil Science, Volume 56, Issue 1, Page 19-30, Feb 2005.
• Shukla, S., Rao, M.D., Singh, R., Raghuwanshi, N.S., Schmitz, G.H., and Lennartz, F 2005. Modeling spatial and temporal variation of soil erosion in furrow irrigation. International Symposium on Recent Advances in Water Resources Development and Management (RAWRDM-2005), IIT-Roorkee, India, Nov 23-25, 2005, pp: 50-59.
• Lennartz, F., Felgenhauer, A., Schmitz, G.H.: A New Definition of Soil Hydraulic Similarity for Physically-Based Modelling of Soil Water Transport on Watershed Scale. SAMS, Journal of System Analysis, Vol. 41, 2001.