Thomas Wöhling
Dr.rer.nat., Dipl.-Hydrol., TUD, Germany
Working in the Hamilton office from 2006 till 2010, Thomas (‘Eddy’) focused on measuring and modelling water and contaminant fluxes through the vadose zone at Lincoln Agritech’s ‘Spydia’ facility near Lake Taupo. Despite relocating to Germany in 2010, Eddy continues to contribute to Lincoln Agritech’s research on a part-time basis.
Thomas is an internationally recognised specialist in the fields of multiobjective inverse parameter estimation methods and associated parameter uncertainty assessments. He currently leads several research programmes at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.
He has particular interests in:
- Integrated modelling of coupled environmental systems: flow and contaminant transport in surface water – groundwater systems; water, nutrient and energy fluxes in soil-plant-atmosphere systems; distributed hydrological modelling; and vadose zone flow and transport processes in heterogeneous media
- Evaluation and optimisation of monitoring networks
- Worth of data and observation types to inform environmental models
- Inverse modelling, model calibration, and efficient parameter estimation methods
- Multiobjective optimization techniques and Pareto analysis
- Stochastic modelling and uncertainty analysis
- Model selection techniques and Bayesian model averaging
Academic and Professional History:
- 2015- current: Senior Research Scientist, Team Leader Stochastic Modelling of Hydrosystems, Head of the Soil Hydrology Lab, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- 2010 – 2015: Senior Research Scientist at Water and Earth System Sciences Competence Cluster (WESS), Tübingen, Germany
- 2008 – current: Senior Research Scientist at Lincoln Environmental Research, Lincoln Ventures Ltd, Hamilton, New Zealand
- 2006 – 2008: Research Hydrologist / Modeller at Lincoln Environmental Research, Lincoln Ventures Ltd, Hamilton, New Zealand
- 2005: PhD in Hydrology, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- 1999 – 2005: Research Associate at Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
- 1999: Dipl.-Hydrol., Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Publications
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Model simplification to simulate groundwater recharge from a perched gravel-bed river, Journal of Hydrology, November 2024
Di Ciacca A, Wilson S, Durney P, Stecca G, Wöhling T
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.132016
Conceptualising surface water-groundwater exchange in braided rivers systems, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, June 2024
Wilson S R, Hoyle J, Measures R, Di Ciacca A, Morgan L K, Banks E W, Robb L, Wöhling T
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-2721-2024
Optimized Predictive Coverage by Averaging Time-Windowed Bayesian Distributions, Water Resources Research, May 2024
Hsueh H-F, Guthke A, Wöhling T, Nowak W
doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033280
Estimating catchment-wide total groundwater storage via space-time kriging provides calibration data for catchment-scale groundwater balance models, EGU General Assembly 2024
Ejaz F, Wildt N, Nowak W, Wöhling T
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/EGU24-10521.html
Predicting groundwater heads in alluvial aquifers: Benchmarking different model classes and machine-learning techniques with BMA/S, EGU General Assembly 2024
Wöhling T, Kraft M, Crespo Delgadillo O
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-8818
Impact of river management on groundwater recharge from braided rivers, EGU General Assembly 2024
Wilson S, Measures R, Hoyle J, Stecca G, Durney P, Di Ciacca A, Wöhling T
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-6843
Comprehensive uncertainty analysis for surface water and groundwater forecasts under climate change based on a lumped geo-hydrological model, Journal of Hydrology
Ejaz F, Guthke A, Wöhling T, Nowak W
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130323
Conceptualisation of Groundwater Recharge from Braided Rivers, EGU General Assembly 2023
Wilson, S, Di Ciacca, A, Hoyle, J, Measures, R, Wöhling, T, Banks, E, Morgan, L
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-9225
Model simplification to simulate groundwater recharge from perched gravel-bed braided rivers, EGU General Assembly 2023
Di Ciacca A, Wilson S, Wöhling T
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-9868
Soil hydraulic conductivity in the state of nonequilibrium, “Vadose Zone Journal”
Vogel H-J, Gerke HH, Mietrach R, Zahl R, Wöhling T
https://doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20238
Deriving transmission losses in ephemeral rivers using satellite imagery and machine learning, “Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.”
Di Ciacca A, Wilson S, Kang J, Wöhling T
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-703-2023
Tracing lateral subsurface flow in layered soils by undisturbed monolith sampling, targeted laboratory experiments, and model-based analysis, “Vadose Zone Journal”
Ehrhardt A, Berger K, Filipović V, Wöhling T, Vogel H-J, Gerke H
https://www.lincolnagritech.co.nz/science-outputs/%20https:/doi.org/10.1002/vzj2.20206
Diagnosis of model errors with a sliding time-window Bayesian analysis, “Water Resources Research”
Hsueh H-F, Guthke A, Wöhling T, Nowak W
https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR030590
Operational prediction of river-groundwater exchange, groundwater levels and aquifer storage: The Wairau Plain Aquifer, EGU General Assembly 2021
Wöhling T
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-9700
Evaluation of 42 lumped rainfall-runoff models for the Wairau River catchment, New Zealand, using the MARRMoT toolbox, EGU General Assembly 2021
Peesel A and Wöhling T
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-6977
Detecting the cause of change using uncertain data: Natural and anthropogenic factors contributing to declining groundwater levels and flows of the Wairau Plain Aquifer, New Zealand Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 31, 100715
Wöhling, T., Wilson, S. R., Wadsworth, V., Davidson, P.
Lumped hydrological model for reasonable, long- term predictions of groundwater storage and depletion, Annual General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, “Sharing Geoscience Online” online conference
Fahad E, Wöhling T, Nowak W
AQUIFERWATCH: Operational prediction of groundwater heads and storage during river flow recession in the Wairau Aquifer, New Zealand Annual General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, “Sharing Geoscience Online” online conference
Wöhling T, Davidson P
