Publications
PEER-REVEIWED
2023
J18. Elham Rouholahnejad Freund, Hansjörg Seybold, Scott Jesechko, James W. Kirchner, Groundwater's fingerprint in stream network branching angles, Geophysical Research Letters, 2023, DOI: 10.1029/2023GL103599.
J17. Zweifel et al., Networking the forest infrastructure towards near real-time monitoring – a white paper, Science of the total Environment, 872:162167, 2023. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162167. [pdf].
2021
J16. Gessler, Arthur, Bächli, Lukas, Rouholahnejad Freund, Elham, Treydte, Kerstin, Schaub, Marcus, Haeni, Matthias, Weiler, Markus, Seeger, Stefan, Marshall, John, Hug, Christian, Zweifel, Roman, Hagedorn, Frank, Rigling, Andreas, Saurer, Matthias, Meusburger, Katrin, Drought reduces water uptake in beech from the drying topsoil, but no compensatory uptake occurs from deeper soil layers, New Phytologist, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17767, 2021. [pdf].
2020
J15. E. Rouholahnejad Freund, M. Zappa, J. W. Kirchner, Averaging over spatiotemporal heterogeneity substantially biases evapotranspiration rates in a mechanistic large-scale land evaporation model, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 5015–5025, 2020. [pdf].
2019
J14. E. Rouholahnejad Freund, Y. Fan, J. W. Kirchner, Global assessment of how averaging over heterogeneity of precipitation and potential evapotranspiration affects modeled evapotranspiration rates, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2019-103, 2019 [pdf].
J13. Fan, Y., M. Clark, D. M. Lawrence, S. Swenson, L. E. Band, S. L. Brantley, P. D. Brooks, W. E. Dietrich, A. Flores, G. Grant, J. W. Kirchner, D. S. Mackay, J. J. McDonnell, P. C. D. Milly, P. L. Sullivan, C. Tague, H. Ajami, N. Chaney, A. Hartmann, P. Hazenberg, J. McNamara, J. Pelletier, J. Perket, E. Rouholahnejad‐Freund, T. Wagener, X. Zeng, E. Beighley, J. Buzan, M. Huang, B. Livneh, B. P. Mohanty, B. Nijssen, M. Safeeq, C. Shen, W. van Verseveld, J. Volk, D. Yamazaki, Hillslope hydrology in global change research and Earth system modeling, Water Resources Research, 55, doi:10.1029/2018WR023903, 2019 [pdf].
2017
J12. Rouholahnejad Freund, E., Abbaspour, K. C., Lehmann, A. Water Resources of the Black Sea Catchment under Future Climate and Landuse Change Projections, J. of Water, 9(8), 598, 2017 [pdf].
J11. A. Lehmann, Y. Guigoz, N. Ray, E. Mancosu, K. C. Abbaspour, E. Rouholahnejad Freund, K. Allenbach, A. De Bono, M. Fasel, A. Gago da Silva, R. Baer, P. Lacroix, G. Giuliani, A regional platform from past to future land use, climate, demography, hydrology and beaches on the Black Sea catchment, Nature Scientific Data, 4, 170087, 2017 [pdf].
J10. E. Rouholahnejad Freund, J. Kirchner, A Budyko framework for estimating how spatial heterogeneity and lateral moisture redistribution affect average evapotranspiration rates as seen from the atmosphere, HESS, 21, 217-233, 2017 [pdf].
2016
J9. P. Lacroix, Y. Guigoz, N. Ray, E. Rouholahnejad, G. Giuliani, SCOPED-W: SCalable Online Platform for Extracting Environmental Data and Water-related model outputs, Transactions in GIS, doi:10.1111/tgis.12227, 2016 [pdf].
J8. M. Fasel, C. Brethault, E. Rouholahnejad, M.A. Lacayo-Emery, A. Lehmann, Blue water scarcity in the Black Sea catchment: identifying key actors in the water nexus, Environmental Science and Policy, 66, 140-150, 2016 [pdf].
2015
J7. K. C. Abbaspour, E. Rouholahnejad, S. Vaghefi, R. Srinivasan, H. Yang, and B. Klöve, European Continent Scale Hydrology and water quality model: Calibration and Uncertainty of a high-resolution large-scale SWAT model, J. of Hydrology, 524, 733–752, 2015 [pdf].
J6. R. Bär, E. Rouholahnejad, K. Rahman, K. Abbaspour, A. Lehmann, Climate Change and Agricultural Water Resources: A vulnerability assessment of the Black Sea catchment, Environmental Science and Policy, 46, 57-69, 2015 [pdf].
2014
J5. E. Rouholahnejad, K. Abbaspour, R. Srinivasan, V. Bacu, A. Lehmann, Water resources of the Black Sea Basin at high spatial and temporal resolution, WRR, 50 (7), 5866, 2014 [pdf].
2013
J4. D. Mihon, V. Bacu, D. Rodila, K. Abbaspour, E. Rouholahnejad, D. Gorgan, Grid based hydrologic model calibration and execution, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 187, 279-293, 2013 [pdf].
J3. D. Gorgan, V. Bacu, D. Mihon, D. Rodila, K. Abbaspour, E. Rouholahnejad, Grid based calibration of SWAT hydrological models, Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, 12 (7), 2411-2423, 2013 [pdf].
2012
J2. E. Rouholahnejad, K. Abbaspour, M. Vejdani, R. Srinivasan, R. Schulin, A. Lehmann, A parallelization framework for Calibration of hydrological models, Environment Modelling and Software, 31, 28-26, 2012 [pdf].
2009
J1. E. Rouholahnejad, S. A. Sadrnejad, Numerical simulation of leachate transport into the groundwater at landfill sites, Proceeding of International Congress on Modelling and simulation, MODSIM09, 2009 [pdf].
BOOKS
2014
Modeling the hydrology of the Black Sea Basin and assessing the impacts of climate change and land use change on water resources, Elham Rouholahnejad, Diss., Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH Zürich, Nr. 21603, 2013 [pdf].
DATA
2020
Rouholahnejad Freund, Elham; Kirchner, James; Zappa, Massimiliano (2020). Average precipitation and PET over Switzerland at 500m resolution. EnviDat. doi:10.16904/envidat.145.
2018
Lehmann, Anthony et al. (2018). Data from: A web platform for landuse, climate, demography, hydrology and beach erosion in the Black Sea catchment [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8t55d
2015
ENVIROGRIDS core datasets on water quantity of Black Sea Basin under Climate Change. http://blacksea.grid.unep.ch
CONFERENCE (First author contributions only)
2023
C15. E. Rouholahnejad Freund, Groundwater’s footprint on the geometry of stream network, EGU, Vienna (Highlighted talk).
2022
C14. E. Rouholahnejad Freund, Future resiLient forest in a chAnging cliMatE (FLAME): isotope observations and mechanistic modeling of soil water residence time and vegetation water uptake dynamic, Water partitioning and Plant-Soil interactions in forested and agricultural catchments, Tuscany, Italy.
2021
C13. E. Rouholahnejad Freund, M. Zappa, J. Kirchner, Aggregating over land surface heterogeneity systematically biases evapotranspiration estimates in large-scale evaporation models, EGU, Vienna (Invited speaker).
2019
C12. E. Rouholahnejad Freund, M. Zappa, J. Kirchner, The effects of sub-grid heterogeneity on evapotranspiration estimates in a data-driven global evaporation model, EGU, Vienna.
2018
C11. E. Rouholahnejad Freund, Brecht Martens, Wade T. Crow, Diego G. Miralles, Effects of changes in terrestrial water storage on evaporation at global scale: GRACE assimilation into GLEAM, EGU, Vienna.
2017
C10. E. Rouholahnejad Freund, Y. Fan, J. W. Kirchner, The effects of spatial heterogeneity and subsurface lateral transfer on evapotranspiration estimates in large scale Earth system models, AGU, New Orleans (Invited speaker).
C9. E. Rouholahnejad Freund, Y. Fan, J. Kirchner, Averaging over spatial heterogeneity leads to overestimation of ET in large scale Earth system models, EGU, Vienna.
2016
C8. E. Rouholahnejad, J. Kirchner, Potential biases in evapotranspiration estimates from Earth system models due to spatial heterogeneity and lateral redistribution, AGU, SF.
C7. E. Rouholahnejad, J. Kirchner, A Budyko framework for estimating how lateral redistribution affects large scale evapotranspiration, EGU, Vienna.
2015
C6. E. Rouholahnejad, J. Kirchner, Does groundwater enhances evaporative cooling? AGU, SF.
2014
C5. E. Rouholahnejad, K. C. Abbaspour, European Continental Scale Hydrological Model: Limitations and Challenges, AGU, San Francisco.
2013
C4. E. Rouholahnejad, K. C. Abbaspour, Water resources quantity and quality in Black Sea Basin, International SWAT conference and workshop, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France (Invited speaker).
2012
C3. E. Rouholahnejad, K. C. Abbaspour, M. Vejdani, R. Srinivasan, Parallelizing SWAT Calibration in Windows using SUFI2 Program, International SWAT conference, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.
2011
C2. E. Rouholahnejad, K. C. Abbaspour, R. Srinivasan, A. Lehmann, Water Resources Status in Danube River Basin, International SWAT, University of Castilla La Mancha, Toledo, Spain.
2010
C1. E. Rouholahnejad, K. C. Abbaspour, “Hydrological Modeling of the Black Sea Catchment using SWAT”, International SWAT Conference, Korea Institute of Construction Technology, Water Resources Research Division, Seoul, South Korea.
MEDIA
2017
Research “Hylight”: Estimating how spatial heterogeneity and lateral moisture redistribution affect average evapotranspiration by Elham Rouholahnejad Freund [link]
2012
Oral contribution to Euro news broadcast on the future of Black Sea Basin: “euronews futuris - Maps: Colouring in the Black Sea” [link].