The Hydrosphere

17 May at 15:45–17:30, room Vingen 6+7

Keywords describing this session: coastal sea level, aquatic processes, lakes, limnology, freshwater cycle, wetlands, water quality, floods and droughts, adaptation measures, water- and climate services, water availability and vulnerability, hydroclimatic change, hydrology, sociohydrology

Program

15:45      Welcome – Fernando Jaramillo, Assistant Professor at the Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University & Berit Arheimer, Professor at SMHI.

Remote sensing of water

15:50-16:00      Improving the water extent monitoring of Swedish wetlands using open-source satellite data – Farzad Vahidi Mayamey, PhD Student at the Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University

16:05-16:15      Water Level Estimation in Northern Lakes from Space – Saeid Aminjafari, PhD Student at the Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University

Biogeochemistry and water

16:20-16:30    Freshwater inflows to the Baltic Sea under changing climate and socioeconomics – Alena Bartosova, researcher at SMHI

16:35-16:45      Water indicators with global coverage for the past, present and future – Louise Petersson, researcher at SMHI

16:50-17:00      Increasing export of organic carbon from boreal soils to freshwaters – causes and consequences – Emma Kritzberg, Professor at the Department of Biology, Lund University

Adaptation and resilience of water resources

17:05-17:15      Atmospheric Moisture Imports of Wetland Areas – An Analysis of Globally Distributed Wetland Precipitation sheds – Simon Felix Fahrländer, researcher at the Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University

17:20-17:30      Final discussion