LOTTA ANDERSSON
I am living together with Björn, and our daughter Matilda in a house in Linköping, built in 1917. When we not work or renovating the house, we enjoy life in our cottage at the Baltic co ast. I also enjoy food (sometimes dream about opening a restaurant), and travelling.Ongoing projects:
JOHAN ANDRÉASSON
Leisure-time key words: football, Jack "the Borderterrier", hunting. Ongoing rojects:
BERIT ARHEIMER
Scientific Interests: Nutrient transport and transformation at the catchment scale and within waterbodies. Predictions in ungauged basins.Work Tasks:
Ongoing projects:
SARA-SOFIA HELLSTRÖM
My education in hydrology was obtained at Uppsala University where I also took courses in limnology and biology. In the future I hope to be able to benefit by my knowledge in limnology. In my spare time I like, among other things, to spend time with our dog (a black labrador named Gimli), doing outdoor activities and go horse back riding. Ongoing projects:
GÖRAN LINDSTRÖM
Leisure-time key words: music, art, photography. Ongoing projects:
JONAS OLSSON
Before coming to SMHI I made a 4-year Postdoc-stay at Institute of Environmental Systems, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, after having graduated in 1996 at Department of Water Resources Engineering, Lund University. The title of my thesis was "Scaling and fractal properties of rainfall", and the work comprised statistical analysis and modelling of rainfall based on scale-invariant concepts. Later, I have been involved in work applying a similar approach to other processes, e.g. solute transport. Leisure-time key words: football, guitar, aquarium, Internet, Japan. Ongoing projects:
CHARLOTTA PERS
During my doctoral studies at Linköping University, Department of Water and Environmental Studies, I worked on organic carbon dynamics modelling in lakes including mechanistic, empirical, stochastic, and Lagrangian modelling, MonteCarlo simulations, and statistical methods for uncertainty and sensitivity analysis. Ongoing projects:
JÖRGEN ROSBERG
My studies at the universities of Uppsala (Sweden), Agricultural science (Sweden) and Svalbard (Norway), led me through a wide range of scientific fields mostly connected to geophysics. Although my main subject remained hydrology this included for example geology, oceanography and glaciology. Days when I am not at work are usually spent outdoors cycling, trekking, skiing, skating etc. or planning and preparing for any such activity. Ongoing projects:
FREDRIK WETTERHALL
Leisure-time key words: music, art, outdoor, sports, carpentering. Ongoing projects:
JULIE WILK
My main research area is catchment hydrology in developing countries which I have approached from a natural science perspective but supplemented with research questions requiring both qualitative and quantitative methods. I have an interest in studying and combining knowledge gained from different sources and methods (e.g. from statistics, hydrological models and local inhabitants) to gain a more holistic view of hydrological issues. When working in a project on the Okavango River Basin (Angola, Namibia and Botswana), I was involved in ascertaining the effects of hydrological related upstream changes on downstream water availability and defining different risk profiles and adaptation strategies to current and future hazards for the local communities in the Okavango Delta. My current projects on assessing water poverty in a village in India and ascertaining hydrological effects of climate change in chosen South African sub-catchments share the central theme of participatory modelling with the aim of encouraging the participation of local stakeholders throughout the research process in order to increase relevance and applicability of scientific results. I like travelling and I adore cats. Ongoing projects:
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My
main research interest is towards catchment modelling of spatial and
temporal variability of water flow and nutrients due to natural variability
and human impact, with emphasis on the use of models as facilitators in
stakeholder dialogues (ranging from the super-local level, to the
transboundary level. In 1989, I defended my PhD thesis "Ecohydrological
Water Flow Analysis of a Swedish Landscape in a 100 Year Perspective",
and in 2001 I was appointed as "docent" at Tema the Department of Water
and Environmental Studies, Linköping University
I
came to SMHI in the summer of 2000 to do my master thesis on modelling
organic nitrogen leaching from forested catchments. After I had finished my
thesis I was employed in the hydrology research group. My first year was
divided between several research areas such as developing a new model for
grassland fire predictions, using impulse radar snow measurements in an
attempt to improve the spring flow volume forecasts and also climate change
effects on the water resources in the Lake Vänern region. The latter of
these projects was done within the SWECLIM programme and since then I have
more and more focused on the impact of climate change on the water
resources, although I am still involved also in other research fields.
Birth
Date: 3 November,
1966
I
have been working at SMHI, and the research department, since January
2006. So far I have mainly been involved in project
I
started at the SMHI in 1984, after studying hydrology at the Uppsala
University. Most of my work at the SMHI has, in one way or another, been
related to the HBV model. In the 1980s we worked with the PULSE model, a
water quality version of the HBV. I then became interested in the modelling
of water pathways and transit times in natural basins, an interest that I
still have. Following a rainy fall in 1983 in the upper River Indalsälven,
the Swedish Committee for determination of spillway design floods was
established in 1985 with the task of developing new guidelines for spillway
design flood estimation, and I became involved in the background work of the
Committee. The questions of dam safety and the occurrence of floods have
been a focus for me ever since. I have also been involved in international
projects that the SMHI has carried out in Latin America. In the 1990s I was
responsible for the development of the HBV-96 model version, which is pretty
much the model version that we still use. In fact, much of the model has
been unchanged since Sten Bergström originally made the model in the early
1970s. Over the years, we have experienced that it is difficult to improve a
model that was already good to start with. I continue to work with similar
questions as before: water quality modelling, climate studies model
calibration and uncertainty analysis. Recently I have also begun working
part-time with operational hydrological forecasting.
I have worked at SMHI
since late 2001. Much of my work concerns how to improve hydrological
(runoff) modelling by using new sources of precipitation input, i.e. data
from weather radars and meteorological ensemble forecasts. I am also
involved in the development and testing of
I have worked at SMHI
since 2000, and among other tasks a part of my work has been within
the Swedish research program 
In
1998 I had a time limited employment at the department for Observations at
SMHI. This obviously did not deter me since I am now back at SMHI since the
spring of 2002, this time at the department of Research and Development.
Here I spend most of my time developing and programming the HBV-NP model
where the goal is to simulate the transport and retention of nutrients in
natural water channel networks. Also GIS processing and database handling
for the VASTRA project occupies some of my time.
I
have worked at SMHI since April 2006, and before that I finished my Ph D
thesis entitled 
I
received