Deutsch Intern
Professorship of Climatology

Dr. Daniel ABEL

Tel.: +49 931 31-85996
Fax: +49 931 31-85544
E-Mail: daniel.abel@uni-wuerzburg.de

Institute of Geography and Geology
Working group Climatology - Team Climate
Am Hubland
97074 Wuerzburg

Campus Hubland South
Geography Building
Room 125

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9663-3248
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel-Abel-2

  • regional climate modeling and model development
  • CORDEX
  • soil hydrology in climate models
  • land surface-atmosphere interactions (in climate models)
  • global and regional climate change in Europe, Africa, as well as Central and South East Asia
  • drought and agricultural indices
  • applied statistics

ABEL, Daniel (2023):
Further development of the soil hydrology in the regional climate model REMO
(URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-311468)
Supervisors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heiko Paeth, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Roland Baumhauer

LANDSURF / WASCAL WRAP 2.0 - Land surface processes as a determinant of climate change in Africa – scenarios, high-resolution modeling and development of a stakeholder data portal - subproject 1

  • sub project
    Klimaveränderungenssignale und -extreme, Entwicklung DSS-Web-Portal
  • funding
    BMBF / Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.
  • duration
    06/2021 - 12/2024
  • project leader
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heiko Paeth
  • project staff
    Dr. Daniel Abel
    Dr. Katrin Ziegler
  • project partner    
    Dr. Michael Thiel – Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Würzburg (UNIWUE-R)  
    Dr. Insa Otte – Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Würzburg (UNIWUE-R)   
    Dr. Torsten Weber – Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Climate Service Centre Germany, Hamburg (HZG-GERICS)   
    Prof. Dr. Christopher Conrad – Institute of Geosciences and Geography, University of Halle-Wittenberg (UNIHAL)  
    Dr. Benewinde Jean-Bosco Zoungrana – University Ouagadougou 1 Prof. Joseph Ki-Zerbo (UNIOUA), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
    Dr. Ferdinand Tornyie (ehemals Dr. Gerald Forkuor) – United Nations University (UNU), Accra, Ghana  
    Prof. Dr. Vincent Ajayi und Dr. Imoleayo Ezekiel Gbode – Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), Akure, Nigeria  
    Dr. Seydou B. Traore – AGRHYMET, Niamey, Niger
  • further information
    WASCAL-website
    project description
    funding measure

Drought-ADAPT - Project bundle Climate Adaption: Adaptation to Drought and El Niño Effects in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, subproject 4

  • funding
    BMBF / Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.
  • duration
    06/2021 - 05/2024
  • project leader
    Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heiko Paeth
  • project staff
    Dr. Daniel Abel
  • project partner
    Juliane Huth – Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum des Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
    Dr. Heiko Apel – GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) Potsdam
    Felix Grimmeisen – SEBA Hydrometrie GmbH & Co. KG
    Nadine Westphal – Hydroplan Ingenieur-Gesellschaft mbH
    Bianca Reichel, Dr. Till Sterzel – Adelphi Research
    Dr. Nguyen Nghia Hung – Southern Institute of Water Resources Research (SIWRR)
    Dr. Lam Dao Nguyen – Ho Chi Minh City Space Technology Application Center (STAC) of the Vietnam National Space Center (VNSC)
  • further information
    project description
    project website

Big Data@Geo - Big Data in the field of Geography – Advanced environmental technologies using AI in the Web

since 03/2018
Research Assistant, Chair: Physical Geography, Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Wuerzburg

10/2015 - 03/2018
Master‘s Degree „Applied Physical Geography, geosystem change and protection“, University of Wuerzburg Focus: Climatology Master thesis: „Influence of snow water equivalent on droughts and their predictability in the USA and Central Asia“

11/2015 - 12/2017
Student Assistant, Chair: Physical Geography, Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Wuerzburg

10/2013 - 09/2017
Tutor of Statistics I and Statistics II

10/2012 - 10/2015
Bachelor‘s Degree „Geography“, University of Wuerzburg Focus: Physical Geography Bachelor thesis: „Influence of Tibet Plateau‘s uplift on the relation of ENSO and monsoon in the models ECHAM5 and REMO“ (in German)

KRAUSE, Christina (2023):
Quantifying spatio-temporal variabilities and trens of water balance components in Germany using ERA5-Land
Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Abel