Biography

2009

PhD

2005

Diplom Geoökologie

Research

• water and sediment export from dryland catchments
• non-parametric regression
• optimization, parallel computing
• experimental hydrology

Teaching

• general hydrology and erosion
• introduction to modelling
• basic numerics
• introduction to programming (R, Matlab)
• hydrological fieldwork

Publications

Articles and Book chapters

• Bronstert, A., Batalla, R. J., de Araújo, J. C., Francke, T., Güntner, A., Mamede, G., Müller., E., 2007. Investigating erosion and sediment transport from head-waters to catchments to reduce reservoir siltation in drylands. In: Reducing the Vulnerability of Societies to Water Related Risks at the Basin Scale. IAHS-Publications, 317: Wallingford, UK, pp. 119-122.
• Francke, T., 2006. Basics for the development of a model for describing the water balance of a tailing dump. In: Blumenstein, O., van Rensburg, L., Krüger, W., Schachtzabel, H.(eds.): Basics for Modelling of Heavy Metal Dynamics in Tailing Dam Systems. Arbeitsgruppe Stoffdynamik in Geosystemen, Universität Potsdam, 11: Potsdam, pp. 77-98. (a)
• Francke, T., 2006. Discrimination of the origin of pore-water on a tailing dump using stable isotopes in water. In: Blumenstein, O., van Rensburg, L., Krüger, W., Schachtzabel, H.(eds.): Basics for Modelling of Heavy Metal Dynamics in Tailing Dam Systems. Arbeitsgruppe Stoffdynamik in Geosystemen, Universität Potsdam, 11: Potsdam, pp. 57-75. (b)
• Francke, T., 2009. Measurement and Modelling of Water and Sediment Fluxes in Meso-Scale Dryland Catchments. PhD-thesis, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam.
• Francke, T., Güntner, A., Mamede, G., Müller., E., Bronstert, A., 2008. Automated catena-based discretization of landscapes for the derivation of hydrological modelling units. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 22 (2), 111-132. (a)
• Francke, T., López-Tarazón, J. A., Schröder, B., 2008. Estimation of suspended sediment concentration and yield using linear models, Random Forests and Quantile Regression Forests. Hydrological Processes 22, 4892–4904.
• Francke, T., López-Tarazón, J. A., Vericat, D., Bronstert, A., Batalla, R. J., 2008. Flood-Based Analysis of High-Magnitude Sediment Transport Using a Non-Parametric Method. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 33 (13), 2064 - 2077. (b)
• López-Tarazón, J., Batalla, R. J., Vericat, D., Francke, T., 2009. Suspended Sediment Transport in a Highly Erodible Catchment: The River Isabena (Central Pyrenees). Geomorphology 109 (3-4), 210-221.
• Mamede, G. L., Bronstert, A., Francke, T., Müller, E., de Araújo, J. C., Batalla, R. J., Güntner, A. 2006. 1D Process-based modelling of reservoir sedimentation: a case study for the Barasona Reservoir in Spain. In: Conference Proceedings River Flow 2006. International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, Lisbon, September 06 - 08, 2006.
• Medeiros, P., Güntner, A., Francke, T., Mamede, G., Araújo, J., 2010. Spatial and temporal patterns of sediment yield and connectivity at the catchment scale: an application of the WASA-SED model to a semi-arid environment. Hydrological Sciences Journal 55 (4), 636 – 648.
• Mueller, E. N., Güntner, A., Francke, T., Mamede, G., 2010. Modelling water availability, sediment export and reservoir sedimentation in drylands with the WASA-SED Model. Geoscientific Model Development 3, 275-291.
• Mueller, E. N., Francke, T., Bronstert, A., Batalla, R. J., 2009. Modelling the effects of land-use change on runoff and sediment yield for a meso-scale catchment in the Southern Pyrenees. Catena 79 (3), 288-296.
• Salazar, S., Francés, F., Komma, J., Blöschl, G., Blume, T., Francke, T., Bronstert, A., 2008. Efficiency of non-structural flood mitigation measures: “room for the river” and “retaining water in the landscape”. In: Samuels, P., Huntington, S., Allsop, W., Harrop, J.(eds.): Flood Risk Management: Research and Practice. Proceedings of the European Conference on Flood Risk Management Reasearch into Practice (FLOODRISK 2008). CRC Press/Balkema, Oxford, UK. 

Talks and Posters

• T. Francke, R. J. Batalla, A. Bronstert (April 2009) Water quality at the catchment scale: prediction and management of nutrient and sediment fluxes. Poster presented at EGU assembly 2009, Vienna
• M. Eichler, T. Francke, D. Kneis, D. Reusser (April 2009) General System Design, Image Processing and Data Infrastructures. Poster presented at EGU assembly 2009, Vienna
• T. Francke, G. Mamede, J. A. López-Tarazón, R. J. Batalla (April 2008) Assessment of sediment yield and reservoir siltation using non-parametric regression and numerical modelling. Oral presentation at EGU assembly 2008, Vienna
• T. Francke, G. Mamede , E.N. Müller , R.J. Batalla (April 2007) Suspended-sediment fluxes at the hillslope and catchment scale during a season of monitoring erosion hot spots in the Isábena catchment (Central Spanish Pyrenees). Poster presented at EGU assembly 2007, Vienna
• G. L. Mamede, A. Bronstert, J. C. de Araújo, R. J. Batalla, A. Güntner, T. Francke, E. N. Müller (April 2007) Effects of Small Reservoirs on Water and Sediment Budgets in Semiarid Areas. Poster presented at EGU assembly 2007, Vienna
• A. Bronstert , E.N. Müller , J.C. de Araujo , R.J. Batalla, T. Francke , A. Güntner, G. Mamede (April 2007) Erosion and Sediment Transport – Measurement and Modelling from Headwaters to large Catchments: A Research Project to reduce Reservoir Sedimentation in semi-arid Environments. Poster presented at EGU assembly 2007, Vienna
• K. Appel, E.N. Müller , T. Francke , C. Opp (April 2006) Soil-Erosion Modelling along Badland Hillslopes in a Dryland Environment of NE Spain. Poster presented at EGU assembly 2006, Vienna
• T. Francke , B. Creutzfeldt, A. Güntner, M. Märker, G. Mamede, E.N. Müller (April 2006) Spatial discretisation in semi-distributed hydrological modelling with WASA using the Landscape Unit Mapping Program (LUMP). Poster presented at EGU assembly 2006, Vienna