Dr. Paul Voit
DFG GK NatRiskChange
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
- telephone:+49 331 977 2502
- fax:+49 331 977 2092
- E-Mail:paul.voituuni-potsdampde
address: Campus Golm
Haus 32, Raum 1.40
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25
14476 Potsdam-Golm
Forschung
- detection of extreme precipitation events
- radar climatology
- flash floods under climate change scenarios
- green infracstructure and urban trees
- irrigation
- hydrological modelling
Lehre
- Umweltdatenverarbeitung, Basic Python Seminor (Master course, 1 SWS,Winter semester)
Publikationen
Arango-Carmona, M. I., Voit, P., Hürlimann, M., Aristizábal, E., & Korup, O. (2025). Hillslope torrential hazard cascades in tropical mountains. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 25(9), 3641-3663. https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3641-2025
Guan, X., Nguyen, D. V., Voit, P., Merz, B., Heistermann, M., and Vorogushyn, S.: The ability of a stochastic regional weather generator to reproduce heavy precipitation events across scales, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-3075-2025, 2025.
Voit, P. and Heistermann, M.: A downward-counterfactual analysis of flash floods in Germany, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 2147–2164, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-2147-2024, 2024
Voit, P. and Heistermann, M.: Brief communication: Stay local or go global? On the construction of plausible counterfactual scenarios to assess flash flood hazards, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 4609–4615, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-4609-2024, 2024
Voit, P., Francke, T., & Bronstert, A. Accounting for operational irrigation options in mesoscale hydrological modelling of dryland environments. Hydrological Sciences Journal,. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2023.2187296, 2023
Lengfeld, K., Voit, P., Kaspar, F., and Heistermann, M.: Brief communication: On the extremeness of the July 2021 precipitation event in western Germany, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 1227–1232, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-1227-2023, 2023.
Voit, P. and Heistermann, M.: A new index to quantify the extremeness of precipitation across scales, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 2791–2805, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-2791-2022, 2022
Vorträge
05/2022 - EGU Vienna "xWEI – A novel cross-scale index for extreme precipitation events"
05/2023 - DMG-Fachausschuss Hydrometeorologie (FA HYMET) Bonn "xWEI - Ein neuer Index zur Quantifizierung von Extremniederschlägen unterschiedlicher Skalen"
03/2024 - EGU Vienna "Flash Flood Hazard: Counterfactual Analysis for Germany"
04/2024, EMCEI Marrakech „Flash Flood Hazard: A Counterfactual Analysis for Germany"
04/2025 - EGU Vienna "Does a changing climate lead to a higher flash flood hazard?"
10/2025 - International Association of Hydrological Sciences, Roorkee, India "Beyond Historical Records: Using Counterfactual Scenarios to Improve Flood Risk Management"
10/2025 - International Center for the Exellence of Dams, Roorkee, India "Flood frequency analysis and unknown extremes"
Projekte
- ClimXtreme , https://www.climxtreme.de/
- Innovative Instrumente zum Management des Urbanen Starkregenrisikos (Inno_MAUS), https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/inno-maus