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 
Examiners: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heiko Paeth, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Roland Baumhauer, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Birgit Terhorst

MOSAIC - Modeling South Asian climate in relation to irrigation and land use changes using a modified scheme for soil hydrology and an interactive vegetation scheme in a regional climate model

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

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 - 08/2024
  • 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

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)

Scientific Articles

Abel, D., Ziegler, K., Gbode, I. E., Weber, T., Ajayi, V. O., Traoré, S. B. and Paeth, H. (2024):
Robustness of climate indices relevant for agriculture in Africa deduced from GCMs and RCMs against reanalysis and gridded observations.
[DOI] Climate Dynamics, 62, 1077-1106.

Rai, P., Bangelesa, F., Abel, D., Ziegler, K., Huang, J., Schaffhauser, T., Pollinger, F., Disse, M. and Paeth, H. (2024):
Extreme precipitation and temperature indices under future climate change in central Asia based on CORDEX-CORE
[DOI] Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 155, 6015–6039.

Tamoffo, A. T., Weber, T., Abel, D., Ziegler, K., Cabos, W., Sein, D. V. and Laux, P. (2024):
Regionally Coupled Climate Model ROM Projects More Plausible Precipitation Change Over Central Equatorial Africa.
[DOI] Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129(21), Artikel e2024JD041466.

Bangelesa, F., Abel, D., Pollinger, F., Rai, P., Ziegler, K., Ebengo, D., Tshimanga, R. M., Mala Ali, M., Knight, J. and Paeth, H. (2023):
Projected changes in rainfall amount and distribution in the Democratic Republic of Congo – Evidence from an ensemble of high-resolution climate simulations.
[DOI] Weather and Climate Extremes, 42, 100620.

Paeth, H., Schönbein, D., Keupp, L., Abel, D., Bangelesa, F., Baumann, M., Büdel, C., Hartmann, C., Kneisel, C., Kobs, K., Krause, J., Krech, M., Pollinger, F., Schäfer, C., Steininger, M., Terhorst, B., Ullmann, T., Wilde, M., Ziegler, K., Zimanowski, B., Baumhauer, R. and Hotho, A. (2023):
Climate change information tailored to the agricultural sector in Central Europe, exemplified on the region of Lower Franconia.
[DOI] Climatic Change, 176(10).

Steininger, M., Abel, D., Ziegler, K., Krause, A., Paeth, H. and Hotho, A. (2023):
ConvMOS: climate model output statistics with deep learning.
[DOI] Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 37(1), 136–166.

Rai, P., Ziegler, K., Abel, D., Pollinger, F. and Paeth, H. (2022):
Performance of a regional climate model with interactive vegetation (REMO-iMOVE) over Central Asia.
[DOI] Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 150(3-4), 1385–1405.

Steininger, M., Abel, D., Ziegler, K., Krause, A., Paeth, H. and Hotho, A. (2020):
Deep Learning for Climate Model Output Statistics.
[DOI] Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning Workshop at NeurIPS 2020.

Conference reports

Abel, D., König, L., Ziegler, K., Ajayi, V., Gbode, I.E., Otte, I., Teucher, M., Weber, T., Paeth, H. and Conrad, C. (2024):
LANDSURF Decision Support System - User-friendly climate data for West Africa, 1981-2100.
[DOI] Invited Talk, Symposium on Climate Change and Land Use and Land Management in Africa, 25-26 September 2024, Banjul, The Gambia, & Online.

Abel, D., Ziegler, K., Pollinger, F. and Paeth, H. (2024):
Effects of improved land surface processes in the regional climate model REMO on climate means and extremes in Mainland Southeast Asia.
[DOI] EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14-19 April 2024, EGU24-18422.

Rai, P., Bangelesa, F., Abel, D., Ziegler, K., Huang, J., Schaffhauser, T., Disse, M. and Paeth, H. (2024):
Future projection of extreme precipitation and temperature indices in Central Asia using CORDEX-CORE.
[DOI] EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14-19 April 2024, EGU24-15085.

Abel, D., Ziegler, K., Gbode, I. E., Weber, T., Ajayi, V. O., Coulibaly, A., Traoré, S. B. and Paeth, H. (2023):
How well do climate models represent rainy season- and heat-related indices in Africa?
[DOI] Climate Forum 2023, Mittweida, Germany, 12-16 June 2023.

Abel, D., Ziegler, K., Gbode, I. E., Weber, T., Ajayi, V. O., Coulibaly, A., Traoré, S. B. and Paeth, H. (2023):
Impact of climate change on indices relevant for African agriculture deduced from GCMs and RCMs.
[DOI] World Climate Research Program, Open Science Conference, Kigali, Rwanda, & Online, 23-27 October, 2023.

Abel, D., Ziegler, K., Gbode, I. E., Weber, T., Ajayi, V. O., Traoré, S. B. and Paeth, H. (2023):
Observed agricultural relevant and rainy-season dependent indices over Africa and their representation in GCMs and RCMs.
36th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Denver & Online, USA, 08-13 January 2023.

Abel, D., Ziegler, K. and Paeth, H. (2023):
Multilayer soil and interactive vegetation - A case study using REMO in Mainland Southeast Asia.
[DOI] International Conference on Regional Climate (ICRC-CORDEX 2023), Triest, Italy, 25-29 September 2023.

Abel, D., Ziegler, K. and Paeth, H. (2023):
Multilayer soil scheme and interactive vegetation in regional climate models – A case study for Mainland Southeast Asia using REMO.
[DOI] EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 23-28 April 2023.

König, L., Teucher, M., Ziegler, K., Abel, D., Weber, T., Paeth, H. and Conrad, C. (2023):
Development of a Web Based Decision Support System to Provide Relevant Climate Indicators for Climate Change Adaption.
[DOI] EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-12019

König, L., Ziegler, K., Abel, D., Weber, T., Teucher, M., Conrad, C. and Paeth, H. (2023):
Development of a Web Based Decision Support System to provide Climate Indicators for Climate Change Adaption in West Africa.
[DOI] In: „Science for livelihood - Interdisciplinary Forum on Research-Based Approaches for Climate Resilience". Climate Forum 2023, Mittweida, Germany, 12-16 June 2023.

Nguyen, V. D., Abel, D., Huth, J., Shrestha, P. K., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Sharifi, E., Güntner, A., Sayyadi, S., Guse, B., Dang, T. T., Than, V. D., Nguyen, N. H., Nguyen, N. H. and Apel, H. (2023):
Analysis of water sources in the Central Highlands of Vietnam by hydrological modelling and GRACE/G3P gravity-based monitoring.
28th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Berlin, Germany, 11-23 July 2023.

Otte, I., Ziegler, K., Abel, D., Weber, T., Zoungrana, J.-B. B., Thiel, M. and Paeth, H. (2023):
Development of land use changes based on remote sensing data tailored to the usage in regional climate models.
[DOI] Climate Forum 2023, Mittweida, Germany, 12-16 June 2023.

Rai, P., Abel, D., Ziegler, K., Bangelesa, F., Schaffhauser, T., Huang, J., Pollinger, F. and Paeth, H. (2023):
Future Projections of extreme events over Central Asia in CORDEX CORE Simulations.
[DOI] International Conference on Regional Climate (ICRC-CORDEX 2023), Triest, Italy, 25-29 September 2023

Rai, P., Abel, D., Ziegler, K., Pollinger, F. and Paeth, H. (2023):
Effect of an irrigation scheme implemented in a regional climate model over Central Asia.
[DOI] EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-16125

Weber, T., Abel, D., Ziegler, K., Gbode, I. E., Ajayi, V. O., Coulibaly, A., Máñez Costa, M., Tornyie, F., König, L. and Paeth, H. (2023):
Involving end-users in the development process of a Decision Support System (DSS) for the agricultural sector in West Africa.
[DOI] World Climate Research Program, Open Science Conference, Kigali, Rwanda, & Online, 23-27 October 2023.

Weber, T., Gbode, I. E., Coulibaly, A., Abel, D., Ziegler, K., Zoungrana, J.-B. B., Traoré, S. B. and Paeth, H. (2023):
Potential shift of rainy seasons’ onset and cessation under climate change scenarios in West Africa.
[DOI] EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-5395.

Weber, T., Ziegler, K., Abel, D., Paeth, H., Coulibaly, A., Gbode, I. E., Ajayi, V. O., Otte, I., Thiel, M., Tornyie, F., König, L., Teucher, M., Zoungrana, J.-B. B. and Conrad, C. (2023):
Provision of climate change information on rainy season indicators for the agricultural sector in Burkina Faso.
[DOI] International Conference on Regional Climate (ICRC-CORDEX 2023), Triest, Italy, 25-29 September 2023.

Ziegler, K., Abel, D., Weber, T., König, L. and Paeth, H. (2023):
Analyses of Heatwaves in Observational and Modelled Data for Africa.
[DOI] EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-1312.

Ziegler, K., Abel, D., Weber, T., König, L. and Paeth, H. (2023):
Heat and Drought in Observational and Modelled Data for Africa.
[DOI] International Conference on Regional Climate (ICRC-CORDEX 2023), Triest, Italy, 25-29 September 2023.

Abel, D. and Paeth, H. (2022):
Comparing gridded precipitation data over Mainland Southeast Asia.
40. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreis Klima, Ochsenfurt, Deutschland (28.-30.10.2022).

Abel, D. and Paeth, H. (2022):
Validation of an RCM over Mainland Southeast Asia focusing on the needs of hydrological models.
[DOI] EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23-27 May 2022, EGU22-2827.

Abel, D., Ziegler, K., Gbode, I. E., Weber, T., Ajayi, V. O., Traoré, S. B. and Paeth, H. (2022):
Comparison of different agricultural and rainy season-dependent indices over Africa and their representation in global and regional climate models.
[DOI] WASCAL Science Symposium 2022, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 5-9 December 2022.

Bangelesa, F., Abel, D., Ziegler, K., Pollinger, F. and Paeth, H. (2022):
Agriculture calendar and climate change in West Africa.
40. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreis Klima, Ochsenfurt, Deutschland (28.-30.10.2022).

König, L., Teucher, M., Ziegler, K., Abel, D., Weber, T., Paeth, H. and Conrad, C. (2022):
Development of a Web Based Decision Support System to provide Climate Data and Relevant Indicators for Climate Change Adaption.
[DOI] WASCAL Science Symposium 2022, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 5-9 December 2022.

Rai, P., Ziegler, K., Abel, D. and Paeth, H. (2022):
Effects of interactive vegetation on the performance of a regional climate model implemented over Central Asia.
40. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreis Klima, Ochsenfurt, Deutschland (28.-30.10.2022).

Rai, P., Ziegler, K., Abel, D., Pollinger, F. and Paeth, H. (2022):
Assessment of REgional MOdel REMO and its coupled version REMO-iMOVE over Central Asia.
[DOI] EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23-27 May 2022, EGU22-4191

Abel, D., Ziegler, K., Pollinger, F. and Paeth, H. (2021):
Comparison of different infiltration schemes in the regional climate model REMO.
[DOI] EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-9874.

Abel, D., Ziegler, K., Pollinger, F. and Paeth, H. (2021):
Weiterentwicklung der Bodenhydrologie im regionalen Klimamodell REMO und deren Einfluss auf die Simulation von Hitzewellen.
39. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreis Klima, Passau, Deutschland (05.-07.11.2021).

Huth, J., Abel, D., Apel, H., Assmann, A., Garschagen, M., Grimmeisen, F., Souvignet, M., Hochschild, V., Nguyen, D., L., Nguyen, H. K. L., Nguyen, N. H., Paeth, H., Quang, D. L., Sterzel, T., Schinkel, U. and Bachofer, F. (2022):
Observation of Climate Extremes from Space – Results from the Drought-ADAPT and FloodAdaptVN Research Projects in Viet Nam.
Water Security and Climate Change Conference 2022 (WSCC2022), Bangkok & Online, Thailand, 1-3 December 2022.

Pollinger, F., Allertseder, P., Abel, D., Ziegler, K. and Paeth, H. (2021):
Effekte von Flächenversiegelung in einem regionalen Klimamodell (Posterbeitrag).
39. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreis Klima, Passau, Deutschland (05.-07.11.2021).

Steininger, M., Abel, D., Ziegler, K., Krause, A., Paeth, H. and Hotho, A. (2021):
Deep Learning for Climate Model Output Statistics.
[DOI] EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-2175.

Ziegler, K., Pollinger, F., Abel, D. and Paeth, H. (2020):
REMOLAND: New high-resolution surface boundary data for the regional climate model REMO and their impacts.
[DOI] EGU 2020.

Abel, D., Pollinger, F., Ziegler, K. and Paeth, H. (2020):
Extension of the regional climate model REMO by a 5-layer soil scheme.
[DOI] EGU 2020.

Pollinger, F., Ziegler, K., Abel, D. and Paeth, H. (2020):
Effects of a new land surface parametrization scheme on thermal extremes in a Regional Climate Model.
[DOI] EGU 2020.

Abel, D., Pollinger, F., Ziegler, K. and Paeth, H. (2019):
REMOLAND: Die Erweiterung von REMO um ein 5-Schichten-Bodenschema zur Verbesserung der Bodenhydrologie.
51. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreis Hydrologie, Heidelberg, Deutschland (21.-23.11.2019).

Abel, D., Pollinger, F., Ziegler, K. and Paeth, H. (2019):
REMOLAND: Die Erweiterung von REMO um ein 5-Schichten-Bodenschema.
38. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreis Klima, Jesteburg, Deutschland (25.-27.10.2019).

Ziegler, K., Pollinger, F., Abel, D. and Paeth, H. (2019):
REMOLAND: Verbesserung des Landoberflächenmoduls in REMO durch Einbindung von neuen höher aufgelösten Datensätzen für die statischen Landoberflächenparameter.
38. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreis Klima, Jesteburg, Deutschland (25.-27.10.2019).

Other

Abel, D., Ha, T. V. (2024): "Droughts in a Mekong sub-basin: Characteristics, propagation, and predictive potential using multiple drought indices". [DOI] Zenodo. 

König, L., Ziegler, K., Abel, D., Weber, T., Ajayi, V., Gbode, I. E., Zoungrana, B. J.-B., Coulibaly, A., Otte, I., Teucher, M., Schuck-Zöller, S., Máñez Costa, M., Paeth, H. and Conrad, C. (2024):
LANDSURF DSS [Computer software]
[DOI] Zenodo

Ziegler, K., Abel, D. and Paeth, H. (2024):
Dataset: LANDSURF – Climate Indices for Africa.
[DOI] 

Ziegler, K., Abel, D., Otte, I., and Paeth, H. (2024):
LANDSURF DSS dataset.
[DOI]

Weber, T., Gbode, I. E., Ziegler, K., Abel, D., Ajayi, V. O., Otte, I., Zoungrana, B. J.-B., Coulibaly, A., Máñez Costa, M., Guillén Bolaños, T., Muwafu, S. and Paeth, H. (2023):
Project LANDSURF - Users' interaction protocol to identify specific climate indicators and end-user needs for the development of a decision support system (DSS).
[DOI] WASCAL WRAP2.0: LANDSURF project.

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