Pollutant Transport in a Catchment

An Interdisciplinary Research Group brings together scientists from various research institutions cooperating on modelling pollutant transport and their discharge from a catchment. The important aspects of this research are determination of the aquatic environment quality, identification of pollution migration paths, as well as issues related to surface runoff and erosion. Moreover, the Research Group in their activities takes into account the impact of environmental changes, especially climate and land use, on processes occurring in the catchment area (e.g., eutrophication). The Research Group specializes in analyzes, with the use of the innovative Macromodel DNS/SWAT platform, allowing recreation of the studied river catchments with great precision in a digital space, along with natural and anthropogenic processes occurring in said area(s). The Macromodel DNS/SWAT is a platform which allows connection of selected modules depending on research needs, and creating an integral system capable of simulating the current and future changes taking place within the environment. The potential of this tool is constantly being enhanced by implementing, for instance, results of the FORECOM, Climate Impact, MPA projects, and combining them with the sediment fingerprinting approach with other models to describe transport and transformation processes in water bodies.

IMGW Institute of Meteorology and Water Management - National Research Institute

Cracow University of Technology

Human-Environmental Systems Research Centre - Jagiellonian University in Kraków