Prize winner Mikhail Tsypin (Section 4.5 Subsurface Process Modelling) is researching the interactions between groundwater dynamics and climate factors such as precipitation and surface temperature on a regional scale for the North German Basin as part of his doctoral thesis. Important applications of these results are, for example, the evaluation of water resources and the exploration of geothermal energy.
The poster presented the results of thermal-hydraulic simulations in the subsurface of the Berlin-Brandenburg region. These simulations link a data-based 3D geological model with hydroclimatic boundary conditions such as groundwater recharge or groundwater discharge. The model analyses the variations in the distance between the groundwater surface and the overlying terrain as well as the flow rates and the thermal field in the main reservoirs in order to determine where the fluid flow strongly influences heat transport.