Water Resources Management and Environmental Hydraulics
We promote sustainable use of water and advance the assessment and prediction of the state of the water environment measure. We quantify changes in water and the environment caused by anthropogenic activities in both empirical and laboratory settings. We develop computational hydrology and hydraulics applications, ecohydraulics, nature-based solutions and basin-scale process examination. The watershed basin is our key unit, enabling the study of the effects of land cover and sub-processes related to precipitation, evapotranspiration, water storage and runoff development.
In particular, we focus on:
* Ecohydraulics and nature-based solutions
* Water in cities
* Water in agricultural areas
* Water in forests
In particular, we focus on:
* Ecohydraulics and nature-based solutions
* Water in cities
* Water in agricultural areas
* Water in forests
Latest publications
Co-developing research-assisting AI for water resources professionals: the Digital Waters Flagship’s digital methods course
Elizabeth Carter, Mehrdad Rostami, Elsa Culler, Omer Abubaker, Mohammad Imangholiloo, Mia Pihlajamäki, Maija Taka, Harri Koivusalo, Pertti Alo-Aho, Hannu Martilla, Mehdi Rasti, Pyry Kettunen, Marko Keskinen, Ville Mäkinen, Juha Oksanen, Petteri Alho, Björn Klöve
2026
Interoperability Strategies for Process-Based Models in Digital Water Twins: An Architectural and Framework-Based Synthesis
Abubaker Omer, Debasish Pal, Jan Olsman, Elizabeth Carter, Harri Koivusalo
2026
Determining trends in occurrence of dry and wet events using gridded precipitation data in Finland
Tuomas Haapala, Heidi Salo, Harri Koivusalo
2025
Determining trends in occurrence of dry and wet events using gridded precipitation data in Finland
Tuomas Haapala, Heidi Salo, Harri Koivusalo
2025
Parametrization and model development for simulating redox reactions related to degradation of natural organic matter in managed aquifer recharge
M. Jylhä-Ollila, P. Kekäläinen, H. Koivusalo
2025
Journal of Hydrology
Implications of spatially distributed rainfall design events on urban hydrological response across advection scenarios
V. Lindgren, O. Tamm, T. Niemi, H. Koivusalo, T. Kokkonen
2025
Urban Water Journal
Modelling the Spatio-Temporal Effects of Water Level Control in an Agricultural Collector Ditch Network
Elina Paavonen, Heidi Salo, Aleksi Salla, Harri Koivusalo
2025
Irrigation and Drainage
The Importance of Design Storm Hyetograph on Urban Flood Risk Management and Drainage System Design
Egle Saaremäe, Ottar Tamm, Harri Koivusalo, Toomas Tamm
2025
Journal of Flood Risk Management
How controlled drainage and peat subsidence affect the hydrology of cultivated peatlands under changing climatic conditions
Aleksi Salla, Heidi Salo, Mika Tähtikarhu, Harri Koivusalo
2025
Agricultural Water Management
SWMMLIDopt : a tool for optimization of low-impact development (LID) measures using the SWMM model
Elhadi Mohsen Hassan Abdalla, Edvard Sivertsen, Ottar Tamm, Adrian Werner, Harri Koivusalo, Herman Helness
2024
Journal of Hydroinformatics