Caroline Ehrendorfer

Caroline Ehrendorfer is a researcher at the Institute of Hydrology and Water Management (Department of Landscape, Water and Infrastructure) at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). Her work focuses on climate change impacts on hydrological systems and energy infrastructure.

• Research Areas: Climate change adaptation in transportation, hydropower sustainability under glacier retreat, extreme flood discharge modeling, and snow-hydrological coupling in alpine regions.
• Projects: Key contributor to CLIMPACT4VERBUND (2024-2027) on residual flow impacts on electricity generation, HyMELT-CC (2022-2025) analyzing climate effects on hydropower, and KlimZug (2021-2024) addressing climate adaptation in train services.
• Methodologies: Utilizes synthetic weather data, multi-site weather generators, and conceptual hydrological models for reservoir inflow predictions in Austria's alpine valleys.

Her 2023-2025 publications emphasize extreme flood estimation, snow-hydrological modeling, and precipitation correction factors. She presents at major conferences like the European Geosciences Union General Assembly and HydroCarpath events.