Anna Solcerova joins TU Delft as a new BGD PhD student
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At TU Delft there is a new PhD student focusing on the role of water in the cooling effect of blue-green climate adaptation facilities in the urban environment. Her name is Anna Solcerova and she comes from Czech Republic. She has MSc degree in Meteorology, which she studied at Wageningen University (Netherlands) and another one from Environmental modelling from the Czech University of Life Sciences (Czech Republic). She has already focused on the effects of water bodies on urban heat islands in her master thesis and is very interested in taking a deeper look into this topic.
The objective of the PhD study is to investigate the relationship between water retention capacity, water availability, soil moisture, vegetation type, evaporation and the thermal effects of these hydrological processes in green roofs, vegetated swales and nature-friendly embankments for urban canals, ponds and lakes, to quantify the effect of these blue-green facilities on ambient air temperature, water availability and water demand during droughts.
