1. ~ Vrije Universiteit Brussel Prof. Dr. ir. F. De Smedt
Department of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
tel.: +32-2-6293547
fax.: +32-2-6293022
E-mail:fdesmedt@vub.ac.be
Brussels, 30thNovember 2006
To Whom It May Concern:
I hereby certify that Dr. Abdolreza Bahremandduring rus PhD programmeunder my supervision
participatedin an internationalproject entitled the TiszaRiver Project (EuropeanCommision- 5th
framework project) "Real-life scale integrated catchment roDdels for supporting water- and
environmentalmanagementdecisions".
The project kicked off in Budapest on January 15th 2002 and [mished in February 2005. A
consortium consisting of 11 participants carried out the project, co-ordinated by the Water
ResourcesResearchCentre VITUKI, Hungary. The participantswere partly national institutions,
organisationsandunivex:§itiesofthe Tisza Basin countries(Slovakia,Romaniaand Hungary,with
an outlook to Ukrainian subcontracting partners), partly leading research institutes and
universities of the Member Statesof the EuropeanUnion (Austria, Belgium, Germanyand the
United Kingdom). The overall objective of the project was to help savethe water resourcesand
ecological values with the help of integrated catchmentmanagementtools and to securethe
sustainableuse of the resourcesof the Tisza River Basin. More specifically, it consistedof an
integratedmanagementand modelling approachin which the managementobjectivesandtools of
wetland ecosystemrevitalisation would serve for other water- and environmental management
and social purposes as well. The other purposes included water quality improvement, flood
control, excess-inland water drainage, irrigation, non-point source laad control, fisheries,
landscapeprotection and recreational water uses. The project was also part of the European
Super-project(cluster ofprojects) called CATCHMOD, which combinesand harmonisessimilar
catchmentmodelling projectson a Ew'opeanlevel.htiD://www.tiszariver.com/
Dr. Abdolreza Bahremandwas actively involved in the modelling tasksof this project. Oneof the
main achievementswasthe developmentandapplicationof a distributedhydrologic model for the
flood prediction in the Tisza Basin. This model was developedby our VUB team to deal with
flood prediction in the very largebasinof the Tisza River, aswell asits sub-basinsasthe Hornad
river basin located in Slovakia. For this project Dr. Bahremand traveled several times to
Hunngary, Slovakia and Romania, in order to attendproject meetings,participate in field trips,
and presentthe results of the hydrological model at workshops.He and rus colleaguespublished
the resultsoftheir work in threeproject reportsandseveralpapers,givenbelow:
Presentationat project workshops:
I. Bratislava,Slovakia,December3, 2003
2. Kosice,Slovakia,September6, 2004
3. Brussels,April 15,2004
4. Budapest,November23,2004

2. Field trips:
1. Field trip to Romania, Lapus river basin, July 2003
2. FieldtriptoSlovakia,Hornadriverbasin,September2004
Published reports:
1. Corluy, J., Liu, Y., Bahremand, A., De Smedt, F., 2005, Final Report of Partner 8 VUB. LH (B),
Appendix 8 to the Final Report ofThe Tisza River Project, EC-5th Framework Project EVK1-CT-
2001-00099. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 41 pp.
2. Corluy, J., Bahremand, A., Liu, Y. and De Smedt, F., 2005, Development and application of the
GIS-based distributed precipitation - runoff model WetSpa in the Tisza River Basin, Annex 2A of
the Tisza river project report, Department of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, Vrije
Universiteit Brussel, Brussels.
3.( Liu, Y., Corluy, J., Bahremand, A. and De Smedt, F., 2005, Modeling flow and phosphorus
transport to the Ruzin reservoir, Hornad catchment, Slovakia, Annex 2B of the Tisza river project
report, Department of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels.
Published papers:
1. Bahremand, A., De Smedt, F., Corluy, J., Liu, Y.B., Poórová, J., Velcická, L. and Kuniková, E.,
2006, Application of WetSpa model for assessing landuse impacts on floods in Margecany-
Hornad watershed, Slovakia, Water Scienceand Technology, 53(10), 37-45.
2. Bahremand, A., Corluy, J., Liu, Y., De Smedt, F., Poórová, J. and Velcická, L., 2005a, Stream
flow simulation by WetSpa model in Hornad river basin, Slovakia, in: J. van Alphen, E. van Beek,
M. Taal (eds.), Floods, fiom Defence to Management,Taylor-Francis Group, London, 415-422.
3. Bahremand, A., De Smedt, F., Corluy, J., Liu, Y.B., Poórová, J., Velcická, L. and Kuniková, E.,
2006, WetSpa model application for assessingreforestation impacts on floods by in Margecany-
Hornad watershed, Slovakia, Water ResourceManagement DOl: 10.1007Is11269-006-9089-0.
4. Bahremand, A. and De Smedt, F., 2006, Distributed hydrological modeling and sensitivity
analysis in Torysa watershed, Slovakia, WaterResourceManagement (accepted).
5. Bahremand, A., Corluy, J., Liu, Y., De Smedt, F., Poórová, J. and Velcická, L., 2005, River flow
simulation by WetSpa model in Hornad watershed, Slovakia, in: E. Arijs, B. Ducarme (eds.),
Proceedings of Contactforum"Geodesy and Geophysics for the third millenium in Belgium",
Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappenen Kunsten, Brussel, p.149.
6. Bahremand, A. and De Smedt, F., 2006, Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of a GIS-basedflood
simulation- model using PEST, WSEASTransactions on environment and development, 2(1), 29-
37.
7. Bahremand, A., Corluy, J., Liu, Y., De Smedt, F., Poórová, J. and Velcická, L., 2004, Streamflow
simulation by WetSpa model in Hornad river basin, Slovakia, abstract in: Proceedings of '10th
International Conference of the European Network of Experimental and ResearchBasins (ERB)',
Turin, ltaly, October 13-17,2004
8. Liu, Y.B., Corluy, J., Bahremand, A., De Smedt, F., Poórová, J., Velcická, 2006, Simulation of
runoff and phosphorus transport in a Carpathian catchment, Slovakia, River Research and
Applications, DOl: 10.1002/rra.953.
9. Corluy, J., Liu, Y.B, Bahremand, A., De Smedt, F., 2005, Distributed hydrological
mödelling and landuse scenario analysis in three Carpathian watersheds using
WetSpa, in: Proceedings of "W3M Conference - For Wetlands: Monitoring, Modeling and
Management. Wierbza, Poland. 22-25 September2005", Warsaw Agricultural University Press.
10. Corluy, J., Bahremand, A., Liu, Y.B, De Smedt, F., 2005, Distributed hydrological
modelling and landuse scenario analysis in three Carpathian watersheds using
WetSpa, in: E. Arijs, B. Ducarme (eds.), Proceedings of Contactforum"Geodesy and Geophysics
for the third millenium in Belgium", Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor
Wetenschappenen Kunsten, Brussel, p.151.

3. 11. Poórová,J., Velcická, L., Kuniková, E., De Smedt,F., Bahremand,A., Corluy, J., Liu, Y.,
2005, Hodnotenievplyvu vyuZivaniakrajiny na priebeh povodni pomocoumodelu WetSpa,
Journal ofHydrology andHydromechanics,Vol.53,No.4,253-266.
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