Mikhail Smilovic
Guest Research Scholar
Water Security Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Biography
Dr. Mikhail Smilovic is a Research Scholar with the IIASA Water (WAT) program, where he is investigating issues related to water and food security through simulations and stakeholder-driven model development.Humans influence the pattern of how water moves within the hydrological cycle. This includes collecting, managing, and distributing water from rainfall, rivers, reservoirs, and groundwater aquifers. This water then satisfies agricultural, domestic, and industrial water interests. Simulating the water cycle in managed regions to address questions of water security necessitates including certain processes related to human interactions within the water cycle. Simulating at finer resolutions offers both the opportunity and challenge of including human-integrated processes that at coarser resolutions are either absorbed into other processes, not possible, or not relevant, while at higher resolutions are necessary to sufficiently represent the system.
Dr. Smilovic is further developing the hydrological model CWatM created at IIASA, increasing the resolution and improving representations of human interactions within the water cycle.
Last update: 30 SEP 2020
Publications
Müller Schmied, H., Gosling, S.N., Garnsworthy, M., Müller, L., Telteu, C.-E., Ahmed, A.K., Andersen, L.S., Boulange, J., Burek, P. , Chang, J., Chen, H., Gudmundsson, L., Grillakis, M., Guillaumot, L., Hanasaki, N., Koutroulis, A., Kumar, R., Leng, G., Liu, J., Liu, X., Menke, I., Mishra, V., Pokhrel, Y., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Satoh, Y., Shah, H.L., Smilovic, M. , Stacke, T., Sutanudjaja, E., Thiery, W., Tsilimigkras, A., Wada, Y., Wanders, N., & Yokohata, T. (2025). Graphical representation of global water models. Geoscientific Model Development 18 (8) 2409-2425. 10.5194/gmd-18-2409-2025.
Artuso, S., Politti, E., Cetinic, K., Burek, P. , Tramberend, S. , Smilovic, M. , & Kahil, T. (2025). Co-Creating a Safe Operating Space Framework for Water Resources: Insights from the Danube Basin case study. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu25-5868. In: EGU General Assembly 2025, 27 April-02 May 2025, Vienna.
Artuso, S., Politti, E., Tramberend, S. , Smilovic, M. , & Kahil, T. (2025). Developing a Safe Operating Space framework for water resources in the Danube River basin. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu25-5915. In: EGU General Assembly 2025, 27 April-02 May 2025, Vienna.
Zhao, F., Nie, N., Liu, Y., Yi, C., Guillaumot, L. , Wada, Y., Burek, P. , Smilovic, M. , Frieler, K., Buechner, M., Schewe, J., & Gosling, S.N. (2025). Benefits of Calibrating a Global Hydrological Model for Regional Analyses of Flood and Drought Projections: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Basin. Water Resources Research 61 (3) e2024WR037153. 10.1029/2024WR037153.
Hanus, S. , Burek, P. , Smilovic, M. , Seibert, J., & Viviroli, D. (2024). Seasonal variability in the global relevance of mountains to satisfy lowland water demand. Environmental Research Letters 19 (11) e114078. 10.1088/1748-9326/ad8507.