Ing. Vojtěch Bareš, Ph.D.
My focus is primarily related to the field of urban hydrology and urban drainage. In the last decade, my main research interests have been in rainfall monitoring for urban hydrology, including uncertainty propagation and new concepts for rainfall monitoring based on estimating rainfall intensities from signal attenuation in telecommunication networks. I also publish my work on monitoring and modelling physico-chemical variables in urban catchments, e.g. modelling tracer transport for estimating exfiltration/infiltration from sewers, predicting water quality inflow to WWTPs or usage of multispectral sensors to estimate concentration of waste water pollution. I am also active in the field experimental fluid mechanics, in particular in experimental methods (ultrasonic Doppler anemometry, PIV), in the hydraulics of key structures in sewer systems (drop shafts, CSOs, etc.) and last but not least in "leisure" hydraulics of artificial rivers or stationary surf waves.
Recent publications
Song, Y., Fencl, M., Bareš, V., Yang, T. (2026) Data-driven rainfall-runoff modeling in an urban catchment using microwave link attenuation data, Journal of Hydrology, Volume 664, Part A, 2026, 134328, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.134328.
Špačková, A., Fencl, M., and Bareš, V. (2025) Information gain from different processing steps and additional variables for rainfall retrieval from commercial microwave links, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 18, 7445–7463, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-7445-2025.
Lechevallier, P., Gruber, G., Bareš, V. Neuenhofer, N., Waldner, L., Mahajan, A., Mutzner, L. and Rieckermann, J. (2025). Dataset on wastewater quality monitoring with adsorption and reflectance spectrometry in the UV-vis range. Sci Data 12, 1296 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05459-x
Olson, J. Horváth-Varga, L. van de Beek, R., Graf, M., Overeem, A., Szaton, M., Bareš, V., Bezak, N., Chwala, C., De Michele, C., Fencl, M., Seidel, J., Todorovic, A. (2025). How Close Are Opportunistic Rainfall Observations to Providing Societal Benefit? Journal of Hydrometeorology. 2025,26(11), 1585-1602. DOI https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-25-0043.1
Blettner, N., Fencl, M., Bareš, V., Kunstmann, H., & Chwala, C. (2023). Transboundary rainfall estimation using commercial microwave links. Earth and Space Science, 10, e2023EA002869. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA002869
Špačková, A., Fencl, M., and Bareš, V. (2023). Evaluation of error components in rainfall retrieval from collocated commercial microwave links, Atmos. Meas. Tech. , https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2022-340 .
Pastorek, J., Fencl, M. and Bareš, V. (2023). Uncertainties in discharge predictions based on microwave link rainfall estimates in a small urban catchment, Journal of Hydrology, Volume 617, Part C, 2023, 129051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.129051.