Research
Research Foci
Our main fields of research are
- Impact of regional climate change on terrestrial hydrology
- Dynamical and statistical downscaling of meteorological fields
- Fully coupled and compartment crossing regional atmospheric and hydrological modeling
- Modeling and observation of joint water- and energy fluxes
- Use of commercial microwave links (CMLs) for precipitation quantification
- Geostatistical merging of hydrometeorological variables
Research Regions
Our prime interest are climate sensitive regions, particularly flood- and drought prone regions. Our current activities focus on
- Middle Europe, especially Bavaria, the Alpine Space and the Mediterranean region
- the Near and Middle East and
- South, West and East Africa
Projects
Current projects
Finished projects (selection)
Selected Publications
Chwala, C. and Kunstmann, H. (2019) Commercial microwave link networks for rainfall observation: Assessment of the current status and future challenges, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, Volume 6, Issue 2, doi: 10.1002/wat2.1337
Kunstmann, H., Stadler, C. (2005) High resolution distributed atmospheric-hydrologic modeling for Alpine catchments, Journal of Hydrology, 314, pp. 105-124
Lorenz, C. and Kunstmann, H. (2012) The Hydrological Cycle in Three State of the Art Reanalyses: Intercomparison and Performance Analysis. Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-11-088.1
Lorenz. C., Portele, T., Laux, P., Kunstmann, H. (2020) Bias-corrected and spatially disaggregated seasonal forecasts: a long-term reference forecast product for the water sector in semi-arid regions, Earth System Science Data, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2020-177
Sylla, M. B., Pal, J. S., Faye, A., Kangbeni, D., Kunstmann, H. (2018) Climate change to severely impact West African basin scale irrigation in 2 °C and 1.5 °C global warming scenarios, Nature Scientific Reports, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 14395, doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-32736-0