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)
Publications (latest)
Xing, Z., Yu, Z., Wei, J., Zhang, X., Ma, M., Yi, P., Ju, Q., Wang, J., Laux, P., Kunstmann, H. (2022)
Lagged influence of ENSO regimes on droughts over the Poyang Lake basin, China, Atmospheric
Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106218
Thom, D., Rammer, W., Laux, P., Smiatek, G., Kunstmann, H., Seibold, S., Seidl, R. (2022) Will forest
dynamics continue to accelerate throughout the 21st century in the Northern Alps?, Global Change
Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16133
Wagner, A., Fersch, B., Yuan, P., Rummler, T., Kunstmann, H. (2022) Assimilation of GNSS and
Synoptic Data in a Convection Permitting Limited Area Model: Improvement of Simulated
Tropospheric Water Vapor Content, Frontiers in Earth Science,
https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.869504
Adeyeriad, O.E., Laux, P., Isholac, K.A., ZhoudI, W., Baloguna, A., Adeyewaa, Z.D, Kunstmann, H.
(2022) Homogenising meteorological variables: Impact on trends and associated climate indices,
Journal of Hydrology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.12758
Bliefernicht, J., Rauch, M., Laux, P., Kunstmann, H. (2022) Atmospheric circulation patterns that trigger
heavy rainfall in West Africa, International Journal of Climatology, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7613
Dieng, D., Cannon, A. J., Laux, P., Hald, C., Adeyeri, O., Rahimi, J., Srivastava, A. K., Mbaye, M. L.,
Kunstmann, H. (2022) Multivariate Bias-Correction of High-Resolution Regional Climate Change
Simulations for West Africa: Performance and Climate Change Implications, Journal of Geophysical
Research: Atmospheres, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD034836
Bogena, H. R., Schrön, M., Jakobi, J., Ney, P., Zacharias, S., Andreasen, M., Baatz, R., Boorman, D.,
Duygu, M. B., Eguibar-Galán, M. A., Fersch, B., Franke, T., Geris, J., González Sanchis, M., Kerr, Y.,
Korf, T. Mengistu, Z., Mialon, A., Nasta, P., Nitychoruk, J., Pisinaras, V., Rasche, D., Rosolem, R.,
Said, H., Schattan, P., Zreda, M., Achleitner, S., Albentosa-Hernández, E., Akyürek, Z., Blume, T.,
del Campo, A., Canone, D., Dimitrova-Petrova, K., Evans, J. G., Ferraris, S., Frances, F., Gisolo, D.,
Güntner, A., Herrmann, F., Iwema, J., Jensen, K. H., Kunstmann, H., Lidón, A., Looms, M. C., Oswald,
S., Panagopoulos, A., Patil, A., Power, D., Rebmann, C., Romano, N., Scheiffele, L., Seneviratne, S.,
Weltin, G., Vereecken, G. (2022) COSMOS-Europe: a European network of cosmic-ray neutron soil
moisture sensors, Earth System Science Data, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1125-2022
Quenum, G. M. L. D., Arnault, J., Klutse, N. A. B., Zhang, Z., Kunstmann, H., Oguntunde, P. G. (2022)
Potential of the Coupled WRF/WRF-Hydro Modeling System for Flood Forecasting in the Ouémé
River (West Africa), Water, https://doi.org/10.3390/w14081192
Rummler, T., Wagner, A., Arnault, J., Kunstmann, H. (2022) Lateral terrestrial water fluxes in the LSM
of WRF ‐ Hydro: Benefits of a 2D groundwater representation, Hydrological Processes,
https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14510
Zhang, Z., Arnault, J., Laux, P., Ma, N., Wei, J., Kunstmann, H. (2021) Diurnal cycle of surface energy
fluxes in high mountain terrain: High-resolution fully coupled atmosphere-hydrology modelling and
impact of lateral flow, Hydrological Processes, https://doi.org/10.1002/HYP.14454