Prof. Dr. Harald Kunstmann
| Phone: | +49 821 598 2751 |
| Email: | harald.kunstmann@uni-auni-a.de () |
| Room: | 2024 (B) |
| Open hours: | by appointment only |
| Address: | Alter Postweg 118, 86159 Augsburg |
Research Foci
- Impact of regional climate change on terrestrial hydrology
- Dynamic and statistical downscaling of meteorological fields
- Fully coupled and cross-compartmental regional atmospheric and hydrological modeling
- Modeling and observation of water and energy flows
- Application of Commercial Microwave Links (CMLs) for precipitation determination
- Geostatistic Merging of hydrometeorological Variables
- Seasonal predictions
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2021? ?Founding Director?Centre for Climate Resilience at 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Augsburg
09/18-01/19? Honorary Research Assiciate at the 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Oxford
Since 2015?? Deputy Director of the KIT Campus Alpin
Since 2009?? W3 professor and holder of the Chair for Regional Climate and Hydrology at the 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Augsburg in joint appointment with the KIT Campus Alpin, Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Since 2004?? Head of the Regional Climate Systems Department at the KIT Campus Alpin
Since 2001?? Head of the research group Regional Climate and Hydrology at the KIT-Campus Alpin
Since 1999?? Research associate at the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (KIT Campus Alpin)
1995-1998? ??Dissertation in Environmental Natural Sciences at ETH Zurich
1989-1994??? Studied physics at the 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Marburg, Virginia/USA and Heidelberg
Honors and Awards
- Kavli Frontier of Science Fellow, 2014
- Keynote Speech, United Nations Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation UNSGAB+5 Conference, 12.2.2021
- Water Resources Prize, Rüdiger Kurt-Bode Foundation – Stifterverband, 2021
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
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Kunstmann, H., Stadler, C. (2005) High resolution distributed atmospheric-hydrologic modeling for Alpine catchments, Journal of Hydrology, 314, pp. 105-124
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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
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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
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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
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Research Projects
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Current projects |
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| AtmoWater | High-resolution atmospheric water vapor based on geodetic satellite measurement, tomographic intersection and atmospheric modeling |
| CONCERT | Greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation options under climate- and land use change in West Africa: A concerted regional modeling and observation assessment |
| Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing | Integrated hydrological modeling and analysis of the interaction between soil moisture and the atmospheric boundary layer |
| Digital Earth | Towards SMART Monitoring and Earth System Integrated Data Exploration - Implementing the Data Science Paradigm |
| Enershelf | High resolution energy meteorological forecasting for improved management of PV-hybrid systems |
| FOR2131 | Combination of observation types for precipitation (rain gauges, commercial microwave links, weather radar) to precipitation fields for use in fully coupled data assimilation systems |
| HoWa Innovativ | More accurate forecasting of floods by improving precipitation measurement using data from commercial microwave links (CMLs) |
| LandKlif TP-8 |
Climate and water balance analysis for Bavaria using extremely high-resolution regional earth system modeling |
| SALDI | South Africa Land Degradation Monitor - Land-Atmosphere Interactions: Regional Assessment |
| STUDIO | STeigerwald study area: Forecasting and management system for coping with Drought perI-Ods in Franconia. |
Finished projects |
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| BIAS1 | Local refinement and bias correction of climate projections |
| BIAS2 | Synthesis of high-resolution regionalization, multivariate stochastic bias correction and optimized hydrological model and process analysis |
| SYNOPSE | Synthetic precipitation time series for the optimal planning and operation of urban drainage systems |
| WASCAL | West African Science Service Center on Climate and Adapted Land Use - Implementation Phase |
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