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
Dash, S., Maity, R., Maity, S. S., and Kunstmann, H.: Population exposure to compound climate extremes: global analysis to identify continent wise age group disparities in a warming world, npj Nat. Hazards, 1, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44304-025-00145-9, 2025.
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Eisenacher, S., Fluhrer, A., Bliefernicht, J., Short Gianotti, D. J., Kunstmann, H., and Jagdhuber, T.: Lightning Density and Its Coupled Covariates Within the Continental United States, Earth and Space Science, 9, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EA004207, 2025.
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Glawion, L., Polz, J., Kunstmann, H., Fersch, B., and Chwala, C.: Global spatio-temporal ERA5 precipitation downscaling to km and sub-hourly scale using generative AI, npj Clim Atmos Sci, 1, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-025-01103-y, 2025.
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Guug, S., Sy, S., Quansah, E., Bliefernicht, J., Neidl, F., Steinbrecher, R., Ayamba, M., Frempong, A., Davies, P., Spangenberg, I., Oussou, F. E., Diallo, B. A., Salack, S., Hackman, K., Amekudzi, L. K., Ogunjobi, K., and Kunstmann, H.: Methane emissions from rice cultivation in West Africa and compensation options from nature reserve forests, Environ. Res. Lett., 4, 44050, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adc28c, 2025.
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Hingerl, L., Bliefernicht, J., Guug, S., Sy, S., Neidl, F., Jagdhuber, T., and Kunstmann, H.: Comparative analysis of land–atmosphere interactions across three contrasting ecosystems in the West Sudanian Savanna, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 102751, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2025.102751, 2025.
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Nadolski, L., Bliefernicht, J., Petrovic, D., Rauch, M., Sy, S., Guug, S., Steinbrecher, R., Neidl, F., Hingerl, L., and Kunstmann, H.: Exploring and closing the energy balance of eddy covariance measurements along a land use gradient in the West African Sudanian savanna, Front. Water, 1393884, https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2024.1393884, 2024.
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Research Projects
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Current projects |
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| BRaVE | Building Climate Resilience for a Vital Environment (BRaVE): Identification of Vulnerabilities, Indicators and Implications for Actions |
| 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 |
| Energy Landscapes | Sustainable energy landscapes - Modelling regional strategies for the expansion of renewable energies with special consideration of national and international climate policy |
| MiKRoNP | Microclimate in Climate Change - Refuges and Hotspots in the Bavarian National Parks |
Finished projects |
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| AtmoWater | High-resolution atmospheric water vapor based on geodetic satellite measurement, tomographic intersection and atmospheric modeling |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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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Lectures
| name | semester | type |
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| Einführungsveranstaltung für Erstsemester Geographie / Geoinformatik / Klima- & Umweltwissenschaften / Lehramt Geo | winter semester 2025/26 | Einführungskurs |
| Physikalische Hydrologie - Physical Hydrology | winter semester 2025/26 | Seminar |
| Forschungsseminar Regionales Klima und Hydrologie | winter semester 2025/26 | Seminar |