Search Results - "Kunstmann, Harald"

Seasonal forecasts offer economic benefit for hydrological decision making in semi-arid regions by Portele, Tanja C., Lorenz, Christof, Dibrani, Berhon, Laux, Patrick, Bliefernicht, Jan, Kunstmann, Harald

“…Increasing frequencies of droughts require proactive preparedness, particularly in semi-arid regions. As forecasting of such hydrometeorological extremes…”
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Multi-model ensembles for regional and national wheat yield forecasts in Argentina by Zachow, Maximilian, Kunstmann, Harald, Miralles, Daniel Julio, Asseng, Senthold

“…Abstract While multi-model ensembles (MMEs) of seasonal climate models (SCMs) have been used for crop yield forecasting, there has not been a systematic…”
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Future projections of hurricane intensity in the southeastern U.S.: sensitivity to different Pseudo-Global Warming methods by Olschewski, Patrick, Kunstmann, Harald

“…Tropical cyclones are prone to cause fatalities and damages reaching far into billions of US Dollars. There is evidence that these events could intensify under…”
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Publisher Correction: Seasonal forecasts offer economic benefit for hydrological decision making in semi-arid regions by Portele, Tanja C., Lorenz, Christof, Dibrani, Berhon, Laux, Patrick, Bliefernicht, Jan, Kunstmann, Harald

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Feedback of observed interannual vegetation change: a regional climate model analysis for the West African monsoon by Klein, Cornelia, Bliefernicht, Jan, Heinzeller, Dominikus, Gessner, Ursula, Klein, Igor, Kunstmann, Harald

“…West Africa is a hot spot region for land–atmosphere coupling where atmospheric conditions and convective rainfall can strongly depend on surface…”
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Projected Heat Stress Under 1.5 °C and 2 °C Global Warming Scenarios Creates Unprecedented Discomfort for Humans in West Africa by Sylla, Mouhamadou Bamba, Faye, Aissatou, Giorgi, Filippo, Diedhiou, Arona, Kunstmann, Harald

“…Heat and discomfort indices are applied to the multimodel ensemble mean of COordinated Regional climate Downscaling EXperiment‐Africa regional climate model…”
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Atmospheric and terrestrial water budgets: sensitivity and performance of configurations and global driving data for long term continental scale WRF simulations by Fersch, Benjamin, Kunstmann, Harald

“…Driving data and physical parametrizations can significantly impact the performance of regional dynamical atmospheric models in reproducing…”
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High-resolution regional climate modeling for the Volta region of West Africa by Jung, Gerlinde, Kunstmann, Harald

“…The Volta region is a climate‐sensitive semiarid to subhumid region in West Africa. To investigate the impact of expected global climate change on regional…”
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The Robustness of the Derived Design Life Levels of Heavy Precipitation Events in the Pre-Alpine Oberland Region of Southern Germany by Laux, Patrick, Weber, Elena, Feldmann, David, Kunstmann, Harald

“…Extreme value analysis (EVA) is well-established to derive hydrometeorological design values for infrastructures that have to withstand extreme events. Since…”
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Impact of climate change on agricultural productivity under rainfed conditions in Cameroon—A method to improve attainable crop yields by planting date adaptations by Laux, Patrick, Jäckel, Greta, Tingem, Richard Munang, Kunstmann, Harald

“…Rainfed farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa are suffering from low productivity. Prolonged dry spells and droughts often lead to significant crop losses, a…”
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Comparing One-Way and Two-Way Coupled Hydrometeorological Forecasting Systems for Flood Forecasting in the Mediterranean Region by Givati, Amir, Gochis, David, Rummler, Thomas, Kunstmann, Harald

“…A pair of hydro-meteorological modeling systems were calibrated and evaluated for the Ayalon basin in central Israel to assess the advantages and limitations…”
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Evaluating the uncertainty of climate model structure and bias correction on the hydrological impact of projected climate change in a Mediterranean catchment by Senatore, Alfonso, Fuoco, Domenico, Maiolo, Mario, Mendicino, Giuseppe, Smiatek, Gerhard, Kunstmann, Harald

“…Crati River Basin, Southern Italy, Central Mediterranean. We evaluate the combined effect of multiple global and regional climate model (GCM-RCM) combinations…”
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spateGAN: Spatio‐Temporal Downscaling of Rainfall Fields Using a cGAN Approach by Glawion, Luca, Polz, Julius, Kunstmann, Harald, Fersch, Benjamin, Chwala, Christian

“…Climate models face limitations in their ability to accurately represent highly variable atmospheric phenomena. To resolve fine‐scale physical processes,…”
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Potential of commercial microwave link network derived rainfall for river runoff simulations by Smiatek, Gerhard, Keis, Felix, Chwala, Christian, Fersch, Benjamin, Kunstmann, Harald

“…Commercial microwave link networks allow for the quantification of path integrated precipitation because the attenuation by hydrometeors correlates with…”
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Projected Changes in Solar PV and Wind Energy Potential over West Africa: An Analysis of CORDEX-CORE Simulations by Ndiaye, Aissatou, Moussa, Mounkaila Saley, Dione, Cheikh, Sawadogo, Windmanagda, Bliefernicht, Jan, Dungall, Laouali, Kunstmann, Harald

“…Renewable energy development is growing fast and is expected to expand in the next decades in West Africa as a contribution to addressing the power demand and…”
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Simultaneous multicopter-based air sampling and sensing of meteorological variables by Brosy, Caroline, Krampf, Karina, Zeeman, Matthias, Wolf, Benjamin, Junkermann, Wolfgang, Schäfer, Klaus, Emeis, Stefan, Kunstmann, Harald

“…The state and composition of the lowest part of the planetary boundary layer (PBL), i.e., the atmospheric surface layer (SL), reflects the interactions of…”
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Precipitation of Mainland India: Copula‐based bias‐corrected daily CORDEX climate data for both mean and extreme values by Suman, Mayank, Maity, Rajib, Kunstmann, Harald

“…Changes in mean and extreme precipitation characteristics with changing climate may lead to an increase in frequency of hydrological extremes. For studying the…”
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A 5 km Resolution Regional Climate Simulation for Central Europe: Performance in High Mountain Areas and Seasonal, Regional and Elevation-Dependent Variations by Warscher, Michael, Wagner, Sven, Marke, Thomas, Laux, Patrick, Smiatek, Gerhard, Strasser, Ulrich, Kunstmann, Harald

“…Mountain regions with complex orography are a particular challenge for regional climate simulations. High spatial resolution is required to account for the…”
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Long-Term and High-Resolution Global Time Series of Brightness Temperature from Copula-Based Fusion of SMAP Enhanced and SMOS Data by Lorenz, Christof, Montzka, Carsten, Jagdhuber, Thomas, Laux, Patrick, Kunstmann, Harald

“…Long and consistent soil moisture time series at adequate spatial resolution are key to foster the application of soil moisture observations and…”
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Remote Sensing of Complex Permittivity and Penetration Depth of Soils Using P-Band SAR Polarimetry by Fluhrer, Anke, Jagdhuber, Thomas, Tabatabaeenejad, Alireza, Alemohammad, Hamed, Montzka, Carsten, Friedl, Peter, Forootan, Ehsan, Kunstmann, Harald

“…A P-band SAR moisture estimation method is introduced for complex soil permittivity and penetration depth estimation using fully polarimetric P-band SAR…”
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