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Harald Kunstmann

Harald Kunstmann (*1968) is a German climate researcher and hydrologist. He holds the Chair of Regional Climate and Hydrology at the University of Augsburg, is Director of the Center for Climate Resilience at the University of Augsburg, and Deputy Director of the IMK-IFU at KIT in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. His research focuses on the effects of regional climate change on terrestrial hydrology, dynamic and statistical downscaling of meteorological fields, fully coupled and cross-compartment regional atmospheric and hydrological modeling, and the modeling and observation of water and energy fluxes. He also conducts research on the application of commercial microwave links (CMLs) for precipitation determination, geostatistical merging of hydrometeorological variables and seasonal forecasts.

Career Path

Kunstmann studied physics in Marburg, Virginia (USA) and Heidelberg and received his doctorate in environmental sciences from ETH Zurich in 1998. From 1996-1998 he worked as a visiting scientist at the Institute for Groundwater Studies, Bloemfontein, University of the Free State (UFS), South Africa. In 1999, he joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Atmospheric Environmental Research in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (now KIT-Campus Alpin) as a postdoc and established the Regional Climate and Hydrology research group, which he still heads today. In 2004, he also became head of the Regional Climate Systems department. Since 2009, he has been a W3 professor at the Chair of Regional Climate and Hydrology at the University of Augsburg, a joint appointment with KIT. In 2015 he became deputy director of the KIT Alpine Campus, and in 2021 founding director of the Center for Climate Resilience at the University of Augsburg.

Fields of Research

• Impact of regional climate and land use change on terrestrial hydrology
• Dynamical and statistical downscaling of meteorological fields
• Fully coupled 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
• Seasonal predictions

Awards and Prizes

2014: Kavli Frontier of Science Fellow

2021: Keynote Speech, United Nations Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation UNSGAB+5 Conference, 12.2.2021

2021: Water resources Prize, Rüdiger Kurt-Bode Foundation - Stifterverband

2024: Hydrology Prize, German Hydrological Society (DHG)

Scientific publications (Selection)

• Günter Blöschl, Marc FP Bierkens, Antonio Chambel, Christophe Cudennec, Georgia Destouni, Aldo Fiori, James W Kirchner, Jeffrey J McDonnell, Hubert HG Savenije, Murugesu Sivapalan, Christine Stumpp, Elena Toth, Elena Volpi, Gemma Carr, Claire Lupton, Josè Salinas, Borbála Széles, Alberto Viglione, Hafzullah Aksoy, Scott T Allen, Anam Amin, Vazken Andréassian, Berit Arheimer, Santosh K Aryal, Victor Baker, Earl Bardsley, Marlies H Barendrecht, Alena Bartosova, Okke Batelaan, Wouter R Berghuijs, Keith Beven, Theresa Blume, Thom Bogaard, Pablo Borges de Amorim, Michael E Böttcher, Gilles Boulet, Korbinian Breinl, Mitja Brilly, Luca Brocca, Wouter Buytaert, Attilio Castellarin, Andrea Castelletti, Xiaohong Chen, Yangbo Chen, Yuanfang Chen, Peter Chifflard, Pierluigi Claps, Martyn P Clark, Adrian L Collins, Barry Croke, Annette Dathe, Paula C David, Felipe PJ De Barros, Gerrit De Rooij, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Jessica M Driscoll, Doris Duethmann, Ravindra Dwivedi, Ebru Eris, William H Farmer, James Feiccabrino, Grant Ferguson, Ennio Ferrari, Stefano Ferraris, Benjamin Fersch, David Finger, Laura Foglia, Keirnan Fowler, Boris Gartsman, Simon Gascoin, Eric Gaume, Alexander Gelfan, Josie Geris, Shervan Gharari, Tom Gleeson, Miriam Glendell, Alena Gonzalez Bevacqua, María P González-Dugo, Salvatore Grimaldi, AB Gupta, Björn Guse, Dawei Han, David Hannah, Adrian Harpold, Stefan Haun, Kate Heal, Kay Helfricht, Mathew Herrnegger, Matthew Hipsey, Hana Hlaváčiková, Clara Hohmann, Ladislav Holko, Christopher Hopkinson, Markus Hrachowitz, Tissa H Illangasekare, Azhar Inam, Camyla Innocente, Erkan Istanbulluoglu, Ben Jarihani, Zahra Kalantari, Andis Kalvans, Sonu Khanal, Sina Khatami, Jens Kiesel, Mike Kirkby, Wouter Knoben, Krzysztof Kochanek, Silvia Kohnová, Alla Kolechkina, Stefan Krause, David Kreamer, Heidi Kreibich, Harald Kunstmann, Holger Lange, Margarida LR Liberato, Eric Lindquist, Timothy Link, Junguo Liu, Daniel Peter Loucks, Charles Luce, Gil Mahé, Olga Makarieva, Julien Malard, Shamshagul Mashtayeva, Shreedhar Maskey, Josep Mas-Pla, Maria Mavrova-Guirguinova, Maurizio Mazzoleni, Sebastian Mernild, Bruce Dudley Misstear, Alberto Montanari, Hannes Müller-Thomy, Alireza Nabizadeh, Fernando Nardi, Christopher Neale, Nataliia Nesterova, Bakhram Nurtaev, Vincent O Odongo, Subhabrata Panda, Saket Pande, Zhonghe Pang, Georgia Papacharalampous, Charles Perrin, Laurent Pfister, Rafael Pimentel, María J Polo, David Post, Cristina Prieto Sierra, Maria-Helena Ramos, Maik Renner: Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)-a community perspective. In: Hydrological Science Journal. Vol. 64, No. 11, 27 July 2019, ISSN: 0262-6667, pp. 1141-1158, doi:10.1080/02626667.2019.1620507

• Steffen Zacharias, Heye Bogena, Luis Samaniego, Matthias Mauder, Roland Fuß, Thomas Pütz, Mark Frenzel, Mike Schwank, Cornelia Baessler, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, Oliver Bens, Erik Borg, Achim Brauer, Peter Dietrich, Irena Hajnsek, Gerhard Helle, Ralf Kiese, Harald Kunstmann, Stefan Klotz, Jean Charles Munch, Hans Papen, Eckart Priesack, Hans Peter Schmid, Rainer Steinbrecher, Ulrike Rosenbaum, Georg Teutsch, Harry Vereecken: A network of terrestial environment observatories in Germany. In: Vadose zone journal. Vol. 10, No. 3, 01.08.2011, ISSN: ,S 955-973, doi:10.2136/vzj2010.0139
• Christof Lorenz, Harald Kunstmann: The hydrological cycle in three state-of-the-art reanalyses: Intercomparison und Leistungsanalyse. In: Zeitschrift für Hydrometeorologie. Band 13, Nr. 5, 01. Oktober 2012, ISSN: , S. 1397-1420, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-11-088.1
• Erika Coppola, Stefan Sobolowski, E Pichelli, F Raffaele, B Ahrens, I Anders, Nikolina Ban, Sophie Bastin, Michael Belda, D Belusic, A Caldas-Alvarez, Rita M Cardoso, S Davolio, Andreas Dobler, Jesús Fernández, L Fita, Q Fumiere, Filippo Giorgi, Klaus Goergen, Ivan Güttler, Tomáš Halenka, D Heinzeller, Ø Hodnebrog, Daniela Jacob, Stergios Kartsios, Eleni Katragkou, E Kendon, S Khodayar, H Kunstmann, S Knist, A Lavín-Gullón, Petter Lind, Torge Lorenz, Douglas Maraun, Louis Marelle, E Van Meijgaard, Josipa Milovac, G Myhre, H-J Panitz, M Piazza, M Raffa, T Raub, B Rockel, C Schär, K Sieck, Pedro MM Soares, Samuel Somot, L Srnec, P Stocchi, MH Tölle, H Truhetz, R Vautard, H De Vries, Kirsten Warrach-Sagi: The first multi-model ensemble allowing convection to study convective phenomena over Europe and the Mediterranean. In: Climate Dynamics. Vol. 55, 12 November 2018, ISSN: , pp. 3-34, doi:10.1007/s00382-018-4521-8.
• Patrick Laux, Greta Jäckel, Richard Munang Tingem, Harald Kunstmann: Impact of climate change on agricultural productivity under rainfed conditions in Cameroon—A method to improve attainable crop yields by planting date adaptations. In: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. Vol. 150, Nr. 9, 15. August 2010, ISSN: , S. 1258-1271, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.05.008
• Patrick Laux, Harald Kunstmann, András Bárdossy: Predicting the regional onset of the rainy season in West Africa. In: International Journal of Climatology: A Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. Vol. 28, Nr. 3, 15.03.2008, ISSN:, S. 329-342, doi:10.1002/joc.1542
• Alfonso Senatore, Giuseppe Mendicino, David J Gochis, Wei Yu, David N Yates, Harald Kunstmann: Fully coupled atmosphere‐hydrology simulations for the central M editerranean: Impact of enhanced hydrological parameterization for short and long time scales. In: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. Vol. 7, Nr. 4, Dezember 2015, S.1693-1715, doi:10.1002/2015MS000510

Weblinks

• List of publications KIT
• Centre for Climate Resilience Augsburg
• Chair for Regional Climate & Hydrology Augsburg
• KIT Regional Climate and Hydrology Karlsruhe