Prof. Dr. Harald Kunstmann
- Deputy Director IMK-IFU
- Room: Campus Alpin
- Phone: +49 8821 183-208
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82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Deputy Director of KIT-Campus Alpin, Full Professor (W3)
Chair for Regional Climate and Hydrology at University of Augsburg in joint appointment with KIT
University of Augsburg
Publications
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
Community Services
- 2003- 2022: Convener and co-convener at EGU and IAHS conferences
- Scientific Steering Committee HGF-TERENO (Terrestrial Environmental Observatories)
- 2009-2015: Associate Editor Journal of Hydrology
- 2017 - 2021 President International Commission of the Coupled Land Atmosphere System (ICCLAS) of the International Association of the Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
- 2019- 2021 Member of Evaluation Committee German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) CLIMAP Program
- 2020-2021: Guest Editor Hydrological Processes, special issue Coupled atmosphere-hydrological processes: novel system developments and cross-compartment evaluations
- 2021- 2023: Alexander von Humboldt - Stiftung: Selection Committee Internationales Klimaschutzstipendienprogram
- Round Table "Water" Bayern
Awards and Honors
- German Hydrology Price (German Hydrological Society), 2024
- 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
Curriculum Vitae
| Since 2021 | Founding Director, Center for Climate Resilience, University of Augsburg |
| 09/2018-01/2019 | Honorary Research Associate, Environmental Change Institute, School Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford |
| Since 2015 | Deputy Director of KIT-Campus Alpin |
| Since 2009 | Full Professorship (W3) and Chair for Regional Climate and Hydrology at University of Augsburg in joint appointment with KIT-Campus Campus Alpin, Garmisch-Partenkirchen |
| Since 2004 | Head of Department Regional Climate Systems at KIT-Campus Campus Alpin |
| Since 2001 | Head of Research Group Regional Climate and Hydrology at KIT-Campus Alpin |
| Since 1999 | Scientist at Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (KIT-Campus Alpin) |
| 1996, 1998 | Guest scientist at Institute of Groundwater Studies, Bloemfontein, University of the Free State, South Africa |
| 1998 | Postgraduate Course Developing Countries, ETH Zurich (Certificate) |
| 1995-1998 | Dissertation in Environmental Natural Sciences, ETH Zurich (PhD) |
| 1989-1994 | Study of Physics in Marburg, Virginia/USA and Heidelberg (Diploma) |
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
Kunstmann, H., Stadler, C. (2005) High resolution distributed atmospheric-hydrologic modeling for Alpine catchments, Journal of Hydrology, 314, pp. 105-124
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
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
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