Applied methods

Harald Kunstmann

Climate and weather modeling

  • WRF (Contact: Benjamin Fersch, Patrick Laux)
  • WRF-LES (Contact: Joel Arnault)

Coupled atmosphere-hydrology modeling

  • WRF-Hydro (Benjamin Fersch, Tanja Schober)
  • WRF-Hydro-Iso (contact: Joel Arnault)
  • WRF-HMS (Contact: Benjamin Fersch, Jianhui Wei)

Water and energy flow modeling

  • WaSiM (Contact: Patrick Laux)
  • GEOTop (Contact: Simon Zitzmann)

Statistical refinement

  • Weather pattern analysis (Contact: Patrick Laux)
  • Multivariate statistics and extreme value statistics (contact: Patrick Laux)
  • Univariate and multivariate bias correction (contact: Patrick Laux)
  • Bias correction of seasonal forecasts (contact: Tanja Schober)

AI methods in hydrometeorology

  • 3-Dim Convolutional Residual Networks (contact: Julius Polz)
  • Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (contact: Christian Chwala and Julius Polz)

Integration and assimilation of remote sensing information

  • Terrestrial Microwave Data (Contact: Christian Chwala)
  • Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing (contact Benjamin Fersch)

Hydrological process analysis with stable water isotopes

  • WRF-Hydro-Iso (Contact: Joel Arnault)

Hydrometeorological observatories with focus on

  • Variability of precipitation
  • Discharges of watercourses
  • Soil moisture
  • Energy fluxes

within TERENO and WASCAL (contact: Benjamin Fersch, Christian Chwala, Harald Kunstman)