Contact

Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Kreuzeckbahnstrasse 19
82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
http://kit.gap.fzk.de

Department

Department Interaction Climate Atmosphere IMK-IFU

Area of Specialization 

Regional Climate Change and Hydrological Modelling

Role in the project

Team leader

Sub-project

Regional Climate Modelling West Africa Distributed Hydrological Modeling Volta & White Volta Hydrometeorological Decision Support System

Publications

Intsiful, J., Kunstmann, H. (2008) Upscaling of Land Surface Parameters through Inverse Stochastic SVAT-Modeling, Boundary Layer Meteorology, doi: 10.1007/s10546-008-9303-0, in press

Grote, R., Lehmann, E., Brümmer, C., Brüggemann, N., Szarzynski, J., Kunstmann, H. (2008) Modeling and observation of biosphere-atmosphere interactions in natural savannah and agriculture in Burkina Faso - West Africa, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, in press

Wagner, S., Kunstmann, H., Bárdossy, A., Conrad, C., Colditz, R. (2008) Water balance estimations of poorly gauged catchments in West Africa using dynamical downscaling of meteorological fields and remote sensing information, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, doi:10.1016/j.pce.2008.04.002

Marx, A., Kunstmann, H., Burose, D., Moene, A. (2008) Uncertainty analysis for satellite derived sensible heat fluxes and scintillometer measurements over Savannah environment and comparison to mesoscale meteorological simulation results, Journal of Agricultural Meteorology, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.11.009

Kunstmann, H. (2007) Effective SVAT model parameters through inverse stochastic modelling and second order first moment propagation, Journal of Hydrology, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.09.032

Ahrends, H., Mast, M., Rodgers, Ch., Kunstmann, H. (2007) Coupled Hydrological-Economic Modelling for Optimised Irrigated Cultivation in a Semi-arid Catchment of West Africa, Environmental Modelling and Software, doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2007.08.002

Jung, G., Kunstmann H. (2007): High-resolution Regional Climate Modelling for the Volta Basin of West Africa, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2006JD007951, 17 pages

Laux P., Kunstmann H., Bárdossy A. (2007): Predicting the Regional Onset of the Rainy Season in West Africa, International Journal of Climatology, DOI: 10.1002/joc.1542

Kunstmann, H., Jung, G., Wagner, S., Clottey, H. (2007) Integration of atmospheric sciences and hydrology for the development of decision support systems in sustainable water management, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, doi:10.1016/j.pce.2007.04.010

Kunstmann, H., Jung, G. (2007) Influence of soil moisture and land use change on precipitation in West Africa, International Journal of River Management, Vol. 5, issue 1, 9-16.

Neumann, R., Jung, G., Laux, P., Kunstmann, H. (2007) Climate trends of temperature, precipitation and river discharge in the Volta Basin of West Africa, International Journal of River Management, Vol. 5, issue 1, 17-30.

Wagner, S., Kunstmann, H., Bárdossy, A. (2006) Model based distributed water balance monitoring of the White Volta catchment in West Africa through coupled meteorological- hydrological simulations, Advances in Geosciences, 9, 39-44.

Kunstmann, H. (2005) Upscaling of land surface parameters through direct moment propagation, Advances in Geosciences, 5, Page(s) 127-131.

Youkhana, E., Arendt, B., Kunstmann, H., Martin, N., Rodgers, CH., Vlek, P. (2005): Das GLOWA-Volta Projekt: Untersuchungen zum nachhaltigen Umgang mit der Ressource Wasser im Voltabecken von West Afrika, Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung, HW 49, H. 4, 190-200.

Wagner, S., Kunstmann, H., Bárdossy, A. (2007), Uncertainties in water balance estimations due to scarce meteorological information: A case study for the White Volta catchment in West Africa, IAHS publication 313, Quantification and reduction of predictive uncertainty for sustainable water resources management, pp. 86-97

Jung, G., Kunstmann H. (2007): Modelling regional climate change and the impact on surface and sub-surface hydrology in the Volta Basin (West Africa). IAHS publication 313, Quantification and reduction of predictive uncertainty for sustainable water resources management, pp. 150-157

Laux P., Kunstmann H., Bárdossy A. (2007): Linking West African Monsoon’s onset with atmospheric circulation patterns. IAHS publication 313, Quantification and reduction of predictive uncertainty for sustainable water resources management, pp. 40-50

Kunstmann, H., Jung, G. (2005) Impact of regional climate change on water availability in the Volta Basin of West Africa, IAHS publication 295: Regional Hydrological impacts of Climatic Variability and Change – Impact Assessment and Decision making, pp. 75-85.

Kunstmann, H., Jung, G. (2003) Investigation of feedback mechanisms between soil moisture, land use and precipitation in West Africa, IAHS publication 280: Water Resources Systems – Water Availability and Global Change, pp. 149-159.

Giesen, N., Kunstmann, H., Jung., G., Liebe, J., Andreini, M., Vlek, P. (2002) The GLOWA Volta project: Integrated assessment of feedback mechanisms between climate, landuse, and hydrology, Advances in Global Change Research, Vol. 10: Climatic Change: Implications for the Hydrological Cycle and for Water Management, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 151-170.