PD Dr. Maik Heistermann

• wradlib - An Open Source Library for Weather Radar Data Processing
• Radar-based Precipitation Estimation and Nowcasting
• Flash Floods: Reconstruction and Forecasting
• Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing of Soil Moisture

Crisologo, I. and Heistermann, M. (2020): Using ground radar overlaps to verify the retrieval of calibration bias estimates from spaceborne platforms, Atmos. Meas. Tech., doi.org/10.5194/amt-2019-126, accepted.

Saltikoff, E., K. Friedrich, J. Soderholm, K. Lengfeld, B. Nelson, A. Becker, R. Hollmann, B. Urban, M. Heistermann, and C. Tassone (2019): An overview of using weather radar for climatological studies: Successes, challenges and potential. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., early online release, doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0166.1.

Ayzel, G., Heistermann, M., and Winterrath, T. (2019): Optical flow models as an open benchmark for radar-based precipitation nowcasting (rainymotion v0.1), Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 1387-1402.

Crisologo, I., Warren, R. A., Mühlbauer, K., and Heistermann, M. (2018): Enhancing the consistency of spaceborne and ground-based radar comparisons by using beam blockage fraction as a quality filter, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 5223-5236.

Vormoor, K., M. Heistermann, A. Bronstert, D. Lawrence (2018): Hydrological model parameter (in)stability – 'crash testing' the HBV model under contrasting flood seasonality conditions. Hydrol. Sc. J., 63(7), 991-1007.

Bronstert, A., A. Agarwal, B. Boessenkool, I. Crisologo, M. Fischer, M. Heistermann, L. Köhn-Reich et al. (2018): Forensic hydro-meteorological analysis of an extreme flash flood: The 2016-05-29 event in Braunsbach, SW Germany, Science of the Total Environment, 630, 977-991.

Boessenkool, B., Bürger, G., and Heistermann, M. (2017): Effects of sample size on estimation of rainfall extremes at high temperatures, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 1623-1629.

Heistermann, M. (2017): HESS Opinions: A Planetary Boundary on Freshwater Use is Misleading, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 3455-3461.

Bronstert, A., A. Agarwal, B. Boessenkool, M. Fischer, M. Heistermann, L. Köhn-Reich, T. Moran, D. Wendi (2017): The Braunsbach Flashflood of Mai 29th, 2016 – Origin, Pathways and Impacts of an Extreme Hydro-Meteorological Event. Part 1: Meteorological and Hydrological Analysis, Hydrol. Wasserbewirts., 61, (3), 150-162.

Kneis, D., C. C. Abon, A. Bronstert, and M. Heistermann (2017): Verification of short-term runoff forecasts for a small Philippine basin (Marikina), Hydrol. Sc. J., 62(2), 205-216.

Jacobi, S., and M. Heistermann (2016): Benchmarking attenuation correction procedures for six years of single-polarised C-band weather radar observations in South-West Germany, Geomat. Nat. Haz. Risk., 7(6), 1785-1799.

Abon, C. C., D. Kneis, I. Crisologo, A. Bronstert, C. P. C. David, and M. Heistermann (2016): Evaluating the potential of radar-based rainfall estimates for stream flow and flood simulation in the Philippines, Geomat. Nat. Haz. Risk., 7(4), 1390-1405.

Philips, A., Walz, A., Bergner, A., Graeff, T., Heistermann, M., Kienzler, S., Korup, O., Lipp, T., Schwanghart, W., and G. Zeilinger (2015): Immersive 3D geovisualization in higher education. J. Geogr. Higher Educ. 39(3), 1-13.

Vormoor, K., D. Lawrence, M. Heistermann, and A. Bronstert (2015): Climate change impacts on the seasonality and generation processes of floods in catchments with mixed snowmelt/rainfall regimes: projections and uncertainties, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 913-931.

Heistermann, M., S. Collis, M. J. Dixon, J. J. Helmus, A. Henja, D. B. Michelson, and Thomas Pfaff (2015): An Open Virtual Machine for Cross-Platform Weather Radar Science, Bull. Amer. Soc. Meteor., 96, 1641-1645.

Heistermann, M., S. Collis, M. J. Dixon, S. Giangrande, J. J. Helmus, B. Kelley, J. Koistinen, D. Michelson, M. Peura, T. Pfaff, D. B. Wolff (2015): The Emergence of Open Source Software for the Weather Radar Community, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 96, 117-128.

Crisologo, I., G. Vulpiani, C. C. Abon, C. P. C. David, A. Bronstert, and M. Heistermann (2014): Polarimetric rainfall retrieval from a C-Band weather radar in a tropical environment (The Philippines). Asia-Pac. J. Atmos. Sci., 50 (1 Supplement), 595-607.

Heistermann, M., T. Francke, C. Georgi, and A. Bronstert (2014): Increasing life expectancy of water resources literature, Water Resour. Res., 50, doi: 10.1002/2014WR015674.

Buerger, G., M. Heistermann, and A. Bronstert (2014): Towards sub-daily rainfall disaggregation via Clausius-Clapeyron. J. Hydromet., 15(3), 1303-1311.

Heistermann, M., Jacobi, S., Pfaff, T. (2013): Technical Note: An open source library for processing weather radar data (wradlib). Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 863-871.

Heistermann, M., I. Crisologo, C. C. Abon, B. A. Racoma, S. Jacobi, N. T. Servando, C. P. C. David, and A. Bronstert (2013): Brief Communication: Using the new Philippine radar network to reconstruct the “Habagat of August 2012” monsoon event around Metropolitan Manila. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 13, 653-657.

Bronstert, A., Creutzfeldt, B., Graeff, T., Hajnsek, I., Heistermann, M., Itzerott, S., Jagdhuber, T., Kneis, D., Lueck, E., Reusser, D., Zehe, E. (2012): Potentials and constraints of different types of soil moisture observations for flood simulations in headwater catchments, Nat. Hazards, 60(3), 879-914.

Heistermann, M., and D. Kneis (2011): Benchmarking quantitative precipitation estimation by conceptual rainfall-runoff modeling, Water Resour. Res., 47, W06514, doi:10.1029/2010WR009153.

Kneis, D., Heistermann, M. (2009): Quality assessment of radar-based precipitation estimates with the example of a small catchment. Hydrologie und Wasserwirtschaft 53(3), 158-169.

Del Grosso, S.J., Ojima, D.S., Parton, W.J., Stehfest, E., Heistermann, M., DeAngelo, B., Rose, S. (2009): Global scale DAYCENT model analysis of greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation strategies for cropped soils. Global and Planetary Change, 67(1-2), 44-50.

Stehfest, E., Heistermann, M., Priess, J. A., Ojima, D.S., Alcamo, J. (2007): Simulation of global crop production with the Ecosystem model DayCent. Ecological Modelling, 209(2-4), 203–219.

Heistermann, M., Mueller, C., Ronneberger, K. (2006): Land in sight? Achievements, deficits and potentials of continental to global scale land-use modelling. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 114(2-4), 141-158.

Heistermann, M., Jene, B., Fent, G., Feyerabend, M., Seppelt, R., Richter, O., Kubiak, R. (2003): Modelling Approaches to Compare Sorption and Degradation of Metsulfuron-methyl in Laboratory Micro-Lysimeter and Batch Experiments. Pest Management Science, 59 (12), 1276-1290.

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