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Axel Bronstert is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany and focuses their research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work encompasses various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main research topics covered by Axel Bronstert span Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Climate Variability and Models, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, as well as Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport.

Bronstert has contributed research papers to several academic journals and venues, with frequent publications appearing in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Journal of Hydrology, Hydrological Sciences Journal, Hydrological Processes, and Frontiers in Water. Some of their recent papers include:

  • Increasing compound warm spells and droughts in the Mediterranean Basin (2021, Weather and Climate Extremes)
  • Multi-objective optimization for stormwater management by green-roofs and infiltration trenches to reduce urban flooding in central Delhi (2022, Journal of Hydrology)
  • Long-term changes in central European river discharge for 1869-2016: impact of changing snow covers, reservoir constructions and an intensified hydrological cycle (2020, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences)
  • Towards urban flood susceptibility mapping using data-driven models in Berlin, Germany (2022, Geomatics Natural Hazards and Risk)
  • Towards a more consistent eco-hydrological modelling through multi-objective calibration: a case study in the Andean Vilcanota River basin, Peru (2020, Hydrological Sciences Journal)

Collaborations with other researchers are an aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including Till Francke, Erwin Rottler, Klaus Vormoor, Maik Heistermann, and Fred F. Hattermann.

Best Publications

  • Effects of climate and land-use change on storm runoff generation: present knowledge and modelling capabilities

    Axel Bronstert;Daniel Niehoff;Gerd Bürger

  • Land-use impacts on storm-runoff generation: scenarios of land-use change and simulation of hydrological response in a meso-scale catchment in SW-Germany

    Daniel Niehoff;Uta Fritsch;Axel Bronstert

  • Rainfall—runoff response, event-based runoff coefficients and hydrograph separation

    Theresa Blume;Erwin Zehe;Axel Bronstert

  • Floods and Climate Change: Interactions and Impacts

    Axel Bronstert

  • Assessing the impact of land use change on hydrology by ensemble modeling (LUCHEM) I: Model intercomparison with current land use

    L Breuer;J.A. Huisman;P Willems;H Bormann

  • Climate change, land use change and runoff prediction in the Rhine-Meuse basins

    Laurent Pfister;Jaap Kwadijk;André Musy;Axel Bronstert

  • Groundwater-surface water interactions in a North German lowland floodplain : Implications for the river discharge dynamics and riparian water balance

    Stefan Krause;Axel Bronstert;Erwin Zehe

  • Loss of reservoir volume by sediment deposition and its impact on water availability in semiarid Brazil

    José Carlos De Araújo;Andreas Güntner;Axel Bronstert

  • Climate change impacts on the seasonality and generation processes of floods - projections and uncertainties for catchments with mixed snowmelt/rainfall regimes

    Klaus Vormoor;D. Lawrence;Maik Heistermann;Axel Bronstert

  • Plot and field scale soil moisture dynamics and subsurface wetness control on runoff generation in a headwater in the Ore Mountains

    Erwin Zehe;Thomas Graeff;Markus Morgner;Andreas Bauer

  • Modelling of runoff generation and soil moisture dynamics for hillslopes and micro-catchments

    Axel Bronstert;Erich J. Plate

  • Assessing the impact of land use change on hydrology by ensemble modelling(LUCHEM) II: ensemble combinations and predictions

    Neil Viney;H Bormann;L Breuer;A Bronstert

  • Integrating wetlands and riparian zones in river basin modelling

    F.F. Hattermann;V. Krysanova;A. Habeck;A. Bronstert;A. Bronstert

  • Assessing flood risk for a rural detention area

    S. Förster;B. Kuhlmann;K.-E. Lindenschmidt;A. Bronstert

  • Representation of landscape variability and lateral redistribution processes for large-scale hydrological modelling in semi-arid areas

    Andreas Güntner;Axel Bronstert;Axel Bronstert

  • Modelling river discharge for large drainage basins: from lumped to distributed approach

    V. Krysanova;A. Bronstert;D.-I. Müller-Wohlfeil

  • Rainfall-runoff modelling for assessing impacts of climate and land-use change

    Axel Bronstert

  • Soil Moisture Estimation Under Low Vegetation Cover Using a Multi-Angular Polarimetric Decomposition

    T. Jagdhuber;I. Hajnsek;A. Bronstert;K. P. Papathanassiou

  • Regional integrated modelling of climate change impacts on natural resources and resource usage in semi-arid Northeast Brazil

    Martinus S. Krol;Axel Bronstert;Axel Bronstert

  • Capabilities and limitations of detailed hillslope hydrological modelling

    Axel Bronstert

  • Increasing compound warm spells and droughts in the Mediterranean Basin

    Johannes Vogel;Johannes Vogel;Eva Paton;Valentin Aich;Axel Bronstert

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Güntner
Andreas Güntner University of Potsdam
Erwin Zehe
Erwin Zehe Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Stefan Krause
Stefan Krause University of Birmingham
Ramon J. Batalla
Ramon J. Batalla University of Lleida
Theresa Blume
Theresa Blume Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Valentina Krysanova
Valentina Krysanova Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Andrés Iroumé
Andrés Iroumé Austral University of Chile
Irena Hajnsek
Irena Hajnsek German Aerospace Center
Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Dennis P. Lettenmaier University of California, Los Angeles
Fred Hattermann
Fred Hattermann Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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