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Bernd Wünnemann is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. Their research is primarily situated within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions also to Environmental Science and Engineering.

The scientist's subfields of study encompass Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

Their main research topics include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

Bernd Wünnemann has contributed to publications across multiple venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Cold Regions Science and Technology
  • Geomorphology

They have collaborated notably with several co-authors including Dada Yan, Yongzhan Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhao, Nils Andersen, and Wengang Kang.

Among their recent published papers are:

  • Application of machine learning methods for snow avalanche susceptibility mapping in the Parlung Tsangpo catchment, southeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (2022) in Cold Regions Science and Technology
  • The largest rock avalanche in China at Iymek, Eastern Pamir, and its spectacular emplacement landscape (2022) in Geomorphology
  • Late Quaternary lacustrine Ostracoda and their implications for hydro-climatic variation in Northeastern Tibetan Plateau (2020) in Earth-Science Reviews
  • Early Holocene tidal flat evolution in a western embayment of East China Sea, in response to sea level rise episodes (2020) in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Hydrological variations of a lake-catchment and human interaction during the last 6 ka in Yunnan, China (2020) in Journal of Hydrology

Best Publications

  • Holocene moisture evolution in arid central Asia and its out-of-phase relationship with Asian monsoon history

    Fahu Chen;Zicheng Yu;Zicheng Yu;Meilin Yang;Emi Ito

  • An end-member algorithm for deciphering modern detrital processes from lake sediments of Lake Donggi Cona, NE Tibetan Plateau, China

    Elisabeth Dietze;Kai Hartmann;Bernhard Diekmann;Janneke IJmker

  • A general cooling trend on the central Tibetan Plateau throughout the Holocene recorded by the Lake Zigetang pollen spectra

    Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh;Katja Winter;Bernd Wünnemann;Shijie Li

  • Holocene vegetation and climate of the Alashan Plateau, NW China, reconstructed from pollen data

    Ulrike Herzschuh;Pavel Tarasov;Bernd Wünnemann;Kai Hartmann

  • Lake Evolution in the Tengger Desert, Northwestern China, during the Last 40,000 Years

    Hans-Joachim Pachur;Bernd Wünnemann;Hucai Zhang

  • Late glacial and Holocene vegetation, Indian monsoon and westerly circulation in the Trans-Himalaya recorded in the lacustrine pollen sequence from Tso Kar, Ladakh, NW India

    Dieter Demske;Pavel E. Tarasov;Bernd Wünnemann;Frank Riedel

  • Hydrological evolution during the last 15 kyr in the Tso Kar lake basin (Ladakh, India), derived from geomorphological, sedimentological and palynological records

    Bernd Wünnemann;Bernd Wünnemann;Dieter Demske;Pavel Tarasov;Bahadur S. Kotlia

  • A Holocene climatic record from arid northwestern China

    H.C. Zhang;Y.Z. Ma;B. Wünnemann;H.-J. Pachur

  • Late Quaternary palaeolake levels in Tengger Desert, NW China

    H.C Zhang;J.L Peng;Y.Z Ma;G.J Chen

  • A Holocene sedimentary record from Bosten Lake, China

    Bernd Wünnemann;Steffen Mischke;Fahu Chen

  • The Holocene salinity history of Bosten Lake (Xinjiang, China) inferred from ostracod species assemblages and shell chemistry: Possible palaeoclimatic implications

    S. Mischke;B. Wünnemann

  • Quantitative reconstruction of precipitation changes on the NE Tibetan Plateau since the Last Glacial Maximum – extending the concept of pollen source area to pollen-based climate reconstructions from large lakes

    Yongbo Wang;Yongbo Wang;Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh;Lyudmila S. Shumilovskikh;Steffen Mischke;Steffen Mischke

  • Hydrological changes and Holocene climate variations in NW China, inferred from lake sediments of Juyanze palaeolake by factor analyses

    Kai Hartmann;Bernd Wünnemann

  • Ostracods and stable isotopes of a late glacial and Holocene lake record from the NE Tibetan Plateau

    Steffen Mischke;Bernhard Aichner;Bernhard Diekmann;Ulrike Herzschuh

  • Aeolian sediments on the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau

    Georg Stauch;Janneke IJmker;Steffen Pötsch;Hui Zhao

  • Early to mid-Holocene lake high-stand sediments at Lake Donggi Cona, northeastern Tibetan Plateau, China

    Elisabeth Dietze;Bernd Wünnemann;Bernd Wünnemann;Kai Hartmann;Bernhard Diekmann

  • A long arid interlude in the Indian summer monsoon during ∼4,350 to 3,450 cal. yr BP contemporaneous to displacement of the Indus valley civilization

    Som Dutt;Anil K. Gupta;Bernd Wünnemann;Dada Yan

  • Lake level and climate changes between 42,000 and 18,000 C-14 yr BP in the Tengger Desert, Northwestern China

    HC Zhang;HC Zhang;B Wunnemann;YZ Ma;JL Peng

  • Late Quaternary water depth changes in Hala Lake, northeastern Tibetan Plateau, derived from ostracod assemblages and sediment properties in multiple sediment records

    Dada Yan;Bernd Wünnemann;Bernd Wünnemann

  • Climate as a factor for Neolithic cultural collapses approximately 4000 years BP in China

    Qianli Sun;Yan Liu;Bernd Wünnemann;Bernd Wünnemann;Yajun Peng

  • Quantitative relationship between water-depth and sub-fossil ostracod assemblages in Lake Donggi Cona, Qinghai Province, China

    Steffen Mischke;Ulrich Bößneck;Bernhard Diekmann;Ulrike Herzschuh

  • Late Glacial and Holocene development of Lake Donggi Cona, north-eastern Tibetan Plateau, inferred from sedimentological analysis

    Stephan Opitz;Bernd Wünnemann;Bernd Wünnemann;Bernhard Aichner;Elisabeth Dietze

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernhard Diekmann
Bernhard Diekmann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Frank Lehmkuhl
Frank Lehmkuhl RWTH Aachen University
Steffen Mischke
Steffen Mischke University of Iceland
Ulrike Herzschuh
Ulrike Herzschuh University of Potsdam
Pavel E. Tarasov
Pavel E. Tarasov Freie Universität Berlin
Huijun Jin
Huijun Jin Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chengjun Zhang
Chengjun Zhang Lanzhou University
Fahu Chen
Fahu Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zicheng Yu
Zicheng Yu Lehigh University
Bahadur Singh Kotlia
Bahadur Singh Kotlia Kumaun University

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