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Jürgen Kusche

Jürgen Kusche

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Earth Science

D-Index
51
Citations
9656
World Ranking
3218
National Ranking
214

Overview

Jürgen Kusche is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany and has a research focus primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Oceanography, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research covers several topics related to geophysical and atmospheric sciences, such as:

  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • GNSS positioning and interference
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
  • Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
  • Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Kusche's recent publications include extensively cited papers that address various aspects of hydrology, drought risk, and water storage from global perspectives. Selected papers are:

  • Soil hydrology in the Earth system, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Global-scale drought risk assessment for agricultural systems, 2020, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
  • Long-Term (1979-Present) Total Water Storage Anomalies Over the Global Land Derived by Reconstructing GRACE Data, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Drought risk for agricultural systems in South Africa: Drivers, spatial patterns, and implications for drought risk management, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Comparison of Data-Driven Techniques to Reconstruct (1992-2002) and Predict (2017-2018) GRACE-Like Gridded Total Water Storage Changes Using Climate Inputs, 2020, Water Resources Research

Frequent collaborators include Helena Gerdener, Kerstin Schulze, Luciana Fenoglio-Marc, Anno Löcher, and Anna Kłos. Their repeated coauthorships indicate ongoing research partnerships in related fields.

Kusche's work has been published in several established venues, such as:

  • Journal of Geodesy
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Geophysical Journal International

This profile outlines Jürgen Kusche's contribution to Earth sciences primarily through geophysical measurement techniques, hydrological studies, and global environmental assessments, supported by collaboration with multiple researchers and publication in key academic journals.

Best Publications

  • Global sea-level budget 1993 - present

    Anny Cazenave;Benoit Meyssignac;Michael Ablain

  • Approximate decorrelation and non-isotropic smoothing of time-variable GRACE-type gravity field models

    Jürgen Kusche

  • Decorrelated GRACE time-variable gravity solutions by GFZ, and their validation using a hydrological model

    J. Kusche;R. Schmidt;S. Petrovic;R. Rietbroek

  • Regularization of geopotential determination from satellite data by variance components

    K.-R. Koch;J. Kusche

  • Combined satellite gravity field model GOCO01S derived from GOCE and GRACE

    Roland Pail;Helmut Goiginger;Wolf-Dieter Schuh;Eduard Höck

  • Revisiting the contemporary sea-level budget on global and regional scales

    Roelof Rietbroek;Sandra-Esther Brunnabend;Sandra-Esther Brunnabend;Jürgen Kusche;Jens Schröter

  • Global-scale drought risk assessment for agricultural systems

    Isabel Meza;Stefan Siebert;Petra Döll;Jürgen Kusche

  • Calibration/Data Assimilation Approach for Integrating GRACE Data into the WaterGAP Global Hydrology Model (WGHM) Using an Ensemble Kalman Filter: First Results

    Annette Eicker;Maike Schumacher;Jürgen Kusche;Petra Döll

  • Regional gravity modeling in terms of spherical base functions

    Michael Schmidt;Martin Fengler;Torsten Mayer-Gürr;Annette Eicker

  • The new combined satellite only model GOCO03s

    Torsten Mayer-Gürr;Daniel Rieser;Eduard Hoeck;Jan Martin Brockmann

  • Surface mass redistribution inversion from global GPS deformation and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) gravity data

    J. Kusche;E. J. O. Schrama

  • Separation of large scale water storage patterns over Iran using GRACE, altimetry and hydrological data

    E. Forootan;R. Rietbroek;J. Kusche;M. Sharifi

  • Hydrological Signals Observed by the GRACE Satellites

    R. Schmidt;F. Flechtner;U. Meyer;K.-H. Neumayer

  • Long-Term (1979-Present) Total Water Storage Anomalies Over the Global Land Derived by Reconstructing GRACE Data

    Fupeng Li;Fupeng Li;Fupeng Li;Jürgen Kusche;Nengfang Chao;Zhengtao Wang

  • EIGEN-GL05C - A new global combined high-resolution GRACE-based gravity field model of the GFZ-GRGS cooperation

    Christoph Förste;Frank Flechtner;R. Schmidt;R. Stubenvoll

  • A Monte-Carlo technique for weight estimation in satellite geodesy

    J. Kusche

  • Improving drought simulations within the Murray-Darling Basin by combined calibration/assimilation of GRACE data into the WaterGAP Global Hydrology Model

    M. Schumacher;M. Schumacher;M. Schumacher;Ehsan Forootan;A.I.J.M. van Dijk;H. Müller Schmied

  • Emerging methods for noninvasive sensing of soil moisture dynamics from field to catchment scale: a review

    Heye R. Bogena;Johan A. Huisman;Andreas Güntner;Christof Hübner

  • Drought risk for agricultural systems in South Africa: drivers, spatial patterns, and implications for drought risk management

    Isabel Meza;Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei;Stefan Siebert;Gohar Ghazaryan

  • Comparison of Data-Driven Techniques to Reconstruct (1992–2002) and Predict (2017–2018) GRACE-Like Gridded Total Water Storage Changes Using Climate Inputs

    Fupeng Li;Fupeng Li;Jürgen Kusche;Roelof Rietbroek;Zhengtao Wang

  • Evaluation of GRACE filter tools from a hydrological perspective

    S. Werth;A. Güntner;R. Schmidt;J. Kusche

  • Periodic components of water storage changes from GRACE and global hydrology models

    R. Schmidt;S. Petrovic;A. Güntner;F. Barthelmes

Frequent Co-Authors

Ehsan Forootan
Ehsan Forootan Aalborg University
Petra Döll
Petra Döll Goethe University Frankfurt
C. K. Shum
C. K. Shum The Ohio State University
Roland Pail
Roland Pail Technical University of Munich
Joseph L. Awange
Joseph L. Awange Curtin University
Adrian Jäggi
Adrian Jäggi University of Bern
Laurent Longuevergne
Laurent Longuevergne University of Rennes
Jens Schröter
Jens Schröter Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Hannes Müller Schmied
Hannes Müller Schmied Goethe University Frankfurt

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