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Overview

Kerstin Stahl is a researcher affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany, specializing in Environmental Science. Their work primarily focuses on the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics explored by Kerstin Stahl include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Climate Variability and Models, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Throughout their career, Stahl has contributed publications to several notable journals. Frequent publication venues comprise:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Some recent papers authored in collaboration or solo by Stahl include:

  • Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management, 2022, Nature
  • Large-Scale Assessment of Delayed Groundwater Responses to Drought, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Drought Characteristics Derived Based on the Standardized Streamflow Index: A Large Sample Comparison for Parametric and Nonparametric Methods, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Glacio-hydrological model calibration and evaluation, 2020, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water

Frequent co-authors with whom Stahl has published multiple papers include:

  • Markus Weiler
  • Michael Stoelzle
  • Veit Blauhut
  • Erik Tijdeman
  • Jan Seibert

Best Publications

  • Candidate Distributions for Climatological Drought Indices (SPI and SPEI)

    James H. Stagge;Lena M. Tallaksen;Lukas Gudmundsson;Anne F. Van Loon;Anne F. Van Loon

  • Drought in the Anthropocene

    Anne F. Van Loon;Tom Gleeson;Julian Clark;Albert I J M Van Dijk

  • Streamflow trends in Europe: evidence from a dataset of near-natural catchments

    K. Stahl;K. Stahl;H. Hisdal;J. Hannaford;L.M. Tallaksen

  • The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management

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  • Comparison of approaches for spatial interpolation of daily air temperature in a large region with complex topography and highly variable station density

    K. Stahl;R.D. Moore;J.A. Floyer;M.G. Asplin

  • Have streamflow droughts in Europe become more severe or frequent

    Hege Hisdal;Hege Hisdal;Kerstin Stahl;Lena M. Tallaksen;Siegfried Demuth

  • Drought in a human-modified world : reframing drought definitions, understanding, and analysis approaches

    Anne F. Van Loon;Kerstin Stahl;Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Julian Clark

  • Large-scale river flow archives: importance, current status and future needs.

    David M. Hannah;Siegfried Demuth;Henny A. J. van Lanen;Ulrich Looser

  • Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction

    Angeline G. Pendergrass;Gerald A. Meehl;Roger Pulwarty;Mike Hobbins;Mike Hobbins

  • Glacier change in western North America: influences on hydrology, geomorphic hazards and water quality

    R. D. Moore;S. W. Fleming;B. Menounos;R. Wheate

  • Impacts of European drought events: insights from an international database of text-based reports

    Kerstin Stahl;Irene Kohn;Veit Blauhut;Julia Urquijo

  • Coupled modelling of glacier and streamflow response to future climate scenarios

    K. Stahl;K. Stahl;R. D. Moore;J. M. Shea;D. Hutchinson

  • Modeling drought impact occurrence based on meteorological drought indices in Europe.

    James H. Stagge;Irene Kohn;Lena M. Tallaksen;Kerstin Stahl

  • Drought indicators revisited: the need for a wider consideration of environment and society

    Sophie Bachmair;Kerstin Stahl;Kevin Collins;Jamie Hannaford

  • Movement of outbreak populations of mountain pine beetle: influences of spatiotemporal patterns and climate

    Brian H. Aukema;Allan L. Carroll;Yanbing Zheng;Jun Zhu

  • Hydrology needed to manage droughts: the 2015 European case

    Henny A.J. Van Lanen;Gregor Laaha;Daniel G. Kingston;Tobias Gauster

  • Climate change and the institutional resilience of international river basins

    Lucia De Stefano;James Duncan;Shlomi Dinar;Kerstin Stahl

  • Estimating drought risk across Europe from reported drought impacts, drought indices, and vulnerability factors

    Veit Blauhut;Kerstin Stahl;James Howard Stagge;Lena M. Tallaksen

  • Detection of runoff timing changes in pluvial, nival, and glacial rivers of western Canada

    Stephen J. Déry;K. Stahl;K. Stahl;R. D. Moore;P. H. Whitfield

  • The European 2015 drought from a hydrological perspective

    Gregor Laaha;Tobias Gauster;Lena M. Tallaksen;Jean Philippe Vidal

  • Influence of watershed glacier coverage on summer streamflow in British Columbia, Canada

    K. Stahl;R. D. Moore

  • Geography of international water conflict and cooperation: Data sets and applications

    Shira Yoffe;Greg Fiske;Mark Giordano;Meredith Giordano

  • Pan-European comparison of candidate distributions for climatological drought indices, SPI and SPEI

    James Stagge;Lena Tallaksen;Lukas Gudmundsson;Anne Van Loon

Frequent Co-Authors

Lena M. Tallaksen
Lena M. Tallaksen University of Oslo
Markus Weiler
Markus Weiler University of Freiburg
Jamie Hannaford
Jamie Hannaford National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Jan Seibert
Jan Seibert University of Zurich
Anne F. Van Loon
Anne F. Van Loon Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Mark Svoboda
Mark Svoboda University of Nebraska–Lincoln
R. D. Moore
R. D. Moore University of British Columbia
Niko Wanders
Niko Wanders Utrecht University

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