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Rolf Weingartner

Rolf Weingartner

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Earth Science

D-Index
43
Citations
8686
World Ranking
4886
National Ranking
116

Overview

Rolf Weingartner is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and has a research focus within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work primarily addresses subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Ecology, and the nexus of Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law in environmental contexts.

The scientist's research topics center on Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate change and permafrost, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Climate variability and models, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Landslides and related hazards, and Hydrology and Drought Analysis.

Rolf Weingartner has contributed to multiple papers published in various scientific venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • River runoff in Switzerland in a changing climate - runoff regime changes and their time of emergence, 2021, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • An ensemble of daily simulated runoff data (1981-2099) under climate change conditions for 93 catchments in Switzerland (Hydro-CH2018-Runoff ensemble), 2021, Geoscience Data Journal
  • In full transition: Key impacts of vanishing mountain ice on water-security at local to global scales, 2020, Water Security
  • River runoff in Switzerland in a changing climate - changes in moderate extremes and their seasonality, 2021, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • In situ measurements of meltwater flow through snow and firn in the accumulation zone of the SW Greenland Ice Sheet, 2022, The Cryosphere

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues including Jan Schwanbeck, Olivia Martius, Pascal Horton, Regula Muelchi, and Ole Rößler. These collaborations have resulted in repeated joint publications.

Publication venues where Rolf Weingartner has appeared multiple times feature prominently, including:

  • Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Geoscience Data Journal
  • Water Security

Best Publications

  • Mountains of the world, water towers for humanity: Typology, mapping, and global significance

    Daniel Viviroli;Hans H. Dürr;Bruno Messerli;Michel Meybeck

  • Toward mountains without permanent snow and ice

    Matthias Huss;Matthias Huss;B Bookhagen;Christian Huggel;Dean Jacobsen

  • Global monthly water stress: 2. Water demand and severity of water stress

    Yoshihide Wada;L. P. H. van Beek;Daniel Viviroli;Daniel Viviroli;Hans H. Dürr

  • The hydrological significance of mountains: from regional to global scale

    Daniel Viviroli;Daniel Viviroli;Rolf Weingartner

  • Assessing the Hydrological Significance of the World's Mountains

    Daniel Viviroli;Rolf Weingartner;Bruno Messerli

  • An introduction to the hydrological modelling system PREVAH and its pre- and post-processing-tools

    D. Viviroli;M. Zappa;J. Gurtz;R. Weingartner

  • Robust changes and sources of uncertainty in the projected hydrological regimes of Swiss catchments

    Nans Addor;Ole Kristen Rössler;Nina Köplin;Nina Köplin;Matthias Huss

  • Mountains of the world: vulnerable water towers for the 21st century.

    Bruno Messerli;Daniel Viviroli;Rolf Weingartner

  • Preferential Flow Effects on Infiltration and Runoff in Grassland and Forest Soils

    Abdallah Alaoui;Ursin Caduff;Horst H. Gerke;Rolf Weingartner

  • Quality of Drinking-water at Source and Point-of-consumption—Drinking Cup As a High Potential Recontamination Risk: A Field Study in Bolivia

    Simonne Rufener;Daniel Mäusezahl;Hans-Joachim Mosler;Rolf Weingartner

  • Continuous simulation for flood estimation in ungauged mesoscale catchments of Switzerland - Part II: Parameter regionalisation and flood estimation results

    Daniel Viviroli;Daniel Viviroli;Heidi Mittelbach;Joachim Gurtz;Rolf Weingartner;Rolf Weingartner

  • Impacts of environmental change on water resources in the Mt. Kenya region

    Benedikt Notter;Lindsay MacMillan;Daniel Viviroli;Rolf Weingartner

  • The largest floods in the High Rhine basin since 1268 assessed from documentary and instrumental evidence

    Oliver Wetter;Christian Pfister;Rolf Weingartner;Jürg Luterbacher

  • Distribution of peak flow derived from a distribution of rainfall volume and runoff coefficient, and a unit hydrograph

    Lars Gottschalk;Rolf Weingartner

  • Seasonality and magnitude of floods in Switzerland under future climate change

    Nina Köplin;Nina Köplin;Bruno Schädler;Bruno Schädler;Daniel Viviroli;Daniel Viviroli;Rolf Weingartner;Rolf Weingartner

  • Floods in mountain areas—an overview based on examples from Switzerland

    R Weingartner;M Barben;M Spreafico

  • Retrospective analysis of a nonforecasted rain-on-snow flood in the Alps – a matter of model limitations or unpredictable nature?

    Ole Kristen Rössler;Paul Arnaud Froidevaux;U. Börst;Ralph Rickli

  • Hydrological winter droughts over the last 450 years in the Upper Rhine basin: a methodological approach

    Christian Pfister;Rolf Weingartner;Jürg Luterbacher

  • Continuous simulation for flood estimation in ungauged mesoscale catchments of Switzerland - part I: modelling framework and calibration results

    Daniel Viviroli;Daniel Viviroli;Massimiliano Zappa;Jan Schwanbeck;Jan Schwanbeck;Joachim Gurtz

  • Water Resources in mountain regions: A methodological approach to assess the water balance in a highland-lowland-system

    Rolf Weingartner;Daniel Viviroli;Bruno Schädler

  • Comments: A New Typology for Mountains and Other Relief Classes: An Application to Global Continental Water Resources and Population Distribution

    Bruno Messerli;Daniel Viviroli;Rolf Weingartner

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivia Martius
Olivia Martius University of Bern
Matthias Huss
Matthias Huss University of Fribourg
Massimiliano Zappa
Massimiliano Zappa Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Martin Grosjean
Martin Grosjean University of Bern
Christoph C. Raible
Christoph C. Raible University of Bern
Stefan Brönnimann
Stefan Brönnimann University of Bern
Christian Pfister
Christian Pfister University of Bern
Sven Kotlarski
Sven Kotlarski Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology
Bryan G. Mark
Bryan G. Mark The Ohio State University
Jürg Luterbacher
Jürg Luterbacher University of Giessen

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