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Overview

Stefan Kollet is affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work encompasses a range of topics centered around hydrologic and climatic processes with a focus on modeling and simulation.

The main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

The subfields of study that characterize their work are:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Computer Networks and Communications

Key research topics covered by Stefan Kollet include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Stefan Kollet has contributed to multiple scientific publications with frequent appearances in several specialized journals. The main publication venues are:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Frontiers in Water
  • Geoscientific model development
  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequently coauthoring with Stefan Kollet are:

  • Klaus Goergen
  • Marc F. P. Bierkens
  • Alexandre Belleflamme
  • Carina Furusho-Percot
  • P. A. Troch

Notable research papers associated with Stefan Kollet include:

  • "Soil structure is an important omission in Earth System Models," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Global Groundwater Modeling and Monitoring: Opportunities and Challenges," 2021, Water Resources Research
  • "Simulating coupled surface-subsurface flows with ParFlow v3.5.0: capabilities, applications, and ongoing development of an open-source, massively parallel, integrated hydrologic model," 2020, Geoscientific model development
  • "A 3 km spatially and temporally consistent European daily soil moisture reanalysis from 2000 to 2015," 2020, Scientific Data
  • "An Interannual Probabilistic Assessment of Subsurface Water Storage Over Europe Using a Fully Coupled Terrestrial Model," 2020, Water Resources Research

Best Publications

  • A review on regional convection-permitting climate modeling: Demonstrations, prospects, and challenges.

    Andreas F. Prein;Andreas F. Prein;Wolfgang Langhans;Giorgia Fosser;Andrew Ferrone

  • Integrated surface-groundwater flow modeling: A free-surface overland flow boundary condition in a parallel groundwater flow model

    Stefan J. Kollet;Reed M. Maxwell

  • Hyperresolution global land surface modeling: Meeting a grand challenge for monitoring Earth's terrestrial water

    Eric F. Wood;Joshua K. Roundy;Tara J. Troy;L. P. H. van Beek

  • Modeling Soil Processes: Review, Key Challenges, and New Perspectives

    H. Vereecken;A. Schnepf;J. W. Hopmans;M. Javaux

  • Capturing the influence of groundwater dynamics on land surface processes using an integrated, distributed watershed model

    Stefan J. Kollet;Stefan J. Kollet;Reed M. Maxwell

  • Interdependence of groundwater dynamics and land-energy feedbacks under climate change

    Reed M. Maxwell;Stefan J. Kollet

  • Hyper-resolution global hydrological modelling: what is next?

    Marc F. P. Bierkens;Victoria A. Bell;Peter Burek;Nathaniel Chaney

  • A high-resolution simulation of groundwater and surface water over most of the continental US with the integrated hydrologic model ParFlow v3

    R. M. Maxwell;L. E. Condon;Stefan Kollet

  • Surface-subsurface model intercomparison: A first set of benchmark results to diagnose integrated hydrology and feedbacks

    Reed M. Maxwell;Mario Putti;Steven Meyerhoff;Jens Olaf Delfs

  • The groundwater land-surface atmosphere connection: Soil moisture effects on the atmospheric boundary layer in fully-coupled simulations

    Reed M. Maxwell;Fotini Katopodes Chow;Stefan J. Kollet

  • Global Groundwater Modeling and Monitoring: Opportunities and Challenges

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  • Changing structure of European precipitation: Longer wet periods leading to more abundant rainfalls

    Olga Zolina;Olga Zolina;Clemens Simmer;Sergey K. Gulev;Stefan Kollet

  • Proof of concept of regional scale hydrologic simulations at hydrologic resolution utilizing massively parallel computer resources

    Stefan J. Kollet;Reed M. Maxwell;Carol S. Woodward;Steve Smith

  • Soil structure is an important omission in Earth System Models

    Simone Fatichi;Dani Or;Robert Walko;Harry Vereecken

  • Soil hydrology: Recent methodological advances, challenges, and perspectives

    H. Vereecken;J. A. Huisman;H. J. Hendricks Franssen;N. Brüggemann

  • A Scale-Consistent Terrestrial Systems Modeling Platform Based on COSMO, CLM, and ParFlow

    P. Shrestha;M. Sulis;M. Masbou

  • The integrated hydrologic model intercomparison project, IH-MIP2: A second set of benchmark results to diagnose integrated hydrology and feedbacks

    Stefan Kollet;Mauro Sulis;Reed M. Maxwell;Claudio Paniconi

  • Patterns and dynamics of river–aquifer exchange with variably-saturated flow using a fully-coupled model

    Sven Frei;Jan Fleckenstein;Stefan Kollet;Reed M. Maxwell

  • A comparison of two physics-based numerical models for simulating surface water–groundwater interactions

    Mauro Sulis;Steven B. Meyerhoff;Claudio Paniconi;Reed M. Maxwell

  • Infiltration from the Pedon to Global Grid Scales: An Overview and Outlook for Land Surface Modeling

    Harry Vereecken;Lutz Weihermüller;Shmuel Assouline;Jirka Šimůnek

  • Stream depletion predictions using pumping test data from a heterogeneous stream–aquifer system (a case study from the Great Plains, USA)

    Stefan J. Kollet;Vitaly A. Zlotnik

Frequent Co-Authors

Reed M. Maxwell
Reed M. Maxwell Princeton University
Clemens Simmer
Clemens Simmer University of Bonn
Harry Vereecken
Harry Vereecken Forschungszentrum Jülich
Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen
Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen Forschungszentrum Jülich
Carsten Montzka
Carsten Montzka Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jan Vanderborght
Jan Vanderborght Forschungszentrum Jülich
Heye Bogena
Heye Bogena Forschungszentrum Jülich
Vitaly A. Zlotnik
Vitaly A. Zlotnik University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Harald Kunstmann
Harald Kunstmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Olaf A. Cirpka
Olaf A. Cirpka University of Tübingen

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