Dieng, M. D. B.; Munga, S.; Tompkins, A. M.; Zornoza, M. G.; Caminade, C.; Fersch, B.; Arnault, J.; Khagayi, S.; Schwarz, M.; Kariuki, S.; Bigogo, G.; Kunstmann, H. (2026). High resolution physically based modelling reveals malaria incidence reduction by vector control measures. Scientific Reports, 16 (1), 1288. doi:10.1038/s41598-025-33539-w 

Sy, S.; Arnault, J.; Bliefernicht, J.; Quesada, B.; Duveiller, G.; Seydou, A. N. Y.; Oussou, F. E.; Fersch, B.; Laux, P.; Huber-García, V.; Hirner, A.; Kunstmann, H. (2025). Impacts of Idealized Land Use and Land Management Changes on Weather Extremes in West Africa. Earth’s Future, 13 (11), e2025EF006094. doi:10.1029/2025EF006094 

Yang, Q.; Wei, J.; Yang, C.; Gu, H.; Ma, J.; Dong, N.; Arnault, J.; Laux, P.; Fersch, B.; Shang, S.; Yu, Z.; Kunstmann, H. (2025). A crop-specific dynamic irrigation scheme in a regional land surface-hydrologic modeling framework for improving human water-use estimation and irrigation impact assessment. Journal of Hydrology, 659, 133322. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.133322

Arnault, J.; Fersch, B.; Schrön, M.; Bogena, H. R.; Hendricks Franssen, H.-J.; Kunstmann, H. (2025). Role of Infiltration on Land–Atmosphere Feedbacks in Central Europe: Fully Coupled WRF-Hydro Simulations Evaluated with Cosmic-Ray Neutron Soil Moisture Measurements. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 26 (2), 129 – 153. doi:10.1175/JHM-D-24-0049.1

Glawion, L.; Polz, J.; Kunstmann, H.; Fersch, B.; Chwala, C. (2025). Global spatio-temporal ERA5 precipitation downscaling to km and sub-hourly scale using generative AI. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 8 (1), 219. doi:10.1038/s41612-025-01103-y 

Wei, J.; Arnault, J.; Rummler, T.; Fersch, B.; Zhang, Z.; Olschewski, P.; Laux, P.; Dong, N.; Yang, Q.; Xing, Z.; Li, X.; Yang, C.; Zhang, X.; Ma, M.; Gao, L.; Xu, L.; Yu, Z.; Kunstmann, H. (2024). Acceleration of the Hydrological Cycle under Global Warming for the Poyang Lake Basin in Southeast China: An Age-Weighted Regional Water Tagging Approach. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 25 (11), 1627–1647. doi:10.1175/JHM-D-23-0227.1

Dieng, M. D. B.; Tompkins, A. M.; Arnault, J.; Sié, A.; Fersch, B.; Laux, P.; Schwarz, M.; Zabré, P.; Munga, S.; Khagayi, S.; Diouf, I.; Kunstmann, H. (2024). Process‐Based Atmosphere‐Hydrology‐Malaria Modeling: Performance for Spatio‐Temporal Malaria Transmission Dynamics in Sub‐Saharan Africa. Water Resources Research, 60 (6). doi:10.1029/2023WR034975 

Zacharias, S.; Loescher, H. W.; Bogena, H.; Kiese, R.; Schrön, M.; Attinger, S.; Blume, T.; Borchardt, D.; Borg, E.; Bumberger, J.; Chwala, C.; Dietrich, P.; Fersch, B.; Frenzel, M.; Gaillardet, J.; Groh, J.; Hajnsek, I.; Itzerott, S.; Kunkel, R.; Kunstmann, H.; Kunz, M.; Liebner, S.; Mirtl, M.; Montzka, C.; Musolff, A.; Pütz, T.; Rebmann, C.; Rinke, K.; Rode, M.; Sachs, T.; Samaniego, L.; Schmid, H. P.; Vogel, H.-J.; Weber, U.; Wollschläger, U.; Vereecken, H. (2024). Fifteen Years of Integrated Terrestrial Environmental Observatories (TERENO) in Germany: Functions, Services, and Lessons Learned. Earth’s Future, 12 (6), 2024EF004510. doi:10.1029/2024EF004510 

Sawadogo, W.; Fersch, B.; Bliefernicht, J.; Meilinger, S.; Rummler, T.; Salack, S.; Guug, S.; Kunstmann, H. (2024). Evaluation of the WRF-solar model for 72-hour ahead forecasts of global horizontal irradiance in West Africa: A case study for Ghana. Solar Energy, 271, Art.-Nr.: 112413. doi:10.1016/j.solener.2024.112413 

Petrovic, D.; Fersch, B.; Kunstmann, H. (2024). Heat wave characteristics: evaluation of regional climate model performances for Germany. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 24 (1), 265–289. doi:10.5194/nhess-24-265-2024 

Sawadogo, W.; Bliefernicht, J.; Fersch, B.; Salack, S.; Guug, S.; Diallo, B.; Ogunjobi, K. O.; Nakoulma, G.; Tanu, M.; Meilinger, S.; Kunstmann, H. (2023). Hourly global horizontal irradiance over West Africa: A case study of one-year satellite- and reanalysis-derived estimates vs. in situ measurements. Renewable Energy, 216, Art.-Nr.: 119066. doi:10.1016/j.renene.2023.119066 

Glawion, L.; Polz, J.; Kunstmann, H.; Fersch, B.; Chwala, C. (2023). spateGAN: Spatio‐Temporal Downscaling of Rainfall Fields Using a cGAN Approach. Earth and Space Science, 10 (10), e2023EA002906. doi:10.1029/2023EA002906 

Sawadogo, W.; Bliefernicht, J.; Fersch, B.; Salack, S.; Guug, S.; Ogunjobi, K. O.; Meilinger, S.; Kunstmann, H. (2023). Global Horizontal Irradiance in West Africa: Evaluation of the WRF-Solar Model in Convection-Permitting Mode with Ground Measurements. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 62 (7), 835–851. doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-22-0186.1

Khader, A.; Jayyousi, A.; Shadeed, S.; Arnault, J.; Kunstmann, H.; Chwala, C.; Fersch, B. (2023). Development of channel transmission loss function for WRF_HYDRO modeling of semi-arid regions: The case of wadi Faria, Palestine. An-Najah University Journal for Research - A (Natural Sciences), 37 (1), 39 – 44. doi:10.35552/anujr.a.37.1.2097 

Arnault, J.; Mwanthi, A. M.; Portele, T.; Li, L.; Rummler, T.; Fersch, B.; Hassan, M. A.; Bahaga, T. K.; Zhang, Z.; Mortey, E. M.; Achugbu, I. C.; Moutahir, H.; Sy, S.; Wei, J.; Laux, P.; Sobolowski, S.; Kunstmann, H. (2023). Regional water cycle sensitivity to afforestation: synthetic numerical experiments for tropical Africa. Frontiers in Climate, 5, Art.-Nr.: 1233536. doi:10.3389/fclim.2023.1233536 

Petrovic, D.; Fersch, B.; Kunstmann, H. (2022). Droughts in Germany: performance of regional climate models in reproducing observed characteristics. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 22 (12), 3875–3895. doi:10.5194/nhess-22-3875-2022 

Fersch, B.; Wagner, A.; Kamm, B.; Shehaj, E.; Schenk, A.; Yuan, P.; Geiger, A.; Moeller, G.; Heck, B.; Hinz, S.; Kutterer, H.; Kunstmann, H. (2022). Tropospheric water vapor: a comprehensive high-resolution data collection for the transnational Upper Rhine Graben region. Earth System Science Data, 14 (12), 5287–5307. doi:10.5194/essd-14-5287-2022 

Heistermann, M.; Bogena, H.; Francke, T.; Güntner, A.; Jakobi, J.; Rasche, D.; Schrön, M.; Döpper, V.; Fersch, B.; Groh, J.; Patil, A.; Pütz, T.; Reich, M.; Zacharias, S.; Zengerle, C.; Oswald, S. (2022). Soil moisture observation in a forested headwater catchment: combining a dense cosmic-ray neutron sensor network with roving and hydrogravimetry at the TERENO site Wüstebach. Earth System Science Data, 14 (5), 2501–2519. doi:10.5194/essd-14-2501-2022 

Wagner, A.; Fersch, B.; Yuan, P.; Rummler, T.; Kunstmann, H. (2022). Assimilation of GNSS and Synoptic Data in a Convection Permitting Limited Area Model: Improvement of Simulated Tropospheric Water Vapor Content. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, Art.Nr. 869504. doi:10.3389/feart.2022.869504 

Bogena, H. R.; Schrön, M.; Jakobi, J.; Ney, P.; Zacharias, S.; Andreasen, M.; Baatz, R.; Boorman, D.; Duygu, M. B.; Eguibar-Galán, M. A.; Fersch, B.; Franke, T.; Geris, J.; González Sanchis, M.; Kerr, Y.; Korf, T.; Mengistu, Z.; Mialon, A.; Nasta, P.; Nitychoruk, J.; Pisinaras, V.; Rasche, D.; Rosolem, R.; Said, H.; Schattan, P.; Zreda, M.; Achleitner, S.; Albentosa-Hernández, E.; Akyürek, Z.; Blume, T.; del Campo, A.; Canone, D.; Dimitrova-Petrova, K.; Evans, J. G.; Ferraris, S.; Frances, F.; Gisolo, D.; Güntner, A.; Herrmann, F.; Iwema, J.; Jensen, K. H.; Kunstmann, H.; Lidón, A.; Looms, M. C.; Oswald, S.; Panagopoulos, A.; Patil, A.; Power, D.; Rebmann, C.; Romano, N.; Scheiffele, L.; Seneviratne, S.; Weltin, G.; Vereecken, H. (2022). COSMOS-Europe: a European network of cosmic-ray neutron soil moisture sensors. Earth System Science Data, 14 (3), 1125–1151. doi:10.5194/essd-14-1125-2022 

Patil, A.; Fersch, B.; Hendricks Franssen, H.-J.; Kunstmann, H. (2021). Assimilation of Cosmogenic Neutron Counts for Improved Soil Moisture Prediction in a Distributed Land Surface Model. Frontiers in Water, 3, Art.-Nr. 729592. doi:10.3389/frwa.2021.729592 

Hansch, R.; Jagdhuber, T.; Fersch, B. (2021). Soil-Permittivity Estimation Under Grassland Using Machine-Learning and Polarimetric Decomposition Techniques. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, 59 (4), 2877–2887. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2020.3010104

Arnault, J.; Jung, G.; Haese, B.; Fersch, B.; Rummler, T.; Wei, J.; Zhang, Z.; Kunstmann, H. (2021). A Joint Soil-Vegetation-Atmospheric Modeling Procedure of Water Isotopologues: Implementation and Application to Different Climate Zones With WRF-Hydro-Iso. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 13 (10), e2021MS002562. doi:10.1029/2021MS002562 

Graf, M.; Arnault, J.; Fersch, B.; Kunstmann, H. (2021). Is the soil moisture precipitation feedback enhanced by heterogeneity and dry soils? A comparative study. Hydrological Processes, 35 (9), Art.-Nr.: e14332. doi:10.1002/hyp.14332 

Wei, J.; Dong, N.; Fersch, B.; Arnault, J.; Wagner, S.; Laux, P.; Zhang, Z.; Yang, Q.; Yang, C.; Shang, S.; Gao, L.; Yu, Z.; Kunstmann, H. (2021). Role of reservoir regulation and groundwater feedback in a simulated ground-soil-vegetation continuum: A long-term regional scale analysis. Hydrological Processes, 35 (8), Art.-Nr.: e14341. doi:10.1002/hyp.14341 

Portele, T. C.; Laux, P.; Lorenz, C.; Janner, A.; Horna, N.; Fersch, B.; Iza, M.; Kunstmann, H. (2021). Ensemble-Tailored Pattern Analysis of High-Resolution Dynamically Downscaled Precipitation Fields: Example for Climate Sensitive Regions of South America. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, Article no: 669427. doi:10.3389/feart.2021.669427 

Arnault, J.; Fersch, B.; Rummler, T.; Zhang, Z.; Quenum, G. M.; Wei, J.; Graf, M.; Laux, P.; Kunstmann, H. (2021). Lateral terrestrial water flow contribution to summer precipitation at continental scale – A comparison between Europe and West Africa with WRF‐Hydro‐tag ensembles. Hydrological processes, 35, Art.-Nr.: e14183. doi:10.1002/hyp.14183 

Mousavian, R.; Lorenz, C.; Mashhadi Hossainali, M.; Fersch, B.; Kunstmann, H. (2021). Copula-based modeling of dependence structure in geodesy and GNSS applications: case study for zenith tropospheric delay in complex terrain. GPS solutions, 25 (1), 12. doi:10.1007/s10291-020-01044-4

Fersch, B.; Senatore, A.; Adler, B.; Arnault, J.; Mauder, M.; Schneider, K.; Völksch, I.; Kunstmann, H. (2020). High-resolution fully-coupled atmospheric–hydrological modeling: a cross-compartment regional water and energy cycle evaluation. Hydrology and earth system sciences discussions, 24, 2457–2481. doi:10.5194/hess-2019-478 

Fersch, B.; Francke, T.; Heistermann, M.; Schrön, M.; Döpper, V.; Jakobi, J.; Baroni, G.; Blume, T.; Bogena, H.; Budach, C.; Gränzig, T.; Förster, M.; Güntner, A.; Hendricks Franssen, H.-J.; Kasner, M.; Köhli, M.; Kleinschmit, B.; Kunstmann, H.; Patil, A.; Rasche, D.; Scheiffele, L.; Schmidt, U.; Szulc-Seyfried, S.; Weimar, J.; Zacharias, S.; Zreda, M.; Heber, B.; Kiese, R.; Mares, V.; Mollenhauer, H.; Völksch, I.; Oswald, S. (2020). A dense network of cosmic-ray neutron sensors for soil moisture observation in a highly instrumented pre-Alpine headwater catchment in Germany. Earth System Science Data, 12 (3), 2289–2309. doi:10.5194/essd-12-2289-2020 

Fersch, B.; Senatore, A.; Adler, B.; Arnault, J.; Mauder, M.; Schneider, K.; Völksch, I.; Kunstmann, H. (2020). High-resolution fully coupled atmospheric-hydrological modeling: a cross-compartment regional water and energy cycle evaluation. Hydrology and earth system sciences, 24 (5), 2457–2481. doi:10.5194/hess-24-2457-2020 

Arnault, J.; Wei, J.; Rummler, T.; Fersch, B.; Zhang, Z.; Jung, G.; Wagner, S.; Kunstmann, H. (2019). A Joint Soil‐Vegetation‐Atmospheric Water Tagging Procedure With WRF‐Hydro: Implementation and Application to the Case of Precipitation Partitioning in the Upper Danube River Basin. Water resources research, 55 (7), 6217–6243. doi:10.1029/2019WR024780 

Blöschl, G.; Bierkens, M. F. P.; Chambel, A.; Cudennec, C.; Destouni, G.; Fiori, A.; Kirchner, J. W.; McDonnell, J. J.; Savenije, H. H. G.; Sivapalan, M.; Stumpp, C.; Toth, E.; Volpi, E.; Carr, G.; Lupton, C.; Salinas, J.; Széles, B.; Viglione, A.; Aksoy, H.; Allen, S. T.; Amin, A.; Andréassian, V.; Arheimer, B.; Aryal, S. K.; Baker, V.; Bardsley, E.; Barendrecht, M. H.; Bartosova, A.; Batelaan, O.; Berghuijs, W. R.; Beven, K.; Blume, T.; Bogaard, T.; Borges de Amorim, P.; Böttcher, M. E.; Boulet, G.; Breinl, K.; Brilly, M.; Brocca, L.; Buytaert, W.; Castellarin, A.; Castelletti, A.; Chen, X.; Chen, Y.; Chen, Y.; Chifflard, P.; Claps, P.; Clark, M. P.; Collins, A. L.; Croke, B.; Dathe, A.; David, P. C.; Barros, F. P. J. de; Rooij, G. de; Baldassarre, G. Di; Driscoll, J. M.; Duethmann, D.; Dwivedi, R.; Eris, E.; Farmer, W. H.; Feiccabrino, J.; Ferguson, G.; Ferrari, E.; Ferraris, S.; Fersch, B.; Finger, D.; Foglia, L.; Fowler, K.; Gartsman, B.; Gascoin, S.; Gaume, E.; Gelfan, A.; Geris, J.; Gharari, S.; Gleeson, T.; Glendell, M.; Gonzalez Bevacqua, A.; González-Dugo, M. P.; Grimaldi, S.; Gupta, A. B.; Guse, B.; Han, D.; Hannah, D.; Harpold, A.; Haun, S.; Heal, K.; Helfricht, K.; Herrnegger, M.; Hipsey, M.; Hlaváčiková, H.; Hohmann, C.; Holko, L.; Hopkinson, C.; Hrachowitz, M.; Illangasekare, T. H.; Inam, A.; Innocente, C.; Istanbulluoglu, E.; Jarihani, B.; Kalantari, Z.; Kalvans, A.; Khanal, S.; Khatami, S.; Kiesel, J.; Kirkby, M.; Knoben, W.; Kochanek, K.; Kohnová, S.; Kolechkina, A.; Krause, S.; Kreamer, D.; Kreibich, H.; Kunstmann, H.; Lange, H.; Liberato, M. L. R.; Lindquist, E.; Link, T.; Liu, J.; Loucks, D. P.; Luce, C.; Mahé, G.; Makarieva, O.; Malard, J.; Mashtayeva, S.; Maskey, S.; Mas-Pla, J.; Mavrova-Guirguinova, M.; Mazzoleni, M.; Mernild, S.; Misstear, B. D.; Montanari, A.; Müller-Thomy, H.; Nabizadeh, A.; Nardi, F.; Neale, C.; Nesterova, N.; Nurtaev, B.; Odongo, V. O.; Panda, S.; Pande, S.; Pang, Z.; Papacharalampous, G.; Perrin, C.; Pfister, L.; Pimentel, R.; Polo, M. J.; Post, D.; Prieto Sierra, C.; Ramos, M.-H.; Renner, M.; Reynolds, J. E.; Ridolfi, E.; Rigon, R.; Riva, M.; Robertson, D. E.; Rosso, R.; Roy, T.; Sá, J. H. M.; Salvadori, G.; Sandells, M.; Schaefli, B.; Schumann, A.; Scolobig, A.; Seibert, J.; Servat, E.; Shafiei, M.; Sharma, A.; Sidibe, M.; Sidle, R. C.; Skaugen, T.; Smith, H.; Spiessl, S. M.; Stein, L.; Steinsland, I.; Strasser, U.; Su, B.; Szolgay, J.; Tarboton, D.; Tauro, F.; Thirel, G.; Tian, F.; Tong, R.; Tussupova, K.; Tyralis, H.; Uijlenhoet, R.; Beek, R. van; Ent, R. J. van der; Ploeg, M. van der; Van Loon, A. F.; Meerveld, I. van; Nooijen, R. van; Oel, P. R. van; Vidal, J.-P.; Freyberg, J. von; Vorogushyn, S.; Wachniew, P.; Wade, A. J.; Ward, P.; Westerberg, I. K.; White, C.; Wood, E. F.; Woods, R.; Xu, Z.; Yilmaz, K. K.; Zhang, Y. (2019). Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective. Hydrological sciences journal, 64 (10), 1141–1158. doi:10.1080/02626667.2019.1620507

Fersch, B.; Jagdhuber, T.; Schrön, M.; Völksch, I.; Jäger, M. (2018). Synergies for Soil Moisture Retrieval Across Scales From Airborne Polarimetric SAR, Cosmic Ray Neutron Roving, and an In Situ Sensor Network. Water resources research, 54 (11), 9364–9383. doi:10.1029/2018WR023337

Kiese, R.; Fersch, B.; Baessler, C.; Brosy, C.; Butterbach-Bahl, K.; Chwala, C.; Dannenmann, M.; Fu, J.; Gasche, R.; Grote, R.; Jahn, C.; Klatt, J.; Kunstmann, H.; Mauder, M.; Rödiger, T.; Smiatek, G.; Soltani, M.; Steinbrecher, R.; Völksch, I.; Werhahn, J.; Wolf, B.; Zeeman, M.; Schmid, H. P. (2018). The TERENO pre-alpine observatory: Integrating meteorological, hydrological, and biogeochemical measurements and modeling. Vadose zone journal, 17 (1), Art. Nr.: 180060. doi:10.2136/vzj2018.03.0060 

Arnault, J.; Rummler, T.; Baur, F.; Lerch, S.; Wagner, S.; Fersch, B.; Zhang, Z.; Kerandi, N. M.; Keil, C.; Kunstmann, H. (2018). Precipitation sensitivity to the uncertainty of terrestrial water flow in WRF-Hydro: An ensemble analysis for central Europe. Journal of hydrometeorology, 19 (6), 1007–1025. doi:10.1175/JHM-D-17-0042.1 

Wolf, B.; Chwala, C.; Fersch, B.; Garvelmann, J.; Junkermann, W.; Zeeman, M. J.; Angerer, A.; Adler, B.; Beck, C.; Brosy, C.; Brugger, P.; Emeis, S.; Dannenmann, M.; De Roo, F.; Diaz-Pines, E.; Haas, E.; agen, M.; Hajnsek, I.; Jacobeit, J.; Jagdhuber, T.; Kalthoff, N.; Kiese, R.; Kunstmann, H.; Kosak, O.; Krieg, R.; Malchow, C.; Mauder, M.; Merz, R.; Notarnicola, C.; Philipp, A.; Reif, W.; Reineke, S.; Rödiger, S.; Ruehr, N.; Schäfer, K.; Schrön, M.; Senatore, A.; Shupe, H.; Völksch, I.; Wanninger, C.; Zacharias, S.; Schmid, H. P. (2017). The ScaleX campaign: scale-crossing land-surface and boundary layer processes in the TERENO-preAlpine observatory. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98 (6), 1217–1234. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00277.1 

Smiatek, G.; Keis, F.; Chwala, C.; Fersch, B.; Kunstmann, H. (2017). Potential of commercial microwave link network derived rainfall for river runoff simulations. Environmental research letters, 12 (3), Art.Nr. 034026. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aa5f46 

Arnault, J.; Wagner, S.; Rummler, T.; Fersch, B.; Kunstmann, H. (2016). Role of Runoff–Infiltration Partitioning and Resolved Overland Flow on Land–Atmosphere Feedbacks: A Case Study with the WRF-Hydro Coupled Modeling System for West Africa. Journal of hydrometeorology, 17 (5), 1489–1516. doi:10.1175/JHM-D-15-0089.1 

Wagner, S.; Fersch, B.; Yuan, F.; Yu, Z.; Kunstmann, H. (2016). Fully coupled atmospheric-hydrological modeling at regional and long-term scales: Development, application, and analysis of WRF-HMS. Water resources research, 52 (4), 3187–3211. doi:10.1002/2015WR018185

Alshawaf, F.; Fersch, B.; Hinz, S.; Kunstmann, H.; Mayer, M.; Meyer, F. J. (2015). Water vapor mapping by fusing InSAR and GNSS remote sensing data and atmospheric simulations. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 19 (12), 4747–4764. doi:10.5194/hess-19-4747-2015 

Alshawaf, F.; Fersch, B.; Hinz, S.; Kunstmann, H.; Mayer, M.; Meyer, F. J. (2015). Water vapor mapping by fusing InSAR and GNSS remote sensing data and atmospheric simulations. Hydrology and earth system sciences discussions, 12 (1), 363–404. doi:10.5194/hessd-12-363-2015 

Fersch, B.; Kunstmann, H. (2014). Atmospheric and terrestrial water budgets: sensitivity and performance of configurations and global driving data for long term continental scale WRF simulations. Climate dynamics, 42 (9-10), 2367–2396. doi:10.1007/s00382-013-1915-5 

Fersch, B.; Kunstmann, H.; Bardossy, A.; Devaraju, B.; Sneeuw, N. (2012). Continental-scale basin water storage variation from global and dynamically downscaled atmospheric water budgets in comparison with GRACE-derived observations. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 13, 1589–1603. doi:10.1175/JHM-D-11-0143.1