Publications 2025
Soderholm, J., M. R. Kumjian, J. P. Brook, A. Peterson, A. Protat, J. Brimelow, S. Trömel, and M. Kunz, 2025: Measuring hail-like trajectories and growth with the Hailsonde. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, conditionally accepted.
Publications 2024
El Kassar, J., C. Carbajal Henken, X. Calbet, P. Rípodas, R. Preusker, and J. Fischer, 2024: Optimal Estimation Retrieval Framework for Daytime Clear-Sky Total Column Water Vapour from MTG-FCI Near-Infrared Measurements, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3605.
Saadi, M. , C. Furusho-Percot, 2024: Which range of streamflow data is most informative in the calibration of an hourly hydrological model? Hydrological Sciences Journal Volume 69, 2024 - Issue 1, 1-20, https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2023.2277835.
Publications 2023
Chen, J.-Y., R. Reinoso-Rondinel, S. Trömel, C. Simmer, A. Ryzhkov, 2023: A Radar-Based Quantitative Precipitation Estimation Algorithm to Overcome the Impact of Vertical Gradients of Warm-Rain Precipitation: The Flood in Western Germany on 14 July 2021. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 24(3), 521–536, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-22-0111.1.
Djibo, M., C. Chwala, M. Graf, J. Polz, H. Kunstmann and F. Zougmoré, 2023: High-resolution rainfall maps from commercial microwave links for a data-scarce region in West Africa. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 24(10), 1847-1861. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-23-0015.1.
Glawion, L., J. Polz, H. Kunstmann, B. Fersch and C. Chwala, 2023: spateGAN: Spatio-temporal downscaling of rainfall fields using a cGAN approach. Earth and Space Science, 10(10), e2023EA002906. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA002906.
Polz, J., M. Graf and C. Chwala, 2023: Missing rainfall extremes in commercial microwave link data due to total loss of signal. Earth and Space Science, accepted, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EA002456.
Reimann, L., Simmer, C., and S. Trömel, 2023: Assimilation of 3D polarimetric microphysical retrievals in a convective-scale NWP system, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 14219–14237, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-14219-2023.
Saadi, M., C. Furusho-Percot, A. Belleflamme, J.-Y. Chen, S. Trömel and S. Kollet, 2023: How uncertain are precipitation and peak flow estimates for the July 2021 flooding event? Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 23(1), 159–177, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-159-2023.
Saadi, M., C. Furusho-Percot, A. Belleflamme, S. Trömel, S. Kollet and R. Reinoso-Rondinel, 2023: Comparison of Three Radar-Based Precipitation Nowcasts for the Extreme July 2021 Flooding Event in Germany. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 24(7), 1241–1261,https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-22-0121.1.
Trömel, S., U. Blahak, R. Evaristo, J. Mendrok, L. Neef, V. Pejcic, T. Scharbach, P. Shrestha, and C. Simmer, 2023: Fusion of radar polarimetry and atmospheric modeling. In V. N. Bringi, K. V. Mishra, & M. Thurai (Eds.), Advances in Weather Radar, Volume 2: Precipitation science, scattering and processing algorithms (293–344). IET The Institution of Engineering and Technology, ISBN-13: 978-1-83953-624-3, https://doi.org/10.1049/SBRA557G.
Wagner, A., C. Chwala, M. Graf, J. Polz, L. Lliso, J.A. Lahuerta and H. Kunstmann, 2023: Improved rain event detection in Commercial Microwave Link time series via combination with MSG SEVIRI data, Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-175.
Publications 2022
Furusho-Percot, C., K. Goergen, C. Hartick, L. Poshyvailo-Strube and S. Kollet, 2022: Groundwater Model Impacts Multiannual Simulations of Heat Waves. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(10), 1–11, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL096781.
Potthast, R., K. Vobig, U. Blahak, C. Simmer, 2022: Data Assimilation of Nowcasted Observations. Monthly Weather Review, 150(5), 969–980, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-21-0017.1.
Reinoso-Rondinel R., M. Rempel, M. Schultze, S. Trömel, 2022: Nationwide Radar-Based Precipitation Nowcasting – A Localization Filtering Approach and its Application for Germany. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 15, 1670–1691, https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2022.3144342.
Publications 2021
Chen, J.-Y., S. Trömel, A. Ryzhkov, C. Simmer, 2021: Assessing the benefits of specific attenuation for quantitative precipitation estimation with a C-band radar network. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 22(10), 2617–2631, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-20-0299.1.
Chen, J.-Y., W.-Y. Chang, P.-L. Chang, 2021: A Synthetic Quantitative Precipitation Estimation by Integrating S- and C-Band Dual-Polarization Radars over Northern Taiwan. Remote Sens., 13(1), 154, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13010154.
El Kassar, J., C. Carbajal Henken, R. Preusker, J. Fischer, 2021: Optimal Estimation MSG-SEVIRI Clear-Sky Total Column Water Vapour Retrieval Using the Split Window Difference. Atmosphere, 12(10), 1256, https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12101256.
León-Cruz, J. F., C. Carbajal Henken, N. Carbajal , J. Fischer , 2021: Spatio-temporal distribution of deep convection observed along the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. Remote Sens., 13(6), 1215, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13061215.
Preusker, R., C. Carbajal Henken, J. Fischer, 2021: Retrieval of daytime total column water vapour from OLCI measurements over land surfaces. Remote Sens., 13(5), 932, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13050932.
Reimann, L., C. Simmer, S. Trömel, 2021: Dual-polarimetric radar estimators of liquid water content over Germany. Meteorol. Z. (Contrib. Atm. Sci.), 30(3), 237–249, https://doi.org//10.1127/metz/2021/1072.
Trömel, S., C. Chwala, C. Furusho-Percot, C. Carbajal Henken, J. Polz, R. Potthast, R. Reinoso-Rondinel, C. Simmer, 2021: Near-Realtime Quantitative Precipitation Estimation and Prediction (RealPEP). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102(8), E1591–E1596, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0073.1.
Vobig, K., K. Stephan, U. Blahak, K. Khosravian, R. Potthast, 2021: Targeted Covariance Inflation for 3D-Volume RADAR Reflectivity Assimilation with the LETKF. Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 147(740), 3789–3805, https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4157.
Publications 2020
Carbajal Henken, C. K., L. Dirks, S. Steinke, H. Diedrich, T. August, S. Crewell, 2020: Assessment of sampling effects on various satellite-derived integrated water vapor datasets using GPS measurements in Germany as reference. Remote Sens., 12(7), 1170, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12071170.
Graf, M., C. Chwala, J. Polz, H. Kunstmann, 2020: Rainfall estimation from a German-wide commercial microwave link network: optimized processing and validation for 1 year of data, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24(6), 2931–2950, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-2931-2020.
Polz, J., C. Chwala, M. Graf, H. Kunstmann, 2020: Rain event detection in commercial microwave link attenuation data using convolutional neural networks, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13(7), 3835–3853, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3835-2020.
Poméon, T., N. Wagner, C. Furusho-Percot, S. Kollet, R. Reinoso-Rondinel, 2020: Performance of a PDE-Based Hydrologic Model in a Flash Flood Modeling Framework in Sparsely-Gauged Catchments. Water, 12(8), 2157, https://doi.org/10.3390/w12082157.
Publications 2019
Furusho-Percot, C., K. Goergen, C. Hartick, K. Kulkarni, J. Keune, S. Kollet, 2019. Pan-European groundwater to atmosphere terrestrial systems climatology from a physically consistent simulation. Sci. Data, 6(320), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0328-7.
Trömel, S., A. Ryzhkov, B. Hickman, K. Mühlbauer, C. Simmer, 2019: Polarimetric Radar Variables in the Layers of Melting and Dendritic Growth at X Band—Implications for a Nowcasting Strategy in Stratiform Rain. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 58(11), 2497–2522, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-19-0056.1.
Neto, J. D., S. Kneifel, D. Ori, S. Trömel, J. Handwerker, B. Bohn, N. Hermes, K. Mühlbauer, M. Lennefer, C. Simmer, 2019: The TRIple-frequency and Polarimetric radar Experiment for improving process observation of winter precipitation. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11(2), 845–863, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-845-2019.
Schinagl, K., P. Friederichs, S. Trömel, C. Simmer, 2019: Gamma Drop Size Distribution Assumptions in Bulk Model Parameterizations and Radar Polarimetry and Their Impact on Polarimetric Radar Moments. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 58(3), 467–478, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-18-0178.1.