Maik Heistermann

University of Potsdam — Germany

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physical Sciences

27h-index3.0kcitations175works1.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations(54), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing(48), Flood Risk Assessment and Management(47), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis(43), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies(41)

Publications175 total

Soil moisture monitoring with cosmogenic neutrons: an asset for the development and assessment of soil moisture products in the state of Brandenburg (Germany)
Natural hazards and earth system sciences·2026Open Access
From Worst-Case Scenarios to Extreme Value Statistics: Local Counterfactuals in Flood Frequency Analysis
2025Open Access
The Potsdam Soil Moisture Observatory: High-coverage reference observations at kilometer scale
2025Open Access
Present and future trends of extreme short-term rainfall events in Germany, by downscaling convective environments of ERA5 and a CMIP6 ensemble
2025Open Access
Supplementary material to "Present and future trends of extreme short-term rainfall events in Germany, by downscaling convective environments of ERA5 and a CMIP6 ensemble"
2025Open Access
The ability of a stochastic regional weather generator to reproduce heavy-precipitation events across scales
Natural hazards and earth system sciences·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Groundwater recharge in Brandenburg is declining – but why?
Natural hazards and earth system sciences·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Reply on RC1
2025Open Access
Reply on RC2
2025Open Access
Water retention by green infrastructure to mitigate urban flooding: a meta-analysis
Urban Water Journal·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Advancing groundwater recharge estimation at the field scale: spatiotemporal dynamics of soil moisture and simulated 1D water fluxes at a cosmic-ray neutron sensing cluster site in northeast Germany
2025Open Access
A first CRNS cluster for soil moisture retrieval designed for comparison with remote sensing
2025Open Access
Does a changing climate lead to a higher flash flood hazard?
2025Open Access
Virtual Joint Field Campaign: a framework of synthetic landscapes to assess multiscale measurement methods of water storage
Geoscientific model development·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Groundwater recharge in Brandenburg is declining – but why?
2025Open Access
Reply on RC2
2025Open Access
Reply on RC1
2025Open Access
Brief communication: Training of AI-based nowcasting models for rainfall early warning should take into account user requirements
Natural hazards and earth system sciences·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Brief communication: Stay local or go global? On the construction of plausible counterfactual scenarios to assess flash flood hazards
Natural hazards and earth system sciences·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Brief Communication: A new drought monitoring network in the state of Brandenburg (Germany) using cosmic-ray neutron sensing
2024· 4 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Axel Bronstert(14), Georgy Ayzel(9), Till Francke(9), Sascha E. Oswald(8), Irene Crisologo(7), Martin Schrön(7), Christian Budach(5), Veronika Döpper(4), Markus Köhli(4), David Kneis(4), C. C. Abon(4), Joseph Alcamo(3), Stephan Jacobi(3), Michael Förster(3), Andreas Güntner(3), Daniel Rasche(3), Omar Seleem(3), Gerd Bürger(3), Carlos Primo C. David(3), Tobias Scheffer(2)