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River sand and gravel mining: Global drivers, impacts, and pathways for sustainable management
E Park, C.R. Hackney, D.D. Tran, M. Bendixen, J. Best, K.W. Yuen, H. Runeckles, Md. Sadiul A. Chyon, K. Kästner, S. Kumar, H. Yusuf, V. Lamb, L.L. Iversen, A. Spiller, R. Sinha, E.F. da Silva, E. Alcantara, C. Wu, C. Lu, C. Jian, J. Wang, N.D. Thien, L. Feng, P.P. Patel, J. Huang, A.D. Switzer
Reviews of Geophysics 64 (3), e2024RG000868 4 2026
🔓 https://doi.org/10.1029/2024RG000868


Counterfactual modeling isolates sand mining impacts, revealing it as a key driver of Mekong Delta destabilization
S Kumar, E Park, DD Tran, TQ Vo, K Kästner, S Kantoush, D Van Binh, J Huang, J Wang, A.D. Switzer
Science Advances 12 (28), eaef0558, 2026
🔓 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aef0558


Physically consistent modelling of the flow resistance across the laminar-turbulent transition allows for efficient computation of zero-inertia overland flow
K Kästner, D Caviedes-Voullième
Advances in Water Resources 215, 105370, 2026
🔓 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2026.105370


Formation of spatial vegetation patterns in heterogeneous environments
K Kästner, D Caviedes-Voullième, C Hinz
PloS one 20 (5), e0324181 2025
🔓 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0324181


Unravelling the spatial structure of regular dryland vegetation patterns
Karl Kästner, Roeland C. van de Vijsel, Daniel Caviedes-Voullième , Nanu Frechen, Christoph Hinz
Catena 247 (108442), 1-13 2024
🔓https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2024.108442


A scale-invariant method for quantifying the regularity of environmental spatial patterns
Karl Kästner, Roeland C. van de Vijsel, Daniel Caviedes-Voullième, Christoph Hinz
Ecological Complexity 60 (101104), 1-13
🔓https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2024.101104


Latrubesse, Edgardo M., Edward Park, and Karl Kästner
The Ayeyarwady River (Myanmar): Washload transport and its global role among rivers in the Anthropocene." Plos one 16.5 (2021): e0251156.
🔓https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251156


Idealized model for the deflection of sediment into lateral branches of lowland rivers
Kästner, K., and A.J.F. Hoitink
Water Resources Research 56 (6), e2019WR026,602, 2020
🔓 https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026602


Propagation of tides along a river with a sloping bed
Kästner, K., A. J. F. Hoitink, P. J. J. F. Torfs, E. Deleersnijder, and N. S. Ningsih
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 872, 39 73, 2019,
🔓 https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2019.331


Flow and suspended sediment division at two highly asymmetric bifurcations in a river delta: Implications for channel stability
Kästner, K., and A. J. F. Hoitink
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124, 2019,
🔓 https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004994


Analytical model captures intratidal variation in salinity in a convergent, well-mixed estuary
Xu, Y., A. J. F. Hoitink, J. Zheng, K. Kästner, and W. Zhang
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 23 (10), 4309-4322, 2019
🔓 https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4309-2019


Multi-Scale Monitoring and Modelling of the Kapuas River Delta
Kästner, K.
Ph.D. thesis, Wageningen University, 2019,
🔓 https://doi.org/10.18174/468716


Prerequisites for accurate monitoring of river discharge based on fixed-location velocity measurements
Kästner, K., A. J. F. Hoitink, P. J. J. F. Torfs, B. Vermeulen, N. S. Ningsih, and M. Pramulya
Water Resources Research, 54 (2), 1058 1076, 2018,
🔓 https://doi.org/10.1002/2017WR020990


Tidal controls on river delta morphology
Hoitink, A. J. F., Z. B. Wang, B. Vermeulen, Y. Huismans, and K. Kästner
Nature Geoscience, 10 (9), 637 645, 2017,
🔓 https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo3000


Distributary channels in the fluvial to tidal transition zone
Kästner, K., A. J. F. Hoitink, B. Vermeulen, T. J. Geertsema, and N. S. Ningsih
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 3 (122), 696 710, 2017
🔓 https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JF004075


Hydrology of inland tropical lowlands: The Kapuas and Mahakam wetlands
Hidayat, H. H., R. A. J. Teuling, B. Vermeulen, M. Tau k, K. Kästner, T. J. Geertsema, D. C. C. Bol, G. S. Hoekman, H. Haryani, H. A. J. Van Lanen, R. M. Delinom, R. Dijksma, A. G. Z., R. Ningsih, R. Uijlenhoet, and A. J. F. Hoitink
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 5 (21), 2579 2594, 2017
🔓 https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-2579-2017


High-temperature partition function and pressure ionization of confined hydrogen atom
Colonna, G., D. Giordano, M. Capitelli, A. Laricchiuta, K. Kästner, and M. B. van Gijzen
31st ICPIG, pp. 14 19, 2013
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Computing the Spectrum of the Confined Hydrogen Atom
Kästner, K.
Master's thesis, TU Delft, 2012