TERENO-PROJEKT, Untersuchungsstandort Hohes Holz. Foto: André Künzelmann/UFZ

TERENO (TERrestrial ENviromental Observatories)


TERENO is a network hosting four observatories for an integrated environmental monitoring of German regions with high vulnerability with respect to climate change – extending from the North-East Lowlands to the Bavarian Alps. The observation platform is used to study and explore long-term ecological and social trends triggered by global change at a regional level. The UFZ operates the TERENO observatory Harz/Central German Lowland which covers various landscape types and ranges from the Harz Mountains in the west, to the course of the Elbe river in the east, from predominantly agricultural regions to urban areas such as the cities of Leipzig and Halle.

Service

  • Investigation of the long-term impact of global climate change, alterations in land use, social and economic developments and human intervention on terrestrial ecosystems
  • Access to multi-scale and multi-temporal long-term observations of environmental data
  • Multi-scale analysis of interactions and reactions between different environmental compartments such as soil, vegetation and atmosphere
  • Development of new models and scaling methods for evaluating effective parameters, fluxes and state variables on different scales
  • Closure of the scale discrepancy between measurement, model and management

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Publications

Number of TERENO-related publication between 2010 and 2023

Selected Publications

  • 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): 15 years of integrated Terrestrial Environmental Observatories (TERENO) in Germany: Functions, services and lessons learned. Earth Future 12 (6), https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF004510
  • 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 Syst. Sci. Data 14 (3), 1125 - 1151, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1125-2022
  • Kong, X., Ghaffar, S., Determann, M., Friese, K., Jomaa, S., Mi, C., Shatwell, T., Rinke, K., Rode, M. (2022):
    Reservoir water quality deterioration due to deforestation emphasizes the indirect effects of global change. Water Res. 221 , art. 118721. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2022.118721
  • Wollschläger, U., Attinger, S., Borchardt, D., Brauns, M., Cuntz, M., Dietrich, P., Fleckenstein, J.H., Friese, K., Friesen, J., Harpke, A., Hildebrandt, A., Jäckel, G., Kamjunke, N., Knöller, K., Kögler, S., Kolditz, O., Krieg, R., Kumar, R., Lausch, A., Liess, M., Marx, A., Merz, R., Mueller, C., Musolff, A., Norf, H., Oswald, S.E., Rebmann, C., Reinstorf, F., Rode, M., Rink, K., Rinke, K., Samaniego, L., Vieweg, M., Vogel, H.-J., Weitere, M., Werban, U., Zink, M., Zacharias, S. (2017): The Bode hydrological observatory: a platform for integrated, interdisciplinary hydro-ecological research within the TERENO Harz/Central German Lowland Observatory. Environ. Earth Sci. 76 (1), art. 29, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-016-6327-5
  • Pütz, T., Kiese, R., Wollschläger, U., Groh, J., Rupp, H., Zacharias, S., Priesack, E., Gerke, H.H., Gasche, R., Bens, O., Borg, E., Baessler, C., Kaiser, K., Herbrich, M., Munch, J.-C., Sommer, M., Vogel, H.-J., Vanderborght, J., Vereecken, H. (2016): TERENO-SOILCan: a lysimeter-network in Germany observing soil processes and plant diversity influenced by climate change. Environ. Earth Sci. 75 (18), art. 1242, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-016-6031-5
  • Rinke, K., Kuehn, B., Bocaniov, S., Wendt-Potthoff, K., Büttner, O., Tittel, J., Schultze, M., Herzsprung, P., Rönicke, H., Rink, K., Rinke, K., Dietze, M., Matthes, M., Paul, L., Friese, K. (2013): Reservoirs as sentinels of catchments: the Rappbode Reservoir Observatory (Harz Mountains, Germany). Environ. Earth Sci. 69 (2), 523 - 536, https//doi.org/10.1007/s12665-013-2464-2
  • Zacharias, S., Bogena, H., Samaniego, L., Mauder, M., Fuß, R., Pütz, T., Frenzel, M., Schwank, M., Baessler, C., Butterbach-Bahl, K., Bens, O., Borg, E., Brauer, A., Dietrich, P., Hajnsek, I., Helle, G., Kiese, R., Kunstmann, H., Klotz, S., Munch, J.C., Papen, H., Priesack, E., Schmid, H.P., Steinbrecher, R., Rosenbaum, U., Teutsch, G., Vereecken, H. (2011): A network of terrestrial environmental observatories in Germany. Vadose Zone J. 10 (3), 955 - 973, https://doi.org/10.2136/vzj2010.0139