Model Driven Monitoring

Group Members

Research Focus

Projects and Research Topics

Publications

Posters

Group Members

Laura Dienstbach

Felix Pohl

Patrick Schmidt

Peter Miersch

Corinna Rebmann

Robert Wiesen

Simon Paasch

Leonie Röhler

Former Group Members

Matthias Cuntz

Maren Göhler

Arndt Piayda

Andreas Wiedemann

Tobias Sieg

Benjamin Dechant

Sara Marañón Jiménez

Edna Rödig

Stephan Thober

Sebastian Gimper

Juliane Mai

Tino Rau

Claudia Schütze

Hendrik Zöphel

Research Area

The research group Model Driven Monitoring is measuring and modelling the exchanges of energy, water and trace gases between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere in close interaction with requirements of the modeling groups. We have installed Eddy covariance towers in three German ecosystems: a beech forest, moist pasture and agriculture.

The group is developing model diagnostic tools such as parameter screening, sensitivity analysis, and tools related to model optimisation. These tools are used to constrain model parameters by measured fluxes and auxiliary observations. The main models are the soil and snow energy, water and isotope model Soil-Litter-Iso, the land surface models Noah-MP and Cable, and the hydrologic model mHM and its routing scheme mRM.

We are last but not least working on better descriptions of isotope diagnostics in climate models for more reliable representations of the carbon and water cycles at long time scales.

Projects and Research Topics

Projects

Topics

Current

Tereno / ICOS

IP53

Former

REKLIM

INFLUINS

Ecosystem observations and process understanding

Ecosystem and land surface models

Carbon fluxes with forest gap models
Isotope diagnostics in ecosystem analysis and land surface models
Analysis of land surface models
Scale independent formulations of land surface models
Biomass of the Amazon region

Publications

2021

Albert, G., Gallegos, S.C., Greig, K.A., Hanisch, M., Limache de la Fuente, D., Föst, S., Maier, S.D., Sarathchandra, C., Phillips, H.R.P., Kambach, S., (2021):
The conservation value of forests and tree plantations for beetle (Coleoptera) communities: A global meta-analysis
For. Ecol. Manage. 491 , art. 119201
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Elkouk, A., El Morjani, Z.E.A., Pokhrel, Y., Chehbouni, A., Sifeddine, A., Thober, S., Bouchaou, L., (2021):
Multi-model ensemble projections of soil moisture drought over North Africa and the Sahel region under 1.5, 2, and 3 °C global warming
Clim. Change 167 (3-4), art. 52
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Feigl, M., Herrnegger, M., Schweppe, R., Thober, S., Klotz, D., Samaniego, L., Schulz, K., (2021):
Regionalisierung hydrologischer Modelle mit Function Space Optimization. Regionalization of hydrological models using function space optimization
Österreichische Wasser- und Abfallwirtschaft 73 (7-8), 281 - 294
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Fu, Z., Ciais, P., Makowski, D., Bastos, A., Stoy, P.C., Ibrom, A., Knohl, A., Migliavacca, M., Cuntz, M., Šigut, L., Peichl, M., Loustau, D., El-Madany, T.S., Buchmann, N., Gharun, M., Janssens, I., Markwitz, C., Grünwald, T., Rebmann, C., Mölder, M., Varlagin, A., Mammarella, I., Kolari, P., Bernhofer, C., Heliasz, M., Vincke, C., Pitacco, A., Cremonese, E., Foltýnová, L., Wigneron, J.-P., (2021):
Uncovering the critical soil moisture thresholds of plant water stress for European ecosystems
Glob. Change Biol.
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George, J.-P., Yang, W., Kobayashi, H., Biermann, T., Carrara, A., Cremonese, E., Cuntz, M., Fares, S., Gerosa, G., Grünwald, T., Hase, N., Heliasz, M., Ibrom, A., Knohl, A., Kruijt, B., Lange, H., Limousin, J.-M., Loustau, D., Lukeš, P., Marzuoli, R., Mölder, M., Montagnani, L., Neirynck, J., Peichl, M., Rebmann, C., Schmidt, M., Lopez Serrano, F.R., Soudani, K., Vincke, C., Pisek, J., (2021):
Method comparison of indirect assessments of understory leaf area index (LAI_u): A case study across the extended network of ICOS forest ecosystem sites in Europe
Ecol. Indic. 128 , art. 107841
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Heiskanen, J., Brümmer, C., Buchmann, N., Calfapietra, C., Chen, H., Gielen, B., Gkritzalis, T., Hammer, S., Hartman, S., Herbst, M., Janssens, I.A., Jordan, A., Juurola, E., Karstens, U., Kasurinen, V., Kruijt, B., Lankreijer, H., Levin, I., Linderson, M.-L., Loustau, D., Merbold, L., Lund Myhre, C., Papale, D., Pavelka, M., Pilegaard, K., Ramonet, M., Rebmann, C., Rinne, J., Rivier, L., Saltikoff, E., Sanders, R., Steinbacher, M., Steinhoff, T., Watson, A., Vermeulen, A.T., Vesala, T., Vítková, G., Kutsch, W., (2021):
The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe
Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. , 1 - 54
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Hermanns, F., Pohl, F., Rebmann, C., Schulz, G., Werban, U., Lausch, A., (2021):
Inferring grassland drought stress with unsupervised learning from airborne hyperspectral VNIR imagery
Remote Sens. 13 (10), art. 1885
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Holtmann, A., Huth, A., Pohl, F., Rebmann, C., Fischer, R., (2021):
Carbon sequestration in mixed deciduous forests: The importance of mid-storey trees for forest productivity
EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, p. EGU21-7228
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Holtmann, A., Huth, A., Pohl, F., Rebmann, C., Fischer, R., (2021):
Carbon sequestration in mixed deciduous forests: the influence of tree size and species composition derived from model experiments
Forests 12 (6), art. 726
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Kwon, T., Shibata, H., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Schmidt, I.K., Larsen, K.S., Beier, C., Berg, B., Verheyen, K., Lamarque, J.F., Hagedorn, F., Eisenhauer, N., Djukic, I., Rebmann, C., Bruelheide, H., van Halder, I., Stadler, J., Dienstbach, L., Frenzel, M., Ferlian, O., Schädler, M., Schmidt, A., Trogisch, S., TeaComposition Network, et al., (2021):
Effects of climate and atmospheric nitrogen deposition on early to mid-term stage litter decomposition across biomes
Front. For. Glob. Change 4 , art. 678480
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Marañón-Jiménez, S., Radujković, D., Verbruggen, E., Grau, O., Cuntz, M., Peñuelas, J., Richter, A., Schrumpf, M., Rebmann, C., (2021):
Shifts in the abundances of saprotrophic and ectomycorrhizal fungi with altered leaf litter inputs
Front. Plant Sci. 12 , art. 682142
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Maréchaux, I., Langerwisch, F., Huth, A., Bugmann, H., Morin, X., Reyer, C.P.O., Seidl, R., Collalti, A., Dantas de Paula, M., Fischer, R., Gutsch, M., Lexer, M.J., Lischke, H., Rammig, A., Rödig, E., Sakschewski, B., Taubert, F., Thonicke, K., Vacchiano, G., Bohn, F.J., (2021):
Tackling unresolved questions in forest ecology: The past and future role of simulation models
Ecol. Evol. 11 (9), 3746 - 3770
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Peichl, M., Thober, S., Samaniego, L., Hansjürgens, B., Marx, A., (2021):
Machine learning methods to assess the effects of a non-linear damage spectrum taking into account soil moisture on winter wheat yields in Germany
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 25 (12), 6523 - 6545
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Pisek, J., Erb, A., Korhonen, L., Biermann, T., Carrara, A., Cremonese, E., Cuntz, M., Fares, S., Gerosa, G., Grünwald, T., Hase, N., Heliasz, M., Ibrom, A., Knohl, A., Kobler, J., Kruijt, B., Lange, H., Leppänen, L., Limousin, J.-M., Lopez Serrano, F.R., Loustau, D., Lukeš, P., Lundin, L., Marzuoli, R., Mölder, M., Montagnani, L., Neirynck, J., Peichl, M., Rebmann, C., Rubio, E., Santos-Reis, M., Schaaf, C., Schmidt, M., Simioni, G., Soudani, K., Vincke, C., (2021):
Retrieval and validation of forest background reflectivity from daily Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) data across European forests
Biogeosciences 18 (2), 621 - 635
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Saha, T.R., Shrestha, P.K., Rakovec, O., Thober, S., Samaniego, L., (2021):
A drought monitoring tool for South Asia
Environ. Res. Lett. 16 (5), art. 054014
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Schmid, H.P., Rebmann, C., (2021):
Integration of meteorological and ecological measurements
In: Foken, T., (ed.)
Springer handbook of atmospheric measurements
Springer Handbooks (SHB)
Springer Nature, Cham, p. 1713 - 1725
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Schröter, M., Crouzat, E., Hölting, L., Massenberg, J.R., Rode, J., Hanisch, M., Kabisch, N., Palliwoda, J., Priess, J.A., Seppelt, R., Beckmann, M., (2021):
Assumptions in ecosystem service assessments: Increasing transparency for conservation
Ambio 50 (2), 289 - 300
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Schweppe, R., Thober, S., Kelbling, M., Kumar, R., Attinger, S., Samaniego, L., (2021):
MPR 1.0: A stand-alone multiscale parameter regionalization tool for improved parameter estimation of land surface models
Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss.
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2020

Graf, A., Klosterhalfen, A., Arriga, N., Bernhofer, C., Bogena, H., Bornet, F., Brüggemann, N., Brümmer, C., Buchmann, N., Chi, J., Chipeaux, C., Cremonese, E., Cuntz, M., Dušek, J., El-Madany, T.S., Fares, S., Fischer, M., Foltýnová, L., Gharun, M., Ghiasi, S., Gielen, B., Gottschalk, P., Grünwald, T., Heinemann, G., Heinesch, B., Heliasz, M., Holst, J., Hörtnagl, L., Ibrom, A., Ingwersen, J., Jurasinski, G., Klatt, J., Knohl, A., Koebsch, F., Konopka, J., Korkiakoski, M., Kowalska, N., Kremer, P., Kruijt, B., Lafont, S., Léonard, J., de Ligne, A., Longdoz, B., Loustau, D., Magliulo, V., Mammarella, I., Manca, G., Mauder, M., Migliavacca, M., Mölder, M., Neirynck, J., Ney, P., Nilsson, M., Paul-Limoges, E., Peichl, M., Pitacco, A., Poyda, A., Rebmann, C., Roland, M., Sachs, T., Schmidt, M., Schrader, F., Siebicke, L., Šigut, L., Tuittila, E.-S., Varlagin, A., Vendrame, N., Vincke, C., Völksch, I., Weber, S., Wille, C., Wizemann, H.-D., Zeeman, M., Vereecken, H., (2020):
Altered energy partitioning across terrestrial ecosystems in the European drought year 2018
Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B-Biol. Sci. 375 (1810), art. 20190524
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Hanisch, M., Schweiger, O., Cord, A.F., Volk, M., Knapp, S., (2020):
Plant functional traits shape multiple ecosystem services, their trade‐offs and synergies in grasslands
J. Appl. Ecol. 57 (8), 1535 - 1550
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Jing, M., Kumar, R., Heße, F., Thober, S., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Attinger, S., (2020):
Assessing the response of groundwater quantity and travel time distribution to 1.5, 2, and 3 °C global warming in a mesoscale central German basin
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 24 (3), 1511 - 1526
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Kattge, J., Bönisch, G., Díaz, S., Lavorel, S., Beckmann, M., Dechant, B., Durka, W., Klotz, S., Roscher, C., Doktor, D., Prentice, I.C., et al., (2020):
TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access
Glob. Change Biol. 26 (1), 119 - 188
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Kumar, R., Heße, F., Rao, P.S.C., Musolff, A., Jawitz, J.W., Sarrazin, F., Samaniego, L., Fleckenstein, J.H., Rakovec, O., Thober, S., Attinger, S., (2020):
Strong hydroclimatic controls on vulnerability to subsurface nitrate contamination across Europe
Nat. Commun. 11 , art. 6302
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2019

Bugmann, H., Seidl, R., Hartig, F., Bohn, F., Brůna, J., Cailleret, M., François, L., Heinke, J., Henrot, A.-J., Hickler, T., Hülsmann, L., Huth, A., Jacquemin, I., Kollas, C., Lasch‐Born, P., Lexer, M.J., Merganič, J., Merganičová, K., Mette, T., Miranda, B.R., Nadal‐Sala, D., Rammer, W., Rammig, A., Reineking, B., Roedig, E., Sabaté, S., Steinkamp, J., Suckow, F., Vacchiano, G., Wild, J., Xu, C., Reyer, C.P.O., (2019):
Tree mortality submodels drive simulated long‐term forest dynamics: assessing 15 models from the stand to global scale
Ecosphere 10 (2), e02616
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Klosterhalfen, A., Graf, A., Brüggemann, N., Drüe, C., Esser, O., González-Dugo, M.P., Heinemann, G., Jacobs, C.M.J., Mauder, M., Moene, A.F., Ney, P., Pütz, T., Rebmann, C., Ramos Rodríguez, M., Scanlon, T.M., Schmidt, M., Steinbrecher, R., Thomas, C.K., Valler, V., Zeeman, M.J., Vereecken, H., (2019):
Source partitioning of H₂O and CO₂ fluxes based on high-frequency eddy covariance data: a comparison between study sites
Biogeosciences 16 (6), 1111 - 1132
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Marx, A., Erhard, M., Thober, S., Kumar, R., Schäfer, D., Samaniego, L., Zink, M., (2019):
Climate change as driver for ecosystem services risk and opportunities
In: Schröter, M., Bonn, A., Klotz, S., Seppelt, R., Baessler, C., (eds.)
Atlas of ecosystem services : drivers, risks, and societal responses
Springer International Publishing, Cham, p. 173 - 178
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Peichl, M., Thober, S., Samaniego, L., Hansjürgens, B., Marx, A., (2019):
Climate impacts on long-term silage maize yield in Germany
Sci. Rep. 9 , art. 7674
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Piponiot, C., Rödig, E., Putz, F.E., Rutishauser, E., Sist, P., Ascarrunz, N., Blanc, L., Derroire, G., Descroix, L., Carneiro Guedes, M., Coronado, E.H., Huth, A., Kanashiro, M., Licona, J.C., Mazzei, L., Neves d'Oliveira, M.V., Peña-Claros, M., Rodney, K., Shenkin, A., Rodrigues de Souza, C., Vidal, E., West, T.A.P., Wortel, V., Hérault, B., (2019):
Can timber provision from Amazonian production forests be sustainable?
Environ. Res. Lett. 14 (6), art. 064014
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Rakovec, O., Mizukami, N., Kumar, R., Newman, A.J., Thober, S., Wood, A.W., Clark, M.P., Samaniego, L., (2019):
Diagnostic evaluation of large-domain hydrologic models calibrated across the contiguous United States
J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos. 124 (24), 13991 - 14007
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Rödig, E., Knapp, N., Fischer, R., Bohn, F.J., Dubayah, R., Tang, H., Huth, A., (2019):
From small-scale forest structure to Amazon-wide carbon estimates
Nat. Commun. 10 , art. 5088
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Samaniego, L., Thober, S., Wanders, N., Pan, M., Rakovec, O., Sheffield, J., Wood, E.F., Prudhomme, C., Rees, G., Houghton-Carr, H., Fry, M., Smith, K., Watts, G., Hisdal, H., Estrela, T., Buontempo, C., Marx, A., Kumar, R., (2019):
Hydrological forecasts and projections for improved decision-making in the water sector in Europe
Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. 100 (12), 2451 - 2471
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Thober, S., Cuntz, M., Kelbling, M., Kumar, R., Mai, J., Samaniego, L., (2019):
The multiscale routing model mRM v1.0: simple river routing at resolutions from 1 to 50 km
Geosci. Model Dev. 12 (6), 2501 - 2521
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Visser-Quinn, A., Beevers, L., Collet, L., Formetta, G., Smith, K., Wanders, N., Thober, S., Pan, M., Kumar, R., (2019):
Spatio-temporal analysis of compound hydro-hazard extremes across the UK
Adv. Water Resour. 130 , 77 - 90
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Wanders, N., Thober, S., Kumar, R., Pan, M., Sheffield, J., Samaniego, L., Wood, E.F., (2019):
Development and evaluation of a Pan-European multimodel seasonal hydrological forecasting system
J. Hydrometeorol. 20 (1), 99 - 115
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2018

Bumberger, J., Mai, J., Schmidt, F., Lünenschloß, P., Wagner, N., Töpfer, H., (2018):
Spatial retrieval of broadband dielectric spectra
Sensors 18 (9), art. 2780
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Carrara, A., Kolari, P., Op de Beeck, M., Arriga, N., Berveiller, D., Dengel, S., Ibrom, A., Merbold, L., Rebmann, C., Sabbatini, S., Serrano-Ortíz, P., Biraud, S.C., (2018):
Radiation measurements at ICOS ecosystem stations
Int. Agrophys. 32 (4), 589 - 605
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Cuntz, M., Haverd, V., (2018):
Physically accurate soil freeze-thaw processes in a global land surface scheme
J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst. 10 (1), 54 - 77
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Demirel, M.C., Mai, J., Mendiguren, G., Koch, J., Samaniego, L., Stisen, S., (2018):
Combining satellite data and appropriate objective functions for improved spatial pattern performance of a distributed hydrologic model
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 22 (2), 1299 - 1315
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Djukic, I., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Schmidt, I.K., Larsen, K.S., Beier, C., Berg, B., Verheyen, K., Schmidt, A., Rebmann, C., Auge, H., García Quirós, I., Stadler, J., Dienstbach, L., Frenzel, M., Schädler, M., TeaComposition Network, et al., (2018):
Early stage litter decomposition across biomes
Sci. Total Environ. 628–629 , 1369 - 1394
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Fischer, R., Rödig, E., Huth, A., (2018):
Consequences of a reduced number of plant functional types for the simulation of forest productivity
Forests 9 (8), art. 460
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Franz, D., Acosta, M., Altimir, N., Arriga, N., Arrouays, D., Aubinet, M., Aurela, M., Ayres, E., López-Ballesteros, A., Barbaste, M., Berveiller, D., Biraud, S., Boukir, H., Brown, T., Brümmer, C., Buchmann, N., Burba, G., Carrara, A., Cescatti, A., Ceschia, E., Clement, R., Cremonese, E., Crill, E., Darenova, E., Dengel, S., D’Odorico, P., Filippa, G., Fleck, S., Fratini, G., Fuß, R., Gielen, B., Gogo, S., Grace, J., Graf, A., Grelle, A., Gross, P., Grünwald, T., Haapanala, S., Hehn, M., Heinesch, B., Heiskanen, J., Herbst, M., Herschlein, C., Hörtnagl, L., Hufkens, K., Ibrom, A., Jolivet, C., Joly, L., Jones, M., Kiese, R., Klemedtsson, L., Kljun, N., Klumpp, K., Kolari, P., Kolle, O., Kowalski, A., Kutsch, W., Laurila, T., de Ligne, A., Linder, S., Lindroth, A., Lohila, A., Longdoz, B., Mammarella, I., Manise, T., Maraňón Jiménez, S., Matteucci, G., Mauder, M., Meier, P., Merbold, L., Mereu, S., Metzger, S., Migliavacca, M., Mölder, M., Montagnani, L., Moureaux, C., Nelson, D., Nemitz, E., Nicolini, G., Nilsson, M.B., Op de Beeck, M., Osborne, B., Löfvenius, M.O., Pavelka, M., Peichl, M., Peltola, O., Pihlatie, M., Pitacco, A., Pokorný, R., Pumpanen, J., Ratié, C., Rebmann, C., Roland, M., Sabbatini, S., Saby, N.P.A., Saunders, M., Schmid, H.P., Schrumpf, M., Sedlák, P., Serrano Ortiz, P., Siebicke, L., Šigut, L., Silvennoinen, H., Simioni, G., Skiba, U., Sonnentag, O., Soudani, K., Soulé, P., Steinbrecher, R., Tallec, T., Thimonier, A., Tuittila, E.-S., Tuovinen, J.-P., Vestin, P., Vincent, G., Vincke, C., Vitale, D., Waldner, P., Weslien, P., Wingate, L., Wohlfahrt, G., Zahniser, M., Vesala, T., (2018):
Towards long-term standardised carbon and greenhouse gas observations for monitoring Europe’s terrestrial ecosystems: a review
Int. Agrophys. 32 (4), 439 - 455
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Hufkens, K., Filippa, G., Cremonese, E., Migliavacca, M., D’Odorico, P., Peichl, M., Gielen, B., Hörtnagl, L., Soudani, K., Papale, D., Rebmann, C., Brown, T., Wingate, L., (2018):
Assimilating phenology datasets automatically across ICOS ecosystem stations
Int. Agrophys. 32 (4), 677 - 687
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Madi, R., de Rooij, G.H., Mielenz, H., Mai, J., (2018):
Parametric soil water retention models: a critical evaluation of expressions for the full moisture range
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 22 (2), 1193 - 1219
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Marañón-Jiménez, S., Van den Bulcke, J., Piayda, A., Van Acker, J., Cuntz, M., Rebmann, C., Steppe, K., (2018):
X-ray computed microtomography characterizes the wound effect that causes sap flow underestimation by thermal dissipation sensors
Tree Physiol. 38 (2), 287 - 301
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Marx, A., Kumar, R., Thober, S., Rakovec, O., Wanders, N., Zink, M., Wood, E.F., Pan, M., Sheffield, J., Samaniego, L., (2018):
Climate change alters low flows in Europe under global warming of 1.5, 2, and 3 °C
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 22 (2), 1017 - 1032
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Nicolini, G., Aubinet, M., Feigenwinter, C., Heinesch, B., Lindroth, A., Mamadou, O., Moderow, U., Mölder, M., Montagnani, L., Rebmann, C., Papale, D., (2018):
Impact of CO₂ storage flux sampling uncertainty on net ecosystem exchange measured by eddy covariance
Agric. For. Meteorol. 248 , 228 - 239
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Peichl, M., Thober, S., Meyer, V., Samaniego, L., (2018):
The effect of soil moisture anomalies on maize yield in Germany
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 18 (3), 889 - 906
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Rammig, A., Heinke, J., Hofhansl, F., Verbeeck, H., Baker, T.R., Christoffersen, B., Ciais, P., De Deurwaerder, H., Fleischer, K., Galbraith, D., Guimberteau, M., Huth, A., Johnson, M., Krujit, B., Langerwisch, F., Meir, P., Papastefanou, P., Sampaio, G., Thonicke, K., von Randow, C., Zang, C., Rödig, E., (2018):
A generic pixel-to-point comparison for simulated large-scale ecosystem properties and ground-based observations: an example from the Amazon region
Geosci. Model Dev. 11 (12), 5203 - 5215
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Rebmann, C., Aubinet, M., Schmid, H.P., Arriga, N., Aurela, M., Burba, G., Clement, R., de Ligne, A., Fratini, G., Gielen, B., Grace, J., Graf, A., Gross, P., Haapanala, S., Herbst, M., Hörtnagl, L., Ibrom, A., Joly, L., Kljun, N., Kolle, O., Kowalski, A., Lindroth, A., Loustau, D., Mammarella, I., Mauder, M., Merbold, L., Metzger, S., Mölder, M., Montagnani, L., Papale, D., Pavelka, M., Peichl, M., Roland, M., Serrano-Ortiz, P., Siebicke, L., Steinbrecher, R., Tuovinen, J.-P., Vesala, T., Wohlfahrt, G., Franz, D., (2018):
ICOS eddy covariance flux-station site setup: a review
Int. Agrophys. 32 (4), 471 - 494
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Rödig, E., Cuntz, M., Rammig, A., Fischer, R., Taubert, F., Huth, A., (2018):
The importance of forest structure for carbon fluxes of the Amazon rainforest
Environ. Res. Lett. 13 (5), art. 054013
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Sabbatini, S., Mammarella, I., Arriga, N., Fratini, G., Graf, A., Hörtnagl, L., Ibrom, A., Longdoz, B., Mauder, M., Merbold, L., Metzger, S., Montagnani, L., Pitacco, A., Rebmann, C., Sedlák, P., Šigut, L., Vitale, D., Papale, D., (2018):
Eddy covariance raw data processing for CO₂ and energy fluxes calculation at ICOS ecosystem stations
Int. Agrophys. 32 (4), 495 - 515
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Samaniego, L., Thober, S., Kumar, R., Wanders, N., Rakovec, O., Pan, M., Zink, M., Shefﬁeld, J., Wood, E.F., Marx, A., (2018):
Anthropogenic warming exacerbates European soil moisture droughts
Nat. Clim. Chang. 8 (5), 421 - 426
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Schmidt, F., Wagner, N., Mai, J., Lünenschloß, P., Töpfer, H., Bumberger, J., (2018):
Dielectric spectra reconstruction of layered multi-phase soil
In: Skierucha, W., (ed.)
Proceedings; 2018 12th International Conference on Electromagnetic Wave Interaction with Water and Moist Substances (ISEMA), Lublin, Poland, 4-7 June 2018
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), New York, NY, p. 106 - 109
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Taubert, F., Fischer, R., Groeneveld, J., Lehmann, S., Müller, M.S., Rödig, E., Wiegand, T., Huth, A., (2018):
Global patterns of tropical forest fragmentation
Nature 554 (7693), 519 - 522
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Thober, S., Kumar, R., Wanders, N., Marx, A., Pan, M., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Sheffield, J., Wood, E.F., Zink, M., (2018):
Multi-model ensemble projections of European river floods and high flows at 1.5, 2, and 3 degrees global warming
Environ. Res. Lett. 13 (1), art. 014003
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Zink, M., Mai, J., Cuntz, M., Samaniego, L., (2018):
Conditioning a hydrologic model using patterns of remotely sensed land surface temperature
Water Resour. Res. 54 (4), 2976 - 2998
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Zink, M., Samaniego, L., Kumar, R., Thober, S., Mai, J., Schäfer, D., Marx, A., (2018):
A national scale planning tool for agricultural droughts in Germany
In: Friesen, J., Rodríguez-Sinobas, L., (eds.)
Advanced tools for integrated water resources management
Advances in Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection 3
Elsevier, p. 147 - 169
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2017

Babel, W., Lüers, J., Hübner, J., Rebmann, C., Wichura, B., Thomas, C.K., Serafimovich, A., Foken, T., (2017):
Long-term carbon and water vapour fluxes
In: Foken, T., (ed.)
Energy and Matter Fluxes of a Spruce Forest Ecosystem
Ecological Studies 229
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, p. 73 - 96
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Dechant, B., Cuntz, M., Vohland, M., Schulz, E., Doktor, D., (2017):
Estimation of photosynthesis traits from leaf reflectance spectra: Correlation to nitrogen content as the dominant mechanism
Remote Sens. Environ. 196 , 279 - 292
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Foken, T., Göckede, M., Lüers, J., Siebicke, L., Rebmann, C., Ruppert, J., Thomas, C.K., (2017):
Development of flux data quality tools
In: Foken, T., (ed.)
Energy and Matter Fluxes of a Spruce Forest Ecosystem
Ecological Studies 229
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, p. 277 - 308
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Lange, M., Dechant, B., Rebmann, C., Vohland, M., Cuntz, M., Doktor, D., (2017):
Validating MODIS and Sentinel-2 NDVI products at a temperate deciduous forest site using two independent ground-based sensors
Sensors 17 (8), art. 1855
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Rödig, E., (2017):
Simulating carbon stocks and fluxes of the Amazon rainforest: a journey across temporal and spatial scales
Dissertation, Universität Osnabrück
PhD Dissertation 12/2017
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, 152 pp.
Rödig, E., Cuntz, M., Heinke, J., Rammig, A., Huth, A., (2017):
Spatial heterogeneity of biomass and forest structure of the Amazon rain forest: Linking remote sensing, forest modelling and field inventory
Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. 26 (11), 1292 - 1302
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Rödig, E., Huth, A., Bohn, F., Rebmann, C., Cuntz, M., (2017):
Estimating the carbon fluxes of forests with an individual-based forest model
For. Ecosyst. 4 , art. 4
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Samaniego, L., Kumar, R., Thober, S., Rakovec, O., Zink, M., Wanders, N., Eisner, S., Müller Schmied, H., Sutanudjaja, E.H., Warrach-Sagi, K., Attinger, S., (2017):
Toward seamless hydrologic predictions across spatial scales
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 21 (9), 4323 - 4346
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Schrön, M., Köhli, M., Scheiffele, L., Iwema, J., Bogena, H.R., Lv, L., Martini, E., Baroni, G., Rosolem, R., Weimar, J., Mai, J., Cuntz, M., Rebmann, C., Oswald, S.E., Dietrich, P., Schmidt, U., Zacharias, S., (2017):
Improving calibration and validation of cosmic-ray neutron sensors in the light of spatial sensitivity
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 21 (10), 5009 - 5030
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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
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Zink, M., Kumar, R., Cuntz, M., Samaniego, L., (2017):
A high-resolution dataset of water fluxes and states for Germany accounting for parametric uncertainty
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 21 (3), 1769 - 1790
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2016

Cuntz, M., Mai, J., Samaniego, L., Clark, M., Wulfmeyer, V., Branch, O., Attinger, S., Thober, S., (2016):
The impact of standard and hard-coded parameters on the hydrologic fluxes in the Noah-MP land surface model
J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos. 121 (18), 10676 - 10700
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Fischer, R., Bohn, F., Dantas de Paula, M., Dislich, C., Groeneveld, J., Gutiérrez, A.G., Kazmierczak, M., Knapp, N., Lehmann, S., Paulick, S., Pütz, S., Rödig, E., Taubert, F., Köhler, P., Huth, A., (2016):
Lessons learned from applying a forest gap model to understand ecosystem and carbon dynamics of complex tropical forests
Ecol. Model. 326 , 124 - 133
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Haughton, N., Abramowitz, G., Pitman, A.J., Or, D., Best, M.J., Johnson, H.R., Balsamo, G., Boone, A., Cuntz, M., Decharme, B., Dirmeyer, P.A., Dong, J., Ek, M., Guo, Z., Haverd, V., van den Hurk, B.J.J., Nearing, G.S., Pak, B., Santanello, J.A., Stevens, L.E., Vuichard, N., (2016):
The plumbing of land surface models: Is poor performance a result of methodology or data quality?
J. Hydrometeorol. 17 (6), 1705 - 1723
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Haverd, V., Cuntz, M., Nieradzik, L.P., Harman, I.N., (2016):
Improved representations of coupled soil–canopy processes in the CABLE land surface model (Subversion revision 3432)
Geosci. Model Dev. 9 , 3111 - 3122
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Kumar, R., Musuuza, J.L., Van Loon, A.F., Teuling, A.J., Barthel, R., Ten Broek, J., Mai, J., Samaniego, L., Attinger, S., (2016):
Multiscale evaluation of the Standardized Precipitation Index as a groundwater drought indicator
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 20 (3), 1117 - 1131
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Marx, A., Samaniego, L., Kumar, R., Thober, S., Mai, J., Zink, M., (2016):
Der Dürremonitor – Aktuelle Information zur Bodenfeuchte in Deutschland
In: Wernecke, G., Ebner von Eschenbach, A.-D., Strunck, Y., Kirschbauer, L., Müller, A., (Hrsg.)
Wasserressourcen – Wissen im Flussgebieten vernetzen. Beiträge zum Tag der Hydrologie am 17./18. März 2016 in Koblenz, ausgerichtet von der Hochschule Koblenz und der Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde
Forum für Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung 37
Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall (DWA), Hennef, S. 131 - 142
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Nijzink, R.C., Samaniego, L., Mai, J., Kumar, R., Thober, S., Zink, M., Schäfer, D., Savenije, H.H.G., Hrachowitz, M., (2016):
The importance of topography-controlled sub-grid process heterogeneity and semi-quantitative prior constraints in distributed hydrological models
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 20 (3), 1151 - 1176
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Piayda, A., (2016):
Peer review report 2 On “Correction for light scattering combined with sub-pixel classification improves estimation of gap fraction from digital cover photography”
Agric. For. Meteorol. 217 (Supplement 1), 195 - 196
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Rakovec, O., Kumar, R., Mai, J., Cuntz, M., Thober, S., Zink, M., Attinger, S., Schäfer, D., Schrön, M., Samaniego, L., (2016):
Multiscale and multivariate evaluation of water fluxes and states over European river basins
J. Hydrometeorol. 17 (1), 287 - 307
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Van Stan, J.T., Lewis, E.S., Hildebrandt, A., Rebmann, C., Friesen, J., (2016):
Impact of interacting bark structure and rainfall conditions on stemflow variability in a temperate beech-oak forest, central Germany
Hydrol. Sci. J.-J. Sci. Hydrol. 61 (11), 2071 - 2083
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Wiedemann, A., Marañón-Jiménez, S., Rebmann, C., Herbst, M., Cuntz, M., (2016):
An empirical study of the wound effect on sap flux density measured with thermal dissipation probes
Tree Physiol. 36 (12), 1471 - 1484
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Zech, A., Müller, S., Mai, J., Heße, F., Attinger, S., (2016):
Extending Theis' solution: Using transient pumping tests to estimate parameters of aquifer heterogeneity
Water Resour. Res. 52 (8), 6156 - 6170
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Zink, M., Samaniego, L., Kumar, R., Thober, S., Mai, J., Schäfer, D., Marx, A., (2016):
The German drought monitor
Environ. Res. Lett. 11 (7), art. 074002
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2015

Best, M.J., Abramowitz, G., Johnson, H.R., Pitman, A.J., Balsamo, G., Boone, A., Cuntz, M., Decharme, B., Dirmeyer, P.A., Dong, J., Ek, M., Guo, Z., Haverd, V., van den Hurk, B.J.J., Nearing, G.S., Pak, B., Peters-Lidard, C., Santanello Jr., J.A., Stevens, L., Vuichard, N., (2015):
The plumbing of land surface models: benchmarking model performance
J. Hydrometeorol. 16 (3), 1425 - 1442
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Costa-e-Silva, F., Correia, A.C., Piayda, A., Dubbert, M., Rebmann, C., Cuntz, M., Werner, C., David, J.S., Pereira, J.S., (2015):
Effects of an extremely dry winter on net ecosystem carbon exchange and tree phenology at a cork oak woodland
Agric. For. Meteorol. 204 , 48 - 57
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Cuntz, M., Mai, J., Zink, M., Thober, S., Kumar, R., Schäfer, D., Schrön, M., Craven, J., Rakovec, O., Spieler, D., Prykhodko, V., Dalmasso, G., Musuuza, J., Langenberg, B., Attinger, S., Samaniego, L., (2015):
Computationally inexpensive identification of noninformative model parameters by sequential screening
Water Resour. Res. 51 (8), 6417 - 6441
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Leverkus, A.B., Castro, J., Delgado-Capel, M.J., Molinas-González, C., Pulgar, M., Marañón-Jiménez, S., Delgado-Huertas, A., Querejeta, J.I., (2015):
Restoring for the present or restoring for the future: enhanced performance of two sympatric oaks (Quercus ilex and Quercus pyrenaica) above the current forest limit
Restor. Ecol. 23 (6), 936 - 946
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Piayda, A., Dubbert, M., Werner, C., Correia, A.V., Pereira, J.S., Cuntz, M., (2015):
Influence of woody tissue and leaf clumping on vertically resolved leaf area index and angular gap probability estimates
For. Ecol. Manage. 340 , 103 - 113
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Thober, S., Kumar, R., Sheffield, J., Mai, J., Schäfer, D., Samaniego, L., (2015):
Seasonal soil moisture drought prediction over Europe using the North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME)
J. Hydrometeorol. 16 (6), 2329 - 2344
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Zech, M., Bösel, S., Tuthorn, M., Benesch, M., Dubbert, M., Cuntz, M., Glaser, B., (2015):
Sauna, sweat and science – quantifying the proportion of condensation water versus sweat using a stable water isotope (²H/¹H and ¹⁸O/¹⁶O) tracer experiment
Isot. Environ. Health Stud. 51 (3), 439 - 447
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2014

Demuzere, M., Coutts, A.M., Göhler, M., Broadbentb, A.M., Wouters, H., van Lipzig, N.P.M., Gerbet, L., (2014):
The implementation of biofiltration systems, rainwater tanks and urban irrigation in a single-layer urban canopy model
Urban Climate 10 (1), 148 - 170
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Dubbert, M., Cuntz, M., Piayda, A., Werner, C., (2014):
Oxygen isotope signatures of transpired water vapor: the role of isotopic non-steady-state transpiration under natural conditions
New Phytol. 203 (4), 1242 - 1252
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Dubbert, M., Mosena, A., Piayda, A., Cuntz, M., Correia, A.C., Pereira, J.S., Werner, C., (2014):
Influence of tree cover on herbaceous layer development and carbon and water fluxes in a Portuguese cork-oak woodland
Acta Oecol. - Int. J. Ecol. 59 , 35 - 45
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Dubbert, M., Piayda, A., Cuntz, M., Correia, A.C., Costa e Silva, F., Pereira, J.S., Werner, C., (2014):
Stable oxygen isotope and flux partitioning demonstrates understory of an oak savanna contributes up to half of ecosystem carbon and water exchange
Front. Plant Sci. 5 , art. 530
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Luyssaert, S., Jammet, M., Stoy, P.C., Estel, S., Pongratz, J., Ceschia, E., Churkina, G., Don, A., Erb, K., Ferlicoq, M., Gielen, B., Grunwald, T., Houghton, R.A., Klumpp, K., Knohl, A., Kolb, T., Kuemmerle, T., Laurila, T., Lohila, A., Loustau, D., McGrath, M.J., Meyfroidt, P., Moors, E.J., Naudts, K., Novick, K., Otto, J., Pilegaard, K., Pio, C.A., Rambal, S., Rebmann, C., Ryder, J., Suyker, A.E., Varlagin, A., Wattenbach, M., Dolman, A.J., (2014):
Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface
Nat. Clim. Chang. 4 (5), 389 - 393
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Piayda, A., Dubbert, M., Rebmann, C., Kolle, O., Costa e Silva, F., Correia, A., Pereira, J.S., Werner, C., Cuntz, M., (2014):
Drought impact on carbon and water cycling in a Mediterranean Quercus suber L. woodland during the extreme drought event in 2012
Biogeosciences 11 (24), 7159 - 7178
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Thober, S., Mai, J., Zink, M., Samaniego, L., (2014):
Stochastic temporal disaggregation of monthly precipitation for regional gridded data sets
Water Resour. Res. 50 (11), 8714 - 8735
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Thober, S., Samaniego, L., (2014):
Robust ensemble selection by multivariate evaluation of extreme precipitation and temperature characteristics
J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos. 119 (2), 594 - 613
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2013

Dubbert, M., Cuntz, M., Piayda, A., Maguás, C., Werner, C., (2013):
Partitioning evapotranspiration – Testing the Craig and Gordon model with field measurements of oxygen isotope ratios of evaporative fluxes
J. Hydrol. 496 , 142 - 153
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Göhler, M., Mai, J., Cuntz, M., (2013):
Use of eigendecomposition in a parameter sensitivity analysis of the Community Land Model
J. Geophys. Res.-Biogeosci. 118 (2), 904 - 921
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Mai, J., Trump, S., Lehmann, I., Attinger, S., (2013):
Parameter importance in FRAP acquisition and analysis: a simulation approach
Biophys. J. 104 (9), 2089 - 2097
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Marañón-Jiménez, S., Castro, J., Fernández-Ondoño, E., Zamora, R., (2013):
Charred wood remaining after a wildfire as a reservoir of macro- and micronutrients in a Mediterranean pine forest
Int. J. Wildland Fire 22 (5), 681 - 695
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Marañón-Jiménez, S., Castro, J., Querejeta, J.I., Fernández-Ondoño, E., Allen, C.D., (2013):
Post-fire wood management alters water stress, growth, and performance of pine regeneration in a Mediterranean ecosystem
For. Ecol. Manage. 308 , 231 - 239
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Mauder, M., Cuntz, M., Drüe, C., Graf, A., Rebmann, C., Schmid, H.P., Schmidt, M., Steinbrecher, R., (2013):
A strategy for quality and uncertainty assessment of long-term eddy-covariance measurements
Agric. For. Meteorol. 169 , 122 - 135
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Wehrer, M., Mai, J., Attinger, S., Totsche, K.U., (2013):
Kinetic control of contaminant release from NAPLs – Information potential of concentration time profiles
Environ. Pollut. 179 , 301 - 314
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Wiedemann, A., Marañón-Jiménez, S., Rebmann, C., Cuntz, M., Herbst, M., (2013):
An empirical study of wound response dynamics on sap flow measured with thermal dissipation probes
In: Steppe, K., (ed.)
Proceedings of the IXth International Workshop on Sap Flow; Ghent, Belgium, June 4 - 7, 2013
Acta Hort. 991
International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS), The Hague, p. 107 - 114
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Wöhling, T., Gayler, S., Priesack, E., Ingwersen, J., Wizemann, H.-D., Högy, P., Cuntz, M., Attinger, S., Wulfmeyer, V., Streck, T., (2013):
Multiresponse, multiobjective calibration as a diagnostic tool to compare accuracy and structural limitations of five coupled soil-plant models and CLM3.5
Water Resour. Res. 49 (12), 8200 - 8221
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News / Press

Aug 20, 2021

Open house days of the Swabian MOSES Campaign received large public interest. A research consortium of several Helmholtz centers, universities and the German Weather Service, investigates the cause and effects of hydro-meteorological extremes such as heavy thunderstorms, high precipitation and floods as well as heatwaves and droughts. The MOSES initiative is coordinated by the UFZ.

Aug 17, 2021

Start of the third phase of Collaborative Research Centre AquaDiva, investigating the links between surface and subsurface signals in the earth critical zone. Two projects are lead by researchers of CHS. They will investigate with modeling and observations how temporal and spatial variation of surface input and processes during subsurface transit drive the water flow and element transport to groundwater and rivers.

Jul 22, 2021

We are happy to announce the next release of mHM: v5.11.2 .

May 19, 2021

In October 2020 a new Helmholtz Young Investigator group ( link ) led by Jakob Zscheischler started in CHS. The group will work on compound weather and climate events with a particular focus on using novel ideas from explainable machine learning to identify compounding weather drivers of extreme impacts such as vegetation mortality, crop failure and floods. Recently the group was awarded a Helmholtz AI project called CausalFlood, in which compounding drivers of floods will be identified based on causal inference in collaboration with the group of Jakob Runge from DLR.

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New publications

Bevacqua, E., De Michele, C., Manning, C., Couasnon, A., Ribeiro, A.F.S., Ramos, A.M., Vignotto, E., Bastos, A., Blesić, S., Durante, F., Hillier, J., Oliveira, S.C., Pinto, J.G., Ragno, E., Rivoire, P., Saunders, K., van der Wiel, K., Wu, W., Zhang, T., Zscheischler, J. (2021): Guidelines for Studying Diverse Types of Compound Weather and Climate Events. Earth Future. 10.1029/2021EF002340
Najafi H, Robertson AW, Massah Bavani AR, Irannejad P, Wanders N, Wood EF. Improved multi-model ensemble forecasts of Iran's precipitation and temperature using a hybrid dynamical-statistical approach during fall and winter seasons. Int
J Climatol. 2021;1–28. DOI: 10.1002/joc.7148

Hari, V., Rakovec, O., Markonis, Y. et al. Increased future occurrences of the exceptional 2018–2019 Central European drought under global warming. Sci Rep 10, 12207 (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-68872-9

Schmidt, L., Heße, F., Attinger, S., Kumar, R., (2020): "Challenges in applying machine learning models for hydrological inference: A case study for flooding events across Germany", Water Resources Research DOI: 10.1029/2019WR025924

Jing, M., Kumar, R., Heße, F., Thober, S., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Attinger, S., (2020): "Assessing the response of groundwater quantity and travel time distribution to 1.5, 2, and 3 °C global warming in a mesoscale central German basin", Hydrology and Earth System Sciences DOI: 10.5194/hess-24-1511-2020