Publications 2021

Ahmad, U., A. Alvino and S. Marino (2021): A Review of Crop Water Stress Assessment Using Remote Sensing. Remote Sens. 13(20): 4155. DOI: 10.3390/rs13204155


Andrade-Linares, D., M. Zistl-Schlingmann, B. Foesel, M. Dannenmann, S. Schulz and M. Schloter (2021): Short term effects of climate change and intensification of management on the abundance of microbes driving nitrogen turnover in montane grassland soils. Science of The Total Environment 780:146672. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146672


Anlanger, C., U. Risse‐Buhl, D. von Schiller, C. Noss, M. Weitere and A. Lorke (2021): Hydraulic and biological controls of biofilm nitrogen uptake in gravel‐bed streams. Limnology and Oceanography 66(11): 3887-3900. DOI: 10.1002/lno.11927Anlanger, C., U. Risse‐Buhl, D. von Schiller, C. Noss, M. Weitere and A. Lorke (2021): Hydraulic and biological controls of biofilm nitrogen uptake in gravel‐bed streams. Limnology and Oceanography 66(11): 3887-3900. DOI: 10.1002/lno.11927


Arnault, J., B. Fersch, T. Rummler, Z. Zhang, G.M. Quenum, J. Wie, M. Graf, P. Laux and H. Kunstmann (2021): Lateral terrestrial water flow contribution to summer 3 precipitation at continental scale – A comparison between 4 Europe and West Africa with WRF-Hydro-tag ensembles). Hydrological Processes 35(5). DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14183


Baatz, R., H-J. Hendricks-Franssen, E. Euskirchen, D. Sihi, M. Dietze, S. Ciavatta, K. Fennel, H. Beck, G. de Lannoy, V.N.R. Pauwels, C. Montzka, M. Williams, U. Mishra, S. Zacharias, A. Lausch, K.L. Van Looy, H. Bogena, M. Adamescu, A. Fox, K. Görgen, B. Naz, Y. Zeng and H. Vereecken (2021): Reanalysis in Earth System Science: Towards Terrestrial Ecosystem Reanalysis. Reviews of Geophysics 59(3), e2020RG000715. DOI: 10.1029/2020RG000715


Balting, D.F., M. Ionita, M. Wegmann, G. Helle, G.H. Schleser, N. Rimbu, M.B. Freund, I. Heinrich, D. Caldarescu and G. Lohmann (2021): Large-scale climate signals of a European oxygen isotope network from tree rings. Climate of the Past 17(3): 1005-1023. DOI: 10.5194/cp-17-1005-2021


Bates, J.S., C. Montzka, M. Schmidt and F. Jonard (2021): Estimating Canopy Density Parameters Time-Series for Winter Wheat Using UAS Mounted LiDAR. Remote Sensing 13(4):710. DOI: 10.3390/rs13040710


Beamish, A., L. Anbuhl, R. Behling, R. Goncalves, A. Lingenfelser, J. Neelmeijer, D. Rabe, D. Scheffler, M. Thiele and D. Spengler (2021): FERN.Lab: Bridging the gap between remote sensing academic research and society. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment 24: 100641. DOI: 10.1016/j.rsase.2021.100641


Beck, H.E., M. Pan, D.G. Miralles, R.H. Reichle, W.A. Dorigo, S. Hahn, J. Sheffield, L. Karthikeyan, G. Balsamo, R.M. Parinussa, A.I.J.M. van Dijk, J. Du, J.S. Kimball, N. Vergopolan and E.F. Wood (2021): Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 25: 17–40. DOI: 10.5194/hess-25-17-2021


Beyer, F., F. Jansen, G. Jurasinski, M. Koch, B. Schröder and F. Koebsch (2021): Drought years in peatland rewetting: rapid vegetation succession can maintain the net CO2 sink function. Biogeosciences 18(3): 917-935. DOI: 10.5194/bg-18-917-2021


Blume, T., L. Schneider and A. Güntner (2021): Comparative Analysis of Throughfall Observations in six Different Forest Stands: Influence of Seasons, Rainfall‐, and Stand Characteristics. Hydrological Processes: e14461. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14461


Boas, T., H. Bogena, T. Grünwald, B. Heinesch, M. Schmidt, H. Vereecken, A. Western and H.J. Hendricks Franssen (2021): Improving the representation of cropland sites in the Community Land Model (CLM) version 5.0. Geosci. Mod. Dev. 14: 1-29. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-14-1-2021.


Bogena, H.R, V. Strati, A. Güntner, C.C. Chew and M. Schrön (2021): Innovative Methods for Non-invasive Monitoring of Hydrological Processes from Field to Catchment Scale. Front. Water 3: 641458. DOI: 10.3389/frwa.2021.641458


Botter, M., M. Zeeman, P. Burlando and S. Fatichi (2021): Impacts of fertilization on grassland productivity and water quality across the European Alps under current and warming climate: insights from a mechanistic model. Biogeosciences 18(6): 1917-1939. DOI: 10.5194/bg-18-1917-2021


Brauer, A. and R. Tiedemann (2021): GEOfokus: See- und Ozeansedimente in der Paläoklimaforschung. Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 83: 7-22. DOI: 10.23689/fidgeo-3995


Brogi, C., J.A. Huisman, L. Weihermüller, M. Herbst and H. Vereecken (2021): Added value of geophysics-based soil mapping in agro-ecosystem simulations. Soil 7(1): 125-143. DOI: 10.5194/soil-7-125-2021


Bujak, I., C. Müller, R. Merz and K. Knöller (2021): High Spatial-Resolution Monitoring to Investigate Nitrate Export and Its Drivers in a Mesoscale River Catchment along an Anthropogenic Land-Cover Gradient. Hydrological Processes 35(12): e14361. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14361


Burger, D.J., J. Vogel, A.M. Kooijman, R. Bol, E. de Rijke, J. Schoorl, ... and N. Gottselig (2021): Colloidal catchment response to snowmelt and precipitation events differs in a forested headwater catchment. Vadose Zone J. 20(3): e20126. DOI: 10.1002/vzj2.20126


Chang, K.Y., W.J. Riley, S.H. Knox, R.B. Jackson, G. McNicol, B. Poulter, T. Sachs,... and D. Zona (2021): Substantial hysteresis in emergent temperature sensitivity of global wetland CH4 emissions. Nature Communications 12(1): 2266. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22452-1


Chen, Y., X. Feng and B. Fu (2021): An improved global remote-sensing-based surface soil moisture (RSSSM) dataset covering 2003--2018. Earth System Science Data 13(1): 1-31. DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-1-2021
Colliander, A., R. Reichle, W. Crow, M. Cosh, F. Chen, S. Chan,... and S.H. Yueh (2021): Validation of Soil Moisture Data Products from the NASA SMAP Mission. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 15: 364-392.


Czymzik, M., O. Dellwig, R. Muscheler, P. Roeser, A. Brauer, J. Kaiser, ... and H.W. Arz (2021): Delayed Western Gotland Basin (Baltic Sea) ventilation in response to the onset of a Mid-Holocene climate oscillation. Quaternary Science Reviews 273: 107253. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107253


De Cannière, S., M. Herbst, H. Vereecken, P. Defourny and F. Jonard (2021): Constraining water limitation of photosynthesis in a crop growth model with sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence. Remote Sensing of Environment 267: 112722.


Dehaspe, J., F. Sarrazin, R. Kumar, J.H. Fleckenstein and A. Musolff (2021): Bending of the concentration discharge relationship can inform about in-stream nitrate removal. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 25: 6437–6463. DOI: 10.5194/hess-25-6437-2021


Delwiche, K.B., S.H. Knox, P. Gottschalk, T. Sachs et al. (2021): FLUXNET-CH4: A global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 13(7): 3607–3689. DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-3607-2021


Dirmeyer, P.A., G. Balsamo, E.M. Blyth, R. Morrison and H.M. Cooper (2021): Land-atmosphere interactions exacerbated the drought and heatwave over northern Europe during summer 2018. AGU Advances 2: e2020AV000283. DOI: 10.1029/2020AV000283


Dombrowski, O, H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, C. Brogi and H.R. Bogena (2021): Performance of the ATMOS41 all-in-one weather station for weather monitoring. Sensors 21: 741. DOI: 10.3390/s21030741


Döpper, V.U., A.D. Rocha, T. Gränzig, B. Kleinschmit and M. Förster (2021): Using radiative transfer models for mapping soil moisture content under grassland with UAS-borne hyperspectral data. In: Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XXIII (Vol. 11856, pp. 208-214), SPIE. DOI: 10.1117/12.2600296


Dorigo, W., I. Himmelbauer, D. Aberer, L. Schremmer, I. Petrakovic, L. Zappa, W. Preimesberger, A. Xaver, F. Annor, J. Ardö, D. Baldocchi, M. Bitelli, G. Blöschl, H. Bogena, … and R. Sabia (2021): The International Soil Moisture Network: Serving Earth system science for over a decade. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 25: 5749–5804. DOI: 10.5194/hess-25-5749-2021


Djukic I., S. Kepfer-Rojas, I.K. Schmidt, K.S. Larsen, C. Beier, B. Berg, ... and H. Shibata (2021): The TeaComposition Initiative: unleashing the power of international collaboration to understand litter decomposition. Soil Organisms 93(1): 73-78. DOI: 10.25674/so93iss1pp73


Ebeling, P., R. Dupas, B. Abbott, R. Kumar, S. Ehrhardt, J.H. Fleckenstein and A. Musolff (2021): Long‐Term Nitrate Trajectories Vary by Season in Western European Catchments. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 35(9): e2021GB007050.


Ebeling, P., R. Kumar, M. Weber, L. Knoll, J.H. Fleckenstein and A. Musolff (2021): Archetypes and Controls of Riverine Nutrient Export across German Catchments. Water Resources Research 57(4): e2020WR028134. DOI: 10.1029/2020WR028134


Ehrhardt, A., J. Groh and H.H. Gerke (2021): Wavelet analysis of soil water state variables for identification of lateral subsurface flow: Lysimeter vs. field data. Vadose Zone Journal 20(3): e20129.


Eshel, A., H. Messer, H. Kunstmann, P. Alpert and C. Chwala (2021): Quantitative Analysis of the Performance of Spatial Interpolation Methods for Rainfall Estimation Using Commercial Microwave Links. J. Hydrometeor. 22(4): 831-843. DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-20-0164.1


Garcia-Franco, N., R. Walter, M. Wiesmeier, L.C.C. Hurtarte, B.J. Berauer, V. Buness, M. Zistl-Schlingmann, R. Kiese, M. Dannenmann and I. Kögel-Knabner (2021): Biotic and abiotic controls on carbon storage in aggregates in calcareous alpine and prealpine grassland soils. Biology and Fertility of Soils 57(2): 203-218. . DOI: 10.1007/s00374-020-01518-0


George, J. P., W. Yang, H. Kobayashi, T, Biermann, A. Carrara, E. Cremonese, ... and J. Pisek (2021): Method comparison of indirect assessments of understory leaf area index (LAIu): A case study across the extended network of ICOS forest ecosystem sites in Europe. Ecological Indicators 128: 107841.


Giraud, M., J. Groh, H.H. Gerke, N. Brüggemann, H. Vereecken and T. Pütz (2021): Soil Nitrogen Dynamics in a Managed Temperate Grassland Under Changed Climatic Conditions. Water 13(7): 931. DOI: 10.3390/w13070931


Golizadeh, A., C. Neumann, S. Chabrillat, B. van Wesemael, F. Castaldi, L. Borůvka, J. Sanderman, A. Klement and C. Hohmann (2021): Soil organic carbon estimation using VNIR–SWIR spectroscopy: The effect of multiple sensors and scanning conditions. Soil and Tillage Research 211: 105017. DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2021.105017


Golub, M., A.R. Desai, T. Vesala, I. Mammarella, A. Ojala, G. Bohrer, ... and W. Xiao (2021): New insights into diel to interannual variation in carbon dioxide emissions from lakes and reservoirs. Earth and Space Science Open Archive ESSOAr. DOI: 10.1002/essoar.10507313.1


Graeber, D., Y Tenzin, M. Stutter, G. Weigelhofer, T. Shatwell, W. von Tümpling, J. Tittel, A. Wachtholz and D. Borchardt (2021): Bioavailable DOC: Reactive nutrient ratios control heterotrophic nutrient assimilation—An experimental proof of the macronutrient-access hypothesis. Biogeochemistry 155: 1-20. DOI: 10.1007/s10533-021-00809-4


Graf, M., A. El Hachem, M. Eisele, J. Seidl, C. Chwala, H. Kunstmann and A. Bárdossy (2021): Rainfall estimates from opportunistic sensors in Germany across spatio-temporal scales. J. Hydrol.: Regional Studies 37: 100883. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100883


Graf, M., J. Arnault, B. Fersch and H. Kunstmann (2021): Is the soil moisture precipitation feedback enhanced by heterogeneity and dry soils? A comparative study. Hydrological Processes 35(9): e14332. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14332


Greifeneder, F., C. Notarnicola and W. Wagner (2021): A Machine Learning-Based Approach for Surface Soil Moisture Estimations with Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing 13(11): 2099. DOI: 10.3390/rs13112099


Guevara, M. and M. Taufer and R. Vargas (2021): Gap-free global annual soil moisture: 15 km grids for 1991--2018. Earth System Science Data 13(4): 1711--1735. 10.5194/essd-13-1711-2021


Guglielmo, M., F. Tang, C. Pasut and F. Maggi (2021): SOIL-WATERGRIDS, mapping dynamic changes in soil moisture and depth of water table from 1970 to 2014. Scientific Data 8. DOI: 10.1038/s41597-021-01032-4


Halbach, K., M. Möder, S. Schrader, L. Liebmann, R.B. Schäfer, A. Schneeweiss, ... and T. Reemtsma (2021): Small streams–large concentrations? Pesticide monitoring in small agricultural streams in Germany during dry weather and rainfall. Water Research 203: 117535. DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117535


Harfenmeister, K., S. Itzerott, C. Weltzien and D. Spengler (2021): Agricultural Monitoring Using Polarimetric Decomposition Parameters of Sentinel-1 Data. Remote Sensing 13(4): 575. DOI: 10.3390/rs13040575


Harfenmeister, K., S. Itzerott, C. Weltzien and D. Spengler (2021): Detecting Phenological Development of Winter Wheat and Winter Barley Using Time Series of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2. Remote Sensing 13(24): 5036.


Helbig, M., T. Gerken, E.R. Beamesderfer, D.D. Baldocchi, T. Banerjee, S.C. Biraud, ... and A.D. Richardson (2021): Integrating continuous atmospheric boundary layer and tower-based flux measurements to advance understanding of land-atmosphere interactions. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 307: 108509. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108509


Helle G., D. Balanzategui, M. Pauly, I. Heinrich and K. Schollän (2021): Stable isotope signatures of wood, its constituents and methods of cellulose extraction. In: Siegwolf R. et al. eds. Stable Isotopes in Tree Rings: Inferring Physiological, Climatic and Environmental Responses. Zürich: Springer Nature.


Herbst, M., P. Pohlig, A. Graf, L. Weihermüller, M. Schmidt, J. Vanderborght and H. Vereecken (2021): Quantification of water stress induced within-field variability of carbon dioxide fluxes in a sugar beet stand. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 297: 108242. DOI:10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108242


Hermanns, F., F. Pohl, C. Rebmann, G. Schulz, U. Werban and A. Lausch (2021): Inferring Grassland Drought Stress with Unsupervised Learning from Airborne Hyperspectral VNIR Imagery. Remote Sensing 13(10): 1885.


Holtmann, A., A. Huth, F. Pohl, C. Rebmann and R. Fischer (2021): Carbon Sequestration in Mixed Deciduous Forests: The Influence of Tree Size and Species Composition Derived from Model Experiments. Forests 12(6): 726. DOI: 10.3390/f12060726


Hongliang, M., J. Zeng, X. Zhang, P. Fu, D. Zheng, J.-P. Wigneron, N. Chen and D. Niyogi (2021): Evaluation of six satellite- and model-based surface soil temperature datasets using global ground-based observations. Remote Sensing of Environment 264: 112605. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112605


Hosseini, M., H. McNairn, S. Mitchell, L.D. Robertson, A. Davidson, N. Ahmadian, … and I. Becker-Reshef (2021): A Comparison between Support Vector Machine and Water Cloud Model for Estimating Crop Leaf Area Index. Remote Sensing 13(7): 1348. DOI: 10.3390/rs13071348


Hrachowitz, M., M. Stockinger, M. Coenders-Gerrits, R. van der Ent, H. Bogena, A. Lücke and C. Stumpp (2021): Deforestation reduces the vegetation-accessible water storage in the unsaturated soil and affects catchment travel time distributions and young water fractions. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 25: 4887–4915. DOI: 10.5194/hess-25-4887-2021


Irvin, J., S. Zhou, G. McNicol, F. Lu, V. Liu, E. Fluet-Chouinard, ... and R.B. Jackson (2021): Gap-filling eddy covariance methane fluxes: Comparison of machine learning model predictions and uncertainties at FLUXNET-CH4 wetlands. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 308: 108528. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108528


Jakobi, J., J.A. Huisman and H. Bogena (2021): Comment on Dong and Ochsner (2018): Soil Texture often exerts stronger Influence than Precipitation on Mesoscale Soil Moisture Patterns. Water Resour. Res. 57: e2020WR027790. DOI:10.1029/2020WR027790


Johnston, A.S., A. Meade, J. Ardö, N. Arriga, A. Black, P.D. Blanken, ... and C. Venditti (2021): Temperature thresholds of ecosystem respiration at a global scale. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5(4): 487-494. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01398-z


Kang, J., R. Jin, X. Li and Y. Zhang (2021): Mapping High Spatiotemporal-Resolution Soil Moisture by Upscaling Sparse Ground-Based Observations Using a Bayesian Linear Regression Method for Comparison with Microwave Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture Products. Remote Sensing 13(2): 228.


Klein, M., J. Garvelmann and K. Förster, K. (2021): Revisiting Forest Effects on Winter Air Temperature and Wind Speed—New Open Data and Transfer Functions. Atmosphere 12(6): 710. DOI: 10.3390/atmos12060710


Knox, S.H., S. Bansal, G. McNicol, K. Schafer, C. Sturtevant, M. Ueyama, ... and R.B. Jackson (2021): Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales. Global Change Biology 27(15): 3582-3604. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15661


Köhli, M., J. Weimar, M. Schrön, R. Baatz and U. Schmidt (2021): Soil Moisture and Air Humidity Dependence of the Above-Ground Cosmic-Ray Neutron Intensity. Frontiers in Water 2(66). DOI: 10.3389/frwa.2020.544847


Kong, X., M. Seewald, T. Dadi, K. Friese, C. Mi, B. Boehrer, ... and T. Shatwell (2021): Unravelling winter diatom blooms in temperate lakes using high frequency data and ecological modeling. Water Research 190: 116681.


Kramm, T. and D. Hoffmeister (2021): Comprehensive vertical accuracy analysis of freely available DEMs for different landscape types of the Rur catchment, Germany. Geocarto International: 1-22. DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2021.1984588


Künzel, A.C., S. Münzel, F. Böttcher and D. Spengler (2021): Analysis of Weather-Related Growth Differences in Winter Wheat in a Three-Year Field Trial in North-East Germany. Agronomy Journal 11(9): 1854. DOI: 10.3390/agronomy11091854


Lembrechts, J.J., J. Van den Hoogen, J. Aalto, M.B. Ashcroft, P. De Frenne, J. Kemppinen, ... and R. Hoffrén (2021): Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16060.


Leng, P., N. Kamjunke, F. Li and M. Koschorreck (2021): Temporal patterns of methane emissions from two streams with different riparian connectivity. J. Geophysical Res.: Biogeosciences 126(8): e2020JG006104. DOI: 10.1029/2020JG006104


Li, Z., D. Scheffler, N.C. Coops, N. Leach and T. Sachs (2021): Towards analysis ready data of optical CubeSat images: Demonstrating a hierarchical normalization framework at a wetland site. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 103: 102502. DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2021.102502


Liess, M., L. Liebmann, P. Vormeier, O. Weisner, R. Altenburger, D. Borchardt, ... T. Reemtsma (2021): Pesticides are the dominant stressors for vulnerable insects in lowland streams. Water Research 201: 117262. DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117262


Lischeid, G., R. Dannowski, K. Kaiser, G. Nützmann, J. Steidl and P. Stüve (2021): Inconsistent hydrological trends do not necessarily imply spatially heterogeneous drivers. J. Hydrol. 596: 126096. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126096


Löw, J., T. Ullmann and C. Conrad (2021): The Impact of Phenological Developments on Interferometric and Polarimetric Crop Signatures Derived from Sentinel-1: Examples from the DEMMIN Study Site (Germany). Remote Sensing 13(15): 2951. DOI: 10.3390/rs13152951


Ma, H., J. Zeng, X. Zhang, P. Fu, D. Zheng, J.P. Wigneron,... and D. Niyogi (2021): Evaluation of six satellite-and model-based surface soil temperature datasets using global ground-based observations. Remote Sensing of Environment 264: 112605. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112605


Madelon, R., N.J. Rodríguez-Fernández, R. Van der Schalie, Y. Kerr, A. Albitar, T. Scanlon, ... and W. Dorigo (2021). Towards the removal of model bias from ESA CCI SM by using an L-band scaling reference. In 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS: 6194-6197. DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553024


Malique F., E. Wangari, D.R. Andrade-Linares, M. Schloter, B. Wolf, M. Dannenmann and K. Butterbach-Bahl (2021): Effects of slurry acidification on soil N2O fluxes and denitrification. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 184(6): 696-708.


Martini, E., S. Kögler, M. Kreck, K. Roth, U. Werban, U. Wollschläger und S. Zacharias (2021): STH-net: A model-driven soil monitoring network for process-based hydrological modelling from the pedon to the hillslope scale. Earth System Science Data 13(6): 2529-2539. DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-2529-2021


Mauder, M., A. Ibrom, L. Wanner, F. De Roo, P. Brugger, R. Kiese and K. Pilegaard (2021): Options to correct local turbulent flux measurements for large-scale fluxes using an approach based on large-eddy simulation. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 14(12): 7835-7850.


Mengen, D., C. Montzka, T. Jagdhuber, A. Fluhrer, C. Brogi, S. Baum, D. Schüttemeyer, B. Bayat, H. Bogena, A. Coccia, … and H. Vereecken (2021): The SARSense campaign: Air- and space-borne C- and L-band SAR for the analysis of soil and plant parameters in agriculture. Remote Sensing 13: 825. DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-0450-6


Migliavacca, M., T. Musavi, M.D. Mahecha, J.A. Nelson, J. Knauer, D.D. Baldocchi, ... and M. Reichstein (2021): The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function. Nature 598(7881): 468-472. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03939-9


Mingxing, L., P. Wu, D.M.H. Sexton and Z. Ma (2021): Potential shifts in climate zones under a future global warming scenario using soil moisture classification. Climate Dynamics 56(7): 2071-2092. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-020-05576-w


Mobilia, M., A. Longobardi (2021): Prediction of Potential and Actual Evapotranspiration Fluxes Using Six Meteorological Data-Based Approaches for a Range of Climate and Land Cover Types. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 10(3): 192

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Montzka, C., B. Bayat, A. Tewes, D. Mengen and H. Vereecken (2021): Sentinel-2 Analysis of Spruce Crown Transparency Levels and Their Environmental Drivers after Summer Drought in the Northern Eifel (Germany). Front. For. Glob. Change 86. DOI: 10.3389/ffgc.2021.667151


Montzka, C., H.R. Bogena, M. Herbst, M.H. Cosh, T. Jagdhuber and H. Vereecken (2021): Estimating the number of reference sites necessary for the validation of global soil moisture products. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 18(9): 1530-1534. DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2020.3005730


Mueller, L., F. Eulenstein, U. Schindler, W. Mirschel, U. Behrendt, V.G. Sychev, ... and N.M. Dronin (2021): Exploring Agricultural Landscapes: Recent Progress and Opportunities for Eurasia. In: Mueller L., V.G. Sychev, N.M. Dronin and F. Eulenstein (eds): Exploring and Optimizing Agricultural Landscapes. Innovations in Landscape Research. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-67448-9_2


Müller, C., J. Hennig, F. Riedel and G. Helle (2021): Quantifying the impact of chemicals on stable carbon and oxygen isotope values of raw pollen. Journal of Quaternary Science 36(3): 441-449. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3300


Musolff, A., Q. Zhan, R. Dupas, C. Minaudo, J.H. Fleckenstein, M. Rode, J. Dehaspe and K. Rinke (2021): Spatial and Temporal Variability in Concentration‐Discharge Relationships at the Event Scale. Water Resources Research 57(10): e2020WR029442. DOI: 10.1029/2020WR029442


Nantke, C.K., A. Brauer, P.J. Frings, M. Czymzik, T. Hübener, J. Stadmark, ... and D.J. Conley (2021): Human influence on the continental Si budget during the last 4300 years: δ30Sidiatom in varved lake sediments (Tiefer See, NE Germany). Quaternary Science Reviews 258: 106869. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106869


Neuwirth, B., I. Rabbel, J. Bendix, H.R. Bogena and B. Thies (2021): The European heat wave 2018: Dendroecological response of oak and spruce in Western Germany. Forests 12: 283. DOI: 10.3390/f12030283


Nguyen, T.V., R. Kumar, S.R. Lutz, A. Musolff, J. Yang and J.H. Fleckenstein (2021): Modeling nitrate export from a mesoscale catchment using storage selection functions. Water Resour. Res. 57(2): e2020WR028490. DOI: 10.1029/2020WR028490


Nogueira, G.E., C. Schmidt, N. Trauth and J.H. Fleckenstein (2021): Seasonal and short‐term controls of riparian oxygen dynamics and the implications for redox processes. Hydrological Processes 35(2): e14055. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14055


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