CRC 1502 DETECT

🎓 Celebrating a major milestone in CRC 1502 DETECT. Congratulations to all our researchers who recently defended their PhD projects. This is a well-deserved achievement. Thank you for being part of CRC 1502 DETECT.

🌱 Root anatomy is key to understanding how plants grow and function. The novel Rapid Anatomics Tool (RAT) is a simple, low-cost platform for fast, high-quality root imaging across plant species.. Read full study: doi.org/10.1016/j.pl...

This new study looks at an important but still under explored question in land system science: how the spatial configuration of land cover, not just its composition, shapes local climate. Read full publication here: doi.org/10.1088/2752... #ClimateScience #LandUseChange

New Climate Dynamics research using ERA5 (1980–2020) finds a SE–NE aridity dipole in South America shaped by moisture exchange with the Atlantic ocean, atmospheric circulation and land–atmosphere interactions. 📖 Read full publication here for more insight: doi.org/10.1007/s003...

🌍 On 15 March 2022, an intense Saharan dust plume was transported towards Europe but extensive cloud cover made parts of the plume invisible to satellite observations. Europe's ground-observation network proves very crucial in data reconstruction. Read full study: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🌍 Can object-based deep learning models create more accurate and spatially consistent land cover maps from satellite images, even with sparse training data? Check the new published manuscript introducing the LC-SLab framework to find out: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... #DeepLearning #RemoteSensing

Follow @UKHSA advice to stay safe in the heat: 👉Drink lots of water 👉Apply sun cream generously! 👉Find shade where you can 👉Look out for vulnerable friends and neighbours More tips for keeping cool: bit.ly/3x1SZTd #WeatherReady

🌱 New publication in Geoderma: including soil aggregate size in pedotransfer functions can substantially improve saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) predictions 💧 🔗https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2026.117911 #SoilScience #Hydrology #SFBDETECT Dymphie Burger: bsky.app/profile/dymp...

New position at the Agrar-, Ernährungs- und Ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Fakultät (AEI) and Collaborative Research Centre 1502 on Regional Climate Change. Please read more here: sfb1502.de/news-events/... #ClimateScience

🗺️Why B04 matters: #CRC1502 DETECT develops probabilistic land-use maps and models of crop choice & land-use management—combining Bayesian uncertainty methods, EO data and economic modelling. B04 maps support irrigation and climate modelling. 🎥 sfb1502.de/resources/vi... 🌎 sfb1502.de/projects/clu...

On our ~40 km journey this morning, with @aquasong.bsky.social and 3more colleagues, along the Rhine River to the @crc1502-detect.bsky.social retreat 2026 🚲🚴🚲🚴🚲

🏅 Publication recognition: Baca Cabrera et al.’s #CRC1502 C02 paper “Root hydraulic properties” was recognized by Wiley/Plant Direct among the journal’s top-cited & top-viewed papers in 2025—highlighting plant-water research across scales. Congratulations! Well deserved! 📄 doi.org/10.1002/pld3...

🌍 DETECT at #EGU26: #CRC1502 members contributed across hydrology, land-surface & crop-water processes, terrestrial water storage, gravimetry, Earth observation and future satellite gravity missions—showing DETECT’s broad role in land–water–climate research across methods, data and disciplines.

🌾💧 New #CRC1502 publication from #C02/#B04: Behrend et al. show modern winter wheat cultivars transpire 17% less water than historical cultivars across Europe—highlighting how breeding shapes crop water use & land–atmosphere feedbacks under changing climate conditions too. 📄 doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Team APMG of @unibonn.bsky.social is rolling 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃 🤓🖖 #EGU26 #wien #vienna 🌐🌍 1/n

🛰🌍 Why B03 matters: B03 PI @ribana.bsky.social leads #CRC1502 DETECT using deep learning with Sentinel-2/Landsat data to classify land cover from sparse labels, supporting uncertainty-aware EO products for climate and land-surface research. 🎥 sfb1502.de/resources/vi... 🌎 sfb1502.de/projects/clu...

🌍 2025 Conference Throwback #3: Theresa Goebel from #DETECT D01 joined the European Commission’s 2025 EU Agricultural Outlook Autumn Workshop in Brussels—sharing land-use/land-cover projections and linking scenario work & stakeholder inputs with EU agricultural policy discussions. #CRC1502

🌾💧New #CRC1502 publication from #C02: Baca Cabrera et al. show how root anatomical gradients and cultivar differences shape hydraulic properties in German winter wheat, linking root anatomy & water uptake for crop resilience under changing water availability & drier years. 📄 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

🌍 Why B02: it studies how anthropogenic aerosols, land use & desert dust influence moisture—linking other projects of #CRC1502 DETECT with CMIP7/AerChemMIP2 modelling, dust simulations and observations in North Africa for climate assessment. 📄 doi.org/10.5194/gmd-... 🌎 sfb1502.de/projects/clu...

🌍 2025 Conference Throwback #2: Paul Rigor from DETECT’s C03 project presented at EMS2025 in Ljubljana on decadal convection-permitting irrigation impacts across Europe—linking irrigation, soil moisture, energy fluxes & land–atmosphere coupling for hydroclimate modelling. #CRC1502 #DETECT #EMS2025

🌧️🌍 4th #CRC1502 DETECT L&C Seminar of SoSe 2026: Andreas Fink on East Saharan heat low enhancement & excessive wet years in the central/eastern Sahel—rainfall, flooding & monsoon shifts. 🗓 Mon 18.05.26 | 10:15 CEST | Online only (Zoom) 📩 Contact us to join. Further info: sfb1502.de/news-events/...

New #CRC1502 publication in 2026 (from #B02): Fiedler et al. introduce the AerChemMIP2 experiments, listed for CMIP7, to study how reactive gases, aerosols & land use influence air quality and climate change, linking atmospheric composition with land–climate interactions. 📄 doi.org/10.5194/gmd-...

Africa's first GNSS-IR network for water level monitoring is live in Cameroon! 8 low-cost stations, cm-level accuracy, validating Sentinel-3 & 6. Data: www.GNSS4SurfaceWater.com Code, workflows and fieldwork photos at github.com/MakanAKarega...

🌍 Kicking off our 2025 Conference Throwback series with post #1: In June, #CRC1502 DETECT’s D01 work was presented at the 28th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis (GTAP 2025) in Kigali, Rwanda. The discussion connected scenario development, land-use modelling & applications in West Africa.

See gnss4surfacewater.com for data from this and several other sites.

🌊🛰️ From Rhine to the tropics: low-cost GNSS-IR water-level sensors developed at @unibonn.bsky.social, under #CRC1502 #DETECT, are now used in ESA projects across Africa & the Asia-Pacific—supporting open monitoring for rivers and coasts in data-poor regions. 📰 www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/083-...

Presentation about this dataset from within @crc1502-detect.bsky.social given by Charlotte in #EGU26 session G3.1 K1 about to start soon at 14:35! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-...

🧩🌍 Cluster A recap: Representation of Processes in #CRC1502 DETECT. From soil structure & moisture to ET partitioning, precipitation, farm adaptation & landscape configuration, A01–A06 show how process representation helps understand land–water–climate interactions. 🌎 sfb1502.de/projects/clu...

🌊🔥 3rd #CRC1502 DETECT L&C Seminar: Christoph Renkl on marine heatwaves, atmospheric rivers & coastal precipitation in western North America — with insights from “The Blob” and compound extremes. 🗓 Wed 06.05.26 | 10:15 CEST | Zoom 📩 Contact us to join. sfb1502.de/news-events/...

🌍🤖 Environmental AI at #HAICON26! ESDE/@fz-juelich.de hosts a workshop on 8 Jun in Munich on AI for environmental apps: foundation/world/agentic models, Earth-system ML, and predictions-to-decisions. Free reg. if confirmed by 30 Apr; abstracts due 13 May. haicon.cc/workshops-an... #CRC1502 #DETECT

🛰🌳 Why landscape configuration matters: not only land-cover mix, but also spatial arrangement affects climate. Project A06 #CRC1502 studies how LULC changes reshape landscapes and influence water & energy cycles. 📄 doi.org/10.1088/1748... 🎥 sfb1502.de/resources/vi... 🌎 sfb1502.de/projects/clu...

Our project in 1502 summarized in short :-) Thanks @crc1502-detect.bsky.social and all its members for the contribution!

🌾⚠ Why farm adaptation matters: on-farm climate adaptation is about risk, uncertainty, timing, and incentives. Project A05 #CRC1502 studies why farmers delay adaptation: new insights into farm productivity, adaptation and climate extremes. 📄 doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaf047 🌎 sfb1502.de/projects/clu...

💧🗂️ Why accessible soil moisture data matter: new #CRC1502 work by Mohseni & Haunert in #Z03 reviews soil moisture datasets and presents the UB-SMDC portal — a useful step toward making soil moisture data easier to find, compare, and use. 📄 doi.org/10.1080/2096... 🌎 ubsmdc.sfb1502.de/geonetwork/s...

🚀🌍 Interested in AI for weather and climate research? The #MLESM Hackathon is on 19–21 August 2026 in Bonn for PhD students and early-career researchers. A great chance to code, learn, and tackle Earth system challenges with machine learning. Apply now: cesoc.net/mlesm-hackat... #CRC1502 #DETECT

💧🌾 We are proud to present 2nd #CRC1502 DETECT L&C Seminar of SoSe 2026: Amirhossein Nikfal on coupling atmosphere, satellites & land-surface models for agricultural water & energy flux monitoring. 🗓 Mon 27.04.26 | 10:15 CEST | Zoom 📩 Contact us to join. Further info: sfb1502.de/news-events/...

🌊💨 How reservoirs “breathe”: floating-chamber observations at the Rur reservoir track CO₂ and CH₄ fluxes across seasons. CO₂ can shift from sink to source, while CH₄ is emitted throughout the year — showing why year-round monitoring matters. 🌎 sfb1502.de/images/Newsl... #CRC1502 #DETECT

We thank the @ageconsoc.bsky.social for the great organization at a beautiful place! Our chair was further represented w/ presentations of Guy Low and Friedrich Hermann. See you next time in Budapest, hopefully!

🎓🌍 #CRC1502 #DETECT at the @ageconsoc.bsky.social conference in @ox.ac.uk! @stefanseifert.bsky.social and Josef Baumert presented on climate adaptation and AI + econ modelling for crop production in data-scarce regions. 🏆 Congrats to Josef Baumert on the Best PhD Presentation Award! #AES100_26

📐🎉 150 years of Geodesy in Bonn! This year, the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation at the @unibonn.bsky.social celebrates its 150th anniversary. 🗓 Tue 21.04.26 | 17:00 CET 📍 Nußallee 17, Bonn Registration: www.igg.uni-bonn.de/de/anmeldung More: www.uni-bonn.de/de/veranstal...

📡Simulation vs. Reality: Predicting precipitation accurately is challenging for models. In #A04 #CRC1502, we tackle this with 3D polarimetric radars! See how we use observations to improve the physics of our forecasts. ❄ 🎥 youtu.be/pSKvCwaRE-M 🌎 sfb1502.de/projects/clu... 📄 doi.org/10.1049/SBRA...

💧🛰️NEW #CRC1502 publication! Hacker et al. (co-authored by our speaker, @jurgenkusche.bsky.social) present a terrestrial water storage dataset from 1984 onward, combining pre-GRACE satellite observations and climate data. Great news for long-term water storage research. 📄 doi.org/10.5194/essd...

🌿💧Why ET partitioning matters: the split between transpiration and evaporation shapes land-surface water and energy fluxes. Project A03 #CRC1502 combines stable isotope, eddy-covariance and modelling approaches to improve T/ET estimates across ecosystems and climates. 🌎 sfb1502.de/projects/clu...

💧NEW #CRC1502 publication from our Speaker's Lab @jurgenkusche.bsky.social! Li et al. present an observation-driven forecast of global terrestrial water storage, showing it can beat ECMWF SEAS5 in seasonal prediction. A step toward operational water-storage forecasting. 📄 doi.org/10.1029/2025...

💭 Comparing large-scale hydrological models & satellite gravimetry (GRACE/GRACE-FO) with superconducting gravimeters is still challenging. 🔬 More gravimeters + better satellites/models → seamless water storage monitoring. 📄 EGU: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-... #Geodesy #EGU2026