CRC 1502 DETECT

🎉 Milestone: #CRC1502 paper #100 — and now 1,438 citations across 107 papers!

ECIRA — annual 1-km crop-specific irrigated area for 16 crops across 28 European countries (2010–2020). Open data to support crop/water modelling and water-resources management.

📜 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🚀 Introducing the University of Bonn Soil Moisture Data Catalog (UB-SMDC)!

One portal for soil-moisture datasets from in-situ networks, satellites & models; easy discovery and gap checking. Developed in #CRC1502 (Project Z03) by Farzane Mohseni & Jan-Henrik Haunert.

👉 ubsmdc.sfb1502.de/geonetwork/

📗 Our #CRC1502 most-cited series continues with Post #9 (34 citations): Bauke et al. (2022) show how soil water status controls nutrient cycling (N, P, S) from micrometers to landscapes by transport, moisture-dependent biology, and hydrolysis.

#DETECT #SoilWater #Nutrients
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📗 Our #CRC1502 most-cited series continues with Post #8 (43 citations): Naz et al., Geosci. Model Dev. (2023) evaluate the fully distributed ParFlow-CLM (v3.6.0) across Europe (~3 km, 1997–2006), including lateral surface + groundwater flow.

#DETECT #Hydrology #Groundwater
📜 doi.org/10.5194/gmd-...

💻 Onto the next! We are proud to present the 4th #CRC1502 DETECT Land & Climate Seminar (WS 25/26) by Alex Barimah Owusu — “Biophysical assessment of climate change severity in the upper east region, Ghana”. Online via Zoom, Mon 08.12.25, 14:00–15:15 CET.

Further info on sfb1502.de/news-events/...

🌾 NEW #CRC1502 PUBLICATION ALERT!
Climate stress reduces efficiency on crop farms: @moritzhartig.bsky.social, our Co-Speaker Silke Hüttel & @stefanseifert.bsky.social link German farm data with weather extremes. One extreme day can cost 0.15–26.31 €/ha.

#Agriculture
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🏅Congratulations to #CRC1502 DETECT members on Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list: Jan Börner & Frank Ewert (@unibonn.bsky.social) and Stefan Siebert (@uni-goettingen.de)! Well deserved 👏

#HighlyCitedResearchers

📰 www.uni-bonn.de/de/neues/196...
📰 www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3434.html...

📗 Our #CRC1502 most-cited series, Post #7 (42 citations) from our speaker @jurgenkusche.bsky.social Lab: Karegar et al., (2022). A low-cost GNSS-IR #river-level #sensor from a Raspberry Pi + GNSS. At the Rhine, it achieves ~6 cm daily #RMSE, promising for flood monitoring.

📜 doi.org/10.1029/2021...

YouTube video by Detect-Content-Creator Monitoring river profile and discharge with FFSAR off-nadir processing and SWOT

🌊 NEW #CRC1502 VIDEO ALERT!
How can we measure #river #water levels and #slopes from #space, even when the satellite looks off to the side? In this My Paper in 140s video, our member J. Chen explains the new method for river monitoring.

🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEcc...
📜 doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

YouTube video by Detect-Content-Creator Connecting saturated hydraulic conductivity to soil aggregation and carbon content in croplands

📽️ New #CRC1502 video!
At #EGU25, @dymphieburger.bsky.social presented her work on connection #soil hydraulic conductivity to soil aggregation and carbon content in European croplands and made a video on it

📼https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5nfOOfq_MY
📝https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-11018

Global needs for nitrogen fertilizer to improve wheat yield under climate change - Nature Plants Martre et al. found that to achieve the full yield potential of improved wheat varieties, nitrogen fertilizer use would need to increase fourfold over current use, which would unavoidably increase the...

📗Our #CRC1502 most-cited series continues with Post #6 (65 citations): Martre et al., Nature Plants (2024) – Global needs for nitrogen fertilizer to improve wheat yield under climate change, co-authored by our members Frank Ewert and Thomas Gaiser.

#Nitrogen #ClimateChange
📝 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

🚨 #CRC1502 New Publication Alert! 🚨
Following the recently published research article by Theresa Goebel and Wolfgang Britz, Project D01 now releases the SSP-based #landuse and #landcover #projections through 2050 as part of a new Data in Brief publication.

📝 doi.org/10.1016/j.di...

🆕 New #CRC1502 (C03) publication alert!
@heikeschimmel.bsky.social Schimmel et al., (2025) trace 40 years of peatland restoration in German post-extracted bogs, showing how rewetting and vegetation recovery reduce mineral N stocks and enhance carbon stability over time.

📝 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

📗 Our #CRC1502 most-cited paper series continues with Post #5 (56 citations): Qin et al., Nature Climate Change (2022) – “Snowmelt risk telecouplings for irrigated agriculture”, revealing how changing #snowmelt and #global #trade reshape #irrigation #risks worldwide.

📝 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

📗 Our #CRC1502 most-cited series continues with Post #4 (46 citations): Rahmati et al., Reviews of Geophysics (2024) — “Soil Moisture Memory: State-Of-The-Art and the Way Forward”, on how soils “remember” wet/dry #extremes and shape land–climate #feedbacks.

#SoilMoisture
📝 doi.org/10.1029/2023...

Extreme weather events can be costly for German farmers, in terms of yield losses and farm efficiency 💸
Here is our most recent publication: doi.org/10.1093/erae... by @moritzhartig.bsky.social, Silke Hüttel & @stefanseifert.bsky.social

@agrarunigoe.bsky.social @crc1502-detect.bsky.social

📗Let's go to our #CRC1502 most-cited series with a paper from our speaker @jurgenkusche.bsky.social in Post #3 (51 citations): Gerdener et al., Journal of Geodesy (2023). GLWS2.0: global land water storage anomalies (0.5°, 2003–2019) from GRACE/GRACE-FO assimilation.

📝 doi.org/10.1007/s001...

💻 Onto the next one! We are proud to present the 3rd DETECT Land & Climate Seminar on WS 25/26 next week by Dr.
Anna Kłos (Military University of Technology, Warsaw) on Water vapor variability and trends from GNSS. Online via Zoom, Mon 24.11.25, 10:15 CET.

Further info: sfb1502.de/news-events/...

📣 #CRC1502 at @unibonn.bsky.social 6th 'Exzellenzuniversität Bonn' event [in German]: “Storms, #Heat, #Floods – Extreme #Weather. Our new #reality?” with DETECT members Petra Friederichs & Leonie Esters. Wed 19.11.25, 18:00–20:00, Aula (Am Hof 1). Free entry.

Info: www.uni-bonn.de/de/veranstal...

📘 Here comes the 2nd #CRC1502 DETECT's most-cited papers with 134 citations: Mehta et al., Nature Water (2024) — Half of 21st-century irrigation expansion occurred in already water-stressed regions (≈52%), providing vital insight for more sustainable food–water planning.

📝 doi.org/10.1038/s442...

📘 Kicking off our series of #CRC1502 DETECT’s most-cited papers with 285 citations to date: Vereecken et. al. (2022) “Soil hydrology in the Earth system” (Nat Rev Earth Environ). This review discusses how soil-water processes steer water–energy–carbon cycles and extremes.

📝 doi.org/10.1038/s430...

🌾 Onto the next one—New review from our #CRC1502 member Juan Baca Cabrera reveals that axial xylem conductance can limit root water uptake and that #drought-induced xylem adjustments enhance water conservation—key insights for breeding resilient crops.

#RootHydraulics

📝 doi.org/10.1017/qpb....

🚨 Publication Alert! 🚨
Exciting new publication from #CRC1502 – D01 by Theresa Goebel and Wolfgang Britz! This study quantifies land use and land cover under different socio-economic scenarios up to 2050 by running an integrated Computable General Equilibrium analysis.

📝 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

📡 We proudly present the #CRC1502 DETECT Geonetwork platform. It is an open-access platform of geospatial data across all DETECT subprojects that follows FAIR principle. Built by Z03 subproject (Farzane Mohseni & Jan-Henrik Haunert).

🌐 detect-z03.geoinformation.net
🎥 www.youtube.com/@DETECT_GeoN...

🌼Check out the new publication from our #CRC1502 members about #Soilinfiltration in Geoderma. It has been found to vary strongly across soil groups, textures, and land uses with big implications for runoff, flood risk, drought buffering, and irrigation efficiency.

📜 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

YouTube video by Detect-Content-Creator ClimSat - Climate-conditional Satellite Image Editing with Diffusion Autoencoders

🌍What would my home region look like in a different climate?
ClimSat is a diffusion autoencoder for climate-conditional satellite image generation by a #CRC1502 member. It can simulate how landscapes might appear under different climatic conditions.

📜 doi.org/10.1016/j.sr...
🎥 youtu.be/YAPaGKBGJ3g

YouTube video by Detect-Content-Creator Root Hydraulic Properties Across Species: What Explains Their Variability?

🌱 NEW #CRC1502 VIDEO ALERT!
How does water move through plant roots, and why does it vary so much across species? Check out our new study on root hydraulic properties and explore the database here roothydraulic-properties.shinyapps.io/database/

📜 doi.org/10.1002/pld3...
🎥 youtu.be/j4WRhbEGX2o

YouTube video by Detect-Content-Creator Geometric integration of vector-based land cover datasets - a multi-criteria optimization approach

🔎 On the sixth video of 'My paper in 140 seconds' series by #CRC1502 Farzane Mohseni, we integrated OSM and RS land-cover using multi-criteria optimization, all in vectors. This approach enables the efficient computation of optimal solutions.

📜 doi.org/10.1080/1753...
🎥 youtu.be/9eWbL0TYgog

✏️ Our 2nd DETECT Land & Climate Seminar on WS 25/26 next week by Dr. Alexander Graf (@fz-juelich.de): “Reflect sunlight or use it to store carbon?” a FLUXNET analysis on albedo and carbon storage. Online via Zoom, Mon 13.11.25, 10:15 CET.

Further info on sfb1502.de/news-events/...

💻Check out the new publication from our #CRC1502 members Johannes Leonhardt and @ribana.bsky.social about Conformal Prediction. It has been found to give statistically valid uncertainty for ML in digital agriculture. It supports crop decisions with calibrated intervals.

📜 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...