@crc1502-detect.bsky.social
DETECT studies how changes in land use and water management by humans modify the local and regional water, energy and carbon cycles. Part of https://bsky.app/profile/unibonn.bsky.social www.sfb1502.de
📡🌱 How gamma radiation measurements help: Europe’s EURDEP network can become a source of continental-scale soil moisture information. A02 #CRC1502 develops processing strategies and conversion functions for SM estimation from gamma radiation.
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🌱Why soil type and structure matter: saturated hydraulic conductivity shapes runoff v infiltration. Project A01 #CRC1502 shows land use and Soil Reference Groups explain infiltration variability better than texture alone.
📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
🎥 youtu.be/i5nfOOfq_MY
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💧📡 Proud to present the 6th #CRC1502 Land & Climate Seminar (WS 25/26): Bridget Scanlon, “Climate and Human Drivers of Global Water Storage Variations using Satellites, Modeling, and Monitoring”
🗓 Mon 02.02.26 | 16:00 CET | Online—Zoom
📩 Contact us to join.
Further info: sfb1502.de/news-events/...
First comprehensive review paper on assimilating GRACE/-FO terrestrial water storage data into hydrological and land surface models - by Anne Springer @aquasong.bsky.social et al, just accepted for HESS
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#CRC1502 #DETECT
🌧️➡️💧 A new study from our #CRC1502 DETECT speaker @jurgenkusche.bsky.social (Zhong et al.) introduces a simple metric—rolling STD of GRACE(-FO) global TWSA—to map which region's water storage variability is becoming more nonstationary and precipitation-driven.
📝 doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2026.3650800
💧A new study from our #CRC1502 speaker @jurgenkusche.bsky.social, led by Fupeng Li, presents an downscaling approach to reproduce GRACE terrestrial water storage anomalies at 0.25°—retaining the large-scale GRACE signal while adding finer spatial detail for hydrology.
📝 doi.org/10.1029/2025GL119881
👩🎓 2nd #DETECT PhD - We congratulate @heikeschimmel.bsky.social on the successful defense of their dissertation at @unibonn.bsky.social (January 2026). The topic focused on sensitivity of organic soils to land use change and global warming, with important implications for soil–climate interactions.
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Our #CRC1502 team in B01 developed DIWASAR (DETECT-Discharge and water level), time-series of water level, river discharge and water storage from 2016 to 2024 using FFSAR nadir- and SWOT altimetry.
📊 detect-z03.geoinformation.net/map/
💡 doi.org/10.22541/ess...
👩💻 Jiaming Chen & Luciana Fenoglio
🎙️📻 NEW #CRC1502 podcast feature: our speaker @jurgenkusche.bsky.social joins the Water Resources Podcast to discuss updates on GRACE/GRACE-FO, applications for flood monitoring, and data assimilation with global hydrology models.
Listen here: wrp.beg.utexas.edu/episode/incr...
#Flooding #Hydrology
🛰️ Our #CRC1502 #DETECT member Prof. @ribana.bsky.social joins #Kinderuni @unibonn.bsky.social with: “Smart computers for nature—how satellites & robots help us understand and protect our environment.” Mon 26 Jan 2026, 17:15–18:00 (Bonn). Free entry (8–13 years old).
Info: www.uni-bonn.de/kinderuni
📡 NEW #CRC1502 VIDEO ALERT!
Simulation vs. Reality🥊: predicting precipitation remains tough. In this video, we show how 3D polarimetric radar observations help diagnose and improve the physics of precipitation in models—for better forecasts of rain and snow. ❄️💧
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSKv...
NEW #CRC1502 #DETECT paper: SWOT-derived river discharge tracks variability even without gauges (median r = 0.73) and points to 11,274 (and growing) high-quality ungauged locations where discharge dynamics can be captured from space.
📜 doi.org/10.1029/2024...
#SWOT #Hydrology #RiverDischarge
💧Check out the new #CRC1502 study addressing how the choice of prescribed sea surface temperature (SST) product in regional atmospheric simulations with ICON affects simulated land water budgets, through its influence on precipitation.
📜DOI: doi.org/10.1175/JHM-...
#ICON #SST #Hydrology
🛰️ NEW #CRC1502 paper: Launching into societal benefits from the SWOT mission. One year after launch, it highlights how SWOT’s water-surface measurements enable operational uses—water management, flood prediction & climate resilience (incl. DETECT’s Luciana Fenoglio).
📜 doi.org/10.1029/2024...
✈️ Back from #AGU25!
#CRC1502 #DETECT shared new results on (i) land-surface parameter estimation + reanalysis (Haojin Zhao, D03), (ii) snow data assimilation improving snow states and water/energy fluxes (Buliao Guan, C04), and (iii) gamma-radiation soil-moisture accuracy (Sonia Akter, A02).
🎆💻 Happy New Year! We are proud to present 5th #CRC1502 DETECT Land & Climate Seminar on WS 25/26 next week by Bahareh Kamali — “Exploring trade-offs and synergies for sustainable management of grassland ecosystems”. Online via Zoom, Mon 12.01.26, 10:15 CET.
Further info: sfb1502.de/news-events/...
🎄☃️✨ Season’s greetings from #CRC1502!
Thanks for your support in 2025—200 LinkedIn followers in 4 months, 107 papers (38 in 2025) & 1,438 citations , and our 10-post Most-Cited (2022–2024) series—plus new datasets/products, My Paper in 140s, and Land & Climate Seminars.
See you in 2026!
Background precipitation over Europe, and the river basins used for evaluation in the paper.
This is new. Francis da Silva Lopes (PhD student @unibonn.bsky.social @crc1502-detect.bsky.social) demonstrates how sea surface temp forcing and moisture transport in the ICON atmosphere model can be evaluated with precip, dicharge and GRACE observations. Just published: doi.org/10.1175/JHM-...
24.12.2025 09:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A reason to celebrate, congratulations 🛰️🎉
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The illustration shows the concept for the planned GRACE-C and NGGM satellite missions. © Illustration: Agentur Bosse / SFB 1502
🚀 Record ESA budget (€22.3B) boosts EO, and #CRC1502 at @unibonn.bsky.social contributes to scientific exploitation of ESA’s Next Generation Gravity Mission (NGGM). Our speaker @jurgenkusche.bsky.social highlights how better gravity data sharpens climate modelling.
📰 www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/231-...
Our #CRC1502 team integrated GRACE/GRACE-FO terrestrial water storage anomalies into eCLM across Europe, improving simulations of water storages and fluxes.
📊 detect-z03.geoinformation.net/geonetwork/s...
💡 www.globalwaterstorage.info/en/satellite...
👩💻 Yorck Ewerdwalbesloh & @aquasong.bsky.social
💧 NEW #CRC1502 publication! Zhu et al. review & benchmark large-scale irrigation area mapping. 10 European datasets vs EUROSTAT (2020) show survey stats are key—esp. humid regions where remote sensing has limits.
Open data + code available 👇
📜 doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...
#Irrigation #RemoteSensing
📗 The final (10th) post in our #CRC1502 most-cited series: Gu et al., (2024)—incl. our member Stefan Siebert—shows international agricultural trade may relieve global water scarcity, yet widens scarcity & inequity gaps, hitting the poorest in developing countries hardest.
📜 doi.org/10.1038/s442...
🚀 NGGM approved — exciting step for next-gen satellite gravimetry!
Proud that #CRC1502 contributes to ESA’s #SING project (incl. work by our speaker @jurgenkusche.bsky.social & our member @aquasong.bsky.social) to advance science readiness for NGGM.
#Geodesy
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📍 #CRC1502 at #AGU25
Presenting land-surface fluxes, snow DA & soil moisture:
📌 Posters (15 Dec, CST)
• H11J-1013 – LSM parameter estimation
• H13O – Snow DA & water/energy fluxes
📌 Talks
• B24D (16 Dec) – Multi-source DA for fluxes
• H52B (19 Dec) – Soil moisture from gamma
See you at AGU 2025!
🎉 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
📜 doi.org/10.1002/jpln...
📗 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/...