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19. Februar 2024
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MIRCA
Global data set of monthly irrigated and rainfed crop areas around the year 2000 (MIRCA2000)
A data set of monthly growing areas of 26 irrigated and rainfed crops was developed and related crop calendars for 402 spatial units were compiled. The selection of the crops consisted o...
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19. Februar 2024
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Klimawandel im Biosphärenreservat Rhön: Partizipative Risikobewertung und Anpassung (KlimaRhön)
Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf aquatische Ökosysteme und Wasserversorgung im Biosphärenreservat Rhön: Partizipative Risikobewertung und Entwicklung von Anpassungsmaßnahmen (KlimaRhön)
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19. Februar 2024
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Nitrogen
Development of the global terrestrial nitrogen model WaterGAP-N
UNEP's Global Environmental Outlook 2000 recognized that nitrogen pollution has become a global problem that does no longer affect only developed countries. Due to the future increase of population and wealth, an...
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19. Februar 2024
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HAPPI-DE project
HAPPI-DE: Climate and climate impact projections at 1.5 °C as compared to 2 °C global warming in the framework of the HAPPI initiative
Subproject: Climate impact in the water sector
Project summary
How does the climate and the climate impact look like in a world und...
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19. Februar 2024
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Global Nutrient Modeling
Global modeling of nitrogen and phosphorus (terrestrial transport path)
Currently, a model of terrestrial nitrogen (WaterGAP-N) is being developed. For the future, another model for phosphorus is planned.
UNEP's Global Environmental Outlook 2000 recognized th...
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19. Februar 2024
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Securing biodiversity, functional integrity and ecosystem services in DRYing riVER networks
Securing biodiversity, functional integrity and ecosystem services in DRYing riVER networks (DRYvER)
Project summary
DRYvER investigates how biodiversity, ecosystem functions, ecosyste...
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19. Februar 2024
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REGHYDRO
REGHYDRO
Combined Hydrological Modelling and Regional Geodetic Estimation of Water Storage Variations in Large River Basins using GRACE Data (REGHYDRO):
REGHYDRO is a sub-project within the framework of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Priority Research Program Mass ...
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19. Februar 2024
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SMOS
SMOS
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) remote sensing mission planned to be launched in September 2007 is part of the opportunity missions of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Earth Explorer programme. To inform the scientific community and the public about the curren...
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19. Februar 2024
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Regulation of Groundwater in Telecoupled Social-Ecological Systems
REGULATE - Regulation of Groundwater in Telecoupled Social-Ecological Systems
Subproject: Quantity – Availability and Uncertainty
Summary
Regulate is a junior research group exploring current challenges in manage...
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19. Februar 2024
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Towards a sustainable utilization of the global hydrological modelling software WaterGAP
Towards a sustainable utilization of the global hydrological modelling software WaterGAP (ReWaterGAP)
Project summary
WaterGAP is a global-scale hydrological simulation software for quantifying w...
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19. Februar 2024
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Global Irrigation Map
Generation of a digital global map of irrigation areas
Irrigated agricultural land comprises less than one-fifth of the total cropped area of the world but produces about two-fifths of the world's food. At the same time, irrigation accounts for about 70 % of the ...
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19. Februar 2024
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Global Crop Water Model (GCWM)
Development and application of the Global Crop Water Model (GCWM)
The Global Crop Water Model (GCWM) has been developed to simulate crop water use and crop yields in rainfed and irrigated agriculture. Yield decrease in rainfed agriculture due to water sc...
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19. Februar 2024
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WaterGAP
WaterGAP
Global modelling of water resources and water use
Since 1996, the global water resources and water use model WaterGAP (Water - Global Analysis and Prognosis) has been developed at the Center for Environmental Systems Research at theUniversityofKassel. Since 2003, fur...
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19. Februar 2024
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start
Systemic risks - Management strategies for pharmaceuticals in drinking water (start)
Recently, increasing attention in public, media and research is attracted by the appearance of pharmaceuticals and their metabolites in the hydrologic cycle. Up to now, specific pharmaceuticals ...
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19. Februar 2024
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Environmental flow
Estimating flow requirements of freshwater ecosystems in China with the global hydrology and water use model WaterGAP
Background
Freshwater scarcity has been recognized as a global issue of utmost importance. There is a growing awareness that increased water use by ...
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19. Februar 2024
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Historical extent of irrigation areas
Mapping of the historical extent of irrigation
While more and more information on the actual extent of irrigated agriculture has become available within the last decade and while the quality of the derived data products has been increasing signifi...
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19. Februar 2024
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Virtual water
Consistent assessment of global fluxes of blue and green virtual water
Background
A standard European or American consumer nowadays knows about global connections in the energy sector. He sees clearly that for daily transportation or heating he consumes fossil fuels that...
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19. Februar 2024
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WATCH
WATCH (Water and Global Change): Estimation of global groundwater status with the WaterGAP model
Background
Global freshwater resources in general are influenced heavily by global change. As a part of the freshwater resources, groundwater is a key source of water for society, bu...
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19. Februar 2024
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Evapotranspiration
Improved global scale modelling of potential and actual evapotranspiration
Evapotranspiration plays a major role in the water cycle for catchment hydrology as well for global water circulation. In many areas most of the water is evapotranspirated before it reaches t...
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19. Februar 2024
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Global Water Modeling
Global modeling of water resources and water use
The integrated global water resources and use model WaterGAP (Water - Global Analysis and Prognosis) serves for assessing the global freshwater system, with a specific focus on the interactions between humans and a...