Biavati, G.; Feist, D. G.; Gerbig, C.; Kretschmer, R.: Error estimation for localized signal properties: application to atmospheric mixing height retrievals. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 8, pp. 4215 - 4230 (2015)
Vogel, F. R.; Tiruchittampalam, B.; Theloke, J.; Kretschmer, R.; Gerbig, C.; Hammer, S.; Levin, I.: Can we evaluate a fine-grained emission model using high-resolution atmospheric transport modelling and regional fossil fuel CO2 observations? Tellus, Series B - Chemical and Physical Meteorology 65, 18681 (2013)
Pillai, D.; Gerbig, C.; Kretschmer, R.; Beck, V.; Karstens, U.; Neininger, B.; Heimann, M.: Comparing Lagrangian and Eulerian models for CO2 transport - a step towards Bayesian inverse modeling using WRF/STILT-VPRM. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 12, pp. 8979 - 8991 (2012)
Kretschmer, R.; Gerbig, C.; Karstens, U.; Koch, F. T.: Error characterization of CO2 vertical mixing in the atmospheric transport model WRF-VPRM. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 12, pp. 2441 - 2458 (2011)
Ahmadov, R.; Gerbig, C.; Kretschmer, R.; Körner, S.; Neininger, B.; Dolman, A. J.; Sarrat, C.: Mesoscale covariance of transport and CO2 fluxes: Evidence from observations and simulations using the WRF-VPRM coupled atmosphere-biosphere model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 112 (22), p. D22107 (2007)
Kretschmer, R.: On the use of observation based mixing heights to constrain atmospheric CO2 transport models. Dissertation, XX, 123 pp., Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2014)
Kretschmer, R.: Development of a software system for integration, automation, management & [and] presentation of WRF-VPRM computer model runs. Diploma, 89 pp., Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena (2008)
On June 24, Prof. Dr. Henrik Hartmann, head of the Julius Kühn Institute for Forest Protection and former group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, received an important award for his scientific achievements in the field of forestry. Our warmest congratulations!
We have gained a new external member: Prof. Dr. Christian Wirth has been appointed by the Senate of the Max Planck Society as External Scientific Member. As a former group leader and later fellow at the institute, Prof. Wirth initiated and supported the development of the TRY database, the world's largest collection on plant traits.
Information gaps in global maps of plant characteristics can be filled with data from nature identification apps. Users of the iNaturalist app are playing a key role in helping researchers create global maps of plant traits. Among other things, the new maps provide an improved basis for understanding plant-environment interactions and for Earth system modeling.
An international research team has succeeded in identifying globally acting factors that cause the diversity of forms and functions of plants. Researchers compiled plant data from around the world and were able to show for the first time how strongly these are determined by climate and soil properties for characteristics such as the size, structure and life span of plants.