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Atmospheric Moisture Pathways to the Highlands of the Tropical Andes: Analyzing the Effects of Spectral Nudging on Different Driving Fields for Regional Climate Modeling by Trachte, Katja

“…Atmospheric moisture pathways to the highlands of the tropical Andes Mountains were investigated using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, as…”
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Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes in Cottbus City and Spree-Neisse District, Germany, in the Last Two Decades: A Study Using Remote Sensing Data and Google Earth Engine by Ahmed, Rezwan, Zafor, Md. Abu, Trachte, Katja

“…Regular detection of land-use and land-cover (LULC) changes with high accuracy is necessary for natural resources management and sustainable urban planning…”
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Trees with anisohydric behavior as main drivers of nocturnal evapotranspiration in a tropical mountain rainforest by Raffelsbauer, Volker, Pucha-Cofrep, Franz, Strobl, Simone, Knüsting, Johannes, Schorsch, Michael, Trachte, Katja, Scheibe, Renate, Bräuning, Achim, Windhorst, David, Bendix, Jörg, Silva, Brenner, Beck, Erwin

“…This study addresses transpiration in a tropical evergreen mountain forest in the Ecuadorian Andes from the leaf to the stand level, with emphasis on nocturnal…”
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A research framework for projecting ecosystem change in highly diverse tropical mountain ecosystems by Bendix, Jörg, Aguire, Nicolay, Beck, Erwin, Bräuning, Achim, Brandl, Roland, Breuer, Lutz, Böhning-Gaese, Katrin, de Paula, Mateus Dantas, Hickler, Thomas, Homeier, Jürgen, Inclan, Diego, Leuschner, Christoph, Neuschulz, Eike L., Schleuning, Matthias, Suarez, Juan P., Trachte, Katja, Wilcke, Wolfgang, Windhorst, David, Farwig, Nina

“…Tropical mountain ecosystems are threatened by climate and land-use changes. Their diversity and complexity make projections how they respond to environmental…”
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Clustering of Rainfall Types Using Micro Rain Radar and Laser Disdrometer Observations in the Tropical Andes by Urgilés, Gabriela, Célleri, Rolando, Trachte, Katja, Bendix, Jörg, Orellana-Alvear, Johanna

“…Lack of rainfall information at high temporal resolution in areas with a complex topography as the Tropical Andes is one of the main obstacles to study its…”
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Tritium as a hydrological tracer in Mediterranean precipitation events by Juhlke, Tobias R, Sültenfuß, Jürgen, Trachte, Katja, Huneau, Frédéric, Garel, Emilie, Santoni, Sébastien, Barth, Johannes A. C, van Geldern, Robert

“…Climate models are in need of improved constraints for water vapor transport in the atmosphere, and tritium can serve as a powerful tracer in the hydrological…”
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Rainfall and Cloud Dynamics in the Andes: A Southern Ecuador Case Study by Bendix, Jörg, Trachte, Katja, Célleri, Rolando, Campozano, Lenin, Samaniego, Esteban

“…Mountain regions worldwide present a pronounced spatiotemporal precipitation variability, which added to scarce monitoring networks limits our understanding of…”
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Perspectives of lignite post-mining landscapes under changing environmental conditions: what can we learn from a comparison between the Rhenish and Lusatian region in Germany? by Gerwin, Werner, Raab, Thomas, Birkhofer, Klaus, Hinz, Christoph, Letmathe, Peter, Leuchner, Michael, Roß-Nickoll, Martina, Rüde, Thomas, Trachte, Katja, Wätzold, Frank, Lehmkuhl, Frank

“…Background The decision of the German federal government to cease lignite mining until 2038 or—if possible—already earlier until 2030, will cause manifold…”
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A Case Study on Fog/Low Stratus Occurrence at Las Lomitas, Atacama Desert (Chile) as a Water Source for Biological Soil Crusts by Lehnert, Lukas W., Thies, Boris, Trachte, Katja, Achilles, Sebastian, Osses, Pablo, Baumann, Karen, Schmidt, Jakob, Samolov, Elena, Jung, Patrick, Leinweber, Peter, Karsten, Ulf, Büdel, Burkhard, Bendix, Jörg

“…The Atacama Desert is well known for the high occurrence of large-scale fog (spatial extents: hundreds of kilometers) emerging as low stratus (LST) decks over…”
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How Do Mediterranean Pine Trees Respond to Drought and Precipitation Events along an Elevation Gradient? by Sonja Szymczak, Martin Häusser, Emilie Garel, Sébastien Santoni, Frédéric Huneau, Isabel Knerr, Katja Trachte, Jörg Bendix, Achim Bräuning

“…Drought is a major factor limiting tree growth and plant vitality. In the Mediterranean region, the length and intensity of drought stress strongly varies with…”
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Climatology and Teleconnections of Mesoscale Convective Systems in an Andean Basin in Southern Ecuador: The Case of the Paute Basin by Mejia, John F., Bendix, Joerg, Samaniego, Esteban, Célleri, Rolando, Trachte, Katja, Campozano, Lenin, Albuja, Cristóbal

“…Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) climatology, the thermodynamic and dynamical variables, and teleconnections influencing MCSs development are assessed for…”
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Partitioning of Large-Scale and Local-Scale Precipitation Events by Means of Spatio-Temporal Precipitation Regimes on Corsica by Knerr, Isabel, Trachte, Katja, Garel, Emilie, Huneau, Frédéric, Santoni, Sébastien, Bendix, Jörg

“…The island of Corsica in the western Mediterranean is characterized by a pronounced topography in which local breeze systems develop in the diurnal cycle. In…”
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The Dry and the Wet Case: Tree Growth Response in Climatologically Contrasting Years on the Island of Corsica by Martin Häusser, Sonja Szymczak, Isabel Knerr, Jörg Bendix, Emilie Garel, Frédéric Huneau, Katja Trachte, Sébastien Santoni, Achim Bräuning

“…Stem radial variations of Corsican Black pine (Pinus nigra Arnold subsp. laricio Maire) and Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Aiton) were monitored to quantify the…”
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Classification of Tree Functional Types in a Megadiverse Tropical Mountain Forest from Leaf Optical Metrics and Functional Traits for Two Related Ecosystem Functions by Oliver Limberger, Jürgen Homeier, Nina Farwig, Franz Pucha-Cofrep, Andreas Fries, Christoph Leuschner, Katja Trachte, Jörg Bendix

“…Few plant functional types (PFTs) with fixed average traits are used in land surface models (LSMs) to consider feedback between vegetation and the changing…”
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Katabatic Flows and Their Relation to the Formation of Convective Clouds—Idealized Case Studies by Trachte, Katja, Bendix, Joerg

“…The formation of a convective cloud system as a result of a katabatic-induced surface cold front at the eastern Andes Mountains of South America was…”
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Cross-Scale Precipitation Variability in a Semiarid Catchment Area on the Western Slopes of the Central Andes by Trachte, Katja, Seidel, Jochen, Figueroa, Rafael, Otto, Marco, Bendix, Joerg

“…Spatiotemporal precipitation patterns were investigated on the western slopes of the central Andes Mountains by applying EOF and cluster analysis as well as…”
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Atmosphere-surface fluxes modeling for the high Andes: The case of páramo catchments of Ecuador by Carrillo-Rojas, Galo, Schulz, Hans Martin, Orellana-Alvear, Johanna, Ochoa-Sánchez, Ana, Trachte, Katja, Célleri, Rolando, Bendix, Jörg

“…[Display omitted] •Site-specific parameterization of the Community Land Model for páramo catchments.•The CLM was evaluated with remote sensing, water balance…”
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First indications of seasonal and spatial variations of water sources in pine trees along an elevation gradient in a Mediterranean ecosystem derived from δ18O by Szymczak, Sonja, Barth, Johannes, Bendix, Jörg, Huneau, Frédéric, Garel, Emilie, Häusser, Martin, Juhlke, Tobias, Knerr, Isabel, Santoni, Sébastien, Mayr, Christoph, Trachte, Katja, van Geldern, Robert, Bräuning, Achim

“…Water availability is the most important factor for the vitality of forest ecosystems, especially in dry environments. The Mediterranean region is one of the…”
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Xylem formation patterns from Mediterranean to subalpine climate conditions reveal high growth plasticity of pine species on Corsica by Häusser, Martin, Aryal, Sugam, Barth, Johannes A. C., Bendix, Jörg, Garel, Emilie, van Geldern, Robert, Huneau, Frédéric, Juhlke, Tobias R., Knerr, Isabel, Santoni, Sébastien, Szymczak, Sonja, Trachte, Katja, Bräuning, Achim

“…Key message Black pine and Maritime pine exhibit considerable differences in growth phenology across elevation belts with a 1-month delay for xylogenesis and…”
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Precipitation Characteristics at Two Locations in the Tropical Andes by Means of Vertically Pointing Micro-Rain Radar Observations by Seidel, Jochen, Trachte, Katja, Orellana-Alvear, Johanna, Figueroa, Rafael, Célleri, Rolando, Bendix, Jörg, Fernandez, Ciro, Huggel, Christian

“…In remote areas with steep topography, such as the Tropical Andes, reliable precipitation data with a high temporal resolution are scarce. Therefore, studies…”
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