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Bodenschutz- und Altlasteninformationssystem

Das Landesamt für Umweltschutz führt nach § 11 Ausführungsgesetz des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt zum Bundes-Bodenschutzgesetz (BodSchAG LSA) ein Bodenschutz- und Altlasteninformationssystem. Das Bodenschutz- und Altlasteninformationssystem (ST-BIS) enthält beschreibende Informationen (Metainformationen) über Daten, deren Kenntnis für die Erfüllung bodenschutz- und altlastengesetzlicher Aufgaben von Bedeutung sein kann. Dieses Metainformationssystem gibt Auskunft darüber, wer Daten besitzt, wie man Sie erhält und um was für Daten es sich handelt. Das ST-BIS wird im Internet geführt. Die Informationen für das ST-BIS stellen die Behörden dem LAU auf Anforderung gebührenfrei zur Verfügung.

Evaluating current European agri-environment schemes to quantify and improve nature conservation efforts in agricultural landscapes (EASY)

Research question: Agri-environment schemes play an increasingly important role in European CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) to support biodiversity and environment in agricultural landscapes. They have been implemented since 1992 and now cost a yearly 1.7 billion Euro. Still, there is no conclusive evidence that these schemes actually do contribute to the conservation of particularly biodiversity. The primary objective of this project is to evaluate the (cost-) effectiveness of European agri-environment schemes in protecting biodiversity and to determine the primary processes that determine their effectiveness. This project furthermore aims to determine how CAP may be introduced in candidate EU-members without unacceptable loss of biodiversity. It will provide simple guidelines how researchers, governmental authorities may efficiently evaluate agri-environmental measures. Aim: Agri-environment schemes have been used to protect biodiversity and environment in agricultural areas since 1992. Their effectiveness has never been reliably evaluated. This project aims to evaluate the (cost-)effectiveness of agri-environment schemes with respect to biodiversity conservation in five European countries. It will determine the proper scales that have to be addressed for conservation efforts for a range of species groups. It will determine the most important environmental factors that influence the effectiveness of the schemes. Based on this, recommendations will be made how the effectiveness of schemes may be improved and simple guidelines will be produced how ecological effects of agri-environment schemes can be evaluated efficiently by governmental authorities or other institutions. The ecological effects of the introduction of CAP in a candidate EU-member will be investigated to reduce negative side effects of anticipated land-use changes Scientific methods: We will examine the effectiveness of agri-environment schemes by surveying pairs of fields: a field with an agri-environment scheme and a nearby field that is conventionally managed. In five countries, in each country in three areas, and in each area on seven pairs of fields the species richness of birds, plants and three insect groups (pollinators, herbivores, predators) will be determined. Effects of schemes on pollination efficiency and pest control will be examined using indicator communities. Correlative studies will examine the effects of landscape structure, land-use intensity and species pool on the effectiveness of agri-environmental measures. The spatial scale that is relevant to nature conservation efforts will be investigated via the spatial distribution of species groups. The results will be used to formulate recommendations how to improve the effectiveness of agri-environment schemes and to construct a set of simple guidelines how schemes can be evaluated efficiently yet reliably.

HÜK200: Verfestigung für den Oberen Grundwasserleiter

Das Attribut Verfestigung für den Oberen Grundwasserleiter wurde abgeleitet von der bestehenden Geologischen Übersichtskarte 1 : 200 000 (GUEK 200). Die Inhalte entsprechen der HÜK 200 der BGR.

DFG Trilateral collaboration Deutschland-Israel-Palestine: 'Biotic and abiotic factor affecting biological soil crust formation and recovery in a semiarid dune ecosystem : Gaza and NW Negev'

Sandy soils of the arid/semiarid dune fields of the Palestinian Gaza Strip and the Israeli western Negev are extensively covered by biological soil crusts (BSC), which stabilize the surface and prevent desertification. Political discussions in Israel suggest transferring a large part of this sand belt to the Gaza Strip within a final peace accord. Inappropriate land uses may lead to destruction of the BSC and initiate desertification, as already occurring in parts of the Gaza Strip. In this interdisciplinary project the influence of environmental factors on the vitality, stability and the recovery potential of the BSC will be investigated in order to evaluate the carrying capacity of this fragile landscape, in relation to rainfall, soil and relief conditions. A transect stretching from the Mediterranean coast in the Palestinian Gaza Strip (370 mm rainfall) to 65 km southwards in Israel ( Nizzana , less than 100 mm rainfall) has been selected. The interactions of molecular biological, physiological, physical and soil chemical processes, expressed in specific characteristics of the BSC and the underlying soil, will be assessed from the molecular to the landscape scale.

HÜK200: Gesteinsart für den Oberen Grundwasserleiter

Das Attribut 'Gesteinsart' für den Oberen Grundwasserleiter wurde abgeleitet von der bestehenden Geologischen Übersichtskarte 1 : 200 000 (GÜK 200). Die Inhalte entsprechen der HÜK 200 der BGR.

Schwerpunktprogramm (SPP) 1158: Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas; Bereich Infrastruktur - Antarktisforschung mit vergleichenden Untersuchungen in arktischen Eisgebieten, Investigation of mechanism driving glacial/interglacial variability in stratification/mixing and biological productivity of the Pacific Southern Ocean and potential implications on air-sea CO2-exchange: synthesis of climate and ocean biogeochemical modeling with paleoceanographic reconstructions

Atmospheric CO2 concentrations present a repetitive pattern of gradual decline and rapid increase during the last climate cycles, closely related to temperature and sea level change. During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; 23-19 kyr BP), when sea level was ca. 120 m below present, the ocean must have stored additionally about 750 Gt carbon. There is consensus that the Southern Ocean represents a key area governing past and present CO2 change. The latter is not only of high scientific but also of socio-economic and political concern since the Southern Ocean provides the potential for an efficient sink of anthropogenic carbon. However, the sensitivity of this carbon sink to climate-change induced reorganizations in wind patterns, ocean circulation, stratification, sea ice extent and biological production remains under debate. Models were not yet able to reproduce the necessary mechanisms involved, potentially due to a lack of the dynamic representation/resolution of atmospheric and oceanic circulation as well as missing carbon cycling. Data on past Southern Ocean hydrography and productivity are mainly from the Atlantic sector, thus do not adequately document conditions in the Pacific sector. This sector is not only the largest part of the Southern Ocean, but it also represents the main drainage area of the marine-based West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). In the proposed study we aim to generate paleo-data sets with a newly established proxy method from sediment core transects across the Pacific Southern Ocean. This will enhance the baselines for the understanding and modeling of the Southern Ocean's role in carbon cyling, i.e. ocean/atmosphere CO2 exchange and carbon sequestration. It will also allow insight into the response of the WAIS to past warmer than present conditions. Paired isotope measurements (oxygen, silicon) will be made on purified diatoms and radiolarians to describe glacial/interglacial contrasts in physical and nutrient properties at surface and subsurface water depth. This will be used to test (i) the impact of yet unconsidered dust-borne micronutrient deposition on the glacial South Pacific on shifts of primary productivity, Si-uptake rates and carbon export, (ii) the 'silicic-acid leakage' hypothesis (SALH) and (iii) the formation and extent of surface water stratification. Diatom and radiolarian oxygen isotopes will provide information on the timing of surface ocean salinity anomalies resulting from WAIS melt water. Climate model simulations using a complex coupled atmosphere ocean general circulation model (AOGCM) in combination with a sophisticated ocean biogeochemical model including Si-isotopes will be used for comparison with the paleo records. The analysis will cover spatial as well as temporal variability patterns of Southern Ocean hydrography, nutrient cycling and air-sea CO2-exchange. With the help of the climate model we aim to better separate and statistically analyse the individual impacts of ocean circulation and bio

Vegetation dynamics following forest stand destruction by snow avalange in the Berchtesgaden National Park

On 18 Januar 1986 at the east-looking slope of the Kleiner Watzmann in the Berchtesgaden National Park a snow avalanche came down from an elevation of about 2.000 m to the Königssee near St. Bartholomae (610 m above see level). It destroyed 12 to 15 ha of old growth forests dominated by beech (Fagus sylvatica); about 2.000 m3 of wood were thrown down. The soil survace was not intensively effected by the snow avalange. Because the area is situated in the central protection zone of the national park no clearing procedure was done, and a free stand develeopment without any direct impact of man is allowed to take place. In 1989 permanent plots (3 transects, each starting in the surrounding forest and crossing to avalanche area) were established. Vegetation and stand structure records were carried out in 1989, 1994 and 1999. Vegetation development in the first place is characterised by (1) a re-establishment of the tree layer by the (beech) trees, which were bent to the ground but not killed by the avalanche, (2) by seedling and sapling establishment (especially Acer and Fraxinus, but not by pioneer trees) and (3) by continuing floristic composition of the ground vegetation (coverage increasing or decresing depending on the light conditions).

Verzögerte Antwort der Ionosphäre auf Variationen des solaren EUV (DRIVAR)

Das ionosphärische Plasma reagiert auf Änderungen der ionosphärischen EUV und UV-Strahlung auf der Zeitskala der solaren Rotation mit einer Verzögerung von 1-2 Tagen. Es wird angenommen, dass diese Verzögerung auf Transportprozesse von der unteren Ionosphäre in die F-Region zurück zu führen ist, doch wurden bislang nur begrenzte Modelluntersuchungen durchgeführt, um diesen Zusammenhang zu belegen. Innerhalb von DRIVAR sollen die Prozesse, die für die ionosphärische Verzögerung verantwortlich sind, durch umfassende Datenanalyse und Modellierung untersucht werden. Verschiedene solare Proxies sowie spektral aufgelöste EUV- und UV-Flüsse aus Satellitenmessungen werden verwendet und zusammen mit ionosphärischen Parametern analysiert, welche aus GPS-Radiookkultationsmessungen, Ionosondenmessungen und GPS-Gesamtelektronenmessungen stammen. Letztere haben sowohl den Vorteil einer globalen Abdeckung als auch einer z.T. räumlich hoher Auflösung. Die ionosphärsche Verzögerung wird auf verschiedenen Zeitskalen ionosphärischer Variation (Tage, solare Rotation, saisonal) untersucht, und regionale Abhängigkeiten werden analysiert.Wegen des komplexen Charakters der involvierten Prozesse in der Thermosphäre und Ionosphäre werden Experimente mit numerischen Modellen benötigt, um die der Verzögerung zugrundeliegenden Prozesse physikalisch zu untersuchen. Wir verwenden das Coupled Thermosphere Ionosphere Plasmasphere Electrodynamics (CTIPe), um die Verzögerung zu simulieren und führen Sensitivitätsstudien durch um die zur ionosphärischen Verzögerung führenden Prozesse im Detail zu analysieren. Zusätzliche Experimente werden mit dem Upper Atmosphere Model (UAM) durchgeführt.Die Ergebnisse von DRIVAR werden zu einem verbesserten Verständnis ionosphärischer Prozesse führen und werden insbesondere in der Vorhersage ionosphärischer Variabilität Anwendung finden, z.B. bei der Analyse und Vorhersage von GNSS- Positionsfehlern.

Schwerpunktprogramm (SPP) 1488: Planetary Magnetism (PlanetMag), Probing the Earth's subdecadal core-mantle dynamics based on satellite geomagnetic field models

The CHAMP mission provided a great amount of geomagnetic data all over the globe from 2000 to 2010. Its dense data coverage has allowed us to build GRIMM - GFZ Reference Internal Magnetic Model - which has the highest ever resolution for the core field in both space and time. We have already modeled the fluid flow in the Earth's outer core by applying the diffusionless magnetic induction equation to the latest version of GRIMM, to find that the flow evolves on subdecadal timescales, with a remarkable correlation to the observed fluctuation of Earth rotation. These flow models corroborated the presence of six-year torsional oscillations in the outer core fluid. Torsional oscillation (TO) is a type of hydromagnetic wave, theoretically considered to form the most important element of decadal or subdecadal core dynamics. It consists of relative azimuthal rotations of rigid fluid annuli coaxial with the mantle's rotation and dynamically coupled with the mantle and inner core. In preceding works, the TOs have been studied by numerical simulations, either with full numerical dynamos, or solving eigenvalue problems ideally representing the TO system. While these studies drew insights about dynamical aspects of the modeled TOs, they did not directly take into account the observations of geomagnetic field and Earth rotation. Particularly, there have been no observation-based studies for the TO using satellite magnetic data or models. In the proposed project, we aim at revealing the subdecadal dynamics and energetics of the Earth's core-mantle system on the basis of satellite magnetic observations. To that end, we will carry out four work packages (1) to (4), for all of which we use GRIMM. (1) We perform timeseries analyses of core field and flow models, to carefully extract the signals from TOs at different latitudes. (2) We refine the conventional flow modeling scheme by parameterizing the magnetic diffusion at the core surface. Here, the diffusion term is reinstated in the magnetic induction equation, which is dynamically constrained by relating it to the Lorentz term in the Navier-stokes equation. (3) We develop a method to compute the electromagnetic core-mantle coupling torque on the core fluid annuli, whereby the energy dissipation due to the Joule heating is evaluated for each annulus. This analysis would provide insights on whether the Earth's TOs are free or forced oscillations. (4) Bringing together physical implications and computational tools obtained by (1) to (3), we finally construct a dynamical model for the Earth's TOs and core-mantle coupling such that they are consistent with GRIMM and Earth rotation observation. This modeling is unique in that the force balances concerning the TOs are investigated in time domain, as well as that the modeling also aims at improving the observation-based core flow model by considering the core dynamics.

GTS Bulletin: ISND08 EDZW - Observational data (Binary coded) - BUFR (details are described in the abstract)

The ISND08 TTAAii Data Designators decode as: T1 (I): Observational data (Binary coded) - BUFR T1T2 (IS): Surface/sea level T1T2A1 (ISN): Synoptic observations from fixed land stations at non-standard time (i.e. 0100, 0200, 0400, 0500, ... UTC) A2 (D): 90°E - 0° northern hemisphere(The bulletin collects reports from stations: 10564;Schleiz;10565;Osterfeld;10569;Plauen;10574;Carlsfeld;10577;Chemnitz;10579;Marienberg;10582;Zinnwald-Georgenfeld;10591;Lichtenhain-Mittelndorf;10615;Deuselbach;10628;Geisenheim;10635;Kleiner Feldberg/Taunus;10646;Neuhütten/Spessart;10648;Michelstadt-Vielbrunn;10658;Kissingen, Bad;10671;Lautertal-Oberlauter;10686;Wunsiedel-Schönbrunn;10704;Berus;10706;Tholey;10724;Weinbiet;10733;Waibstadt;10736;Mühlacker;10739;Stuttgart (Schnarrenberg);10747;Kaisersbach-Cronhütte;) (Remarks from Volume-C: SYNOP)

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