💧🛰️NEW #CRC1502 publication! Hacker et al. (co-authored by our speaker, @jurgenkusche.bsky.social) present a terrestrial water storage dataset from 1984 onward, combining pre-GRACE satellite observations and climate data. Great news for long-term water storage research.

📄 doi.org/10.5194/essd...

🌿💧Why ET partitioning matters: the split between transpiration and evaporation shapes land-surface water and energy fluxes. Project A03 #CRC1502 combines stable isotope, eddy-covariance and modelling approaches to improve T/ET estimates across ecosystems and climates.

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💧NEW #CRC1502 publication from our Speaker's Lab @jurgenkusche.bsky.social! Li et al. present an observation-driven forecast of global terrestrial water storage, showing it can beat ECMWF SEAS5 in seasonal prediction. A step toward operational water-storage forecasting.

📄 doi.org/10.1029/2025...

📘 New #CRC1502 publication from our speaker’s group @jurgenkusche.bsky.social by @aquasong.bsky.social from project #C01!

What would you track first with global near-real-time water storage data — drought, floods, groundwater depletion, or something else?

🍎⚖ #DETECTapple: Tiny gravity changes, huge insight! @aquasong.bsky.social studies how iGrav043 near Bonn tracks water storage, incl. water taken up by trees 🌱💧.
A 2-yr iGrav vs eCLM comparison agrees. GRACE-FO assimilation did not improve the match.

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#CRC1502 #DETECT

🌊🛰️ NEW #CRC1502 publication from Project #B01! Zakharova et al. explore how Sentinel-3 and Sentinel-6 SAR altimetry can support river discharge estimation, using the Rhine and Po as case studies. A strong step toward more robust discharge monitoring from space.

📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

💧📡 We are proud to present the 1st #CRC1502 DETECT Land & Climate Seminar of SoSe 2026: Fupeng Li — “How AI can improve satellite estimates of water storage changes”.

🗓 Tue 17.03.26 | 15:00 CET | Online (Zoom)
📩 Please contact us if you want to join.

Further info: sfb1502.de/news-events/...

📡🌱 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.
📄 doi.org/10.1002/vzj2...
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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/...

A Novel Metric for Quantifying Precipitation-Driven Variability in Global Terrestrial Water Storage Under global climate change and human intervention, an increased frequency of alternating drought and flood events exists, making such extreme conditions seemingly the new normal. These frequent event...

🌧️➡️💧 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

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

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
egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
#CRC1502 #DETECT

🛰️ 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

Launching Into Societal Benefits From the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission Expanding user communities for Earth observing satellite data enhances their utility and builds capacity for future growth For nearly 10 years the SWOT mission has cultivated an Early Adopter pro...

🛰️ 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!

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 asymmetric impacts of international agricultural trade on water use scarcity, inequality and inequity - Nature Water This work reveals that international agricultural trade eases water scarcity yet exacerbates inequity, disproportionately favouring more affluent populations, thus emphasizing the necessity for pro-po...

📗 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...

#climatescience #satellite #innovation #gravimetry #hydrology #climatechange #earthenergyimbalance | Magellium 🌍 A Major Milestone for Europe’s Next Generation Gravity Mission (NGGM)! European Space Agency - ESA’s Council at Ministerial Level (CM25) has officially approved the implementation of NGGM, marking ...

🚀 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

🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/magell...

📍 #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...