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  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 11.12.2024

    WW-I-3: Mean discharge

    The picture shows a wide watercourse with a low water level. In some places the stony substrate projects beyond the water’s surface. In the background, a boat is visible docked at a jetty, in front of a range of hills on the horizon.

    … precipitation often accumulates as snow; therefore discharge is lowest at that time of year. As a result of snow melt in spring and early summer, often accompanied … as important for nearly all ecological functions of water bodies. Although the time series from the 1960s onwards shows a slight decline in the mean discharge value for …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 17.12.2024

    BAU-I-3: Cooling degree days

    The picture shows the glass frontage of a house reflecting the sun. Some of the windows are part-shaded by means of external roller shutters.

    … Region B. These three summer climate regions provide the spatial background to the time series illustrated for cooling degree days which were calculated based loosely on …

  • Press release 12/2025 from 20.03.2025 | Last changed: 04.08.2025

    Culture as the fourth dimension of sustainability

    Vier Personen sitzen auf der Bühne

    … Titled "Transformation and Irritation: Sustainability and Culture in Times of Radical Change", the German Environment Agency (UBS)'s fifth Sustainability … perspective, we consider "culture" from two different perspectives: as a series of connected values and norms, through which people perceive and react to …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 12.12.2024

    FW-I-2: Incremental growth in timber

    The picture shows a stack of timber.

    … Changes in incremental growth How quickly trees grow and how much timber volume per time unit develops, is essentially dependent on the nutrient and water supply at … available so far are starting points for the establishment of a long-term time series pertaining to timber growth increments. From 2002 onwards, there are …

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    Figure 3: Precipitation anomaly Germany winter

    Figure 3: Percentual deviation of winter precipitation (December, January, February) from the multi-annual mean of winter precipitation totals 1961–1990

    … winter precipitation for Germany from the multi-annual mean for 1961 to 1990. The time series begins in 1882 and extends to 2022. The negative deviations are illustrated …

  • Cover from 04.03.2025

    International Environmental Specimen Bank Group

    Korean specimen bank archive including lab workers

    … to established banks and background documents on the work routine. Journeys through time for the protection of the environment Environmental specimen banks archive … by future generations to study environmental processes and how they change through time. Currently, environmental specimen banking is experiencing a renaissance due to …