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This cumulative thesis encompass three studies focusing on the Weddell Sea region in the Antarctic. The first study produces and evaluates a high quality data set of wind measurements for this region. The second study produces and evaluates a 15 year regional climate simulation for the Weddell Sea region. And the third study produces and evaluates a climatology of low level jets (LLJs) from the simulation data set. The evaluations were done in the attached three publications and the produced data sets are published online.
In 2015/2016, the RV Polarstern undertook an Antarctic expedition in the Weddell Sea. We operated a Doppler wind lidar on board during that time running different scan patterns. The resulting data was evaluated, corrected, processed and we derived horizontal wind speed and directions for vertical profiles with up to 2 km height. The measurements cover 38 days with a temporal resolution of 10-15 minutes. A comparisons with other radio sounding data showed only minor differences.
The resulting data set was used alongside other measurements to evaluate temperature and wind of simulation data. The simulation data was produced with the regional climate model CCLM for the period of 2002 to 2016 for the Weddell Sea region. Only smaller biases were found except for a strong warm bias during winter near the surface of the Antarctic Plateau. Thus we adapted the model setup and were able to remove the bias in a second simulation.
This new simulation data was then used to derive a climatology of low level jets (LLJs). Statistics of occurrence frequency, height and wind speed of LLJs for the Weddell Sea region are presented along other parameters. Another evaluation with measurements was also performed in the last study.
Die vorliegende Arbeit entstand im Rahmen des INTERREG III B-Projektes WaReLa (Water Retention by Landuse), das sich mit dem Rückhalt von Wasser in der Fläche als Beitrag zum vorbeugenden Hochwasserschutz beschäftigt. Im Vordergrund stehen dabei die so genannten dezentralen Rückhaltemaßnahmen als Alternative bzw. Ergänzung zum technischen Hochwasserschutz. Gegenstand dieser Arbeit ist die Frage nach der Effizienz von Retentionsmaßnahmen in urbanen Räumen und deren Beitrag zum Hochwasserschutz. Es handelt sich um ein relativ junges Forschungsthema, welches die Fachwelt bis heute kontrovers diskutiert. Wie bisherige Untersuchungen zeigen, sind allgemeine Aussagen über die Retentionswirkung nicht möglich, da das Potential der Regenwasserbewirtschaftung und deren Rückhaltewirkung von mehreren gebietsspezifischen Faktoren gesteuert werden. Untersuchungen an einem Retentionssystem im Neubaugebiet Trier-Petrisberg sollten weitere Erkenntnisse bringen. Hierzu wurde zum einen die hydraulische Belastung einzelner Retentionsanlagen untersucht und zum anderen wurden N A-Simulationen mit dem Programm erwin 4.0 durchgeführt. Laut N-A-Simulationen hält das Retentionssystem, welches für ein 100-jährliches Ereignis mit 56 mm Niederschlag und der Dauerstufe 3 Stunden konzipiert wurde, im Vergleich zur Entwässerung des Gebietes über ein Trennsystem zwischen 58 % und 68 % des Jahresniederschlags zurück. Ähnlich hohe Werte (60 80 %) nennen GÖBEL, STUBBE, WEINERT, ZIMMERMANN, FACH, DIERKES, KORIES, MESSER, MERTSCH, GEIGER & COLDEWEY (2004: 270f) und WEGNER (1992: 7f) für die von ihnen untersuchten Anlagen. Sehr hoch erscheint die Scheitel abmindernde Wirkung des Retentionssystems im Vergleich zu einer konventionellen Ableitung. Im Mittel beträgt diese 82 %, so dass der Scheitel der Einleitung in den Vorfluter Brettenbach im Vergleich zur Regenwasserableitung auf 1/5 reduziert wird. Aufschluss über die Scheitelabminderung im Vorfluter selbst kann nur eine Quantifizierung der einzelnen Abflusskomponenten geben. Das Retentionssystem arbeitet im Sommerhalbjahr effektiver als im Winterhalbjahr, da trockene Vorperioden, höhere Lufttemperaturen und die Vegetation im Sommer einen besseren Rückhalt konvektiver Niederschläge begünstigen. Korrespondierende Aussagen machen ASSMANN & KEMPF (2005), GANTNER (2003a) und NIEHOFF (2002). Beobachtungen und Simulationen zeigen, dass das Retentionssystem bisher effektiv arbeitet. Sämtliche Retentionsanlagen entleeren sich innerhalb von 48 Stunden. Die Arbeit wird ergänzt durch Handlungsempfehlungen zu Planung, Bau und Betrieb von Anlagen zur Regenwasserbewirtschaftung auf Privatgrundstücken. Sie sollen helfen, die Akzeptanz naturnaher Maßnahmen zur Bewirtschaftung von Regenwasser zu steigern, Fehler zu vermeiden und Projekte erfolgreich umzusetzen.
Nonlocal operators are used in a wide variety of models and applications due to many natural phenomena being driven by nonlocal dynamics. Nonlocal operators are integral operators allowing for interactions between two distinct points in space. The nonlocal models investigated in this thesis involve kernels that are assumed to have a finite range of nonlocal interactions. Kernels of this type are used in nonlocal elasticity and convection-diffusion models as well as finance and image analysis. Also within the mathematical theory they arouse great interest, as they are asymptotically related to fractional and classical differential equations.
The results in this thesis can be grouped according to the following three aspects: modeling and analysis, discretization and optimization.
Mathematical models demonstrate their true usefulness when put into numerical practice. For computational purposes, it is important that the support of the kernel is clearly determined. Therefore nonlocal interactions are typically assumed to occur within an Euclidean ball of finite radius. In this thesis we consider more general interaction sets including norm induced balls as special cases and extend established results about well-posedness and asymptotic limits.
The discretization of integral equations is a challenging endeavor. Especially kernels which are truncated by Euclidean balls require carefully designed quadrature rules for the implementation of efficient finite element codes. In this thesis we investigate the computational benefits of polyhedral interaction sets as well as geometrically approximated interaction sets. In addition to that we outline the computational advantages of sufficiently structured problem settings.
Shape optimization methods have been proven useful for identifying interfaces in models governed by partial differential equations. Here we consider a class of shape optimization problems constrained by nonlocal equations which involve interface-dependent kernels. We derive the shape derivative associated to the nonlocal system model and solve the problem by established numerical techniques.
Considering actual climatic and land use changes the problem of available water resources or the estimation of potential flood risks gain eco-political and economical relevance. Adequate assessments, thus, require precise process-based hydrological knowledge. Spatially distributed hydrological modelling enables a both abstractive and realistic description of hydrological processes, and therefore contributes to the understanding of the hydrological system- responses. Referring to the example of the mesoscale Ruwer basin (a tributary to the Mosel river), a modified version of the distributive modelling system PRMS/MMS (Precipitation Runoff Modeling System/Modular Modeling System) is applied to calculate spatially and temporally explicit water budgets. To achieve modelling results as precise as possible, integration of detailed land use information (spatial distribution of the existing land use classes, crop- and site-specific growth patterns) is necessary. This information is derived here by analysis of multitemporal, geometrically and radiometrically pre-processed Landsat TM-data. This enables separation of different land use classes and differentiated quantification of the leaf area index (LAI). The LAI is estimated by a spectral unmixing approach using statistically optimized endmember sets, referring to the example of winter grain and grassland plots. As a result, numerical inputs (coefficients for calculating evapotranspiration, interception storages) and extracted non-numerical (classified) information can be provided for hydrological modelling. The version of PRMS applied in this study allows important land use terms to be parameterized in high temporal resolution. Using model input derived from the available satellite data, simulation results are obtained that prove to be realistic compared to gauge data and with respect to their spatial differentiation. Results differ significantly from those obtained by using parameters from literature or by experience without distinguishing specific and site-dependent growth patterns. It can be concluded that the quality of modelling results notably improves by integration and quantitative analysis of remote sensing data; thus, these methods are a significant contribution to physically-based hydrological modelling.
Niederschlagswasserbewirtschaftung dient der Wiederherstellung der natürlichen Abflussprozesse. Da die negativen Auswirkungen des anthropogenen Eingriffs durch Kanalisierung, Versiegelung, Bodenverdichtung u.a. erkannt sind, sind Maßnahmen zum Erhalt des natürlichen Wasserkreislaufs bei Neubaumaßnahmen obligatorisch. Ziel ist es, durch Speicherung, Versickerung und gedrosselte Ableitung den dämpfenden Einfluss des Bodens auf die Wasserstandsganglinie von Gewässern zu nutzen, bzw. zu näherungsweise zu imitieren. Zur Optimierung der zur Regenwasserbewirtschaftung dienenden Verfahren wurden Vorschriften, Richtwerte und Bauanleitungen durch Gesetzgebung und Wissenschaft geschaffen. Diese sollen Anleitung zum bestmöglichen Einsatz der bestehenden Retentionsmöglichkeiten geben. Für ein Neubaugebiet in Rodt in der Eifel scheinen jedoch die Vorraussetzungen zum Einsatz der standardisierten Verfahren nicht gegeben. Die notwendigen Wasser-Durchlässigkeiten wurden bestimmt und als außerhalb der vorgeschlagenen Grenzwerte liegend erkannt. Somit stellt sich die Frage nach Alternativen, die durch das Erstellen einer Modellsimulation in ihrer Wirksamkeit überprüft werden sollten. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden sechs an die Gegebenheiten im Baugebiet angepasste Konzepte erstellt, die sich aus den möglichen Regenwasser- Retentionsmaßanlagen Retentionsteich, Kunststoffrigole, Tieflockerungsrigole und Brauchwassernutzung zusammensetzen. Die Konzepte werden mit dem Simulationsprogramm STELLA- Research 7.01 in Modelle umgesetzt und vorhandene die örtlichen Gegebenheiten kennzeichnende Daten als Grundlage der Simulation aufgenommen. Mit dem Ziel der Minimierung und Optimierung des Restüberlaufs aus dem Baugebiet in den Vorfluter werden die Simulationen auf grundlegende Schalter untersucht und diese in ihrer Wirkung beschrieben. Aus den Ergebnissen werden die optimierten Verfahren auf ihre Abwendbarkeit im Baugebiet in den Punkten Niederschlagswasser- Retention, Anpassung an natürliche Gegebenheiten und Kostenminderung überprüft und Vorschläge zur Durchführung der Arbeiten abgeleitet.
It has been the overall aim of this research work to assess the potential of hyperspectral remote sensing data for the determination of forest attributes relevant to forest ecosystem simulation modeling and forest inventory purposes. A number of approaches for the determination of structural and chemical attributes from hyperspectral remote sensing have been applied to the collected data sets. Many of the methods to be found in the literature were up to now just applied to broadband multispectral data, applied to vegetation canopies other than forests, reported to work on the leaf level or with modelled data, not validated with ground truth data, or not systematically compared to other methods. Attributes that describe the properties of the forest canopy and that are potentially open to remote sensing were identified, appropriate methods for their retrieval were implemented and field, laboratory and image data (HyMap sensor) were acquired over a number of forest plots. The study on structural attributes compared statistical and physical approaches. In the statistical section, linear predictive models between vegetation indices derived from HyMap data and field measurements of structural forest stand attributes were systematically evaluated. The study demonstrates that for hyperspectral image data, linear regression models can be applied to quantify leaf area index and crown volume with good accuracy. For broadband multispectral data, the accuracy was generally lower. The physically-based approach used the invertible forest reflectance model (INFORM), a combination of well established sub-models FLIM, SAIL and LIBERTY. The model was inverted with HyMap data using a neural network approach. In comparison to the statistical approach, it could be shown that the reflectance model inversion works equally well. In opposition to empirically derived prediction functions that are generally limited to the local conditions at a certain point in time and to a specified sensor type, the calibrated reflectance model can be applied more easily to different optical remote sensing data acquired over central European forests. The study on chemical forest attributes evaluated the information content of HyMap data for the estimation of nitrogen, chlorophyll and water concentration. A number of needle samples of Norway spruce were analysed for their total chlorophyll, nitrogen and water concentrations. The chemical data was linked to needle spectra measured in the laboratory and canopy spectra measured by the HyMap sensor. Wavebands selected in statistical models were often located in spectral regions that are known to be important for chlorophyll detection (red edge, green peak). Predictive models were applied on the HyMap image to compute maps of chlorophyll concentration and nitrogen concentration. Results of map overlay operations revealed coherence between total chlorophyll and zones of stand development stage and between total chlorophyll and zones of soil type. Finally, it can be stated that the hyperspectral remote sensing data generally contains more information relevant to the estimation of the forest attributes compared to multispectral data. Structural forest attributes, except biomass, can be determined with good accuracy from a hyperspectral sensor type like HyMap. Among the chemical attributes, chlorophyll concentration can be determined with good accuracy and nitrogen concentration with moderate accuracy. For future research, additional dimensions have to be taken into account, for instance through exploitation of multi-view angle data. Additionally, existing forest canopy reflectance models should be further improved.
Auf der Grundlage von bodenphysikalischen Standortdaten wurden mit dem physikalisch basierten Modell CATFLOW Bodenwassergehalte und Abflussprozesse von verschiedenen Standorten im Mesozoikum der Trierer Bucht auf der Plotskale simuliert. Die Standorte unterscheiden sich durch das Ausgangssubstrat der Bodenbildung (lehmig-tonig, schluffig-sandig) und die Landnutzung (Acker, Grünland, Wald). Für die Modellvalidierung standen wöchentliche Bodenwassergehaltsmessungen, monatliche Sickerwassersummen aus Lysimetermessungen und Oberflächen- und Zwischenabflusskurven von Beregnungsversuchen zur Verfügung. Ziel der Arbeit ist es zu untersuchen, inwieweit Retentionseigenschaften, Abflussprozesse und Abflussmengen aus Standortdaten ohne eine weitere Kalibrierung des Modells abgeleitet werden können. Besonderer Wert wird dabei auf die Parametrisierung des Bodens gelegt. Das Modell simuliert den Wassertransport in der Bodenmatrix über die zweidimensionale Richardsgleichung und den schnellen Wassertransport in Makroporen über ein einfaches Bulk-Modell. Daneben werden Oberflächenrauhigkeit, Durchwurzelungstiefe und Vegetationsbedeckung im Jahresgang berücksichtigt. Um den Einfluss von unterschiedlichen Parametrisierungen des Bodens aufzuzeigen, werden verschiedene Parametrisierungsvarianten untersucht. Die van Genuchten/Mualem-Parameter, welche die Retentions- und Leitfähigkeitseigenschaften der einzelnen Bodenhorizonte beschreiben, wurden zum einen über die Bodenart und Trockenrohdichte bestimmt und zum anderen über die Anpassung von Retentionskurven an im Labor bestimmte Punkte der Wasserspannungskurve ermittelt. Die Ergebnisse der Simulationen für die Standorte mit Bodenfeuchtemessung zeigen, dass mit dem Modell der Jahresgang der Bodenfeuchte prinzipiell nachvollzogen werden kann. Jedoch führt keine der drei Parametrisierungsvarianten zu einer eindeutigen Überlegenheit bei der Simulationsgüte. Um neben den üblichen Gütemaßen ein weiteres Kriterium für den Erfolg oder Misserfolg einer Standortsimulation zu gewinnen, wurden die Simulationsergebnisse mit den Messwerten der anderen Standorte verglichen. An vier von zehn Standorten führt der Vergleich der Messwerte mit den Simulationen von anderen Standorten zu einer deutlich besseren Übereinstimmung als die Simulation für diesen Standort. Die Ergebnisse der Simulationen der Lysimeterstandorte zeigen, dass mit dem Makroporenansatz ein schneller Wasserfluss im Sommer nicht simuliert werden kann, da das "Anspringen" der Makroporen im Modellkonzept an den Bodenwassergehalt geknüpft ist. Auch hier wurden die Simulationsergebnisse mit den Messwerten der anderen Standorte verglichen. Für fünf von acht Standorten konnte mit den simulierten Sickerwassermengen von anderen Standorten eine bessere Übereinstimmung erzielt werden. Die Simulation der Sickerwassermenge aus Lysimetern scheint daher auf Grundlage der vorliegenden Datenbasis den jeweiligen Standort nicht in seiner Einzigartigkeit charakterisieren zu können. Die mit den Beregnungsversuchen bestimmten Abflussprozesse konnten für die Mehrheit der 18 Standorte mit dem Modell abgebildet werden. Der Oberflächenabfluss konnte für Standorte, die nicht zur Verschlämmung neigen, unter Berücksichtigung von Infiltrationsdaten sehr gut nachgezeichnet werden. Zwischenabfluss wird zwar simuliert, bleibt aber auf der Plotskale in Dynamik und Abflussmenge hinter dem Realsystem zurück. Mit der Untersuchung konnte gezeigt werden, dass sich sowohl die zeitliche Entwicklung des Bodenwassergehaltes, als auch die gemessenen Abflussprozesse allein über die Standortdaten, ohne eine weitere Kalibrierung des Modells, abbilden lassen. Die Trennschärfe der Modellierung ist bei Standorten mit relativ ähnlicher bodenphysikalischer Ausstattung begrenzt. Andererseits müssen aber auch Messungenauigkeiten, besonders bei der thermogravimetrischen Bestimmung des Bodenwassergehaltes, berücksichtigt werden. Eine standortbezogene Aussage über Retentions- und Abflussverhalten ist über eine Simulation möglich, jedoch bleibt die quantitative Aussagekraft begrenzt.
In past years, desertification and land degradation have been acknowledged as a major threat to human welfare world-wide, and their environmental and societal implications have sparked the formulation of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Any measure taken against desertification, or the design of dedicated early warning systems, must take into account both the spatial and temporal dimensions of process driving factors. Equally important, past and present reactions of ecosystems to physical and socio-economical disturbances or management interventions need to be understood. In this context, remote sensing and geoinformation processing support the required assessment, monitoring and modelling approaches, and hence provide an essential contribution to the scientific component of the struggle against desertification. Supported by DG Research of the European Commission, the Remote Sensing Department of the University of Trier convened RGLDD to promote scientific exchange between specialists working on the interface of remote sensing, geoinformation processing, desertification/land degradation research and its socio-economic implications. Although targeted at the scientific community, contributions with application perspectives were of crucial importance and both an overview of the current state of the art as well as operational opportunities were presented. Hosted at the Robert-Schuman Haus in Trier, the conference gained widespread attention and attracted an international audience from all parts of the world, which underlines the global dimension of land degradation and desertification processes. Based on a rigorous review of submitted abstracts, more than 100 contributions were accepted for oral and poster presentation, which are found in these proceedings edition in full paper form. Please note: This document is optimised for screen resolution, to receive a high-resolution version please contact the editors.
Two areas were selected to represent major process regimes of Mediterranean rangelands. In the County of Lagads (Greece), situated east of the city of Thessaloniki, livestock grazing with sheep and goats is a major factor of the rural economy. In suitable areas, it is complemented by agricultural use. The region of Ayora (Spain) is located west of the city of Valencia. It is one of regions most affected by fires in Spain. First of all, long time series of satellite data were compiled for both regions on the basis of Landsat sensors, which cover the time until 1976 (Ayora) and 1984 (Lagadas) with one image per year. Using a rigorous processing scheme, the data were geometrically and radiometrically corrected Specific attention was given to an exact sensor calibration, the radiometric intercalibration of Landsat-TM and "MSS. Proportional cover of photosynthetically active vegetation was identified as a suitable quantitative indicator for assessing the state of rangelands. Using Spectral Mixture Analysis (SMA) it was inferred for all data sets. The extensive data base procured this way enabled to map fire events in the Ayora area based on sequential diachronic sets and provide fire dates, perimeter as well as fire recurrence for each pixel. The increasing fire frequency in the past decades is in large parts attributed to the accelerated abandonment of the area that leads to an encroachment of shrublands and the accumulation of combustible biomass. On the basis of the fire mapping results, a spatial and temporal stratification of the data set allowed to asses plant recovery dynamics on the landscape level through linear trend analysis. The long history of fire events in the Mediterranean frequently leads to processes of auto-succession. Following an initial dominance of herbaceous vegetation this commonly leads to similar plant communities as the ones present before the fire. On a temporal axis, this results in typical exponential post-fire trajectories which could also be shown in this study. The analysis of driving factors for post-fire dynamics confirmed the importance of aspect and slope. Locations with lower amounts of solar irradiation and favourable water supply yielded faster recovery rates and higher post-fire vegetation cover levels. In most cases, the vegetation cover levels observed before the fire were not reached within the post-fire observation period. In the area of Lagadas, linear trend analysis and additional statistical parameters were used to infer a degradation index. This could be used to illustrate a complex pattern of stability, regeneration and degradation of vegetation cover. These different processes and states are found in close proximity and are clearly determined by topography and elevation. Following a sequence of analyses, it was found that in particular steep, narrow valleys show positive trends, while negative trends are more abundant on plain or gently undulating areas. Considering the local grazing regime, this spatial differentiation was related to the accessibility of specific locations. Subsequently, animal numbers on community level were used to calculate efficient stocking rates and assess the temporal development of their relation with vegetation cover. This calculation of temporal trajectories illustrated that only some communities show the expected negative relation. To the contrary, a positive relation or even changing relation patterns are observed. This signifies recent concentration and intensification processes in the grazing scheme, as a result of which animals are kept in sheds, where additional feedstuffs are provided. In these cases, free roaming of livestock animals is often confined to some hours every day, which explains the spatial preference of easily accessible areas by the shepherds. Beyond these temporal trends, it was analysed whether the grazing pattern is equally reflected in a spatial trend. Making use of available geospatial information layers, the efforts required to reach each location was expressed as a cost. Then, cost zones could be defined and woody vegetation cover as a grazing indicator could be inferred for the different zones. Animal sheds were employed as starting features for this piospheric analysis, which could be mapped from very high spatial resolution Quickbird image data. The result was a clearly structured gradient showing increasing woody vegetation cover with increasing cost distance. On the basis of these two pilot studies, the elements of a monitoring and interpretation framework identified at the beginning of the work were evaluated and a formal interpretation scheme was presented.
A model-based temperature adjustment scheme for wintertime sea-ice production retrievals from MODIS
(2022)
Knowledge of the wintertime sea-ice production in Arctic polynyas is an important requirement for estimations of the dense water formation, which drives vertical mixing in the upper ocean. Satellite-based techniques incorporating relatively high resolution thermal-infrared data from MODIS in combination with atmospheric reanalysis data have proven to be a strong tool to monitor large and regularly forming polynyas and to resolve narrow thin-ice areas (i.e., leads) along the shelf-breaks and across the entire Arctic Ocean. However, the selection of the atmospheric data sets has a large influence on derived polynya characteristics due to their impact on the calculation of the heat loss to the atmosphere, which is determined by the local thin-ice thickness. In order to overcome this methodical ambiguity, we present a MODIS-assisted temperature adjustment (MATA) algorithm that yields corrections of the 2 m air temperature and hence decreases differences between the atmospheric input data sets. The adjustment algorithm is based on atmospheric model simulations. We focus on the Laptev Sea region for detailed case studies on the developed algorithm and present time series of polynya characteristics in the winter season 2019/2020. It shows that the application of the empirically derived correction decreases the difference between different utilized atmospheric products significantly from 49% to 23%. Additional filter strategies are applied that aim at increasing the capability to include leads in the quasi-daily and persistence-filtered thin-ice thickness composites. More generally, the winter of 2019/2020 features high polynya activity in the eastern Arctic and less activity in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, presumably as a result of the particularly strong polar vortex in early 2020.