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Jürgen Kusche @jurgenkusche.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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

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Jürgen Kusche @jurgenkusche.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

This is new. Francis da Silva Lopes (PhD student @unibonn.bsky.social @crc1502-detect.bsky.social) demonstrates how sea surface temp forcing and moisture transport in the ICON atmosphere model can be evaluated with precip, dicharge and GRACE observations. Just published: doi.org/10.1175/JHM-...

Background precipitation over Europe, and the river basins used for evaluation in the paper.

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CRC 1502 DETECT @crc1502-detect.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

📡 We proudly present the #CRC1502 DETECT Geonetwork platform. It is an open-access platform of geospatial data across all DETECT subprojects that follows FAIR principle. Built by Z03 subproject (Farzane Mohseni & Jan-Henrik Haunert). 🌐 detect-z03.geoinformation.net 🎥 www.youtube.com/@DETECT_GeoN...

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CRC 1502 DETECT @crc1502-detect.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

👩‍🎓 Wanxue Zhu has successfully defended her PhD at the @uni-goettingen.de — the first PhD graduate of #CRC1502 DETECT! Her research on developing ELIAD and ECIRA datasets fills key #irrigation area data gaps across #Europe.

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Jürgen Kusche @jurgenkusche.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Of all 12,000 satellites in orbit, the one with the highest requirement for precise orbit determination is Sentinel-6 MF. Since it is a reference mission for measuring sea level change. Kristin Vielberg has just published an improved force model for S-6 MF: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Jürgen Kusche @jurgenkusche.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Our PhD student Charlotte Hacker (@crc1502-detect.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social) published a 40yr record of total water storage anomalies (TWSA), similar to GRACE but from 1984 on. She combined SLR, DORIS and climate data in a new method. zenodo.org/records/1582... doi.org/10.22541/ess...

40yr trend in TWSA, red = drying (-up to 6mm/yr) blue = wetting (up to 6mm/yr)

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Jürgen Kusche @jurgenkusche.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

We have a new doctor. Congrats to Armin Corbin for defending his PhD work on numerical simulation of mass density in the upper Earth's atmosphere with data assimilation at @unibonn.bsky.social (bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de/xmlui/handle...).

Neutral density (left) and ion density (right) at 200km altitude simulated with TIE-GCM on April 10, 2010

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Jürgen Kusche @jurgenkusche.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Final review paper of the GROCE team on the atmosphere-land-ice-ocean system around the 79°N glacier by Torsten Kanzow et al. in tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...

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Informationsdienst Wissenschaft - idw @idw-online.de · 23/04/2025

Climate change is lifting South Africa out of the ocean: According to a study by the University of Bonn, droughts caused the country to rise by six millimeters between 2012 and 2020. ... weiterlesen

The change in height of the different GPS stations (red = rising; blue = sinking). The rise was particularly pronounced in the drought between 2015 and 2019. - Copyright Image: AG Kusche/University of Bonn

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Jürgen Kusche @jurgenkusche.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Master student Magda Kracheletz shows in agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... how the GRACE-FO laser ranging instrument would have observed the devastating 2021 Ahr Valley water masses, even during atmospheric convection prior to flooding.

Precip accumulated for 10hours during the event, and the satellite overpasses

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