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On 11 June 2013, the GFZ scientist Dr. Jens Wickert (Section 1.1, GPS / Galileo Earth Observation) was elected at the European Space Agency in Noordwijk, near Amsterdam, to head an international group of scientists that will control the first steps…
Seismic gap outside of Istanbul
18.06.2013|Potsdam: Earthquake researchers have now identified a 30 kilometers long and ten kilometers deep area along the North Anatolian fault zone just south of Istanbul that could be the starting point for a strong…
Die Hochwasserereignisse an Elbe und Donau im Juni 2013: Vergleichbare Intensität - unterschiedliche Auswirkungen (only available in German)
18.06.2013|Potsdam: Das Rekordhochwasser im Süden und Osten Deutschlands – nach Ausdehnung und Intensität das…
18.06.2013|Potsdam:
Das Rekordhochwasser im Süden und Osten Deutschlands – nach Ausdehnung und Intensität das größte seit mindestens sechzig Jahren – hat die Einzugsgebiete von Donau und Elbe mit vergleichbar hoher Intensität getroffen. Analysen des…
Measuring Climate with Laser Precision
17.06.2013|Potsdam: Variations in the gravitational field of the Earth can be measured much more accurately in future. A novel laser distance measurement on the GRACE follow-on satellite mission due for launch in…
Water is no Lubricant
12.06.2013|Potsdam: Water in the Earth's crust and upper mantle may not play such an important role as a lubricant of plate tectonics as previously assumed. This is a result geoscientists present in the current issue of the…
12.06.2013|Potsdam:
Water in the Earth's crust and upper mantle may not play such an important role as a lubricant of plate tectonics as previously assumed. This is a result geoscientists present in the current issue of the scientific journal Nature…
Neue Technologien und Entwicklungen stellen auch die Akteure im Bereich der Forschungsdaten-Infrastrukturen vor immer neue Herausforderungen. Wie sieht die Entwicklung von Forschungsdaten-Infrastrukturen in der weiteren Zukunft aus? Ist „Big Data“…
Measuring the Earth's surface in the laboratory
11.06.2013|Potsdam: On 11 June, the new "laboratory for the geochemistry of the Earth's surface" (HELGES) of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences was opened in the presence of Prof. Dr. Ing.…
Record soil moisture in May increased the June flood
05.06.2013|Potsdam: The catastrophic floods in the south and east of Germany were substantially intensified in that the soils were saturated with moisture by the wet spring. The heavy rains could…