This dissertation examines layered transformations in a town in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, as it has experienced the process of industrial restructuring and social change since the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. Through the ...
Floodplain aquifers are important hydraulic connectors between hillslopes and surface-water bodies. The flow field in floodplain aquifers comprises different flow components governed by various geometric and hydrogeologic ...
The Sahel region had a moderately good vegetation cover but presently, the land-scape is experiencing serious degradation. Research carried out in the field of desertification has not contributed to reducing or reversing ...
The spatial configuration of hydraulic properties in the subsurface controls groundwater flow and solute transport. Exploitable aquifer systems are often found in fluvial sedimentary deposits, which can exhibit predictable ...
The European environment agency listed around 250,000 contaminated field sites which need to be cleaned due to the hazardous effects they pose on human and ecosystem health. This number is expected to increase over the ...
This dissertation aims at improving uncertainty assessment for hydrosystem models subject to uncertainty in model structure, parameters, and forcing terms. In order to explicitly account for conceptual uncertainty (the ...
We use models to understand or predict a system. Often, there are multiple plausible but competing model concepts. Hence, modelling is associated with conceptual uncertainty, i.e., the question about proper handling of ...
Der Bodenwassergehalt ist eine Schlüsselvariable im Energie- und Wasserhaushalt der Erde und ist zur Modellierung der unteren Atmosphäre relevant. In dieser Arbeit werden elf SMT100 Bodenfeuchte Sensoren der Hersteller ...
This study assesses the performance impacts of a projected exclusive Combined Priority Lane (CPL) network for the use of all scheduled public transport systems (trolleybuses, conventional diesel buses and minibuses) in the ...
Compound-specific stable isotope analysis (CSIA) is increasingly applied in fundamental research, environmental sciences and forensic studies. The analysis of stable isotopes may largely improve the evaluation of sources, ...
Flexible ureteroscopes are used for the diagnosis and treatment of urologic diseases such as urolithiasis. Reusable and single-use devices have been introduced to the clinical routine. While clinical efficacy is assumed ...
Alkaline complexes comprise a broad spectrum of mantle-derived silicate rocks which are of considerable scientific and economic interest. They reflect some of the most evolved igneous rocks on Earth, and may contain ...
A comprehensive and detailed knowledge about the spatial distribution of physical and chemical properties in heterogeneous porous aquifers plays a decisive role for a realistic representation of governing parameters in ...
Micropollutants in the aquatic environment pose a risk to human and environmental health. Effect-based tools have been applied in environmental monitoring for diverse toxicity endpoints but testing method for neurotoxicity ...
This work is mainly focused on the development of industrial n-PERT-RJ solar cells with screen-printed Al point contact. In Chapter 1, the global market of photovoltaics and the cell technology of the crystalline silicon ...
Der Klimawandel ist eine der dringendsten Zukunftsfragen, mit denen sich Politiker und Wissenschaftler derzeit auseinandersetzen müssen. Neben der Minderung der Ursachen wird gleichzeitig das Ziel einer Anpassung an die ...
Der 1,49 Ga alte Norra Kärr-Intrusivkomplex (Schweden) besteht aus deformierten und metamorphisierten peralkalischen Nephelinsyeniten. Norra Kärr liegt im Transskandinavischen Magmatischen Gürtel und wurde entweder 1) als ...
Drought is an extended period of time with rainfall deficits. It is a natural hazard having environmental-, social and economical impacts. An index can be used to define the onset of drought and to simplify the wide range ...