Skip to main content Skip to main menu Skip to footer

Search

Help

1 - 12 of 75
  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 20.01.2025

    GE-I-3: Birch pollen burdens

    The picture shows a birch blossom with its pollen distributed by the wind.

    … in Munich, the days with particularly high concentrations (of more than 100 pollen per cubic metre) have become more frequent. This is important in clinical … characteristics of a forest or woodland.   16 - Langen U., Schmitz R., Steppuhn H. 2013: Häufigkeit allergischer Erkrankungen in Deutschland: Ergebnisse der Studie zur … Erwachsener in Deutschland (DEGS1). Bundesgesundheitsbl 56 (5-6): 698–706. doi: 10.1007/s00103-012-1652-7 . 17 - Thamm R., Poethko-Müller C., Hüther A., Thamm M. …

  • 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.

    … BAU-I-3: Cooling degree days In the three summer climate regions according to DIN 4108-2:2013-02 , i.e. the authoritative standard for summer heat protection of buildings, … the period 1951–2011. In: International Journal of Climatology 35 (1): 25–36. doi: 10.1002/joc.3959 . Associated content Documents BAU-I-3 Indikator-Factsheet (292.18 …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    KM-I-1: Water temperature in the sea

    The picture shows a view of the surface of the sea from below. The sun’s rays are beaming through the water’s surface. The sea is coloured dark blue to turquoise-green.

    … 2,000 metres of the earth’s oceans increased by 380±81 sextillion Joule (380±81 x 1021 J 71 ). The mean warming rate for the entire surface of the Earth amounts to … into question when the increase in the surface temperature in the period of 1998 to 2013 more or less stagnated (global warming hiatus) 74 . Evidence for the warming of … ocean temperatures hit record high in 2020. Adv. Atmos. Sci., 38, 4, 523−530. doi: 10.1007/s00376-021-0447-x.   72 - Cheng et al. 2021, cf. endnote no. 71: 524-525.   …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 12.12.2024

    BO-R-2: Permanent grassland terrain

    The picture shows a grassland with mown grass. The mown grass is lying in rows. In the right-hand margin a tractor can be seen turning hay. In the upper margin you can see a hay bale.

    … under agricultural use from the adverse effects of climate change. Between 1991 and 2013 grassland areas were experiencing a continuous and significant declining trend. Since 2013 the areas and the respective proportion of land in agricultural use have been … water bodies. The total of Germany’s grassland terrain decreased between 1991 and 2013 by roughly 700,000 ha. Of 5.3 million ha originally, only some 4.6 million ha …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.12.2024

    BS-I-1: Person hours due to weather-related damage events

    The picture shows an inundated landscape. In the centre of the picture a flooded road can be seen, with a lorry passing. There are people visible on the lorry’s load platform. In the picture’s foreground, part of a blue emergency vehicle is visible with blue warning lamps fitted all round the vehicle which is also driving along this flooded road.

    … river basins – have characterised the deployment situation. In the early summer of 2013, entire sweeps of country in Central Europe were inundated owing to rainfalls … of fire brigades Germany had ever before experienced. The THW itself rates the year 2013 as unprecedented in terms of the call-out pressure on volunteers: The total … in that year. The high number of call-out figures incurred in 2002, 2006 and 2010 were also mostly due to flooding events. The above-average call-out figures for …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 17.12.2024

    BD-I-2: Temperature index for bird species communities

    The picture shows an icterine warbler singing from a twig.

    … approximately 2010, but this was followed by a slightly retrograde development by 2013, whereas this was in turn followed by a distinct increase. However, the development between 2010 and 2013 can be attributed in the first place to effects of weather patterns which had … with adverse effects on many breeding bird populations. The developments since 2013 show that the more long-term positive trend reflected by the indicator has …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 11.12.2024

    GE-I-5: Pathogen vectors – case study

    The picture shows a close-up of the Asian Tiger Mosquito in the process of biting a human being.

    … area, starting with the first record in 2007. This finding resulted from examining 105 traps where evidence was found in terms of five Tiger Mosquito eggs in one of … 1,500 samplings in the Upper Rhine area from 2014 onwards. As early as 2013, 13 % of all traps and more than 2 % of all samplings resulted in evidence of … Nagetier-assoziierte Infektionskrankheiten. – J Health Monit 8 (S3): 36-66. doi: 10.25646/11392 . 26 - Heitmann A., Jansen S., Lühken R., Helms M., Pluskota B., …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.12.2024

    BS-R-3: Exercise volume

    The picture shows a THW member from behind; he is in uniform and wears a helmet. It is possible to make out a scaffold with other THW members standing on it.

    … even in years when extreme events have to be dealt with. The severe flood events of 2013 and 2021 did not affect the training hours attended any more than just … to request yet more release from their paid occupation. A case in point occurred in 2013 for instance, in terms of a decline in training hours attended, when in May and … example, the number of training hours attended in the highly challenging year of 2013 with lots of call-outs, was no lower than in 2010 when distinctly fewer …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 11.12.2024

    WW-I-5: Peak discharge values in watercourses

    The picture shows a detailed view of a strong current. The water is tinged brown owing to its mud content.

    … categorised as medium in the summer half-year. However, years such as 1998 and 2013 stand out, when in many cases floodwater levels at many gauging stations had to … catchment areas of the rivers Weser, Aller and Leine was particularly extreme. In 2013 the floodwater forced its way alongside the Danube, Saale, Elbe and other … to levels never attained before. The impacts of this flood were devastating. In 2013 the gauging station at Zeitz on the Weiße Elster in Saxony-Anhalt supplied the …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 18.11.2025

    LW-R-2 + 3: Cultivating thermophilic crops and adapting variety spectrum

    … to soy, the cultivation of this crop species was given a commercial fillip in 2013 in view of grants becoming available within the BMEL’s protein plantstrategy … so-called Huglin Index is used. It sums up the days with temperatures of more than 10 °C for the period of 1st April to 30th September and indicates whether the … to soy, the cultivation of this crop species was given a commercial fillip in 2013 in view of grants becoming available within the BMEL’s protein plantstrategy …

  • KomPass: Article from 28.11.2023 | Last changed: 17.12.2024

    VE-I-4: Road accidents due to weather conditions and weather patterns

    The picture shows a car driving on a road covered in water. It is clear to see that the headlights and windscreen wipers are switched on. Heavy rain is falling.

    … VE-I-4: Road accidents due to weather conditions and weather patterns In 2010, very wintery road conditions both in January and February but also in December, … injury reached an above-average high level in the summer months of 2010 and 2013. As far as 2010 is concerned, part of the blame can be apportioned to the … StBA –Statistisches Bundesamt (Hg.) 2011: Unfallentwicklung auf deutschen Straßen 2010. Begleitmaterial zur Pressekonferenz am 6. Juli 2011 in Berlin. Wiesbaden, 38 pp. …