Für die Ökologische Risikoanalyse, also die Beurteilung möglicher Auswirkungen im Zuge einer Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung für ein bestimmtes Vorhaben, wird eine Vielzahl von Daten über das zu untersuchende Gebiet benötigt. Daten über die Ausgangssituation werden verwendet, um alle möglichen Auswirkungen auf die im Gesetz ...

Quality control (QC) of hydrological measurements also from remote measuring sites will be in the future a basic necessity in state of the art hydrological investigations. This will be of particular importance within quality assurance networks and early warning systems of drinking water supplies and all other tasks of ...

Comprehensive atmospheric composition studies require multi-scale numerical experiments to be carried out, which to clarify to some extend different scale processes interaction, but also to further specify requirements for input data (emissions, boundary conditions, large scale forcing). Model interfaces from synoptic ...

The Data centre Nature and Landscape (DNL), originally planned as a long-term database for biotope information, has constantly evolved over the last 11 years. It is now a virtual data centre connecting several databases located all over Switzerland, enriched with a user-friendly web interface, which has been partially ...

Regression problems in environmental engineering can be tackled in principle by fundamentally different approaches, e.g., physically based numerical modeling or methods of machine learning. Appliance of the machine learning method Support Vector Machines (SVM) for regression is called Support Vector Regression (SVR). The ...

For quite some years now, there has been a growing debate under the label of “Green I(C)T” about reducing the energy consumption of ICT equipment. More recently, the discourse started to partly shift towards a novel discussion on using ICT to induce energy savings in sectors other than ICT. Advocates suggest that the ...

The German Environmental Information Portal, PortalU®, provides one-stop access to government-owned environmental information in Germany. PortalU® gives access to more than 2,500,000 web pages and more then 500,000 data and metadata sets from different national, regional and local authorities. Organizationally PortalU® ...

The increase of frequency and intensity of extreme weather events requires measures for effective protection from these consequences of climate change. The protection from extreme weather events requires the precise and immediate prediction of this danger. Even though there are elaborated prognosis systems to predict the ...

This paper deals with investment strategies in times of recession in general and with investment into Green IT in particular. One goal is to point out that it is preferable to invest in more efficient technology in the current situation, instead of cutting spendings and; furthermore, this paper intends prove that sustainable ...