Publications 2012 

• Abreu J.A., Beer J., Ferriz-Bas A., McCracken K.G., Steinhilber F. (2012) Is there a planetary influence on solar activity? Astronomy & Astrophyics 548, A88 (2012), doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201219997 [pdf, 3.73MB]
  
  
• Abreu J. A., Beer J., Steinhilber F., Christl M., Kubik P. W. (2012) ¹⁰Be in Ice Cores and ¹⁴C in Tree Rings: Separation of Production and Climate Effects. Space Science Reviews, 2012, doi:10.1007/s11214-011-9864-y, [pdf, 904KB]
  
  
• Alkhatib M., Schubert C.J., del Giorgio P., Gelinas,Y., Lehmann M.F. (2012) Organic matter reactivity indicators in sediments of the St. Lawrence Estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Vol. 102-103, 36-47 [pdf, 1MB]
  
  
• Andersson J.C.M., Zehnder A.J.B., Wehrli B., Yang H. (2012) Improved SWAT
  Model Performance with Time-Dynamic Voronoi Tessellation of Climatic Input Data in Southern Africa. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), 1-14, doi:10.1111⁄j.1752-1688.2011.00627.x [pdf, 2.07MB]
  
  
• Anselmetti F. (2012) Wie der Berg ins Tal kam. In: Präparat Bergsturz, Band I (eds.: Amman K. and Gisler P.), Edizioni Periferia, Lucerne/Poschiavo, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, 51-59. [pdf, 4.88MB]
  
  
• Bhattarai S., Ross K.A., Schmid M., Anselmetti F.S., Bürgmann H. (2012) Local Conditions Structure Unique Archaeal Communities in the Anoxic Sediments of Meromictic Lake Kivu. Microbial Ecology, ISSN 0095-3628, Vol. 64, No 2, 291-310, doi:10.1007/s00248-012-0034-x [last authors version pdf, 804KB]
  
  
• Bonalumi M., Anselmetti F.S., Wüest A., Schmid M. (2012) Modeling of temperature and turbidity in a natural lake and a reservoir connected by pumped-storage operations. Water Resources Research, Vol. 48, W08508, doi:10.1029/2012WR011844, 2012 [pdf, 2.52MB]
  
  
• Brankatschk R., Bodenhausen N., Zeyer J., Bürgmann H. (2012) Simple Absolute Quantification Method Correcting for Quantitative PCR Efficiency Variations for Microbial Community Samples. Applied and Environmental Microbiololgy 2012, 78(12), pp. 4481–4489, doi:10.1128/AEM.07878-11. [pdf, 694 KB]
  
  
• Breitenmoser P., Beer J., Brönnimann S., Frank D., Steinhilber F., Wanner H. (2012) Solar and volcanic fingerprints in tree-ring chronologies over the past 2000 years. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 313-314 (2012) 127–139, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.10.014 [pdf, 1.59MB]
  
  
• Bryant L., Little J.C., Bürgmann H. (2012) Response of sediment microbial community structure in a freshwater reservoir to manipulations in oxygen availability. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 80 (2012), 248–263, doi:10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01290.x [pdf, 505KB]
  
  
• Carpenter J.R., Sommer T., Wüest A. (2012). Simulations of a double-diffusive interface in the diffusive convection regime. Journal Fluid Mechanics, 711: 411-436. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2012.399 [pdf, 1.15MB]
  
  
• Carpenter J.R., Sommer T., Wüest A. (2012). Stability of a double-diffusive interface in the diffusive convection regime. Journal of Physical Oceanography, Vol. 42, 840 - 854. doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-11-0118.1. [pdf, 1.44MB]
  
  
• Carpenter J.R., Timmermans M.L. (2012) Temperature steps in salty seas.
  Physics Today 65(3), 66-67 (2012), doi:10.1063/PT.3.1485 [pdf, 349KB]
  
  
• Carstens D., Köllner K., Bürgmann H., Wehrli B., Schubert C.J. (2012) Amino sugar degradation and transformation in two lacustrine systems of different trophic state. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, Vol.  89, 159-172 [pdf, 929KB]
  
  
• Carstens D., Schubert C.J. (2012) Amino acid and amino sugar transformation during sedimentation in lacustrine systems. Organic Geochemistry, Vol. 50, 26-35 [pdf, 874KB]
  
  
• Czekalski N., Berthold T., Caucci S., Egli A., Bürgmann B. (2012) Increased levels of multiresistant bacteria and resistance genes after waste water treatment and their dissemination into Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Frontiers in Microbiology, March 2012, Vol. 3, Art. 106, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00106 [pdf, 2.71MB]
  
  
• Dehnert A., Lowick S.E., Preusser F., Anselmetti F.S., Drescher-Schneider R., Graf H.R., Heller F., Horstmeyer H., Kemma H.A., Nowaczyk N.R., Züger A., Furrer H. (2012) Evolution of an overdeepened trough in the northern Alpine Foreland at Niederweningen, Switzerland. Quaternary Science Reviews 34 (2012) 127-145, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.12.015 [pdf, 4.43MB]
  
  
• Diem T., Koch S., Schwarzenbach S., Wehrli B., Schubert C.J. (2012) Greenhouse gas emissions (CO₂, CH₄, and N₂O) from several perialpine and alpine hydropower reservoirs by diffusion and loss in turbines. Aquatic Sciences,
  doi:10.1007/s00027-012-0256-5 [pdf, 611KB]
  
  
• Diem T., Scheidegger O., Schubert C.J. (2012) Carbon Isotopic Composition in the Water Column of Lake Rotsee Reveals Importance of Methane Oxidation in Aquatic Environments. Chimia Vol., 66, No. 4, p. 257 [pdf, 319KB]
  
  
• Elbert J., Grosjean M., von Gunten L., Urrutia R., Fischer D., Wartenburger R., Ariztegui D., Fujak M., Hamann Y. (2012) Quantitative high-resolution winter (JJA) precipitation reconstruction from varved sediments of Lago Plomo 47°S, Patagonian Andes, AD 1530–2002. The Holocene, 22(4), 465–474, doi:10.1177/0959683611425547 [pdf, 749KB]
  
  
• Escobar J., Hodell D.A., Brenner M., Curtis J.H., Gilli A., Mueller A.D., Anselmetti F.S., Aritzegui D., Grzesik D.A., Pérez L., Schwalb A., Guilderson T.P. (2012) Aw~43-ka record of paleoenvironmental change in the Central American lowlands inferred from stable isotopes of lacustrine ostracods. Quaternary Science Reviews 37 (2012) 92-104, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.01.020 [pdf, 1MB]
  
  
• Gebhardt A.C., Ohlendorf C., Niessen F., De Batist M., Anselmetti F.S., Ariztegui D., Kliem P., Wastega S., Zolitschka B. (2012) Seismic evidence of up to 200 m lake-level change in Southern Patagonia since Marine Isotope Stage 4
  Sedimentology (2012) 59, 1087–1100, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01296.x [pdf, 3.81MB]
  
  
• Hering J.G., Hoehn E., Klinke A., Maurer M., Peter A., Reichert P., Robinson C., Schirmer K., Schirmer M., Stamm C., Wehrli B. (2012) Moving Targets, Long-Lived Infrastructure, and Increasing Needs for Integration and Adaptation in Water Management: An Illustration from Switzerland. Environmental Science & Technology 2012, 46, 112–118, dx.doi.org/10.1021/es202189s [pdf, 3.53MB]
  
  
• Hodell D.A., Turchyn A.V., Wiseman C.J., Escobar J., Curtis J.H., Brenner M., Gilli A., Mueller A.D., Anselmetti F., Ariztegui D., Brown E.T. (2012) Late Glacial temperature and precipitation changes in the lowland Neotropics by tandem measurement of δ¹⁸O in biogenic carbonate and gypsum hydration water. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 77 (2012) 352–368, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.11.026, [pdf, 1.75MB]
  
  
• Huguet C., Fietz S., Moraleda N., Litt T., Heumann G., Stockhecke M., Anselmetti F.S., Sturm M. (2012) A seasonal cycle of terrestrial inputs in Lake Van, Turkey. Environmental Science and Pollution Research (2012), 19, 3628–3635, doi:10.1007/s11356-012-0948-3 [pdf, 480KB]
  
  
• Knies J., Grasby S.E., Beauchamp B., Schubert C.J. (2012) Water mass denitrification during the latest Permian extinction in the Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada. Geology, doi: 10.1130/G33816.1 [pdf, 291KB]
  
  
• Köllner K.E., Carstens D., Keller E., Vazquez F., Schubert C.J., Zeyer J., Bürgmann H. (2012) Bacterial Chitin Hydrolysis in Two Lakes with Contrasting
  Trophic Statuses. Applied Environmental Microbiology 2012, 78(3):695, doi:10.1128/AEM.06330-11 [pdf, 959KB]
  
  
• Litt T., Anselmetti F.S., Baumgarten H., Beer J., Cagatay N., Cukur D., Damci E., Glombitza C., Haug G., Heumann G., Kallmeyer J., Kipfer R., Krastel S., Kwiecien O., Meydan A.F., Orcen S., Pickarski N., Randlett M.-E., Schmincke H.-U., Schubert C.J., Sturm M., Sumita M., Stockecke M., Tomonaga Y., Vigliotti L., Wonik T. and the PALEOVAN Scientific Team (2012) Scientific Drilling, No. 14, September 2012, 18-29, doi:10.2204/iodp.sd.14.02.2012 [pdf, 1.96MB]
  
  
• Lukas S., Preusser F., Anselmetti F.S., Tinner W. (2012) Testing the potential of luminescence dating of high-alpine lake sediments. Quaternary Geochronology 8 (2012), 23-32, doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2011.11.007 [pdf, 785KB]
  
  
• Mertens J., Casentini B., Masion A., Pöthig R., Wehrli B., Furrer G. (2012) Polyaluminum chloride with high Al₃₀ content as removal agent for arsenic-contaminated well water. Water Research 46 (2012), 53-62, doi:10.1016/j.watres.2011.10.031 [pdf, 623KB]
  
  
• Mertens J., Rose J., Kägi R., Chaurand P., Plötze M., Wehrli B., Furrer G. (2012) Adsorption of Arsenic on Polyaluminum Granulate. Environmental Science Technology 2012, 46, 7310−7317, dx.doi.org/10.1021/es204508t [pdf, 491KB]
  
  
• Müller B., Berg M., Pernet-Coudrier B., Qi W., Liu H. (2012) The geochemistry of the Yangtze River: Seasonality of concentrations and temporal trends of chemical loads. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol. 26, GB2028, 14 PP., 2012 doi:10.1029/2011GB004273 [pdf, 2.24MB]
  
  
• Müller B., Bryant L.D., Matzinger A., Wüest A. (2012) Hypolimnetic oxygen depletion in eutrophic lakes. Environmental Science & Technology 2012, 46, 9964−9971, dx.doi.org/10.1021/es301422r [pdf, 1.54MB]
  
  
• Morellón M., Pérez-Sanz A., Corella J.P., Büntgen U., Catalán J., Gonzáles-Sampériz P., Gonzáles-Trueba J.J., López-Sáez J.A., Moreno A., Pla-Rabes S., Saz-Sánchez M.Á., Scussolini P., Serrano E., Steinhilber F., Stefanova V., Vegas-Vilarrúbia T., Valero-Garcés B. (2012) A multi-proxy perspective on millennium-long climate variability in the Southern Pyrenees. Climate of the Past, 8, 683–700, 2012, doi:10.5194/cp-8-683-2012 [pdf, 2.71MB]
  
  
• Naeher S., Geraga M., Papatheodorou G., Ferentinos G., Kaberi H., Schubert C.J. (2012) Environmental variations in a semi-enclosed embayment (Amvrakikos Gulf, Greece) – reconstructions based on benthic foraminifera abundance and lipid biomarker pattern. Biogeosciences, 9, 5081–5094, 2012, doi:10.5194/bg-9-5081-2012, [pdf, 7.82MB]
  
  
• Naeher S., Smittenberg R.H., Gilli A., Kirilova E.P., Lotter A.F., Schubert C.J. (2012) The impact of recent lake eutrophication on microbial community changes - revealed by high resolution lipid biomarker records in Rotsee (Switzerland). Organic Geochemistry, Vol. 49, 86-95 [pdf, 386KB]
  
  
• Niemann H., Stadnitskaia A., Wirth S.B., Gilli A., Anselmetti F.S., Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Schouten S., Hopmans E.C., Lehmann M.F. (2012) Bacterial GDGTs in Holocene sediments and catchment soils of a high Alpine lake: application of the MBT/CBT-paleothermometer. Climate of the Past, 8, 889–906, 2012, doi:10.5194/cp-8-889-2012, [pdf, 2.25MB]
  
  
• Och L.M., Müller B., Voegelin A., Ulrich A., Göttlicher J., Steiniger R., Mangold S., Vologina E.G., Sturm M. (2012) New insights into the formation and burial of Fe/Mn accumulations in Lake Baikal sediments. Chemical Geology 330-331 (2012) 244–259, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.09.011 [pdf, 1.34MB]
  
  
• Odermatt D., Pomati F., Pitarch J., Carpenter J., Kawka M.,
  Schaepman M., Wüest A. (2012) MERIS observations of phytoplankton blooms in a stratified eutrophic lake. Remote Sensing of Environment 126 (2012) 232–23, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.08.031 [pdf, 1.34MB]
  
  
• Pasche N., Muvundja F.A., Schmid M., Wüest A., Müller B. (2012). Nutrient cycling in Lake Kivu., p 31 - 45, Chapter 3 in J.-P. Descy et al. (eds.), Lake Kivu: Limnology and biogeochemistry of a tropical great lake, Aquatic Ecology Series 5, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4243-7_3, © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012. [311KB, ask for pdf via e-mail to wueest@eawag.ch]
  
  
• Pernet-Coudrier B., Qi W., Liu H., Müller B., Berg M. (2012) Sources and Pathways of Nutrients in the Semi-Arid Region of Beijing-Tianjin, China. Environmental Science & Technology, 2012, 46, 5294-5301, dx.doi.org/10.1021/es3004415 [pdf, 3.33MB]
  
  
• Peter S., Koetzsch S., Traber J., Bernasconi S.M., Wehrli B., Durisch-Kaiser E. (2012) Intensified organic carbon dynamics in the ground water of a restored riparian zone. Freshwater Biology (2012) 57, 1603–1616, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2012.02821 [pdf, 742KB]
  
  
• Peter S., Rechsteiner R., Lehmann M.F., Brankatsch R., Vogt T., Diem T., Wehrli B., Tockner K., Durisch-Kaiser E. (2012) Nitrate removal in a restored riparian groundwater system: functioning and importance of individual riparian zones. Biogeosciences, 9, 4295–4307, 2012, doi:10.5194/bg-9-4295-2012 [pdf, 2.75MB]
  
  
• Saunders K.M., Kamenik C., Hodgson D.A., Hunziker S., Siffert L., Fischer D., Fujak M., Gibson J.A.E., Grosjean M. (2012) Late Holocene changes in precipitation in northwest Tasmania and their potential links to shifts in the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds. Global and Planetary Change 92–93 (2012) 82–91, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.04.005 [pdf, 864KB]
  
  
• Schmid M., Wüest A. (2012). Stratification, Mixing and Transport Processes in Lake Kivu. p 13 - 29, Chapter 2 in J.-P. Descy et al. (eds.), Lake Kivu: Limnology and biogeochemistry of a tropical great lake, Aquatic Ecology Series 5, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4243-7_2, © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012. [552KB, ask for pdf via e-mail to wueest@eawag.ch]
  
  
• Schmid M., Ross K.A., Wüest A. (2012). Comment on "An additional challenge of Lake Kivu in Central Africa – upward movement of the chemoclines by Finn Hirslund". Journal of Limnology 71(2): 330-334, doi: 10.4081/jlimnol.2012.e35. [pdf, 688KB]
  
  
• Schmid P., Bogdal C., Blüthgen N., Anselmetti F.S. (2012) Highlights of Analytical Chemistry in Switzerland. CHIMIA 2012, 66 No 7/8, doi:10.2533/chimia.2012.644 [pdf, 961KB]
  
  
• Schmidt G.A., Jungclaus J.H., Ammann C.M., Bard E., Braconnot P., Crowley T.J., Delaygue G., Joos F., Krivova N.A., Muscheler R., Otto-Bliesner B.L., Pongratz J., Shindell D.T., Solanki S.K., Steinhilber F., Vieira L.E.A. (2012) Climate forcing reconstructions for use in PMIP simulations of the Last Millennium (v1.1) Geoscientific Model Development, 5, 185–191, 2012,
  doi:10.5194/gmd-5-185-2012 [pdf, 705KB]
  
  
• Schouten S., Rijpstra W.R.C., Durisch-Kaiser E., Schubert C.J., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. (2012) Distribution of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids in the water column of Lake Tanganyika. Organic Geochemistry 53 (2012) 34–37, doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.01.009 [pdf, 308KB
  
  
• Schrijver C.J., Beer J., Baltensperger U., Cliver E.W., Güdel M., Hudson H.S., McCracken K.G., Osten R.A., Peter T., Soderblom D.R., Usoskin I.G., Wolff E.W. (2012) Estimating the frequency of extremely energetic solar events,
  based on solar, stellar, lunar, and terrestrial records. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 117, A08103, doi:10.1029/2012JA017706, 2012 [pdf, 399KB]
  
  
• Schubert C.J., Diem T., Eugster W. (2012) Methane Emissions from a Small Wind Shielded Lake Determined by Eddy Covariance, Flux Chambers, Anchored Funnels, and Boundary Model Calculations: A Comparison. Environmental Science & Technology, dx.doi.org/10.1021/es203465x [pdf, 2.87MB]
  
  
• Shade A., Peter H., Allison S.D., Baho D.L., Berga M., Bürgmann H., Huber D.H., Langenheder S., Lennon J.T., Martiny J.B.H., Matulich K.L., Schmidt T.M., Handelsman J. (2012) Fundamentals of microbial community resistance and resilience. Frontiers in Microbiology, Dec 2012, Vol 3, doi:10.3389/fmicb.2012.00417 [pdf, 2.02MB]
  
  
• Sobek S., DelSontro T., Wongfun N., Bernhard W. (2012) Extreme organic carbon burial fuels intense methane bubbling in a temperate reservoir. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 39, L01401, doi:10.1029/2011GL050144 [pdf, 345KB]
  
  
• Steinhilber F., Abreu J.A., Beer J., Brunner I., Christl M., Fischer H., Heikkilä U., Kubik P.W., Mann M., McCracken K.G., Miller H., Miyahara H., Oerter H., Wilhelms F. (2012) 9,400 years of cosmic radiation and solar activity from ice cores and tree rings. PNAS, Vol. 109, 5967-5971, doi/10.1073/pnas.1118965109 [pdf, 978KB]
  
  
• Stockhecke M., Anselmetti F.S., Meydan A.F., Odermatt D., Sturm M. (2012) The annual particle cycle in Lake Van (Turkey). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 333-334 (2012) 148–159, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.03.022, [pdf, 2.53MB]
  
  
• Thevenon F., Adatte T., Spangenberg J.E., Anselmetti F.S. (2012) Elemental (C/N ratios) and isotopic (δ¹⁵N_org, δ¹³C_org) compositions of sedimentary organic matter from a high-altitude mountain lake (Meidsee, 2661 m a.s.l., Switzerland): Implications for Lateglacial and Holocene Alpine landscape evolution. The Holocene 22(10) 1135–1142, doi:10.1177/0959683612441841 [pdf, 2MB]
  
  
• Vologina E.G., Sturm M., Radziminovich Ya.B., Vorob'eva S.S. Shchetnikov A.A. (2012) The 1912 earthquake in South Baikal: traces in bottom sediments and gas release into the water column. Russian Geology and Geophysics 53 (2012) 1153–1161 [pdf, 1.75MB]
  
  
• Von Gunten L., Grosjean M., Kamenik C., Fujak M., Urrutia R. (2012) Calibrating biogeochemical and physical climate proxies from non-varved lake sediments with meteorological data: methods and case studies. Journal of Paleolimnology (2012) 47, 583–600, doi:10.1007/s10933-012-9582-9 [pdf, 867KB]
  
  
• Wüest A., Jarc L., Bürgmann H., Pasche N., Schmid M. (2012). Methane formation and future extraction in Lake Kivu. p 165 - 180, Chapter 10 in J.-P. Descy et al. (eds.), Lake Kivu: Limnology and biogeochemistry of a tropical great lake, Aquatic Ecology Series 5, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4243-7_10, © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012. [327KB, ask for pdf via e-mail to wueest@eawag.ch]
  
  
• Wüest A., Sommer T., Schmid M., Carpenter J.R. (2012). Diffusive-type of double diffusion in lakes – a review. p 271-284, Chapter 14 in W. Rodi and M. Uhlmann (eds), Environmental Fluid Mechanics: Memorial Volume in Honor of Prof. Gerhard H. Jirka, IAHR Monographs, CRC Press / Taylor & Francis Group, Karlsruhe. [360KB, ask for pdf via e-mail to wueest@eawag.ch]
  
  
• Zurbrügg R., Wamulume J., Kamanga R., Wehrli B., Senn D.B. (2012) River-floodplain exchange and its effects on the fluvial oxygen regime in a large tropical river system (Kafue Flats, Zambia). Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 117, G03008, doi:10.1029/2011JG001853, 2012 [pdf, 1.72MB]