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Gebesee

The Gebesee Ecosystem station in Germany has been running greenhouse gas measurements since 2001, making it one of the longest-running Ecosystem stations on a crop site in the ICOS network. Agriculture plays a big role in this region, known locally as the Thuringian Basin.
Germany
163 m
Altitude
9.2 °C
Mean annual temperature
534.0 mm
Mean annual precipitation
Marine west coast (Cfb)
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DE-Geb
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2020-11-17
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The station Gebesee (ICOS code DE-Geb) is located near Gebesee ca. 20 km northwest of Erfurt in the Thuringian Plain, Germany. The site is an agricultural site with crop rotation since 2001 (when the eddy flux measurements started) included winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.), rape (Brassica napus L.), winter barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.), peppermint (Mentha × piperita L.), durum (Triticum durum DESF.), and spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). The soil is classified as Chernozem (FAO) with a silty clay loam texture (~30 % clay) and granular structure.
Marine west coast (Cfb)
Croplands
9.2 °C
534.0 mm
119.1 W/m2
51.09973, 10.91463
163 m
DE-Geb ICOS Ecosystem Station Labelling Report.pdf
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Current staff

Name Role (ICOS vocabulary) Start date
John Akubia Data Manager 2023-11-10
Christian Brümmer Principal Investigator 2018-06-01
Timo Rosenthal Administrator 2026-01-08
Jeremy Rüffer Data Manager 2026-01-08
Akarsh Shivhalli Gopal Researcher 2024-08-04

Former staff

Name Role (ICOS vocabulary) Start date End date
Jean-Pierre Delorme Administrator 2018-06-01 2025-10-31
Frederik Schrader Data Manager 2019-09-30 2022-08-31