Seasonal heat storage has been studied in Germany for over 30 years, but to date only a few pilot plant facilities have been built, such as those for borehole geothermal energy storage, pit storage or aquifer storage. A promising yet underutilized approach is the use of abandoned, groundwater-flooded mines for thermal energy storage. These offer high storage capacities due to their large volumes and extensive contact surfaces...

Many extreme hazardous events do not occur in isolation, but rather interact with other events, as they occur simultaneously, cascadingly, or consecutively. Hazard interrelations are critical components in hazard assessments in today’s complex and interconnected world. One event may directly or indirectly affect other hazard events through various types of spatiotemporal connections within the geophysical environment. These in...

Purpose Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is considered the gold standard for assessing cardiorespiratory fitness. To ensure consistent performance of each test, it is necessary to adapt the power increase of the test protocol to the physical characteristics of each individual. This study aimed to use machine learning models to determine individualized ramp protocols based on non-exercise features. We hypothesized that m...

Climate change models often assume similar responses to temperatures across the range of a species, but local adaptation or phenotypic plasticity can lead plants and animals to respond differently to temperature in different parts of their range. To date, there have been few tests of this assumption at the scale of continents, so it is unclear if this is a large‐scale problem. Here, we examined the assumption that insect taxa...

Petrographic observations and in situ U–Pb ages of melilitites, foidites, basanites, phonolites, and trachytes from the southern part of the Central European Volcanic Province (CEVP) and related plutonic inclusions therein reveal two distinct age groups separated by a gap of ~ 20 Myr. A late Cretaceous to early Eocene group (~ 73–47 Ma; Taunus, Lower Main plain, Odenwald and Kraichgau area, Bonndorfer Graben and Freiburger Buc...