Reviewed international journal papers:
Montzka, C., J. Grant, H. Moradkhani, H.-J. Hendricks-Franssen, L. Weihermüller, M. Drusch and H. Vereecken (201X): Estimation of radiative transfer parameters from SMOS brightness temperatures using data assimilation: Implication on soil moisture retrieval. Vadose Zone Journal, Special Section on Remote Sensing of Vadose Zone Hydrology, submitted
Montzka, C., H. Bogena, L. Weihermüller, F. Jonard, C. Bouzinac, J. Kainulainen, J. E. Balling, A. Loew, J. T. dall’Amico, E. Rouhe, J. Vanderborght and H. Vereecken (2012): Brightness temperature validation at different scales during the SMOS Validation Campaign in the Rur and Erft catchments, Germany. IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, under review
Vereecken, H., L. Weihermüller, F. Jonard, and C. Montzka (2012): Characterization of crop canopies and water stress related phenomena using microwave methods: A review. Vadose Zone Journal, accepted
Han, X., X. Li, H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, H. Vereecken and C. Montzka (2012): Spatial horizontal correlation characteristics in the land data assimilation of soil moisture. Hydrology and Earth System Science (HESS), 16, 1349-1363
Montzka, C., H. Moradkhani, L. Weihermüller, H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, M. Canty and H. Vereecken (2011): Hydraulic Parameter Estimation by Remotely-Sensed Top Soil Moisture Observations with the Particle Filter. Journal of Hydrology 399, 410 - 421
Montzka, C., M. Canty, P. Kreins, R. Kunkel, G. Menz, H. Vereecken and F. Wendland (2008): Multispectral remotely sensed data in modelling the annual variability of nitrate concentrations in the leachate. Environmental Modelling and Software 23(8), 1070 - 1081
Montzka, C., M. Canty, R. Kunkel, G. Menz, H. Vereecken and F. Wendland (2008): Modelling the water balance of a mesoscale catchment basin using remotely sensed land cover data. Journal of Hydrology 353, 322 – 334
Books:
Montzka, C. (2008): LANDSAT-Analyse für die Disaggregierung von Nährstoffüberschüssen: Cluster-Analyse und überwachte Klassifikation für das Flusseinzugsgebiet der Rur. VDM-Verlag, 176 p.
Karpuzcu, M., N. Agiralioglu, N. Alpaslan, G. Egin, H. Gömann, O. Gunduz, M. Kocal, S. Oncel, A. Pekdeger, H. Voigt, P. Kuhr, C. Montzka, B. Tetzlaff, H. Vereecken and F. Wendland (2008): Integrated Modelling of Nutrients in selected river basins of Turkey: Results of a bilateral German-Turkish research project. Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich. Reihe Energie & Umwelt / Energy & Environment 17
Montzka, C. (2008): Einsatz von multispektralen Satellitenbilddaten in der Wasserhaushalts- und Stoffstrommodellierung - dargestellt am Beispiel des Rureinzugsgebietes. Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich. Reihe Energie & Umwelt / Energy & Environment 1
Kunkel, R., C. Montzka and F. Wendland (2007): Anwendung des im Forschungszentrum Jülich entwickelten Modells WEKU zur Ableitung flussgebietsbezogener Aufenthaltszeiten des Grundwassers in Deutschland. UFOPLAN-Project 205 24 204: Entwicklung eines szenariofähigen Managementtools für Stickstoffeinträge in Oberflächengewässer im Rahmen internationaler Berichtspflichten. Final Report, 88 p., Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Juelich
Bogena, H., J.-F. Hake, M. Herbst, R. Kunkel, C. Montzka, Th. Puetz, H. Vereecken and F. Wendland (2005): MOSYRUR - Water balance analysis in the Rur basin. Reihe Umwelt/Environment 52, Juelich
Conference papers/presentations:
Jagdhuber, T., M. Kohling, I. Hajnsek, C. Montzka, and K.P. Papathanassiou (2012): Validation of Distributed Soil Moisture: Airborne Polarimetric SAR vs. Ground-based Sensor Networks. Geophysical Research Abstracts 14, EGU2012-5695, EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna, 22 - 27 April 2012 (Oral Presentation)
Qu, W., H. Bogena, C. Montzka, and H. Vereecken (2012): Temporal stability of soil water content in a small grassland head water catchment in western Germany observed by a wireless sensor network. Geophysical Research Abstracts 14, EGU2012-6280-1, EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna, 22 - 27 April 2012 (Poster)
Hasan, S., C. Montzka, H. Bogena, C. Rüdiger, and H. Vereecken (2012): Airborne Passive microwave response to soil moisture: A case study for the Rur catchment. Geophysical Research Abstracts 14, EGU2012-9509-1, EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna, 22 - 27 April 2012 (Poster)
Baatz, R., H. Bogena, H.-J. Hendricks-Franssen, J.A. Huisman, C. Montzka, and H. Vereecken (2012): Development of a measurement operator for cosmic ray soil moisture observations. Geophysical Research Abstracts 14, EGU2012-11085, EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna, 22 - 27 April 2012 (Poster)
Rötzer, K., C. Montzka, H. Bogena, W. Wagner, R. Kidd, and H. Vereecken (2012): Validation of SMOS and ASCAT Soil Moisture Products - Time Series Analysis in the Rur and Erft Catchments. Geophysical Research Abstracts 14, EGU2012-7343, EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna, 22 - 27 April 2012 (Oral Presentation)
Zhao, L., K. Yang, J. Qin, Y. Chen, W. Tang, H. Wu, C. Lin, M. Han, and C. Montzka (2012): Spatiotemporal analysis of soil moisture at a Tibetan Plateau soil moisture/temperature monitoring network. Geophysical Research Abstracts 14, EGU2012-511-3, EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna, 22 - 27 April 2012 (Oral Presentation)
Montzka, C., S. Hasan, H. Bogena, I. Hajnsek, R. Horn, T. Jagdhuber, A. Reigber, N. Hermes, C. Rüdiger, and H. Vereecken (2012): Active and passive airborne microwave remote sensing for soil moisture retrieval in the Rur catchment, Germany. Joint HOBE - Transregio32 Workshop, Sandbjerg Castle, Sonderborg, Denmark, 1 - 4 April 2012 (Oral Presentation)
Qu, W., H. Bogena, C. Montzka, and H. Vereecken (2012): Temporal stability of soil water content in a small grassland head water catchment in western Germany observed by a wireless sensor network. Joint HOBE - Transregio32 Workshop, Sandbjerg Castle, Sonderborg, Denmark, 1 - 4 April 2012 (Poster)
Hasan, S., C. Montzka, H. Bogena, C. Rüdiger, and H. Vereecken (2012): Airborne Passive microwave response to soil moisture: A case study for the Rur catchment. Joint HOBE - Transregio32 Workshop, Sandbjerg Castle, Sonderborg, Denmark, 1 - 4 April 2012 (Poster)
Baatz, R. , H. Bogena, H.-J. Hendricks-Franssen, S. Huisman, C. Montzka, and H. Vereecken (2012): Development of a measurement operator for cosmic ray soil moisture observations. Joint HOBE - Transregio32 Workshop, Sandbjerg Castle, Sonderborg, Denmark, 1 - 4 April 2012 (Poster)
Montzka, C. (2012): Brightness Temperature Validation and Assimilation of SMOS Products. GRACE Workshop, Bonn, 13 - 14 February 2012 (Invited Presentation)
Montzka, C., H.-J. Hendricks-Franssen, M. Drusch, H. Moradkhani, L. Weihermüller, H. Bogena, J. Vanderborght and H. Vereecken (2011): Radiative Transfer Parameter Estimation for SMOS Soil Moisture Retrieval. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 5 - 9 December 2011 (Poster)
Vereecken, H. H.-J. Hendricks-Franssen, C. Montzka, H. Bogena, U. Rosenbaum; J. A. Huisman, J. van der Kruk and J. Vanderborght (2011): Soil water content and hydrological fluxes in terrestrial systems: from measurement to prediction. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 5 - 9 December 2011 (Invited Presentation)
Bogena, H., D. Metzen, R. Baatz, H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, J. A. Huisman, C. Montzka and H. Vereecken (2011): Evaluation of the cosmic-ray neutron method for measuring integral soil moisture dynamics of a forested head water catchment. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 5 - 9 December 2011 (Oral Presentation)
Jonard, F., C. Montzka, L. Weihermüller and H. Vereecken (2011): Ground-Based Radiometer Activities at the Agrosphere Institute. ELBARA II Workshop for data processing and quality control, ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk (The Netherlands), 8 - 9 November 2011 (Oral Presentation)
Montzka, C., J. Grant, H. Moradkhani, H.-J. Hendricks-Franssen, L. Weihermüller, M. Drusch and H. Vereecken (2011): Estimation of radiative transfer parameters for soil moisture retrieval from SMOS. Sino-German Symposium on Modeling Approaches and Observational Techniques for the Quantification of Fast Environmental Changes and its Impacts on Land Use and Water Resources, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 24 - 28 October 2011 (Oral Presentation)
Montzka, C., J. Grant, H. Moradkhani, H.-J. Hendricks-Franssen, L. Weihermüller, M. Drusch and H. Vereecken (2011): SMASPARES - SMos data ASsimilation for PARameter EStimation in hydrological and radiative transfer models. ESA Support to Science Element (STSE) Workshop, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, 20 - 21 October 2011 (Oral Presentation)
Baatz, R., C. Montzka, X. Han, H. Bogena, H. Vereecken and H.-J. Hendricks Franssen (2011): Improving soil moisture states and model parameters of a coupled land surface model (ParFlow-CLM). German Symposium On Data Assimilation, Offenbach, Germany, 28 - 30 September 2011 (Poster)
Montzka, C., H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, M. Drusch, H. Moradkhani, L. Weihermüller, D. Fernandez Prieto, H. Bogena, J. Vanderborght and H. Vereecken (2011): Estimation of radiative transfer parameters for soil moisture retrieval from SMOS brightness temperatures – A synthetic 1D experiment with the Particle Filter. International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Vancouver, Canada, 24 - 29 July 2011 (Poster and paper)
Montzka, C., H. Bogena, L. Weihermüller, F. Jonard, M. Dimitrov, C. Bouzinac, J. Kainulainen, J. E. Balling, J. Vanderborght and H. Vereecken (2011): Radiobrightness validation on different spatial scales during the SMOS Validation Campaign 2010 in the Rur catchment, Germany. International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Vancouver, Canada, 24 - 29 July 2011 (Oral Presentation and paper)
Hendricks Franssen, H.-J., H. Bogena, C. Montzka, A. Graf, S. Huisman, J. Vanderborght and H. Vereecken (2011): Conditioning data for physically based hydrological models: the complex link between data and the unknown „reality“. Water Science Horizon Conference, Berlin, 8 - 9 June (invited Presentation)
Jonard, F., C. Montzka, H. Bogena, S. Hasan and H. Vereecken (2011): SMAP validation activities of the Agropshere Institute in the Rur catchment, Germany. SMAP Cal/Val Workshop, Oxnard (California, USA), 3 - 5 May (Oral Presentation)
Hendricks Franssen, H.-J., W. Kurtz, C. Montzka, H. Zhou, L. Li, W. Kessomkiat and H. Vereecken (2011): Sequential data assimilation for improved identification of aquifer, soil and river bed properties. Tübingen, 19 April (invited Presentation)
Montzka, C. (2011): Multiscale soil moisture observations and data assimilation. Center for Environmental Systems Research, Kassel, 18 April 2011 (invited Presentation)
Montzka, C., H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, M. Drusch, H. Moradkhani, L. Weihermüller, D. Fernandez Prieto, H. Bogena, J. Vanderborght and H. Vereecken (2011): A Synthetic 1D Data Assimilation Experiment for SMOS Radiative Transfer Parameter Estimation. Geophysical Research Abstracts 13, EGU2011-3092, EGU General Assembly 2011, Vienna, 3- 8 April 2011 (Oral Presentation)
Kessomkiat, W., H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, C. Montzka, A. Graf and H. Vereecken (2011): Assimilation of Eddy Covariance Data by the Particle Filter. REKLIM Workshop, Bremerhaven, Germany, 29 - 30 March 2011 (Poster)
Hendricks Franssen, H.-J., W. Kessomkiat, C. Montzka, H. Zhou, W. Kurtz, G. Bauser and H. Vereecken (2011): Issues concerning the assimilation of eddy covariance data in landsurface models. Leipzig, 24 February (invited Presentation)
Montzka, C., H. Bogena, L. Weihermüller, F. Jonard, M. Dimitrov, C. Bouzinac, J. Kainulainen, J. E. Balling, E. Rouhe, J. Vanderborght and H. Vereecken (2010): Analyses of brightness temperatures on different spatial scales during the SMOS Validation Campaign in the Rur catchment, Germany. SMOS Validation and Retrieval Team Workshop, Frascati, Italy, 29 - 30 November 2010 (Oral Presentation)
Montzka, C., H. Moradkhani, L. Weihermüller, H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, M. Canty and H. Vereecken (2010): Estimation of Hydraulic Parameters by Simulated Remotely-Sensed Top Soil Moisture Observations with the Particle Filter. Workshop on Remote Sensing Methods for Change Detection and Process Modelling, Cologne, 18 - 19 November 2010 (Poster)
Montzka, C., H. Moradkhani, L. Weihermüller, H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, M. Canty and H. Vereecken (2010): Estimation of Hydraulic Parameters by Remotely-Sensed Top Soil Moisture Observations with the Particle Filter – A Synthetic Experiment. International Workshop on Data Assimilation for Operational Hydrologic Forecasting and Water Resources Management, Delft, The Netherlands, 1 - 3 November 2010 (Oral Presentation)
Montzka, C., M. Dimitrov, H. Moradkhani, L. Weihermüller, H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, J. A. Huisman, J. Rings, J. Vanderborght and H. Vereecken (2010): Estimating the influence of soil surface structure on evapotranspiration by soil moisture data assimilation, Conference on Earth Observation for Land-Atmosphere Interaction Science, Frascati, Italy, 3 - 5 November 2010 (Poster)
Montzka, C. and H. Vereecken (2010): Experimental measurements of soil water fluxes from local to catchment scale, Sino-German Workshop on Land Use and Water Resources Management under Fast Environmental Change, Nanchang, China, 21 - 26 October 2010 (invited talk)
Montzka, C., H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, H. Bogena, J. Vanderborght and H. Vereecken (2010): Die SMOS Validierungskampagne 2010 und Datenassimilierung zur Parameterschätzung für die Strahlungstransfermodellierung, 3. SMOS Nutzerworkshop Hamburg, 20 October 2010 (Oral Presentation)
Montzka, C., M. Dimitrov, H. Moradkhani, L. Weihermüller, H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, J. A. Huisman, J. Rings, J. Vanderborght and H. Vereecken (2010): Estimating the temporal dynamics of top soil hydraulic parameters with the particle filter. Fourth International Workshop on Catchment-scale Hydrological Modeling and Data Assimilation (CAHMDA-IV), Lhasa, China, 21 - 23 July 2010 (Oral Presentation)
Montzka, C., H. Bogena, U. Rosenbaum, H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, H. Moradkhani, A. Weuthen and H. Vereecken (2010): Assimilation of wireless sensor network data for estimating soil hydraulic properties at the catchment scale. Fourth International Workshop on Catchment-scale Hydrological Modeling and Data Assimilation (CAHMDA-IV), Lhasa, China, 21 - 23 July 2010 (Poster)
Montzka, C., H. Bogena, J. Vanderborght and H. Vereecken (2010): Validation of Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission data in the Rur and Erft catchments, Germany. Fourth International Workshop on Catchment-scale Hydrological Modeling and Data Assimilation (CAHMDA-IV), Lhasa, China, 21 - 23 July 2010 (Poster)
Hallikainen, M., J. Kainulainen, P. Sievinen, J. Seppänen, E. Rouhe, J. dall’Amico, F. Schlenz, A. Loew, S. Bircher and C. Montzka (2010): SMOS Cal/Val 2010 Activities and RFI Research with Airborne HUT-2D Radiometer. URSI Commission F Microwave Signatures 2010 - Specialist Symposium on Microwave Remote Sensing of the Earth, Oceans, and Atmosphere Florence, Italy, 4 - 8 October 2010 (Oral Presentation)
Kainulainen, J., K. Rautiainen, P. Sievinen, J. Seppänen, E. Rouhe, M. Hallikainen , J. dall’Amico, F. Schlenz, A. Loew, S. Bircher and C. Montzka (2010): SMOS Calibration and Validation activities with airborne interferometric radiometer HUT-2D during spring 2010. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (IGARSS) Symposium, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 25 - 30 July 2010 (Oral Presentation and paper)
Montzka, C., H. Bogena and J. Vanderborght (2010): SMOS Validation at the Rur and Erft catchments, Germany. ESA Living Planet Symposium Bergen, Norway, 28 June - 2 July 2010 (Poster)
Montzka, C., M. Canty, H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, H. Moradkhani, L. Weihermüller and H. Vereecken (2010): Estimation of soil hydraulic parameters by satellite observations and particle filtering – a virtual experiment. ESA Living Planet Symposium Bergen, Norway, 28 June - 2 July 2010 (Poster)
Montzka, C., M. Canty, H.-J. Hendricks Franssen, H. Moradkhani, L. Weihermüller and H. Vereecken (2009): Assessing the value of remotely sensed top soil moisture for soil moisture profile estimation with data assimilation. ESA Proceedings of the Earth Observation and Water Cycle Science Conference, Frascati, Italy, 18 - 20 November 2009 (Paper and Poster)
Montzka, C., H. Bogena and J. Vanderborght (2009): SMOS Cal/Val activities in the Rur catchment (Germany). Geophysical Research Abstracts 11, EGU2009-6060, EGU General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria, 19 - 24 April 2009 (Poster)
Montzka, C., H. Bogena and J. Vanderborght (2009): SMOS Cal/Val in a heterogeneous site - The Rur and Erft catchment example. SMOS Validation Retrieval Team Workshop. Lisbon, Portugal, 10 - 13 March 2009 (Poster)
Schoen, H., I. Hajnsek, C. Montzka and H. Bogena (2008): Soil Moisture Estimation With Airborne Polarimetric SAR Using Data From the TERENO Campaign in the Rur Catchment. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, San Francisco, 15 - 19 December
Montzka, C., H. Bogena, J. Vanderborght and C. Wilske (2008). SMOS Validation Rehearsal Campaign in the Rur catchment. SMOS Validation Rehearsal Campaign Workshop. Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 17 - 18 November 2008
Montzka, C., H. Bogena and J. Vanderborght (2008): Messung und Modellierung der Bodenfeuchte im Rureinzugsgebiet für SMOS CAL/VAL. 2. SMOS Nutzerworkshop Hamburg, 28 - 29 August 2008
Montzka, C., M. Canty, R. Kunkel, H. Vereecken and F. Wendland (2008): Assimilation of multispectral satellite imagery to a nitrate model system. Sino-German Workshop on Advanced Technologies of Remote Sensing and its Application in Understanding Earth Processes. Beijing, China, 26 - 30 May 2008
Montzka, C., M. Canty, R. Kunkel, H. Vereecken and F. Wendland (2008): Assimilation of multispectral remotely sensed data in nitrate modelling. Geophysical Research Abstracts 10, EGU2008-A-01106, EGU General Assembly 2008, Vienna, 13 - 18 April 2008 (Poster and Abstract)
Montzka, C., H. Bogena and J. Vanderborght (2007): Distribution of surface soil moisture: Measuring and modelling at the Rur test sites for SMOS Cal/Val. SMOS Cal/Val Workshop, ESA ESRIN Frascati, Italy, 29 – 31 October 2007 (Poster and Abstract)
Montzka, C., M. Canty, R. Kunkel, G. Menz and F. Wendland (2006): Der Versiegelungsgrad in der Wasserhaushaltsmodellierung mesoskaliger Flusseinzugsgebiete. In: U. Michel und K. Behncke (ed.): Veroeffentlichungen des AK Fernerkundung 2006, Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing (IGF) of the University of Osnabrueck, gi-reports@igf 5, 68 - 77
Montzka, C., M. Canty, R. Kunkel, G. Menz and F. Wendland (2006): Remotely sensed land cover and impervious surfaces applied in water balance modelling of a mesoscale catchment. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop of the EARSeL Special Interest Group on Land Use and Land Cover, Bonn, 28 - 30 September 2006
Montzka, C., M. Canty, P. Kreins, R. Kunkel and F. Wendland (2006): Implementing remote sensing data in matter flux modelling of mesoscale catchments – determination of nitrogen concentrations in the leachate. Proceedings of the 10th Int. Specialized Conference on Diffuse Pollution and Sustainable Basin Management, Istanbul, Turkey, 18 – 22 September 2006. CD-ROM
Montzka, C., M. Canty, P. Kreins, R. Kunkel, G. Menz and F. Wendland (2006): The key role of multispectral remote sensing data in nitrogen flux modeling of mesoscale catchments. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2006, Wien, 2 – 7 April 2006 (Poster and Abstract)
Montzka, C., H. Bogena, M. Canty, R. Kunkel and F. Wendland (2006): Combining agricultural economic and hydrological models with the aid of remote sensing data. In: André Marçal (ed.): Global Developments in Environmental Earth Observation from Space. Proceedings of the 25th EARSeL Symposium Porto, 6 - 11 June 2005, 299 - 304
Bogena, H., R. Kunkel, C. Montzka and F. Wendland (2005): Uncertainties in the simulation of groundwater recharge at different scales. Advances in Geosciences 5, 25 - 30
Kunkel R., H. Bogena, C. Montzka and F. Wendland (2005): Landcover dependent runoff modelling for large catchment areas with the GROWA model; concepts, validation and uncertainty analysis. Sustainable Management of Residues Emanating from Water and Wastewater Treatment, Johannesburg, South Africa, 9 - 12 August 2005: Proceedings of the International Conference. CD-ROM