Dr. Johannes Pätsch

Marine Carbon Cycles

Scientist

Phone: +49 (40) 42838-6628

E-mail contact

For more information on Johannes Pätsch please see also his website at University Hamburg.

Publications

Norbisrath, M., Pätsch, J., Dähnke, K., Sanders, T., Schulz, G., van Beusekom, J.E.E., & Thomas, H. (2022): Metabolic alkalinity release from large port facilities (Hamburg, Germany) and impact on coastal carbon storage. Biogeosciences, 19, 5151–5165, doi:10.5194/bg-19-5151-2022
van de Wolfshaar, K. E., Daewel, U., Hjøllo, S. S., Troost, T. A., Kreus, M., Pätsch, J., Ji, R., Maar, M., 2021. Sensitivity of the fish community to different prey fields and importance of spatial-seasonal patterns. Marine Ecology Progress Series 680: 79-95. doi: 10.3354/meps13885.
Vallaeys, V., Lambrechts, J., Delandmeter, P., Pätsch, J., Spitzy, A., Hanert, E., Deleersnijder, E., 2021. Understanding the circulation in the deep, micro-tidal and strongly stratified Congo River estuary. Ocean Modelling 167. doi: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2021.101890
Friedland, René; Macias,Diego; Cossarini,Gianpiero; Daewel,Ute; Estournel,Claude; Garcia-Gorriz,Elisa; Grizzetti,Bruna; Grégoire,Marilaure; Gustafson,Bo; Kalaroni,Sofia; Kerimoglu,Onur; Lazzari,Paolo; Lenhart,Hermann; Lessin,Gennadi; Maljutenko,Ilja; Miladinova,Svetla; Müller-Karulis,Bärbel; Neumann,Thomas; Parn,Ove; Pätsch,Johannes; Piroddi,Chiara; Raudsepp,Urmas; Schrum,Corinna; Stegert,Christoph; Stips,Adolf; Tsiaras,Kostas; Ulses,Caroline; Vandenbulcke,Luc; 2021. Effects of Nutrient Management Scenarios on Marine Eutrophication Indicators: A Pan-European, Multi-Model Assessment in Support of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. Frontiers in Marine Science 8(116). doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.596126
Schwichtenberg, F., Pätsch, J., Böttcher, M. E., Thomas, H., Winde, V., Emeis, K. C., 2020. The impact of intertidal areas on the carbonate system of the southern North Sea. Biogeosciences 17(16): 4223-4245. doi: 10.5194/bg-17-4223-2020.
Pätsch, J., Gouretski, V., Hinrichs, I., Koul, V., 2020. Distinct Mechanisms Underlying Interannual to Decadal Variability of Observed Salinity and Nutrient Concentration in the Northern North Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 125(5). doi: 10.1029/2019jc015825.
Van Beusekom, J.E.E., Carstensen, J., Dolch, T., Grage, A., Hofmeister, R., Lenhart, H., Kerimoglu, O., Kolbe, K., Pätsch,J. Rick, R., Rönn, L., Ruiter, H., 2019. Wadden Sea Eutrophication: Long-Term Trends and Regional Differences. Front. Mar. Sci., 6:370. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00370.
Pätsch, J., Kühn, W., Six, K.D., 2018. Interannual sedimentary effluxes of alkalinity in the southern North Sea: Model results compared with summer observations. Biogeosciences 15(11): 3293-3309. doi.org/10.5194/bg-2018-58.
Meyer, M., Pätsch, J., Geyer, B., Thomas, H., 2018. Revisiting the estimate of the North Sea air-sea flux of CO2 in 2001/02: The dominant role of different wind data products. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. Vol 123. DOI: 10.1029/2017JG004281.
Huebert K. B., Pätsch J., Hufnagl M., Kreus M., Peck M., 2018. Modeled larval fish prey fields and growth rates help predict recruitment success of cod and anchovy in the North Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series, MEPS 600:111-126 (2018) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12615.
Große, F., Kreus, M., Lenhart, H.-J. , Pätsch, J., Pohlmann , T., 2017. A novel modeling approach to quantify the influence of nitrogen inputs on the oxygen dynamics of the North Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science, 4 (383), DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00383.
Hufnagl, M., Payne, M., Lacroix, G., Bolle, L.J., Daewel, U., Dickey-Collas, M., Gerkema, T., Huret, M., Janssen, F., Kreus, M., Pätsch, J., Pohlmann, T., Ruardij, P., Schrum, C., Skogen, M., Tiessen, M.C.H., Petitgas, P., van Beek, J.K.L., van der Veer, H.W., Callies, U., Variation that can be expected when using particle tracking models in connectivity studies. JSR, 127, 133-149, DOI:10.1016/j.seares.2017.04.009
Pätsch, J., Burchard, H., Dieterich, C., Gräwe, U., Gröger, M., Mathis, M., Kapitza, H., Bersch,M., Moll, A., Pohlmann, T., Su, J., Ho-Hagemann, H.T.M., Schulz, A., Elizalde, A., Eden, C., 2017. An evaluation of the North Sea circulation in global and regional models relevant for ecosystem simulations. Ocean Modelling, 116: 70-95, doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2017.06.005.
Huthnance, J., Weisse, R., Wahl, T., Thomas, H., Pietrzak, J., Souza, A.J., van Heteren, S., Schmelzer, N., van Beusekom, J., Colijn, F., Haigh, I., Hjøllo, S., Holfort, J., Kent, E.C., Kühn, W., Loewe, P., Lorkowski, I., Mork,K.A., Pätsch, J., Quante, M., Salt, L., Siddorn, J., Smyth, T., Sterl, A., Woodworth, P., 2016. Recent Change — North Sea. M. Quante and F. Colijn (eds.), North Sea Region Climate Change Assessment, Regional Climate Studies, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39745-0_3
Burt, W., Thomas, H., Hagens,M., Pätsch, J., Clargo, N.M., Salt, L.A., Winde, V., Böttcher, M.E., 2016. Carbon sources in the North Sea evaluated by means of radium and stable carbon isotope tracers. Limnol. Oceanogr. 00, 2016, 00–00. doi: 10.1002/lno.10243
F. Große, N. Greenwood, M. Kreus, H. J. Lenhart, D. Machoczek, J. Pätsch, L. A. Salt, H. Thomas, 2016. Looking beyond stratification: a model-based analysis of the biological drivers of oxygen depletion in the North Sea. Biogeosciences, 13, 2511-2535, doi:10.5194/bg-13-2511-2016.
Emeis, K. C., van Beusekom, J. E., Callies, U., Ebinghaus, R., Kannen, A., Kraus, G., Kroencke, I., Lenhart, H., Lorkowski, I., Matthias, V., Moellmann, C., Paetsch, J., Scharfe, M., Thomas, H., Weisse, R., and Zorita, E., 2015. The North Sea - A shelf sea in the Anthropocene. Journal of Marine Systems, 141 :18-33. doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2014.03.012
Fabian Große , Christian Lindemann, Johannes Pätsch, Jan O. Backhaus. The influence of winter convection on primary production: A parameterisation using a hydrostatic three-dimensional biogeochemical model, 2015, JMS, 147: 138-152. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2014.07.002
Serna, A., Lahajnar, N., Pätsch, J., Hebbeln, D., Emeis, K.-C., 2014. Organic matter degradation in the German Bight/SE North Sea: Implications from stable nitrogen isotopes and amino acids. Marine Chemistry, 2014. 166(0): p. 103-113. DOI: 10.1016/j.marchem.2014.09.014
Burt, W. J., Thomas, H., Pätsch, J., Omar, A.M., Schrum, C., Daewel, U., Brenner, H., de Baar, H.J.W., 2014. Radium isotopes as a tracer of sediment-water column exchange in the North Sea - Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 28, DOI:10.1002/2014GB004825.
Lindenthal, A, B. Langmann, J. Pätsch, I. Lorkowski, M. Hort, 2012, The ocean response to volcanic iron fertilisation after the eruption of Kasatochi volcano: A regional-scale biogeochemical ocean model study, Biogeosciences 10, 3715-3729.
Pätsch, J. and I. Lorkowski, 2013, Comparison of two techniques to separate physical- and biological mediated pCO2 in seawater. Limn. & Oceanogr.: Methods, 11, 41-52
Serna, A., Pätsch, J., Dähnke, K., Wiesner, M.G., Hass, H.C., Zeiler, M., Hebbeln, D., Emeis, K.-C., 2010, History of anthropogenic nitrogen input to the German Bight/SE North Sea as reflected by nitrogen isotopes in surface sediments, sediment cores and hindcast models. Cont. Shelf Res., 30(15): 1626-1638, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2010.06.010.
Lorkowski, I., Paetsch, J., Moll, A. and Kuehn, W.: Interannual variability of carbon fluxes in the North Sea from 1970 to 2006 – Competing effects of abiotic and biotic drivers on the gas exchange of CO2, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 100, 38-57, doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2011.11.037, 2012.
Kühn, W., Pätsch, J., Thomas, H., Borges, A.V., Schiettecatte, L.-S., Bozec, Y. Prowe, A.E.F., 2010. Nitrogen and carbon cycling in the North Sea and exchange with the North Atlantic - a model study, Part II. Carbon budget and fluxes. Cont. Shelf Res., 30: 1701–1716, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2010.07.001.
Pätsch, J., Serna, A., Dähnke, K., Schlarbaum, T., Johannsen, A., Emeis, K.-C., 2010. Nitrogen cycling in the German Bight (SE North Sea) - Clues from modelling stable nitrogen isotopes. Cont. Shelf Res., 30: 203-213.
Thomas, H., Bozec, Y., de Baar, H., Elkalay, K., Frankignoulle, M., Kühn, W., Lenhart, H., Moll, A., Pätsch, J., Radach, G., Schiettecatte, L.-S. and Borges, A., 2010. Carbon and nutrient budgets of the North Sea. In: K.K. Liu, L. Atkinson, R. Quinones and L. Talaue-McManus (Editors), Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Global Continental Margins - A Global Synthesis. Springer, New York, pp. 346-354.
Prowe, A.E.F., Thomas, H., Pätsch, J., Kühn, W., Bozec, Y., Schiettecatte, L.-S., Borges, A.V., de Baar, H.J.W., 2009. Mechanisms controlling the air-sea CO2 flux in the North Sea. Cont. Shelf Res., 29: 1801-1808.
Pätsch, J. and Kühn, W., 2008. Nitrogen and carbon cycling in the North Sea and exchange with the North Atlantic - a model study, Part I. Nitrogen budget and fluxes. Continental Shelf Research, 28: 767-787. doi:10.1016/j.csr.2007.12.013
Radach, G, Pätsch, J., 2007. Variability of continental riverine freshwater and nutrient inputs into the North Sea for the years 1977-2000 and its consequences for the assessment of eutrophication. Estuaries and Coasts 30 (1): 66-81.
Friis, K., Körtzinger, A., Pätsch, J., Wallace, D.W.R., 2005. On the temporal increase of anthropogenic CO2 in the subpolar North Atlantic. Deep-Sea Res. Part I 52: 681-698.
Pätsch, J., Kühn, W., Radach, G., Santana Casiano, J.M., Gonzalez Davila, M., Neuer, S., Freudenthal, T., Llinas, O., 2002, Interannual variability of carbon fluxes at the North Atlantic station ESTOC. Deep-Sea Res. II, 49(1-3): 253-288.