Originally published as: Kaiser, K., Heinrich, I., Heine, I., Natkhin, M., Dannowski, R., Lischeid, G., Schneider, T., Henkel, J., Küster, M., Heussner, K.-U., Bens, O., Chmieleski, J. (2015): Multi-decadal lake-level dynamics in north-eastern Germany as derived by a combination of gauging, proxy-data and modelling. - Journal of Hydrology, 529, Pt. 2, pp. 584—599. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.12.057 1 Multi-decadal lake-level dynamics in north-eastern Germany as derived by a combination 2 of gauging, proxy-data and modelling 3 4 Knut Kaiser1*, Ingo Heinrich1, Iris Heine1, Marco Natkhin2, Ralf Dannowski3, Gunnar Lischeid3, 5 Thomas Schneider4, Johanna Henkel4, Mathias Küster5, Karl-Uwe Heussner6, Oliver Bens1, Jana 6 Chmieleski4 7 8 1GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany 9 2Thünen-Institute of Forest Ecosystems, Alfred-Möller-Strasse 1, D-16225 Eberswalde, Germany 10 3Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Institute of Landscape Hydrology, 11 Eberswalder Strasse 84, D-15374 Müncheberg, Germany 12 4Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Faculty of Landscape Management and 13 Nature Conservation, Schicklerstrasse 5, D-16225 Eberswalde, Germany 14 5University of Greifswald, Institute of Geography and Geology, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn Strasse 15 16, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany 16 6German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Im Dol 2-6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany 17 *Corresponding author (Email:
[email protected], Phone: +493312882830, Fax: 18 +493312881002) 19 20 Abstract 21 In the glacially formed landscape of north-eastern Germany pronounced hydrological changes 22 have been detected in recent decades, leading to the general question how lake levels and related 23 groundwater levels perform in a long-term perspective, i.e.