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Ahmed Abdelmonem1 \*, Yujun Wang2 , Johannes Lützenkirchen3 and Marcelo Eduardo Alves4

1 Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

2 Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, PR China

3 Institute for Nuclear Waste Disposal, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

4 Departamento de Ciências Exatas, Escola Superior de Agricultura 'Luiz de Queiroz' – ESALQ/USP, Piracicaba, SP, Brasil

\*Address all correspondence to: ahmed.abdelmonem@kit.edu

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