Erratum to: Environ Earth Sci (2012) 66:1279–1284 DOI 10.1007/s12665-012-1661-8

Unfortunately, the original article has been published incorrectly with errors in the title and author group. The complete and corrected title is given below:

“International viewpoint and news: data and modelling platforms in environmental Earth sciences”

One of the co-author Dr. Ralf Kunkel has not been included in the original publication.

The complete author list should read as follows:

“Olaf Kolditz, Karsten Rink, Haibing Shao, Thomas Kalbacher, Ralf Kunkel, Steffen Zacharias, Peter Dietrich”.