Main Focus
- Land-atmosphere coupling: Soil moisture-vegetation-climate feedbacks in a changing climate
- Extreme weather events: Biophysical and societal impacts, interactions, legacy effects
- Earth system modelling: Constraining models, required model complexity, machine learning
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Forecasts/Projections: Hydroclimatic forecasts, climate projections, socio-economic implications
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Key Publications
Denissen, J.M.C., A.J. Teuling, A.J. Pitman, S. Koirala, M. Migliavacca, W. Li, M. Reichstein, A.J. Winkler, C. Zhan, and R. Orth (2022)
Widespread shift from ecosystem energy to water limitation with climate change
Nature Climate Change, 12, 677–684, doi: 10.1038/s41558-022-01403-8
Li, W., M. Migliavacca, M. Forkel, J.M.C. Denissen, M. Reichstein, H. Yang, G. Duveiller, U. Weber, and R. Orth (2022)
Widespread increasing vegetation sensitivity to soil moisture
Nature Communications, 3959, doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-31667-9
Orth, R., S. O, J. Zscheischler, M.D. Mahecha, and M. Reichstein (2022)
Contrasting biophysical and social impacts of hydro-meteorological extremes
Env. Res. Lett., doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac4139
O, S., E. Dutra, and R. Orth (2020)
Robustness of process-based versus data-driven modelling in changing climatic conditions
J. Hydrometeorol. 21(9), 1929-1944, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-20-0072.1
Orth, R., and G. Destouni (2018)
Drought reduces blue-water fluxes more strongly than green-water fluxes in Europe
Nature Communications, 9, 3602, doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-06013-7
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Projects
EU H2020 Project MYRIAD, Multi-hazard and systemic framework for enhancing risk-informed management and decision-making in the E.U.
[2021 - 2025, Participant]
DFG Emmy Noether Group, Hydrology-Biosphere-Climate Interactions
[2018 - 2023, PI]
SNF Advanced Postdoc Mobility, Multivariate analysis of hydrology-climate dynamics in a changing climate
[2017 - 2020, PI]
EU FP7 Project DROUGHT-R&SPI, Fostering European Drought Research and Science-Policy Interfacing
[2011 - 2014, Participant]
ETH Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Award, Influence of soil moisture on temperature variability in IPCC AR4 climate scenarios
[2008 - 2010, PI]
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Trajectory
| since 2018 | Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany |
| 2017 | Researcher, Stockholm University, Sweden |
| 2016 | Senior Scientist, ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
| 2013 - 2016 05-07/2015, 09/2016 |
Postdoctoral Scientist, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Visiting scientist, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK |
| 2010 - 2013 01-04/2012 |
PhD thesis, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Visiting student, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA |
| 2008 - 2010 | MSc in Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
| 2005 - 2008 09/2007-01/2008 |
BSc in Earth Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Erasmus exchange semester, University of Leeds, UK |
Community Service
Supervisor of >15 BSc, MSc & PhD theses
Vorlesung Klimawandel / Lecture on Climate Change
Elected representative of the institute to the CPT section of the Max Planck Society
Member of Die Junge Akademie
Faculty member of institute's graduate school (IMPRS-gBGC)
Reviewer of >70 manuscripts (e.g. Nature Clim. Change, Nature Geosci., Nature Ecol. & Evol. , GRL, Clim. Dyn., Hydr. Earth Syst. Sci.)
Reviewer of >5 proposals (e.g. German Research
Foundation (DFG), UK National Environment Research Council (NERC), Czech
Science Foundation (GACR))