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Regional Emergence of Water‐Related Browning in a Greening World Open

René Orth, Jasper Denissen, Josephin Kroll, O Sungmin, Ana Bastos , et al. · 2025

The Earth is greening in many regions under elevated atmospheric CO 2 concentrations, along with increasing temperature and land use changes. However, despite the continued rise in CO 2 , greening has stagnated or even reversed in some reg…

Future exposure to moist heat extremes linked to soil dryness Open

Jingwei Zhou, Adriaan J. Teuling · 2025

Soil moisture critically modulates moist heat via surface energy fluxes, impacting human health and ecosystems under climate change. Using CMIP6 models with or without interactive soil moisture, we dissect its global role. Moist heat is mo…

Publisher Correction: Forests support global crop supply through atmospheric moisture transport Open

Agnes Pranindita, Adriaan J. Teuling, Ingo Fetzer, Lan Wang‐Erlandsson · 2025

Forests support global crop supply through atmospheric moisture transport Open

Agnes Pranindita, Adriaan J. Teuling, Ingo Fetzer, Lan Wang‐Erlandsson · 2025

Anomalous precipitation patterns associated with climate change increasingly threaten global crop supply. Forests, as major moisture source, could potentially buffer these risks, yet their specific role in sustaining agriculture and global…

HESS Opinions: Reflecting and acting on the social aspects of modeling Open

Janneke Remmers, Rozemarijn ter Horst, Ehsan Nabavi, Ulrike Proske, Adriaan J. Teuling , et al. · 2025

Hydrological models are generally acknowledged as subjective and uncertain, yet they are often still perceived as neutral, meaning they are seen as not taking sides. This notion of neutrality has several, potentially harmful, consequences.…

Flood Characteristics Drive River-Scale Macroplastic Deposition Open

Louise Schreyers, Rahel Hauk, Nicholas Wallerstein, Adriaan J. Teuling, R. Uijlenhoet , et al. · 2025

Plastic pollution is a global environmental challenge that negatively impacts species, ecosystems, and human livelihoods. River basins, with high population densities and poor waste management, are particularly exposed to plastic pollution…

Improving realism of high-resolution hydrological modeling with anthropogenic water use: a study on the Rhine basin Open

Devi Purnamasari, Willem van Verseveld, Joost Buitink, Frederiek Sperna Weiland, Brendan Dalmijn , et al. · 2025

Observational evidence of compensatory influences of deforestation on downwind precipitation in Brazilian breadbaskets Open

Hao Li, Damián Insúa-Costa, Akash Koppa, João L. Geirinhas, Jessica Keune , et al. · 2025

Reduced Anthropogenic Aerosols Reveal Increased Heatwaves Driven by Climate Warming Open

Jia Wei, Weiguang Wang, Adriaan J. Teuling, Jianyun Zhang, Guoqing Wang , et al. · 2025

Understanding the contributions of anthropogenic climate forcings to heatwave intensification is essential for evaluating mitigation strategies. While greenhouse gas influences on temperature extremes are well established, the impacts of o…

Clustered land restoration projects increase cloud formation in West African drylands Open

Jessica Ruijsch, Adriaan J. Teuling, Christopher M. Taylor, Gert‐Jan Steeneveld, Ronald Hutjes · 2025

Bridging balances: water and energy in the urban climate Open

Harro Jongen, Gert‐Jan Steeneveld, Sue Grimmond, Mathew Lipson, Fred Meier , et al. · 2025

The urban surface interacts differently with the overlying atmosphere compared to natural surfaces, resulting in phenomena such as the urban heat island and the urban breeze. Water availability is a key factor governing the energy exchange…

Attributing urban evapotranspiration from eddy-covariance to surface cover: bottom-up versus top-down Open

Harro Jongen, Stenka Vulova, Fred Meier, Gert‐Jan Steeneveld, Femke A. Jansen , et al. · 2025

Evapotranspiration (ET) is a key process in the hydrological cycle that can help mitigate urban heat. ET depends on the surface cover, as the surface affects the partitioning of precipitation between runoff and evapotranspiration. In urban…

Modeling urban evapotranspiration with large-eddy simulations: The spatial and temporal influence of eddy-covariance footprints Open

Harro Jongen, Adriaan J. Teuling, Dan Li, Emmanuel O. Akinlabi, Srinidhi N. Gadde , et al. · 2025

Vegetation is suggested to mitigate urban heat by shading and increasing evapotranspiration (ET). Understanding ET is crucial for effective urban water resources management and optimized cooling from vegetation. The most direct method to o…

The role of decision support tools in drought management: Insights from the Netherlands Open

Marleen Lam, Liduin Bos-Burgering, Miriam Coenders‐Gerrits, Ruud P. Bartholomeus, Petra Hellegers , et al. · 2025

Has the Three Gorges Reservoir Impacted Regional Moisture Recycling? Open

Jia Wei, Weiguang Wang, Mingzhu Cao, Jianyun Zhang, Junliang Jin , et al. · 2025

The Three Gorges Dam (TGD) and its impoundment significantly alter natural river properties and local land cover, drawing considerable concerns regarding its climatic and environmental effects. However, with the role of the Three Gorges Re…

Serious gaming as an experiential learning tool: exploring the human–water perspectives in the case of Mt. Kenya water tower Open

Charles Nduhiu Wamucii, Pieter van Oel, Adriaan J. Teuling, A. Ligtenberg, John Mwangi Gathenya , et al. · 2025

Diverse stakeholders in rural landscapes commonly have distinct and often conflicting needs and interests for the available water resources resulting in complex human-water interactions, especially in water-scarce regions. In such landscap…

Identifying irrigated areas using land surface temperature and hydrological modelling: application to the Rhine basin Open

Devi Purnamasari, Adriaan J. Teuling, Albrecht Weerts · 2025

Information about irrigation with relevant spatiotemporal resolution for understanding and modelling irrigation dynamics is important for improved water resource management. However, achieving a frequent and consistent characterization of …

Contrasting below- and above-canopy climate regulation services of a temperate forest during heatwaves Open

Jingwei Zhou, M. K. van der Molen, Adriaan J. Teuling · 2025

Flood type drives river-scale plastic deposition Open

Louise Schreyers, Rahel Hauk, Nicholas Wallerstein, Adriaan J. Teuling, R. Uijlenhoet , et al. · 2025

Plastic pollution is considered a global environmental challenge, prompting international regulation efforts such as the UN plastic treaty to end plastic pollution. River basins, with high population densities and poor waste management, ar…

Scale-dependent cloud enhancement from land restoration in West African drylands Open

Jessica Ruijsch, Christopher M. Taylor, Ronald Hutjes, Adriaan J. Teuling · 2025

Land restoration projects, including reforestation and area protection, are being implemented across African drylands such as the Sahel. In addition to biodiversity, livelihood and carbon sequestration benefits, restoration can also affect…

HESS Opinions: Reflecting and acting on the social aspects of modelling Open

Janneke Remmers, Rozemarijn ter Horst, Ehsan Nabavi, Ulrike Proske, Adriaan J. Teuling , et al. · 2025

Within hydrological modelling, a persistent notion exists that a model is a neutral, objective tool. However, this notion has several, potentially harmful, consequences, such as marginalising certain stakeholders. In the critical social sc…

Do Urban-PLUMBER land surface models underestimate surface runoff? Open

Harro Jongen, Mathew Lipson, Adriaan J. Teuling, Sue Grimmond, Martin Best , et al. · 2025

Data-based simulation of the effects of land cover, soil degradation, and climate variability on runoff in a small catchment in eastern Madagascar Open

Bob W. Zwartendijk, Hannes Leistert, L.A. Bruijnzeel, Adriaan J. Teuling, Markus Weiler , et al. · 2025

Changing water availability and demand shift global greening to regional browning Open

René Orth, Jasper Denissen, Josephin Kroll, O Sungmin, Ana Bastos , et al. · 2024

The Earth is greening in many regions due to increased temperature, higher atmospheric CO₂ concentration, and land use change. However, while climate change has been accelerating, greening has not kept pace in many regions. Here…

The Water Balance Representation in Urban‐PLUMBER Land Surface Models Open

Harro Jongen, Mathew Lipson, Adriaan J. Teuling, Sue Grimmond, Jong‐Jin Baik , et al. · 2024

Urban Land Surface Models (ULSMs) simulate energy and water exchanges between the urban surface and atmosphere. However, earlier systematic ULSM comparison projects assessed the energy balance but ignored the water balance, which is couple…

Does afforestation increase soil water buffering? A demonstrator study on soil moisture variability in the Alpine Geroldsbach catchment, Austria Open

R. E. Molenaar, Manfred Kleidorfer, Bernhard Kohl, Adriaan J. Teuling, Stefan Achleitner · 2024

This study employed an operational monitoring network to measure soil moisture and runoff behaviour continuously in the Alpine catchment Geroldsbach-Götzens, Austria. We hypothesize that afforestation can have a positive impact on soil wat…

The local cooling potential of land restoration in Africa Open

Jessica Ruijsch, Adriaan J. Teuling, Grégory Duveiller, Ronald Hutjes · 2024

Land restoration is becoming increasingly popular as a climate change mitigation and adaptation measure. It is suggested that resulting vegetation changes can impact the local surface temperature through biophysical processes such as albed…

Attributing Urban Evapotranspiration From Eddy‐Covariance to Surface Cover: Bottom‐Up Versus Top‐Down Open

Harro Jongen, Stenka Vulova, Fred Meier, Gert‐Jan Steeneveld, Femke A. Jansen , et al. · 2024

Evapotranspiration is a key process in the hydrological cycle that can help mitigate urban heat. depends on the surface cover, as the surface affects the partitioning of precipitation between runoff and evapotranspiration. In urban neighbo…

Comment on egusphere-2024-1702 Open

Adriaan J. Teuling · 2024

Abstract. Floods, droughts, and heatwaves are increasing globally. This is typically attributed to CO₂-driven climate change. However, at the global scale, CO₂-driven climate change neither reduces pr…

Technical note: Investigating the potential for smartphone-based monitoring of evapotranspiration and land surface energy-balance partitioning Open

Adriaan J. Teuling, Belle Holthuis, Jasper F. D. Lammers · 2024

Evapotranspiration plays a key role in the terrestrial water cycle, climate extremes, and vegetation functioning. However, the understanding of spatio-temporal variability of evapotranspiration is limited by a lack of measurement technique…

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