Highlights
– News from the DRY–2–DRY front –
Droughts do self-propagate
17–03–2022
New article in Nature Geoscience demonstates that droughts self-propagate in drylands, just like wildfires.
Drought: beneficial for heat stress?
08–01–2022
Our new article demonstrates that by lowering air humidity, drought can actually attenuate humans morbidity during heatwaves – see article.
Transpiration–SIF link demonstrated
12–08–2020
New evidence shows the value of SIF to estimate global transpiration and the empirical connection between these two variables. Article just published.
Ecosystems modulated by advection
09–05–2020
Low GPP in water-limited regions driven by anomalous dry and warm air advection from upwind – see paper.
New article in WRR
01–12–2019
Our new study challenges the watershed convention and demonstrates strong atmospheric links between catchments.
Atmospheric demand and drought
25–11–2019
A new review explores the influence of atmospheric demand on drought and its response to climate change.
A workshop full of inspiring discussions
26–11–2019
The drought research community is on its way to identifying and tackling the main challenges regarding the event generation and persistence.
From drought to heatwave
19–08–2019
New study, published in Nature Geoscience, demonstrates how upwind droughts intensify downwind heatwaves.
New award to the project team
10–08–2019
EMS Tromp Award to Diego Miralles for an outstanding achievement in biometeorology – presentation in EMS Copenhagen 2019.
A new tool to unravel land feedbacks
09–03–2019
CLASS4GL is now available for investigating the dynamics of the boundary layer from weather balloons worldwide – see paper.
Potential of SIF to constrain transpiration
18–02–2019
A new article in Remote Sensing by Brianna R. Pagán shows the relation between SIF/PAR and transpiration efficiency.
On ecosystem potential evaporation
18–02–2019
A new article by Wouter H. Maes shows the best methods to estimate potential evaporation at FLUXNET sites.
Workshop on transpiration
10–09–2018
Recent progress on the use of satellite-based solar induced fluorescence to diagnose water fluxes – Transpiration workshop at MPI Jena.
New perspective on the topic
10–08–2018
Our article discussing the role of land–atmospheric feedbacks during droughts and heatwaves just got published.
New scientific article from DRY–2–DRY
17–06–2018
A new paper led by Irina Petrova shows that afternoon rainfall in the Sahel occurs earlier over dry soils and moist atmospheres.
Brianna Pagán awarded AGU grant
13–06–2018
DRY–2–DRY researcher Brianna Pagán is the new awardee of a Horton Research Grant, aiming to promote excellence in hydrology research.
The project keeps rolling
01–10–2017
DRY–2–DRY team is finally complete with the arrival of Dominik and Jessica to the city of Ghent; welcome! – see Team.
New article in Science
30–05–2017
Positive trends in vegetation density have led to cooling in semiarid regions and further warming at high latitudes – see here.
A success at EGU 2017
23–04–2017
DRY–2–DRY team members present their ongoing and upcoming research at the European Geosciences Union general assembly in Vienna.
The project is about to start!
01–04–2017
DRY–2–DRY kicks off with the arrival of Irina, Brianna and Hendrik at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering – see Team.
