René Orth
Tennenbacher Straße 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
Room 03.030
phone: ++ 49 761 203-96751
email: rene.orth@ecoclim.uni-freiburg.de
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
- Forecasts/Projections: Hydroclimatic forecasts, climate projections, socio-economic implications
Vita
- since 09/2023: Professor of Modelling of BiogeochemicalSystem at Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- 2018 - 2023: Group Leader of Hydrology-Biosphere-Climate Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
- 2017: Researcher, Stockholm University, Sweden
- 2016: Senior Scientist, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- 2013 - 2016: Postdoctoral Scientist, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- 05-07/2015, 09/2016: Visiting scientist, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK
- 2010 - 2013: PhD thesis, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- 2008 - 2010: MSc in Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- 2005 - 2008: BSc in Earth Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- 09/2007-01/2008: Erasmus exchange semester, University of Leeds, UK
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
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 - 2024, 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]
Community Service
Supervisor of >15 BSc, MSc & PhD theses
Member of Die Junge Akademie
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))