Prof. dr. Diego Miralles
Research topics: ecohydrology, land–atmosphere interactions, global hydrology, hydro-climatic extremes, satellite remote sensing.
CONTACT
Address: Coupure links 653 - Room A2.028
9000 Ghent, Belgium
Phone: +32 9 264 61 35
E-mail: Diego.Miralles@UGent.be
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TRAJECTORY (CV here)
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2017 – Present: Professor (Associate) – Ghent University, Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Management
- 2014 – 2017: Guest Professor – Ghent University, Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Management
- 2014 – 2017: NWO Fellow – VU Amsterdam, Earth and Climate Cluster
- 2011 – 2014: Assistant Professor, Lecturer – University of Bristol, School of Geography
- 2009 – 2011: Research Assistant – VU Amsterdam, PhD in global hydrology
- 2008 – 2009: Visiting Scientist – US Department of Agriculture, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab
- 2006 – 2009: MSc. in Hydrology – VU Amsterdam
- 2001 – 2005: MSc. in Environmental Sciences – Autonoma University Madrid
ONGOING PROJECTS
- DRY–2–DRY (ERC) – Do droughts self-propagate and self-intensify? (2017–2022)
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DOWN2EARTH (EU) – Translation of climate information into multilevel decision support for social adaptation, policy development, and resilience to water scarcity in the Horn of Africa Drylands (2020–2024)
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Digital Twin Earth (DTE) – Hydrology (ESA) (2020–2021)
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ET–Sense (BELSPO) – High resolution terrestrial evaporation from Sentinels (2019–2021)
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ALBERI (BELSPO) – Assessing Links between Biogenic Emissions and Remotely-sensed photosynthesis Indicators (2019–2021)
RECENT PROJECTS
- Veni (NWO) – Dry soils: A driving force of droughts and heatwaves? (2014–2017)
- WACMOS–ET (ESA) – Advancing the production of evaporation from satellite observations (2012–2016)
- STR3S (BELSPO) – Stress on TRanspiration Sensed from Satellite Systems (2016–2018)
- SAT–EX (BELSPO) – Global impacts of hydrological and climatic extremes on vegetation (2014–2018)
- LandFlux (GEWEX) – Evaluation and inter-comparison of existing land evaporation products (2010–2018)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (complete list here)
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Schumacher, D.L., Keune, J., van Heerwaarden, C.C., Vilà-Guerau de Arellano, J., Teuling, A.J., Miralles, D.G. Amplification of mega-heatwaves through heat torrents fuelled by upwind drought. Nature Geoscience, 12, 712–717, 2019.
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Miralles, D.G., Gentine, P., Seneviratne, S.I., and Teuling, A.J. Land–atmospheric feedbacks during droughts and heatwaves: state of the science and current challenges. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1436, 19–35, 2019.
- Forzieri, G., Alkama, R., Miralles, D.G., and Cescatti, A. Satellites reveal contrasting responses of regional climate to the widespread greening of Earth. Science, 2017.
- Mccabe, M.F., Rodell, M., Alsdorf, D.E., Miralles, D.G., Uijlenhoet, R., Wagner, W., et al. The future of Earth observation in hydrology. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 21(7), 3879–3914, 2017.
- Teuling, A.J., Taylor, C.M., Meirink, J.-F., Melsen, L.A., Miralles, D.G., van Heerwaarden, C.C., Vautard, R., Stegehuis, A.I., Nabuurs, G.-Y., and Vilá-Guerau de Arellano, J.: Observational evidence for cloud cover enhancement over Western European forests, Nature Communications, 7:14065, 1–7, 2017.
- Miralles, D.G., Nieto, R., McDowell, N., Dorigo, W.A., Verhoest, N.E.C., Liu, Y.Y., Teuling, A.J., Dolman, A.J., Good, S.P., and Gimeno, L.: Contribution of water-limited regions to their own supply of rainfall, Environmental Research Letters, 11, 124007, 2016.
- Guillod, B.P., Orlowsky, B., Miralles, D.G., Teuling, A.J., Seneviratne, S.I.: Reconciling spatial and temporal soil moisture effects on afternoon rainfall, Nature Communications, 6, 6443, 2015.
- Miralles, D.G., van den Berg, M.J., Gash, J.H., Parinussa, R.M., de Jeu, R.A.M., Beck, H.E., Holmes, T.R.H., Jiménez, C., Verhoest, N.E.C., Dorigo, W.A., Teuling, A.J., and Dolman, A.J.: El Niño–La Niña cycle and recent trends in continental evaporation, Nature Climate Change, 4(12), 122–126, 2014.
- Miralles, D.G., Teuling, A.J., van Heerwaarden, C.C., De Jeu, R.A.M., and Vilá-Guerau de Arellano, J.: Mega-heatwave temperatures due to combined soil desiccation and atmospheric heat accumulation, Nature Geoscience, 7, 345–349, 2014.
- Miralles, D.G., Holmes, T.R.H., De Jeu, R.A.M., Gash, J. H., Meesters, A.G.C.A., and Dolman, A.J.: Global land-surface evaporation estimated from satellite-based observations, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 15, 453–469, 2011.