Department of Environment

dr. Matthias Demuzere

Climate scientist with a specific interest in global and high-resolution regional climate modelling, urban canopy layer modelling, green and blue urban infrastructure and multi-source remote sensing.

 

I am currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Management – Ghent University, woMatthias Demuzererking on the SAT-EX project. I obtained a PhD (IWT) in Science at KU Leuven, where I also completed a six year FWO post-doctoral position. During both the PhD and post-doc position I have been working abroad on various occasions, amongst others including long-term research stays at the National University of Singapore, Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) and the MPI for biogeochemistry in Jena (Germany). Over these years I have been working on various topics on the land-atmosphere interface: synoptic circulation patterns and their role in the climate and air quality (e.g. COST733), the role of water sensitive urban design (CRC for Water Sensitive Cities), urban climate adaptation and mitigation strategies (COST TU0902), modelling urban surfaces and their atmosphere interactions, high resolution convection permitting models (CLIMAQS & MACCBET), wind energy production yields in a changing climate and mapping Local Climate Zones (WUDAPT).

 

Within the SAT-EX project I am investigating the change in intensity and frequency of droughts, heatwaves and extreme precipitation events over the past 30 years, both from a satellite earth-observation as well as from a global climate model point of view.

 

Research topics: global & regional climate models, convection-permitting, urban parameterizations, urban mapping, climate adaptation and mitigation, remote sensing.

CONTACT

Address: Coupure links 653 - Room A2.008

               9000 Ghent, Belgium

Phone: +32 9 264 61 37

E-mail:

TRAJECTORY (full CV here)

  • 2016 - Present: Post-doctoral research fellow – Ghent University
  • 2010 - 2016: FWO post-doctoral research fellow- KU Leuven
  • 2005 - 2009: PhD. In Exact Sciences – KU Leuven
  • 2003 - 2004: Msc. In Environmental Management and Technology – KU Leuven, Faculty of bioscience engineering
  • 2001 - 2003: Msc. In Physical Geography – KU Leuven, Faculty of science

ONGOING PROJECTS

  • REACT (BELSPO): Remote sensing for Epidemiology in African cities (2016 - now)
  • SAT-EX: Global impacts of hydrological and climatic extremes on vegetation (2016 - now)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (complete list here)

  1. Wouters, H., De Ridder, K., Poelmans, L., Willems, P., Brouwers, J., Hosseinzadehtalaei, P., Tabari, H., Vanden Broucke, S., Van Lipzig, N.P.M. Demuzere, M. Heat stress increase under climate change twice as large in cities as in rural areas : a study for a densely populated midlatitude maritime region. Geophysical Research Letters 44, 1–11, 2017. 

  2. Demuzere, M., Harshan, S., Järvi, L., Roth, M., Grimmond, C. S.B. , Masson, V., Oleson, K. W., Velasco, E., Wouters, H. Impact of urban canopy models and external parameters on the modelled urban energy balance in a tropical city. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 143 (704): 1581–96, 2017. 

  3. Brisson, E., Weverberg, K., Demuzere, M., Devis, A., Saeed, S., Stengel, M., Lipzig, N.P.M. How well can a convection-permitting climate model reproduce decadal statistics of precipitation, temperature and cloud characteristics?, Climate Dynamics, 1–19, 2016.
  4. Salmond, J.A., Tadaki, M., Vardoulakis, S., Arbuthnott, K., Coutts, A., Demuzere, M., Dirks, K.N., Heaviside, C., Lim, S., Macintyre, H., McInnes, R.N., Wheeler, B.W. Health and climate related ecosystem services provided by street trees in the urban environment, Environmental Health, 15(S1), S36, 2016.
  5. Vanmaercke, M., Poesen, J., Van Mele, B., Demuzere, M., Bruynseels, A., Golosov, V., Bezerra, J.F.R., Bolysov, S., Dvinskih, A., Frankl, A., Fuseina, Y., Guerra, A.J.T., Haregeweyn, N., Ionita, I., Makanzu Imwangana, F., Moeyersons, J., Moshe, I., Nazari Samani, A., Niacsu, L., Nyssen, J., Otsuki, Y., Radoane, M., Rysin, I., Ryzhov, Y.V., Yermolaev, O. How fast do gully headcuts retreat?, Earth-Science Reviews, 154, 336–355, 2016.
  6. Wouters, H., Demuzere, M., Blahak, U., Fortuniak, K., Maiheu, B., Camps, J., Tielemans, D., Lipzig, N.P. Efficient urban canopy parametrization for atmospheric modelling: description and application with the COSMO-CLM model (version 5.0_clm6) for a Belgian Summer, Geoscientific Model Development, 9, 3027–3054, 2016.
  7. Demuzere, M., Orru, K., Heidrich, O., Olazabal, E., Geneletti, D., Orru, H., Bhave, A.G., Mittal, N., Feliu, E., Faehnle, M. Mitigating and adapting to climate change: Multi-functional and multi-scale assessment of green urban infrastructure, Journal of Environmental Management, 146, 107–115, 2014.
  8. Coutts, A.M., Tapper, N.J., Beringer, J., Loughnan, M., Demuzere, M. Watering our cities: The capacity for Water Sensitive Urban Design to support urban cooling and improve human thermal comfort in the Australian context, Progress in Physical Geography, 37(1), 2–28, 2012.
  9. Demuzere, M., Trigo, R.M., Vila-Guerau de Arellano, J., Lipzig, N.P.M. The impact of weather and atmospheric circulation on O3 and PM10 levels at a mid-latitude site, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 9, 2695–2714, 2009.
  10. Huth, R., Beck, C., Philipp, A., Demuzere, M., Ustrnul, Z., Cahynova, M., Kysely, J., Tveito, O. E. Classifications of atmospheric circulation patterns: Recent advances and applications, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1146, 105–152, 2008.