Teuling, Ryan

Research interests

Land surface-atmosphere interaction

Climate variability and its impact on water budgets

Conceptualisation and scaling of land surface processes

Catchment hydrology

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy in Hydrology (with distinction), Wageningen University, 2007

Master of Science in Soil, Water and Atmosphere (with distinction), Wageningen University, 2002

Employment

2010: Postdoc, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich.

2009-2010: Postdoc, Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, Wageningen University

2009: Postdoc, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich.

2007-2009: Postdoc, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich. Grant provided by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research through the Rubicon programme.

2007: Technical expert, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona

2002-2007: PhD student, Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, Wageningen University

Publications

In preperation/Under review/In press

van Heerwaarden, C.C.; J. Vila-Guerau de Arellano; and A.J. Teuling (2010), Land-atmosphere coupling explains the link between pan and actual evaporation trends in a changing climate. Submitted.

Mittelbach, H.; F. Casini; I. Lehner; A.J. Teuling; and S.I. Seneviratne (2010), Soil moisture monitoring for climate research: evaluation of a low cost sensor in the framework of the SwissSMEX campaign. In preparation.

van der Molen, M.K.; et al. (2010), Carbon drought. Submitted to Global Change Biology.

Seneviratne, S.I.; I. Lehner; J. Gurtz; H. Lang; U. Moser; A.J. Teuling; D. Grebner; L. Menzel; K. Schroff; and T. Vitvar (2009), The Rietholzbach catchment: A 32-year climate and hydrological data set from a Swiss pre-alpine watershed. In preperation.

Teuling, A.J.; R. Stöckli and S.I. Seneviratne (2010), Bivariate colour maps for visualizing climate data (short communication). Int. J. Climatol., doi:10.1002/joc.2153, early view.

Teuling, A.J.; I. Lehner; J.W. Kirchner; and S.I. Seneviratne (2010), Catchments as simple dynamical systems: experience from a Swiss pre-alpine catchment. Water Resour. Res., doi:10.1029/2009WR008777, in press.

Mueller, B.; et al. (2010), Land evapotranspiration: Evaluation of current global observation-based datasets and IPCC AR4 simulations. In preperation.

2010

Teuling, A.J., S.I. Seneviratne; R. Stöckli; M. Reichstein; E. Moors; P. Ciais; S. Luyssaert; B. van den Hurk; C. Ammann; C. Bernhofer; E. Dellwik; D. Gianelle; B. Gielen; T. Grünwald; K. Klumpp; L. Montagnani; C. Moureaux; M. Sottocornola; and G. Wohlfahrt (2010), Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves. Nature Geosci., 3, 722-727, doi:10.1038/ngeo950.

Lehner, I.; A.J. Teuling; J. Gurtz; and S.I. Seneviratne (2010), Long-term water balance in the pre-alpine Rietholzbach catchment: First comparison of evapotranspiration estimates. In: IAHS Publ. 336, Status and Perspectives of Hydrology in Small Basins, 30 March-2 April 2009, Goslar-Hahnenklee, Germany.

Seneviratne, S.I.; T. Corti; E. Davin; M. Hirschi; E.B. Jaeger; I. Lehner; B. Orlowsky; and A.J. Teuling (2010), Investigating soil moisture-climate interactions in a changing climate: A review. Earth-Sci. Rev., 99(3-4), 125-161, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.02.004.

2009

Teuling, A.J.; R. Uijlenhoet; B. van den Hurk; and S.I. Seneviratne (2009), Parameter sensitivity in LSMs: An analysis using stochastic soil moisture models and ELDAS soil parameters. J. Hydrometeorol., 10, 751-765, doi:10.1175/2008JHM1033.1

Teuling, A.J.; M. Hirschi; A. Ohmura; M. Wild; M. Reichstein; P. Ciais; N. Buchmann; C. Ammann; L. Montagnani; A.D. Richardson; G. Wohlfahrt; and S.I. Seneviratne (2009), A regional perspective on trends in continental evaporation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L02404, doi:10.1029/2008GL036584. To download the paper, go to the AGU paper website and login using the following code for both the login ID and password: 20642285. Additional figures are available for download as .zip file in pdf or png format.

2008

Bogaart, P.W.; A.J. Teuling; and P.A. Troch (2008), A state-dependent parameterization of saturated-unsaturated zone interaction. Water Resour. Res., 44, W11423, doi:10.1029/2007WR006487.

Lyon, S.W.; F. Dominguez; D.J. Gochis; N.A. Brunsell; C.L. Castro; F.K. Chow; D. Fuka; Y. Hong; P. Kucera; S.W. Nesbitt; Y. Fang; N. Salzmann; J. Schmidli; P.K. Snyder; A.J. Teuling; T.E. Twine; S. Lewis; J.D. Lundquist; G.D. Salvucci; A.M. Sealy; and M.T. Walter (2008), Coupling terrestrial and atmospheric water dynamics to improve prediction in a changing environment. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 89(9), 1275–1279, doi:10.1175/2008BAMS2547.1.

Jacobs, C.M.J.; E.J. Moors; H.W. Ter Maat; A.J. Teuling; G. Balsamo; J.-C. Calvet; J. Ettema; M. Lange; B.J.J.M. Van Den Hurk; P. Viterbo; and W. Wergen (2008), Evaluation of European Land Data Assimilation System (ELDAS) products using in situ observations. Tellus, 60A(5), 1023–1037, doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2008.00351.x.

Teuling, A.J.; and S.I. Seneviratne (2008), Contrasting spectral changes limit albedo impact on land-atmosphere coupling during the 2003 European heat wave, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L03401, doi:10.1029/2007GL032778. To download the paper, go to the AGU paper website and login using the following code for both the login ID and password: 86992419.

2007

Troch, P.; M. Durcik; S. Seneviratne; M. Hirschi; A. Teuling; R. Hurkmans; and S. Hasan (2007), New data sets to estimate terrestrial water storage change. EOS T. Am. Geophys. Un., 88(45), 469-470, doi:10.1029/2007EO450001.

Teuling, A.J.; F. Hupet; R. Uijlenhoet; and P.A. Troch (2007), Climate variability effects on spatial soil moisture dynamics. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34(6), L06406, doi:10.1029/2006GL029080.

Teuling, A.J.; R. Uijlenhoet; R. Hurkmans; O. Merlin; R. Panciera; J.P. Walker; and P.A. Troch (2007), Dry-end surface soil moisture variability during NAFE'06. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34(17), L17402, doi:10.1029/2007GL031001.
To download the paper, go to the AGU paper website and login using the following code for both the login ID and password: 84365108.

Walker, J. P.; and co-authors (2007), The National Airborne Field Experiment Data Sets. In: MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, December 2007, Christchurch, New Zealand. download pdf [956 kB]

2006

Teuling, A.J.; S.J. van Andel; P.A. Troch; and A.J.F. Hoitink (2006), Entropy and river meander planform. In: International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics (River Flow), 6-8 September 2006, Lisboa, Portugal.

Teuling, A.J.; S.I. Seneviratne; C. Williams; and P.A. Troch (2006), Observed timescales of evapotranspiration response to soil moisture. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33(23), L23403, doi:10.1029/2006GL028178.
To download the paper, go to the AGU paper website and login using the following code for both the login ID and password: 14864539.

Teuling, A.J.; R. Uijlenhoet; F. Hupet; E.E. van Loon; P.A. Troch (2006), Estimating spatial mean root-zone soil moisture from point-scale observations. Hydrol. Earth. Sys. Sci., 10(5), 755-767 download pdf [568 kB].

Teuling, A.J.; R. Uijlenhoet; F. Hupet; P.A. Troch (2006), Impact of plant water uptake strategy on soil moisture and evapotranspiration dynamics during drydown. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33(3), L03401, doi:10.1029/2005GL025019.

2005

Teuling, A.J. (2005), Aspecten van bodemvochtdynamiek en implicaties voor procesparameterisatie. Stromingen, 11(3) (in Dutch) download pdf [60 kB]

Teuling, A.J.; R. Uijlenhoet; and P.A. Troch (2005), On bimodality in warm season soil moisture observations. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32(13), L13402, doi:10.1029/2005GL023223.

Teuling, A.J.; and P.A. Troch (2005), Improved understanding of soil moisture variability dynamics. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32(5), L05404, doi:10.1029/2004GL021935.

PhD thesis

On 23 October 2007, i successfully defended my PhD thesis entitled "Soil moisture dynamics and land surface-atmosphere interaction" at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. A pdf version of the PhD thesis can be downloaded here, or via the Wageningen Yield website (size 2.0 Mb).

Workshops/Symposia/Summer Courses

COCOS meeting on Parameters related to ecosystem conditions, 19-20 October 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

GEWEX/iLEAPS Joint conference, 24-28 August 2009, Melbourne, Australia.

European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 19-24 April 2009, Vienna, Austria.

International Soil Moisture Working Group, 3rd meeting, 10-11 March 2009, Lisbon, Portugal.

Workshop on Roots, an interdisciplinary link, 10-12 September, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

International Summer School on Hydrological Drought & Global Change, 22-27 June 2008, ICTP, Triest, Italy.

HERC-iLEAPS Seminar on Interactions between land use and climate, 24 April 2008, Helsinki, Finland.

European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 13–18 April 2008, Vienna, Austria.

Third international workshop on CAtchment-scale Hydrological Modeling and Data Assimilation (CAHMDA-III), 9-11 January 2008, Melbourne, Australia.

Junior Faculty Forum on Future Scientific Directions 2007, 9-11 July 2007, UCAR/NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA.

European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 15-20 April 2007, Vienna, Austria.

National Airborne Field Experiment 2006 (NAFE'06), 31 October-18 November 2006, Yanco, Australia.

Netherlands Scientific Symposium Soil & Water, 14-15 June 2006, Zeist, The Netherlands.

European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 2-7 April 2006, Vienna, Austria.

International Soil Moisture Working Group, 1st meeting, 28-29 March 2006, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

Summer Course on Climate and the Hydrological Cycle, 4-15 June 2005, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 24-29 April 2005, Vienna, Austria.

Second international workshop on CAtchment-scale Hydrological Modeling and Data Assimilation (CAHMDA-II), 25-27 October 2004, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Symposium "Unsaturated zone modeling: progress, challenges and applications", 3-5 October 2004, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

ECMWF/ELDAS workshop on Land Surface Assimilation, 8-11 November 2004, ECMWF, Reading, UK.

European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 25-30 April 2004, Nice, France.

7th Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, 5-6 April 2004, Veldhoven, The Netherlands.

Workshop on Hydrology From Space, 29 September-1 October 2003, Toulouse, France.

UNESCO Advanced Study Course in Ecohydrology, 8-22 September 1999, Lodz, Poland.

Memberships

American Geophysical Union

European Geosciences Union