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- Energy and moisture transport through the atmosphere
- Deforestation and afforestation
- Large-scale land-atmosphere interactions
- Climate change
- Atmospheric circulation patterns
Lucie Bakels’ research focuses on atmospheric transport and land-atmosphere interactions
Bakels is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre working with Dr. Lan Wang-Erlandsson and Dr. Ingo Fetzer on the ReForMit project. The main objective of the project is to fill knowledge gaps regarding the future resilience of forest-based interventions. The role of Bakels in this project is to analyse the local and remote effects of forest-based hydroclimatic adaptation using modelling. Questions of interest include how land-use change affects extreme weather events through teleconnections, how ecosystems depend on remote land use in a changing climate, and what factors influence ecosystem resilience.
Bakels holds a Doctorate in Astrophysics at the University of Western Australia. Her thesis was titled, “Haloes, subhaloes, and galaxies: The impact of orbital history on dark matter haloes and their galaxies, and improving models for stellar feedback.” She holds an MSc and BSc in Physics and Astrophysics from the Radboud University Nijmegen. Before moving to Stockholm, she worked on atmospheric transport modelling at the University of Vienna.
Key publications
Bakels, L., Tatsii, D., Tipka, A., Thompson, R., Dütsch, M., Blaschek, M., Seibert, P., Baier, K., Bucci, S., Cassiani, M., Eckhardt, S., Groot Zwaaftink, C., Henne, S., Kaufmann, P., Lechner, V., Maurer, C., Mulder, M. D., Pisso, I., Plach, A., Subramanian, R., Vojta, M., & Stohl, A. (2024). FLEXPART version 11: Improved accuracy, efficiency, and flexibility. Geoscientific Model Development, 17, 7595–7618. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-7595-2024
Bucci, S., Richon, C., & Bakels, L. (2024). Exploring the transport path of oceanic microplastics in the atmosphere. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(32). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c03216
Brecht, R., Bakels, L., Bihlo, A., & Stohl, A. (2023). Improving trajectory calculations by FLEXPART 10.4+ using single-image super-resolution. Geoscientific Model Development, 16(8), 2181–2194. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-2181-2023
