Publications

Lucie Bakels, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Ruud van der Ent, Arie Staal, Patrick Keys, Delphine Clara Zemp, Ingo Fetz, Makoto Taniguchi, Line J. Gordon. 2025. Dry periods amplify the Amazon and Congo forests' rainfall self-reliance. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-21252

Moisture recycling is an important source of precipitation in the tropical forests of South America and Africa. Moisture is partly recycled from the tropical forests themselves (forest rainfall self-reliance) and is therefore subject to deforestation, which reduces evaporation. During the dry season, when water is already scarce, a further reduction in precipitation due to decreasing moisture recycling rates could potentially ...

Lucie Bakels, Michael Blaschek, Marina Duetsch, Andreas Plach, Vincent Lechner, Georg Brack, Leopold Haimberger, Andreas Stohl. 2025. A new computer mirror for studying air moving through space and time. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-21647

Computer mirrors are important for studying air. Most computer mirrors are about fixed points in space and time. This fixed approach is good for many studies, but studies focused on going through the air could use moving points in space and time. We made a computer mirror using moving points in space and time for all air in the world using winds from a computer mirror using fixed points in space and time. Everyone can use this...

Lucie Bakels, Michael Blaschek, Marina Dütsch, Andreas Plach, Vincent Lechner, Georg Brack, Leopold Haimberger, Andreas Stohl. 2025. Supplementary material to "LARA: a Lagrangian Reanalysis based on ERA5 spanning from 1940 to 2023". https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-26-supplement

Meteorological reanalyses are crucial datasets in atmospheric research, providing the foundation for many scientific applications. However, most reanalyses follow a Eulerian framework, providing data at specific, fixed points in space and time. This fixed-location approach is suitable for many scientific analyses, but studies focused on transport in the atmosphere would benefit from a Lagrangian framework, which provides data ...

Lucie Bakels, Michael Blaschek, Marina Dütsch, Andreas Plach, Vincent Lechner, Georg Brack, Leopold Haimberger, Andreas Stohl. 2025. LARA: a Lagrangian Reanalysis based on ERA5 spanning from 1940 to 2023. . https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2025-26

Meteorological reanalyses are crucial datasets in atmospheric research, providing the foundation for many scientific applications. However, most reanalyses follow a Eulerian framework, providing data at specific, fixed points in space and time. This fixed-location approach is suitable for many scientific analyses, but studies focused on transport in the atmosphere would benefit from a Lagrangian framework, which provides data ...

Ryan Hoff, Ryan Sparks, Mikhail Chester, Ahmed Mustafa, Nathan Johnson, Adam Birchfield, Timon McPhearson, Rui Li, Nasir Ahmad, Ian Searles. 2025. Cascading Failure Propagation and Perfect Storms in Interdependent Infrastructures. ASCE OPEN: Multidisciplinary Journal of Civil Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1061/AOMJAH.AOENG-0045

The increasingly complex conditions that are reshaping environments demand novel analysis of infrastructure weaknesses and behavior. Of critical concern are cascading failures and how small disruptions can spiral into large-scale outages. Significant evidence indicates infrastructures are increasingly stressed given a combination of disruptions including extreme climate events, disrepair, cyberattacks, and emerging and disrupt...

Johanna Hedlund, Florence Metz, Örjan Bodin. 2025. Networking strategies for coordinating interdependent policy issues: A motif approach. Policy Studies Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12588

Complex societal challenges, such as climate change and environmental degradation, are encumbered by numerous interdependences across different policy issues. Coordination of interdependent policy issues is thus critical. However, coordination challenges persist, partly because coordinating interdependent policy issues among actors often involves high costs. While network governance literature often advocates for management st...

Daniel Lindvall, Patrik Sörqvist, Sofie Lindeberg, Stephan Barthel. 2025. The polarization of energy preferences – A study on social acceptance of wind and nuclear power in Sweden. Energy Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114492

Using Sweden as a study case, this article explores the polarized opinions to wind and nuclear energy, two low carbon energy options that have been shown to be politically controversial. In a wide-scale survey (N = 5200), general attitudes to wind and nuclear energy are captured, as well as to projects in the proximity of people's homes. The study demonstrates a deep polarization of energy preferences in Sweden, finding strong...

Artur Branny, Erik Andersson, Timon McPhearson. 2025. Micro-climate of nature-based solutions in Stockholm royal seaport. Nature-Based Solutions. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbsj.2024.100206

Extreme weather events are on the rise, increasingly impacting cities and their urban populations. In response, urban greening and nature-based solutions (NbS) have emerged as key approaches for reducing risks from multiple types of extreme climate and weather events while making a positive impact on urban social and environmental inequities. NbS interventions are high on urban agendas worldwide, but in practice, they often ar...

Anita Lazurko, Michele-Lee Moore, L. Jamila Haider, Simon West, Daniel D. P. McCarthy. 2025. Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach. Global Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2024.49

Transdisciplinary sustainability scientists work with many different actors in pursuit of change. In so doing they make choices about why and how to engage with different perspectives in their research. Reflexivity – active individual and collective critical reflection – is considered an important capacity for researchers to address the resulting ethical and practical challenges. We developed a framework for reflexivity as a t...

Victoria Flexer, Cornelis van Leeuwen, Kirsi Niinimäki, Shilong Piao, Erica R. Siirila-Woodburn, Lan Wang-Erlandsson. 2025. Reflecting on impactful articles at Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00623-0