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Dieter Gerten is affiliated with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. Their research spans the field of Environmental Science, with extensive contributions in related subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Their main research topics include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Climate variability and models
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience

Dieter Gerten has authored numerous papers, including notable recent publications such as:

  • "Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries" (2023) published in Science Advances
  • "Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change" (2021) published in Nature Climate Change
  • "Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries" (2020) published in Nature Sustainability
  • "A planetary boundary for green water" (2022) published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "The timing of unprecedented hydrological drought under climate change" (2022) published in Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors in their work include Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Miina Porkka, Johan Rockström, Matti Kummu, and Ingo Fetzer.

Their research has been published across various scientific journals and platforms, with multiple contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth's Future
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • One Earth

Best Publications

  • Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

    Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Katherine Richardson;Johan Rockström;Sarah E. Cornell

  • Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • Multimodel assessment of water scarcity under climate change

    Jacob Schewe;Jens Heinke;Jens Heinke;Dieter Gerten;Ingjerd Haddeland

  • Modelling the role of agriculture for the 20th century global terrestrial carbon balance

    Alberte Bondeau;Pascalle C. Smith;Sönke Zaehle;Sibyll Schaphoff

  • Constraints and potentials of future irrigation water availability on agricultural production under climate change

    Joshua Elliott;Delphine Deryng;Christoph Müller;Katja Frieler

  • Terrestrial vegetation and water balance-hydrological evaluation of a dynamic global vegetation model

    Dieter Gerten;Sibyll Schaphoff;Uwe Haberlandt;Wolfgang Lucht

  • Agricultural green and blue water consumption and its influence on the global water system

    Stefanie Rost;Dieter Gerten;Alberte Bondeau;Wolfgang Lucht

  • Global terrestrial water storage and drought severity under climate change

    Yadu Pokhrel;Farshid Felfelani;Yusuke Satoh;Yusuke Satoh;Julien Boulange

  • Future water availability for global food production: The potential of green water for increasing resilience to global change

    Johan Rockström;Johan Rockström;Malin Falkenmark;Louise Karlberg;Louise Karlberg;Holger Hoff;Holger Hoff

  • Hydrological droughts in the 21st century, hotspots and uncertainties from a global multimodel ensemble experiment

    Christel Prudhomme;Ignazio Giuntoli;Emma L. Robinson;Douglas B. Clark

  • Multimodel Estimate of the Global Terrestrial Water Balance: Setup and First Results

    Ingjerd Haddeland;Douglas B. Clark;Wietse Franssen;Fulco Ludwig

  • Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries

    Dieter Gerten;Dieter Gerten;Vera Heck;Vera Heck;Jonas Jägermeyr;Jonas Jägermeyr;Jonas Jägermeyr;Benjamin Leon Bodirsky

  • Impact of reservoirs on river discharge and irrigation water supply during the 20th century

    H. Biemans;I. Haddeland;I. Haddeland;P. Kabat;F. Ludwig

  • Terrestrial and Inland Water Systems

    Josef Settele;Robert Scholes;Richard A Betts;Stuart Bunn

  • Impact of a Statistical Bias Correction on the Projected Hydrological Changes Obtained from Three GCMs and Two Hydrology Models

    Stefan Hagemann;Cui Chen;Jan O. Haerter;Jens Heinke

  • Multimodel projections and uncertainties of irrigation water demand under climate change

    Yoshihide Wada;Dominik Wisser;Dominik Wisser;Stephanie Eisner;Martina Flörke

  • Human impacts on planetary boundaries amplified by Earth system interactions

    Steven J. Lade;Steven J. Lade;Steven J. Lade;Will Steffen;Will Steffen;Wim de Vries;Stephen R. Carpenter

  • Water savings potentials of irrigation systems:: global simulation of processes and linkages

    Jonas Jägermeyr;Dieter Gerten;Jens Heinke;Jens Heinke;Jens Heinke;Sibyll Schaphoff

  • A planetary boundary for green water

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  • Evaluation of the agreement between the first global remotely sensed soil moisture data with model and precipitation data

    Wolfgang Wagner;Klaus Scipal;Carsten Pathe;Dieter Gerten

  • Climate-driven changes in spring plankton dynamics and the sensitivity of shallow polymictic lakes to the North Atlantic Oscillation

    Dieter Gerten;Rita Adrian

  • Life‐history traits of lake plankton species may govern their phenological response to climate warming

    Rita Adrian;Susann Wilhelm;Dieter Gerten

  • Modeled interactive effects of precipitation, temperature, and [CO2] on ecosystem carbon and water dynamics in different climatic zones

    Yiqi Luo;Dieter Gerten;Guerric Le Maire;William J. Parton

  • Spatial decoupling of agricultural production and consumption: quantifying dependences of countries on food imports due to domestic land and water constraints

    Marianela Fader;Dieter Gerten;Michael Krause;Wolfgang Lucht;Wolfgang Lucht

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Lucht
Wolfgang Lucht Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Jens Heinke
Jens Heinke Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Yoshihide Wada
Yoshihide Wada King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Sibyll Schaphoff
Sibyll Schaphoff Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Holger Hoff
Holger Hoff University of Graz
Simon N. Gosling
Simon N. Gosling University of Nottingham
Johan Rockström
Johan Rockström Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Matti Kummu
Matti Kummu Aalto University
Naota Hanasaki
Naota Hanasaki National Institute for Environmental Studies
Qiuhong Tang
Qiuhong Tang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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