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2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
102
Citations
40866
World Ranking
117
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)
  • 2014 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Harry Vereecken is affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany and specializes in Environmental Science, having contributed extensively to this field with a focus on several subfields, including Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Water Science and Technology.

Their research covers a broad range of topics, particularly those related to soil and water science. Main areas of work include:

  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Geophysical Methods and Applications
  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism

Vereecken has been involved in publishing research extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Vadose Zone Journal
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Frontiers in Water

Among recent papers associated with Vereecken are:

  • Soil hydrology in the Earth system, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Soil structure is an important omission in Earth System Models, 2020, Nature Communications
  • A framework for modelling soil structure dynamics induced by biological activity, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Value of sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence for quantifying hydrological states and fluxes: Current status and challenges, 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • COSMOS-Europe: a European network of cosmic-ray neutron soil moisture sensors, 2022, Earth System Science Data

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Vereecken's work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Jan Vanderborght
  • Carsten Montzka
  • Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen
  • Heye Bogena
  • Andrea Schnepf

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow by the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) in 2016 and by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2014, reflecting professional acknowledgment within relevant scientific communities.

Best Publications

  • ESTIMATING THE SOIL MOISTURE RETENTION CHARACTERISTIC FROM TEXTURE, BULK DENSITY, AND CARBON CONTENT

    H Vereecken;Jozef Maes;Jan Feyen;Paul Darius

  • On the value of soil moisture measurements in vadose zone hydrology: a review

    H. Vereecken;J. A. Huisman;H. Bogena;J. Vanderborght

  • Modeling Soil Processes: Review, Key Challenges, and New Perspectives

    H. Vereecken;A. Schnepf;J. W. Hopmans;M. Javaux

  • Ground, Proximal, and Satellite Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture

    Ebrahim Babaeian;Morteza Sadeghi;Scott B. Jones;Carsten Montzka

  • On the spatio-temporal dynamics of soil moisture at the field scale

    H. Vereecken;J.A. Huisman;Y. Pachepsky;C. Montzka

  • A Network of Terrestrial Environmental Observatories in Germany

    Steffen Zacharias;Heye Bogena;Luis Samaniego;Matthias Mauder

  • Imaging and characterisation of subsurface solute transport using electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) and equivalent transport models

    Andreas Kemna;Jan Vanderborght;Bernd Kulessa;Harry Vereecken

  • Using pedotransfer functions to estimate the van Genuchten-Mualem Soil Hydraulic Properties: a review.

    Harry Vereecken;Mélanie Weynants;Mathieu Javaux;Mathieu Javaux;Y. Pachepsky

  • Evaluation of a low-cost soil water content sensor for wireless network applications

    H.R. Bogena;J.A. Huisman;C. Oberdörster;H. Vereecken

  • Pedotransfer functions in Earth system science: challenges and perspectives

    Kris Van Looy;Johan Bouma;Michael Herbst;John Koestel

  • Mobility and leaching of glyphosate: a review

    Harry Vereecken

  • Potential of Wireless Sensor Networks for Measuring Soil Water Content Variability

    H.R. Bogena;M. Herbst;J.A. Huisman;U. Rosenbaum

  • Use of a Three-Dimensional Detailed Modeling Approach for Predicting Root Water Uptake

    Mathieu Javaux;Tom Schröder;Jan Vanderborght;Harry Vereecken

  • Estimating unsaturated hydraulic conductivity from easily measured soil properties

    H. Vereecken;J. Maes;J. Feyen

  • Seasonal and event dynamics of spatial soil moisture patterns at the small catchment scale

    U. Rosenbaum;H. R. Bogena;M. Herbst;J. A. Huisman

  • Effect of gamma‐sterilization and autoclaving on soil organic matter structure as studied by solid state NMR, UV and fluorescence spectroscopy

    A. E. Berns;H. Philipp;H.-D. Narres;P. Burauel

  • Review of Dispersivities for Transport Modeling in Soils

    Jan Vanderborght;Harry Vereecken

  • Soil hydrology in the Earth system

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  • Stimulation of N2O emission by manure application to agricultural soils may largely offset carbon benefits: a global meta-analysis

    Minghua Zhou;Minghua Zhou;Bo Zhu;Shijie Wang;Xinyu Zhu

  • Upscaling Hydraulic Properties and Soil Water Flow Processes in Heterogeneous Soils: A Review

    H Vereecken;R Kasteel;Jan Vanderborght;T Harter

  • Hydraulic parameter estimation by remotely-sensed top soil moisture observations with the particle filter

    Carsten Montzka;Hamid Moradkhani;Lutz Weihermüller;Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Vanderborght
Jan Vanderborght Forschungszentrum Jülich
Heye Bogena
Heye Bogena Forschungszentrum Jülich
Johan Alexander Huisman
Johan Alexander Huisman Forschungszentrum Jülich
Mathieu Javaux
Mathieu Javaux Université Catholique de Louvain
Lutz Weihermüller
Lutz Weihermüller Forschungszentrum Jülich
Carsten Montzka
Carsten Montzka Forschungszentrum Jülich
Sébastien Lambot
Sébastien Lambot Université Catholique de Louvain
Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen
Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jan van der Kruk
Jan van der Kruk Forschungszentrum Jülich
Nicolas Brüggemann
Nicolas Brüggemann Forschungszentrum Jülich

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