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Rene Orth publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rene Orth sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 116 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Rene Orth D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rene Orth sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Rene Orth is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science with a focus on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, and Ecology.

The main topics of Rene Orth's research cover Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate variability and models, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Tree-ring climate responses, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

Rene Orth has contributed extensively to scholarly publications, with recent papers including:

  • Widespread increasing vegetation sensitivity to soil moisture (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Widespread shift from ecosystem energy to water limitation with climate change (2022, Nature Climate Change)
  • Global soil moisture data derived through machine learning trained with in-situ measurements (2021, Scientific Data)
  • Vulnerability of European ecosystems to two compound dry and hot summers in 2018 and 2019 (2021, Earth System Dynamics)
  • Critical Soil Moisture Derived From Satellite Observations Over Europe (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres)

Frequent coauthors in Rene Orth's work include Markus Reichstein, Mirco Migliavacca, Wantong Li, O Sungmin, and Jasper Denissen. Collaboration with these researchers spans numerous studies, reflecting a strong network in the environmental sciences community.

Rene Orth's publications appear in a variety of journals and venues, with the most common publication outlets being Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Biogeosciences, Global Change Biology, Earth System Dynamics, and Environmental Research Letters.

Best Publications

  • Widespread increasing vegetation sensitivity to soil moisture

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  • Widespread shift from ecosystem energy to water limitation with climate change

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  • Regional amplification of projected changes in extreme temperatures strongly controlled by soil moisture-temperature feedbacks

    M. M. Vogel;René Orth;F. Cheruy;Stefan Hagemann

  • State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes

    Jacob Schewe;Simon N. Gosling;Christopher Reyer;Fang Zhao

  • Global evaluation of runoff from 10 state-of-the-art hydrological models

    Hylke E. Beck;Albert I. J. M. van Dijk;Ad de Roo;Emanuel Dutra;Emanuel Dutra

  • Role of soil moisture versus recent climate change for the 2010 heat wave in western Russia

    Mathias Hauser;René Orth;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • A global water resources ensemble of hydrological models: The eartH2Observe Tier-1 dataset

    Jaap Schellekens;Emanuel Dutra;Emanuel Dutra;Alberto Martínez-de la Torre;Gianpaolo Balsamo

  • Impact of soil moisture on extreme maximum temperatures in Europe

    Kirien Whan;Jakob Zscheischler;Rene Orth;Mxolisi Shongwe

  • Does model performance improve with complexity? : A case study with three hydrological models

    Rene Orth;Maria Staudinger;Sonia I. Seneviratne;Jan Seibert

  • Global soil moisture data derived through machine learning trained with in-situ measurements.

    O Sungmin;Rene Orth

  • Satellite and in situ observations for advancing global earth surface modelling: A review

    Gianpaolo Balsamo;Anna Agusti-Panareda;Clement Albergel;Gabriele Arduini

  • Drought reduces blue-water fluxes more strongly than green-water fluxes in Europe.

    René Orth;Georgia Destouni

  • Record dry summer in 2015 challenges precipitation projections in Central Europe.

    René Orth;Jakob Zscheischler;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • Analysis of soil moisture memory from observations in Europe

    René Orth;S. I. Seneviratne

  • Invited perspectives: A research agenda towards disaster risk management pathways in multi-(hazard-)risk assessment

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  • Vulnerability of European ecosystems to two compound dry and hot summers in 2018 and 2019

    Ana Bastos;René Orth;Markus Reichstein;Philippe Ciais

  • Widespread and complex drought effects on vegetation physiology inferred from space

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  • Bivariate return periods of temperature and precipitation explain a large fraction of European crop yields

    Jakob Zscheischler;Rene Orth;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • Critical soil moisture derived from satellite observations over Europe

    Jasper M.C. Denissen;Jasper M.C. Denissen;Adriaan J. Teuling;Markus Reichstein;René Orth

  • Observational evidence of wildfire-promoting soil moisture anomalies

    Sungmin O;Xinyuan Hou;Rene Orth

  • Evaluation of precipitation datasets against local observations in southwestern Iran

    Ali Fallah;Ali Fallah;Gholam Reza Rakhshandehroo;Peter Berg;Sungmin O

  • A submonthly database for detecting changes in vegetation-atmosphere coupling

    Jakob Zscheischler;René Orth;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • Methods and Model Dependency of Extreme Event Attribution: The 2015 European Drought

    Mathias Hauser;Lukas Gudmundsson;Rene Orth;Aglae Jezequel

  • Role of Soil Moisture vs. Recent Climate Change for the 2010 Heat Wave in Western Russia

    Mathias Hauser;René Orth;Sonia Seneviratne

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Emanuel Dutra
Emanuel Dutra Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Mirco Migliavacca
Mirco Migliavacca Joint Research Centre
Jakob Zscheischler
Jakob Zscheischler Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Georgia Destouni
Georgia Destouni Stockholm University
Gianpaolo Balsamo
Gianpaolo Balsamo European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Pierre Gentine
Pierre Gentine Columbia University
Jinfeng Chang
Jinfeng Chang Zhejiang University

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