Publications

Lucie Bakels, Daria Tatsii, Anne Tipka, Marina Dütsch, Michael Blaschek, Silvia Bucci, Andreas Plach, Martin Vojta, Petra Seibert, Ignacio Pisso, Sabine Eckhardt, Massimo Cassiani, Christine Groot Zwaaftink, Marie Mulder, Andreas Stohl. 2025. FLEXPART-11: Advancements in a Lagrangian Atmospheric Model for Enhanced Accuracy, Efficiency and Flexibility. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-2652

Numerical methods and advanced simulation codes play a crucial role in helping us understand complex atmospheric processes. As technology progresses, it's important to develop sophisticated code for accurate and efficient simulations. In this update to FLEXPART, a Lagrangian model used in numerous studies for the past 30 years, we've made significant improvements. This version of FLEXPART shows improvements in accuracy and com...

Mattia Saccò, Xander Huggins, Alejandro Martínez, Robert Reinecke. 2025. Collaborative Science for Groundwater Biodiversity Conservation. Groundwater. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwat.13495

Depletion and quality degradation of groundwater ecosystems trigger impacts on diverse, highly specialized, and often locally endemic biota, ranging from microbes to cavefish. The extent to which groundwater ecosystems are threatened is alarming: underground biological extinction is already happening (Humphreys 2022 ). The full breadth of this challenge is unknown, yet the large-scale and widespread depletion and quality deg...

Michael Blaschek, Lucie Bakels, Marina Dütsch, Andreas Stohl. 2025. FLEXWEB - A flexible particle dispersion model web interface. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-15051

Flexpart (FLEXible PARTicle dispersion model) is a numerical model that simulates the dispersion of gases and aerosols in the atmosphere. In order for Flexpart to be used, it must be installed and run on a (super)computer. However, this is associated with obstacles, as not all scientists have access to a supercomputer and there are often technical problems during installation or execution. In this project, we therefore want to...

Silvia Bucci, Daria Tatsii, Ioanna Evangelou, Lucie Bakels, Andreas Stohl. 2025. Tracking the sources of atmospheric microplastic using FLEXPART v.11. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-16953

An emerging number of studies highlighted the presence of microplastic in the atmosphere all over the world. The presence of such particles has been observed at the poles, in the marine atmosphere above the surface of the oceans, in clouds, on the fresh snow of high mountains and high concentrations has been observed in the atmospheric fallout in densely populated areas. Despite so, the main sources of atmospheric microplastic...

Hannah Zoller, Juan Rocha, Ingo Fetzer, C. Kendra Gotangco Gonzales, Nitin Chaudhary, Steve Lade. 2025. A bottom-up spatial pattern of Earth system interactions. EGU. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-12239

The intricate interplay of the Earth system’s biophysical processes provides the basis for Earth resilience and human wellbeing. While this interplay has been systematically studied on a global scale, a better understanding of the sub-global interactions is crucial in order to fully assess the systemic environmental impact of human activities. Building on the quantitative framework provided by the Earth system impact metric ...

Johan Rockström, Jennie Barron. 2025. A reply to Lankford and Agol (2024). Irrigation is more than irrigating: agricultural green water interventions contribute to blue water depletion and the global water crisis. Water International. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2025.2452115

Callum M. Roberts, Emilia Dyer, Sylvia A. Earle, Andrew Forrest, Julie P. Hawkins, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Jessica J. Meeuwig, Daniel Pauly, Stuart L. Pimm, U. Rashid Sumaila, Johan Rockström, Mark Lynas. 2025. Why we should protect the high seas from all extraction, forever. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01665-0

International waters, also known as the high seas, make up 61% of the ocean and cover 43% of Earth’s surface — amounting to two-thirds of the biosphere by volume. They have been exploited since the seventeenth century for whales, and from the mid-twentieth century for fish, sharks and squid, depleting wildlife. Now, climate change is reducing the productivity of the high seas through warming and through depletion of nutrients ...

E. Röös, M. Jacobsen, L. Karlsson, W. Wanecek, J. Spångberg, R. Mazac, L. Rydhmer. 2025. Introducing a comprehensive and configurable tool for calculating environmental and social footprints for use in dietary assessments. Journal of Cleaner Production. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.146002

The urgent need to transform dietary patterns to mitigate climate change, biodiversity loss, and other environmental challenges is well-established. While life cycle assessments and footprinting approaches provide valuable insights at the product level, comprehensive evaluations of entire diets are necessary to inform sustainable food choices. This paper presents the Sustainability Assessment of Foods And Diets (SAFAD)-tool, a...

Elizabeth M. Cook, Yeowon Kim, Nancy B. Grimm, Timon McPhearson, Pippin Anderson, Harriet Bulkeley, Marcus J. Collier, Loan Diep, Jordi Morató, Weiqi Zhou. 2025. Nature-based solutions for urban sustainability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2315909122

The objective of this paper is to introduce a Special Feature: “Nature-based Solutions for Urban Sustainability”—a collection of four articles addressing the current state of global urban NbS science and conceptual framings. The special feature explores opportunities for research and practice to scale up NbS to address equity, justice, and inclusion while enabling transformation in urbanized areas. The special feature includes...

Taís Sonetti-González, María Mancilla García, Tilman Hertz, Ana Paula Aguiar. 2025. Reimagining the liminal Cerrado: the virtual ancestral future. Ecology and Society. https://doi.org/10.5751/es-16155-300307

This paper examines transformations in social-ecological system through the process-relational perspective (PRP), using the concepts of the “ real-possible, ” the existing reality, and the “ actual-virtual ” potentials that exist beyond current hegemonic thinking and practices—framed within the Latin American feminist concept of Nepantla, which refers to a liminal space of transition, ambiguity, and transformation wher...