2026:
Vis, G. A., Hartogensis, O. K., ten Veldhuis, M.-C., van de Wiel, B. J. H., and Coenders-Gerrits, M.: Fiber-Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing to quantify turbulence over space and time: A feasibility study, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-6125, 2026
Sadeghi, S.M.M., Aghajani, H., Jalilvand, H., Ahmady-Asbchin, S., Sadati, S.M., Coenders-Gerrits, M., Dymond, S.F., 2026. Canopy vitality drives rainfall redistribution in an old-growth temperate beech forest. Forest Ecology and Management 606, 123552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123552
Xuan Chen, Srinidhi Gadde, Arjan Droste, Gert-Jan Steeneveld, Miriam Coenders-Gerrits, Remko Uijlenhoet: Assessing the Role of Urban Blue Space in Summer Outdoor Thermal Regulation in Northwestern Europe: A Hectometric WRF Modelling on Idealized Urban Landscape. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (accepted)
2025:
van der Valk, L. D., Hartogensis, O. K., Coenders-Gerrits, M., Hut, R. W., and Uijlenhoet, R.: Evaporation measurements using commercial microwave links as scintillometers, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 6589–6606, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-6589-2025, 2025
van der Valk, L. D., Hartogensis, O. K., Coenders-Gerrits, M., Hut, R. W., Walraven, B., and Uijlenhoet, R.: Use of commercial microwave links as scintillometers: potential and limitations towards evaporation estimation, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 18, 6143–6165, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-6143-2025, 2025.
Popp, A. L., Beria, H., Sprenger, M., Ala-Aho, P., Coenders-Gerrits, M., Groh, J., et al. (2025). Recent advances in tracer-aided mixing modeling of water in the Critical Zone. Reviews of Geophysics, 63, e2024RG000866. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024RG000866
Chen, X., van der Werf, J. A., Droste, A., Coenders-Gerrits, M., and Uijlenhoet, R.: Barriers to urban hydrometeorological simulation: a review, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 3447–3480, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-3447-2025, 2025
Lam, M.R., Bos-Burgering, L.M.T., Coenders-Gerrits, M. (A. M.J.), Bartholomeus, R.P., Hellegers, P.J.G.J., Melsen, L.A., Teuling, A.J., van Oel, P.R., 2025. The role of decision support tools in drought management: Insights from the Netherlands. Environmental Science & Policy 168, 104065. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104065
Ibrahim, M., Coenders-Gerrits, M., van der Ent, R., and Hrachowitz, M.: Catchments do not strictly follow Budyko curves over multiple decades, but deviations are minor and predictable, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 1703–1723, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-1703-2025, 2025.
2024:
Walraven, B., A. Overeem, M. Coenders-Gerrits, R. Hut, L. van der Valk, and R. Uijlenhoet, 2024: Relating Rainfall Retrieval Parameters to Network and Environmental Features to Improve Rainfall Estimates from Commercial Microwave Links in the Tropics. J. Hydrometeor., 25, 1769–1791, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-24-0023.1.
Zimba, H. M., Coenders-Gerrits, M., Banda, K. E., Hulsman, P., van de Giesen, N., Nyambe, I. A., and Savenije, H. H. G.: On the importance of plant phenology in the evaporative process of a semi-arid woodland: could it be why satellite-based evaporation estimates in the miombo differ?, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 3633–3663, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-3633-2024, 2024.
Li, M., Shao, W., Su, Y., Coenders-Gerrits, M., & Jarsjö, J. (2024). Evidence of field-scale shifts in transpiration dynamics following bark beetle infestation: Stomatal conductance responses. Hydrological Processes, 38(5), e15162. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15162
van der Valk, L. D., Coenders-Gerrits, M., Hut, R. W., Overeem, A., Walraven, B., and Uijlenhoet, R.: Measuring rainfall using microwave links: the influence of temporal sampling, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 17, 2811–2832, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-2811-2024, 2024.
Schilperoort, B., Jiménez Rodríguez, C., van de Wiel, B., and Coenders-Gerrits, M.: A distributed-temperature-sensing-based soil temperature profiler, Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst., 13, 85–95, https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-13-85-2024, 2024.
2023:
John T Van Stan, Scott T Allen, Douglas P Aubrey, Z Carter Berry, Matthew Biddick, Miriam A M J Coenders-Gerrits, Paolo Giordani, Sybil G Gotsch, Ethan D Gutmann, Yakov Kuzyakov, Donát Magyar, Valentina S A Mella, Kevin E Mueller, Alexandra G Ponette-González, Philipp Porada, Carla E Rosenfeld, Jack Simmons, Kandikere R Sridhar, Aron Stubbins, Travis Swanson: Shower thoughts: why scientists should spend more time in the rain, BioScience, 2023;, biad044, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad044
Zimba, H., Coenders-Gerrits, M., Banda, K., Schilperoort, B., van de Giesen, N., Nyambe, I., and Savenije, H. H. G.: Phenophase-based comparison of field observations to satellite-based actual evaporation estimates of a natural woodland: miombo woodland, southern Africa, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 27, 1695–1722, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-1695-2023, 2023.
John Van Stan, Scott Allen, Doug Aubrey, et al. Shower Thoughts: Why Scientists Should Spend More Time in the Rain. Authorea. January 04, 2023. DOI: 10.22541/au.167282899.91655475/v1
2022:
Tomas E. van den Berg, Satadal Dutta, Elias Kaiser, Silvere Vialet-Chabrand, Martine van der Ploeg, Tim van Emmerik, Miriam Coenders-Gerrits & Marie-Claire ten Veldhuis (2022). Plants, Vital Players in the Terrestrial Water Cycle. In: Di Mauro, A., Scozzari, A., Soldovieri, F. (eds) Instrumentation and Measurement Technologies for Water Cycle Management . Springer Water. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08262-7_10
Rosalem, L. M. P., Coenders-Gerrits, M., Anache, J. A. A., Sadeghi, S. M. M., and Wendland, E.: Water partitioning in a Neotropical Savanna forest (Cerrado s.s.): interception responses at different time-scales using adapted versions of the Rutter and the Gash models, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2022-59, in review, 2022
Bart Schilperoort; Miriam Coenders-Gerrits; César Jiménez Rodríguez; Antoon van Hooft; Bas van de Wiel; Hubert Savenije: Detecting nighttime inversions in the interior of a Douglas fir canopy, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.108960, 2022
Aschonitis, V., Touloumidis, D., ten Veldhuis, M.-C., and Coenders-Gerrits, M.: Correcting Thornthwaite potential evapotranspiration using a global grid of local coefficients to support temperature-based estimations of reference evapotranspiration and aridity indices, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 163–177, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-163-2022, 2022
2021:
Hrachowitz, M., Stockinger, M., Coenders-Gerrits, M., van der Ent, R., Bogena, H., Lücke, A., and Stumpp, C.: Reduction of vegetation-accessible water storage capacity after deforestation affects catchment travel time distributions and increases young water fractions in a headwater catchment, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 4887–4915, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4887-2021, 2021
Jiménez-Rodríguez, C. D., Coenders-Gerrits, M., Schilperoort, B., González-Angarita, A. P., and Savenije, H.: Vapor plumes in a tropical wet forest: spotting the invisible evaporation, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 619–635, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-619-2021, 2021
2020:
Zimba, H.; Coenders-Gerrits, M.; Kawawa, B.; Savenije, H.; Nyambe, I.; Winsemius, H. Variations in Canopy Cover and Its Relationship with Canopy Water and Temperature in the Miombo Woodland Based on Satellite Data. Hydrology 2020, 7, 58.
Gordon, D. A. R., Coenders-Gerrits, M., Sellers, B. A., Sadeghi, S. M. M., and Van Stan II, J. T.: Rainfall interception and redistribution by a common North American understory and pasture forb, Eupatorium capillifolium (Lam. dogfennel), Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 4587–4599, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4587-2020, 2020.
van Ramshorst, J. G. V., Coenders-Gerrits, M., Schilperoort, B., van de Wiel, B. J. H., Izett, J. G., Selker, J. S., Higgins, C. W., Savenije, H. H. G., and van de Giesen, N. C.: Revisiting wind speed measurements using actively heated fiber optics: a wind tunnel study, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 5423–5439, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5423-2020, 2020.
Schilperoort, B., Coenders-Gerrits, M., Jiménez Rodríguez, C., van der Tol, C., van de Wiel, B., and Savenije, H.: Decoupling of a Douglas fir canopy: a look into the subcanopy with continuous vertical temperature profiles, Biogeosciences, 17, 6423–6439, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-6423-2020, 2020.
A. Mianabadi, K. Davary, M. Pourreza-Bilondi, A. M. J. Coenders-Gerrits; (2020) Budyko framework; towards non-steady state conditions, Journal of Hydrology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125089
Jiménez-Rodríguez, C. D., Coenders-Gerrits, M., Wenninger, J., Gonzalez-Angarita, A., and Savenije, H.: Contribution of understory evaporation in a tropical wet forest during the dry season, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 2179–2206, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-2179-2020, 2020
Haofang Yan, Song Huang, Chuan Zhang, Miriam Coenders-Gerrits, Guoqing Wang, Baoshan Zhao, Samuel Joe Acquah, Haimei Wu, Hanwen Fu: Parameterization and application of Stanghellini model based on micrometeorological data at different observation heights for estimating greenhouse cucumber transpiration, Water, 2020 12(2), 517; https://doi.org/10.3390/w12020517
Miriam Coenders-Gerrits, Bart Schilperoort, César Jiménez-Rodríguez “Evaporative processes on vegetation: an inside look” (2020). pp 35-48. Book chapter in “Precipitation Partitioning by Vegetation: A Global Synthesis“, editors John T. Van Stan, II; Ethan D. Gutmann; Jan Friesen; Springer.
Scott T. Allen, Doug P. Aubrey, Maaike Y. Bader, Miriam Coenders-Gerrits, Jan Friesen, Ethan D. Gutmann, François Guillemette, César Jiménez-Rodríguez, Richard F. Keim, Anna Klamerus-Iwan, Glenda Menieta-Leiva, Philipp Porada, Robert G. Qualls, Bart Schilperoort, Aron Stubbins, John T. Van Stan II “Key questions on the evaporation and transport of intercepted precipitation” (2020). pp 269-280. Book chapter in “Precipitation Partitioning by Vegetation: A Global Synthesis“, editors John T. Van Stan, II; Ethan D. Gutmann; Jan Friesen; Springer.
2019:
Mianabadi, A., Coenders-Gerrits, M., Shirazi, P., Ghahraman, B., and Alizadeh, A.: A global Budyko model to partition evaporation into interception and transpiration, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 4983–5000, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4983-2019, 2019.
Jiménez-Rodríguez, C. D., Coenders-Gerrits, M., Uhlenbrook, S. & Wenninger, J. What Do Plants Leave after Summer on the Ground?—The Effect of Afforested Plants in Arid Environments. Water 11, 2559 (2019).
Stoy, P. C., El-Madany, T. S., Fisher, J. B., Gentine, P., Gerken, T., Good, S. P., Klosterhalfen, A., Liu, S., Miralles, D. G., Perez-Priego, O., Rigden, A. J., Skaggs, T. H., Wohlfahrt, G., Anderson, R. G., Coenders-Gerrits, A. M. J., Jung, M., Maes, W. H., Mammarella, I., Mauder, M., Migliavacca, M., Nelson, J. A., Poyatos, R., Reichstein, M., Scott, R. L., and Wolf, S.: Reviews and syntheses: Turning the challenges of partitioning ecosystem evaporation and transpiration into opportunities, Biogeosciences, 16, 3747–3775, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3747-2019, 2019.
Savenije, H.H.G. and Coenders-Gerrits, A.M.J. (2019): “Interception: its Importance, its Isotopic Impact, and How to Model and Measure it” in Encyclopedia of Water: Science, Technology, and Society, editor Patricia A. Maurice. Doi: wsts0061: 10.1002/9781119300762.wsts0061
Jonathan G. Izett, Bart Schilperoort, Miriam Coenders-Gerrits, Peter Baas, Fred C. Bosveld, Bas J. H. van de Wiel (2019): Missed fog? On the potential of obtaining observations at increased resolution during shallow fog events. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-019-00462-3
César Dionisio Jiménez-Rodríguez, Catalina Esquivel-Vargas, Miriam Coenders–Gerrits, Mahmood Sasa–Marín: “Quantification of the evaporation rates from six types of wetland cover in Palo Verde National Park, Costa Rica“. Water 2019, 11(4), 674; doi: 10.3390/w11040674
2018:
Pfister, Laurent; Hissler, Christophe; Jean François Iffly; Miriam Coenders-Gerrits, Ryan Teuling; Marloes Arens; Erik Cammeraat (2018): ”Contrasting hydrologic response in the cuesta landscapes of Luxembourg” in ‘The Luxembourg Gutland Landscape’. p73-87. Springer
Haofang Yan, Chuan Zhang, Miriam Coenders-Gerrits, Samuel Joe Acquah, Hengnian Zhang, Haimei Wu, Baoshan Zhao, Song Huang, Hanwen Fu (2018): Parametrization of aerodynamic and canopy resistances for modeling evapotranspiration of greenhouse cucumber. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 262, p370-378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.07.020
Shao; M. Coenders-Gerrits; J. Judge; Y. Zeng; Y. Su. (2018): Simulation of non-isothermal soil moisture transport and evaporation fluxes in a maize cropland. Journal of Hydrology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.04.033
Giuditta, E., Coenders-Gerrits, A.M.J., Bogaard, T.A., Wenninger, J., Greco, R., Rutigliano, F.A. (2018): Measuring changes in forest floor evaporation after prescribed burning in Southern Italy pine plantations. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 256-257, p516–525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.04.004
Mianabadi, A., Shirazi, P., Ghahraman, B., Coenders-Gerrits, A.M.J., Alizadeh, A., Davary, K. (2018): Assessment of short- and long-term memory in trends of major climatic variables over Iran: 1966-2015. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-018-2410-z
Schilperoort, B., Coenders-Gerrits, A.M.J., Luxemburg, W.M.J., Jiménez Rodríguez, C.D., Cisneros Vaca, C., and Savenije, H.H.G. (2018): Technical note: using Distributed Temperature Sensing for Bowen ratio evaporation measurements. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22, 819-830
2017:
, , , , . (2017) Effects of phenology and meteorological disturbance on litter rainfall interception for a Pinus elliottii stand in the Southeastern United States. Hydrological Processes, 31, 3719–3728. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.11292
2014:
Coenders-Gerrits, A.M.J., Van der Ent, R.J., Bogaard, T.A., Wang-Erlandsson, L., Hrachowitz, M., and Savenije, H.H.G. (2014): Uncertainties in transpiration estimates, Nature, 506, E1-E2.
2013:
Coenders-Gerrits, A.M.J., Hopp, L., Savenije, H.H.G., and Pfister, L. (2013): The effect of spatial throughfall patterns on soil moisture patterns at the hillslope scale, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 17, 1749-1763.
2012:
Van der Ent, R.J., Coenders-Gerrits, A.M.J., Nikoli,R., Savenije, H.H.G. (2012): The importance of proper hydrology in the forest cover-water yield debate: commentary on Ellison et al., Global Change Biology, 18, 806–820. Global Change Biology 18, 2677–2680.
Sutanto, S.J., Wenninger, J., Coenders-Gerrits, A.M.J., and Uhlenbrook, S. (2012): Partitioning of evaporation into transpiration, soil evaporation and interception: a comparison between isotope measurements and a HYDRUS-1D model, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 16, 2605-2616. + corrigendum
Tsiko, C.T., Makurira, H., Gerrits, A.M.J., and Savenije, H.H.G. (2012): Measuring forest floor and canopy interception in a savannah ecosystem, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Vol. 47-48, 122-127
2011:
Gerrits, A.M.J. and Savenije, H.H.G. 2011. (invited) Forest floor interception. In Levia, D.F., Carlyle-Moses, D.E. and Tanaka, T. (Eds.), Forest Hydrology and Biogeochemistry: Synthesis of Past Research and Future Directions. Ecological Studies Series, No. 216, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.
Gerrits AMJ and Savenije HHG (2011) Interception. In: Peter Wilderer (ed.) Treatise on Water Science, vol. 2, pp. 89–101 Oxford: Academic Press.
2010:
Gerrits, A.M.J., Pfister, L., Savenije, H.H.G. (2010): Spatial and temporal variability of canopy and forest floor interception in a beech forest, Hydrological Processes, Vol 24, 3011–3025.
Gerrits, A.M.J. (2010): The role of interception in the hydrological cycle. Dissertation Delft University of Technology. ISBN: 978-90-6562-248-8
2009:
Gerrits, A.M.J., Savenije, H.H.G., Veling, E.J.M., and Pfister, L. (2009): Analytical derivation of the Budyko curve based on rainfall characteristics and a simple evaporation model, Water Resources Research. Vol. 45, No. 4, W04403
Gerrits, A.M.J., Savenije, H.H.G. and Pfister, L. (2009): Canopy and forest floor interception and transpiration measurements in a mountainous beech forest in Luxembourg, IAHS Redbook, 326, 18-24.
2008:
Tsiko, C.T., Makurira, H., Gerrits, A.M.J. and Savenije, H.H.G. (2008): Measuring forest floor and canopy interception in a savannah ecosystem (a case study of Harare, Zimbabwe). In: Abstract Volume, 9th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA Symp., November 2008, Johannesburg, South Africa, 9
2007:
Gerrits, A.M.J., Savenije, H.H.G., Hoffmann, L. and Pfister, L. (2007): New technique to measure forest floor interception – an application in a beech forest in Luxembourg, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 11, 695-701.
Gerrits, A.M.J., Savenije, H.H.G. and Pfister, L. (2007): Forest floor interception measurements, IHP-VI Technical Documents in Hydrology, 81, 81-86.
2005:
Winsemius, H.C., Savenije, H.H.G., Gerrits, A.M.J., Zapreeva, E.A., Klees, R. (2005): Comparison of two model approaches in the Zambezi river basin with regard to model reliability and identifiability, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 10, 339-352.
Gerrits, A.M.J.: Hydrological modelling of the Zambezi catchment from gravity measurements, Master’s thesis, Delft, University of Technology, 2005.
:: Proceedings _________
Gerrits, A.M.J., Venneker, R.G.W., Savenije, H.H.G., and Pfister, L. (2008): Energy balance measurements of forest floor interception, Huewelerbach catchement, Luxembourg. In Proceedings of the 12th biennial conference of the euromediterranean network of experimental and representative basins, 18-20 September 2008, Cracow, Poland.
Gerrits, A.M.J., Savenije, H.H.G., and Pfister, L. (2006): Forest floor interception measurements. In Proceedings of the 11th biennial conference of the euromediterranean network of experimental and representative basins, 22-26 September 2006, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Zhang, G.P., Gerrits, A.M.J., Savenije, H.H.G., and McDonnell, J.J. (2006): Effects of interception on subsurface behaviour: a virtual experiment in the Hesperange catchment, Luxembourg, using the REW approach. In Proceedings of the 11th biennial conference of the euromediterranean network of experimental and representative basins, 22-26 September 2006, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Evaporation: the invisible water drain 