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Albert I. J. M. van Dijk’s indexed work centers on the intersection of hydrology, remote sensing, and land-surface processes, with a strong emphasis on understanding water availability under climatic stress. His first-author analysis of the Millennium Drought in southeast Australia dissects the natural and human drivers of a major water crisis, providing a framework for assessing ecosystem and economic impacts. Complementing this, his senior-author contributions have advanced large-scale monitoring, notably through trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals and the development of global long-term satellite-based vegetation optical depth datasets, both of which underpin modern drought and biomass assessments. Earlier foundational work on rainfall intensity–kinetic energy relationships and rainfall interception modeling further demonstrates a sustained focus on the physical processes governing water movement through landscapes. Beyond his lead-author studies, van Dijk has been a key contributor to several high-impact, collaborative efforts that have shaped global hydrology. He is a central figure in the development of the MSWEP global precipitation datasets, which merge gauge, satellite, and reanalysis data to provide a benchmark product for rainfall estimation. His middle-author work on drought in the Anthropocene and the reversal in loss of global terrestrial biomass highlights a broader engagement with coupled human–environment systems. These contributions, alongside his work on global-scale regionalization of hydrologic model parameters, collectively illustrate a career dedicated to improving observational capacity and predictive understanding of the Earth’s water and carbon cycles, from local interception processes to planetary-scale datasets.
Hylke E. Beck, Albert I. J. M. van Dijk, Vincenzo Levizzani, Jaap Schellekens, Diego G. Miralles, Brecht Martens, Ad de Roo
Liu YY, Dorigo WA, Parinussa RM, de Jeu RAM, Wagner W, McCabe MF, Evans JP, van Dijk AIJM
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Hylke E. Beck, Ming Pan, Tirthankar Roy, Graham P. Weedon, Florian Pappenberger, Albert I. J. M. van Dijk, George J. Huffman, Robert F. Adler, Eric F. Wood
Anne F. Van Loon, Kerstin Stahl, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Julian Clark, Sally Rangecroft, Niko Wanders, Tom Gleeson, Albert I. J. M. van Dijk, Lena M. Tallaksen, Jamie Hannaford, R. Uijlenhoet, Adriaan J. Teuling, David M. Hannah, Justin Sheffield, Mark Svoboda, Boud Verbeiren, Thorsten Wagener, H.A.J. van Lanen