Contact: andries-jan.devries@unil.ch
Office 4408, Géopolis Building
Andries de Vries is a postdoctoral researcher with an interest in the weather systems of extreme precipitation events.
His main research activities aim for an improved process-based understanding of these extreme events in the dry subtropics, with links to their teleconnection patterns, predictability and future changes in a warming climate.
Also, he has interest in other aspects of the Earth’s hydrological cycle, such as tropical convection, ice clouds and stable water isotopes.
Publications
Breaking Rossby waves drive extreme precipitation in the world’s arid regions
De Vries, A. J., M. Armon, K. Klingmüller, R. Portmann, M. Röthlisberger and D. I. V. Domeisen (2024)
under review in Communications Earth and Environment, preprint in ESS Open Archive, https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.170688817.79173498/v1.
Severe drought in North Africa: a review of drivers, impacts and management
Tanarhte, M., T. Chfadi, A. J. De Vries, and G. Zittis, Earth-System Reviews, 250, 104701 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104701.
Rossby wave packets driving concurrent and non-concurrent heatwaves in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere midlatitudes
Pyrina, M, Wicker, W., De Vries, A. J., G. Fragkoulidis, and D. I. V. Domeisen (2024),
Wea. Clim. Dynam.,
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-3088
Projections and uncertainties of future winter windstorm damage in Europe
Severino, L. G., C. M. Kropf, H. Afargan-Gerstman, C. Fairless, A. J. De Vries, D. I. V. Domeisen, and D. N. Bresch,
Nat. Haz. Earth Syst. Sci., 2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-205.
Saharan rainfall climatology and its relationship with surface cyclones
Armon, M., A. J. de Vries, F. Marra, N. Peleg, and H. Wernli
Wea. Clim. Extremes, 43, 100638, 2023.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2023.100638
The role of cyclones and PV cutoffs for the occurrence of unusually long wet spells in Europe
Röthlisberger, M., B. Scherrer, A. J. de Vries, and R. Portmann
Weather Clim. Dynam., 3, 733-754, 2022.
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-733-2022.
Stable water isotope signals in tropical ice clouds in the West African monsoon simulated in a regional convection-permitting model (journal highlight)
De Vries, A. J., F. Aemisegger, S. Pfahl. and H. Wernli
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 8863–8895, 2022.
https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/22/8863/2022
A Lagrangian perspective on stable water isotopes during the West African Monsoon
Diekmann, C. J., M. Schneider, P. Knippertz, A. J. de Vries, F. Aemisegger, F. Dahinden, B. Ertl, F. Khosrawi, S. Pfahl, H. Wernli, and P. Braesicke
J. Geophys. Res.-Atm., 126, 2021.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JD034895.
A global climatological perspective on the importance of Rossby wave breaking and intense moisture transport for extreme precipitation events (journal highlight)
De Vries, A. J.
Weather and Climate Dynamics, 2, 129-161, 2021.https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-129-2021.
Identification of tropical-extratropical interactions and extreme precipitation events in the Middle East based on potential vorticity and moisture transport (journal highlight)
De Vries A. J., H. G., Ouwersloot, S. B., Feldstein, M. Riemer, A. M. El Kenawy, M. F. McCabe and J. Lelieveld,
J. Geophys. Res.-Atm., 123, 861-881, 2018.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017JD027587.
Dynamics of tropical-extratropical interactions and extreme precipitation events in Saudi Arabia in autumn, winter and spring
De Vries, A. J., S. B. Feldstein, M. Riemer, E. Tyrlis, M. Sprenger, M. Baumgart, M. Fnais and J. Lelieveld
Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 142, 1862-1880, 2016.
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/qj.2781.
Extreme precipitation events in the Middle East: Dynamics of the Active Red Sea Trough
De Vries, A. J., E. Tyrlis, D. Edry, S.O. Krichak, B. Steil and J. Lelieveld
J. Geophys. Res.-Atm., 118, 7087-7108, 2013.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jgrd.50569
Science in media
EGU press release and ETH news item on De Vries (2021)
EOS science news article AGU and Max Planck Institute press information on De Vries et al. (2018)