Michelle T H van Vliet

Biographic Data

ID6019810
NAMEMichelle T H van Vliet
GIVEN NAMESMichelle T H
FAMILY NAMEvan Vliet
SIGNATUREVAN VLIET M T H
AFFILIATIONSWageningen University & Research
ORCID0000-0002-2597-8422
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS42
AUTHOR COUNT21
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • Future river exports of nutrients, plastics, and chemicals worldwide under climate-driven hydrological changes

    Open AccessMirjam P Bak, Ilaria Micella et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Future climate-driven hydrological changes may strongly affect river exports of multiple pollutants to coastal waters. In large-scale water quality (WQ) models the effects are, however, associated with uncertainties that may differ in space and time but are hardly studied worldwide and for multiple pollutants simultaneously. Moreover, explicit ways to assess climate-driven uncertainties in large-scale multi-pollutant assessments are currently lim…

  • Blind spots in global water quality monitoring

    Open AccessEdward R Jones, Duncan Graham et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    sponsorship: ERJ, DJG and MTHvV were financially supported by the Netherlands Scientific Organisation (NWO) by a VIDI Grant (VI.Vidi.193.019). MTHvV also acknowledges funding of the European Union (ERC Starting Grant, B-WEX, Project 101039426). MF acknowledges the Pilotprojekt Analyse- und Service-Plattform Globale Wasserqualitaet, GlobeWQ (02WGR1527C), carried out with the support of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within i…

  • Sectoral water use responses to droughts and heatwaves

    Open AccessGabriel Antonio Cárdenas Belleza, Marc F P Bierkens et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Water use for various sectors (e.g. irrigation, livestock, domestic, energy and manufacturing) is increasing due to a growing global population and economic development. Additionally, increases in frequency and severity of droughts, heatwaves and compound drought-heatwave events, also lead to responses in sectoral water use and a reduction in water availability, intensifying water scarcity. However, limited knowledge exists on the responses in se…

  • Recent advancement in water quality indicators for eutrophication in global freshwater lakes

    Open AccessKeerthana Suresh, Ting Tang et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Eutrophication is a major global concern in lakes, caused by excessive nutrient loadings (nitrogen and phosphorus) from human activities and likely exacerbated by climate change. Present use of indicators to monitor and assess lake eutrophication is restricted to water quality constituents (e.g. total phosphorus, total nitrogen) and does not necessarily represent global environmental changes and the anthropogenic influences within the lake’s drai…

  • Mapping global hotspots and trends of water quality (1992–2010)

    Open AccessSébastien Desbureaux, Frédéric Mortier et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Clean water is key for sustainable development. However, large gaps in monitoring data limit our understanding of global hotspots of poor water quality and their evolution over time. We demonstrate the value added of a data-driven approach (here, random forest) to provide accurate high-frequency estimates of surface water quality worldwide over the period 1992–2010. We assess water quality for six indicators (temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, sa…

  • Salinity impacts on irrigation water-scarcity in food bowl regions of the US and Australia

    Open AccessJosefin Thorslund, Marc F P Bierkens et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Irrigation water use and crop production may be severely limited by both water shortages and increased salinity levels. However, impacts of crop-specific salinity limitations on irrigation water scarcity are largely unknown. We develop a salinity-inclusive water scarcity framework for the irrigation sector, accounting for crop-specific irrigation water demands and salinity tolerance levels and apply it to 29 sub-basins within two food bowl region…

  • Global water scarcity including surface water quality and expansions of clean water technologies

    Open AccessMichelle T H van Vliet, Edward R Jones et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Water scarcity threatens people in various regions, and has predominantly been studied from a water quantity perspective only. Here we show that global water scarcity is driven by both water quantity and water quality issues, and quantify expansions in clean water technologies (i.e. desalination and treated wastewater reuse) to ‘reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity’ as urgently required by UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 6.…

  • Worldwide water constraints on attainable irrigated production for major crops

    Open AccessBram Droppers, Iwan Supit et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    In order to achieve worldwide food security, there is a focus on sustainable intensification of crop production. This requires sustainable irrigation water use for irrigated croplands, as irrigation withdrawals are already resulting in groundwater exploitation and unmet ecosystem water requirements. Our study aims to quantify attainable wheat, maize, rice and soybean production on currently irrigated cropland under sustainable water use. Attainab…

  • Vulnerabilities and resilience of European power generation to 1.5 °C, 2 °C and 3 °C warming

    Open AccessIsabelle Tobin, Wouter Greuell et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    The electricity sector is currently considered mainly on the emission side of the climate change equation. In order to limit climate warming to below 2 C, or even 1.5 C, it must undergo a rapid transition towards carbon neutral production by the mid-century. Simultaneously, electricity generating technologies will be vulnerable to climate change. Here, we assess the impacts of climate change on wind, solar photovoltaic, hydro and thermoelectric p…

  • Analysing trade-offs between SDGs related to water quality using salinity as a marker

    Open AccessMartina Flörke, Ilona Bärlund et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2018Cited by: 1

  • Bridging global, basin and local-scale water quality modeling towards enhancing water quality management worldwide

    Open AccessTing Tang, Maryna Strokal et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2018References: 7

    Global WQ models need sufficient consideration of mechanistic understanding. • Multiscale WQ modeling facilitates more consistent water management across scales. • Process-based parsimonious models are proposed for global WQ model development. • Water management requires active collaboration among WQ modelers and policy-makers. Global water quality (WQ) modeling is an emerging field. In this article, we identify the missing linkages between globa…

  • Global multi-pollutant modelling of water quality

    Open AccessMaryna Strokal, J Emiel Spanier et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2018Cited by: 7References: 13

    Assessing global water quality issues requires a multi-pollutant modelling approach. We discuss scientific challenges and future directions for such modeling. Multi-pollutant river models need to integrate information on sources of pollutants such as plastic debris, nutrients, chemicals, pathogens, their effects and possible solutions. In this paper, we first explain what we consider multi-pollutant modelling. Second, we discuss scientific challe…

  • Model inter-comparison design for large-scale water quality models

    Open AccessMichelle T H van Vliet, Martina Flörke et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2018Cited by: 5References: 2

  • Managing flood risks in the Mekong Delta

    Open AccessLong Phi Hoang, Robbert Biesbroek et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2018Cited by: 2References: 31

    Climate change and accelerating socioeconomic developments increasingly challenge flood-risk management in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta-a typical large, economically dynamic and highly vulnerable delta. This study identifies and addresses the emerging challenges for flood-risk management. Furthermore, we identify and analyse response solutions, focusing on meaningful configurations of the individual solutions and how they can be tailored to …

  • Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming – simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (Isimip2b)

    Open AccessKatja Frieler, Stefan Lange et al.ARTICLEGeoscientific Model Development2017

    In Paris, France, December 2015, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) invited the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to provide a special report in 2018 on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways. In Nairobi, Kenya, April 2016, the IPCC panel accepted the invitation. Here we describe th…

  • Impacts of recent drought and warm years on water resources and electricity supply worldwide

    Open AccessMichelle T H van Vliet, Justin Sheffield et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    Recent droughts and heatwaves showed the vulnerability of the electricity sector to surface water constraints with reduced potentials for thermoelectric power and hydropower generation in different regions. Here we use a global hydrological-electricity modelling framework to quantify the impacts of recent drought and warm years on hydropower and thermoelectric power usable capacity worldwide. Our coupled modelling framework consists of a hydrolog…

  • Global thermal pollution of rivers from thermoelectric power plants

    Open AccessCatherine Raptis, Michelle T H van Vliet et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    Worldwide riverine thermal pollution patterns were investigated by combining mean annual heat rejection rates from power plants with once-through cooling systems with the global hydrological-water temperature model variable infiltration capacity (VIC)-RBM. The model simulates both streamflow and water temperature on 0.5° ×0.5° spatial resolution worldwide and by capturing their effect, identifies multiple thermal pollution hotspots. The Mississip…

  • Global modelling of surface water quality

    Open AccessCarolien Kroeze, Silke Gabbert et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2016Cited by: 7References: 4

  • Multi-model assessment of global hydropower and cooling water discharge potential under climate change

    Open AccessMichelle T H van Vliet, Rens van Beek et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2016Cited by: 5

  • Water constraints on European power supply under climate change

    Open AccessMichelle T H van Vliet, Stefan Vögele et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2013

    Recent warm, dry summers showed the vulnerability of the European power sector to low water availability and high river temperatures. Climate change is likely to impact electricity supply, in terms of both water availability for hydropower generation and cooling water usage for thermoelectric power production. Here, we show the impacts of climate change and changes in water availability and water temperature on European electricity production and…

  • Global river discharge and water temperature under climate change

    Open AccessMichelle T H van Vliet, Wietse Franssen et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2013Cited by: 15References: 4