Philipp De-Vrese
| Department | Climate Dynamics |
| Group | Climate-Biosphere Interactions |
| Position | Scientist |
| phone | +49 40 41173-168 |
| philipp.de-vrese@mpimet.mpg.de | |
| Room | B 318 |
Research Interests
My research focuses on the biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks that govern the role of the land surface within Earth’s climate system. Using models, I investigate how terrestrial hydrological processes shape regional and global climate through land-atmosphere interactions, with a focus on extreme or high-impact contexts—such as large-scale irrigation in arid regions, the deglaciation of a hard snowball Earth, or permafrost thaw in the Arctic. I am particularly interested in how these processes interact with biogeochemical feedbacks, such as greenhouse gas release from permafrost-affected ecosystems, which can amplify climate change.
Publications
de Vrese, P., Stacke, T., Gayler, V., Bergstedt, H., von Baeckmann, C., Thurner, M., ... &
Brovkin, V. 2025. T-REX: The tile-based representation of lateral exchange processes in ICON-Land. EGUsphere, 2025, 1-42.
de Vrese, P., Stacke, T., Gayler, V., & Brovkin, V. 2024: Permafrost cloud feedback may amplify climate change. GRL, 51, e2024GL109034
de Vrese, P., Beckebanze, L., Galera, L. D. A., Holl, D., Kleinen, T., Kutzbach, L., ... & Brovkin, V. 2023: Sensitivity of Arctic CH4 emissions to landscape wetness diminished by atmospheric feedbacks. Nat. Clim., 13(8), 832-839
de Vrese, P., Georgievski, G., Gonzalez Rouco, J. F., Notz, D., Stacke, T., Steinert, N. J., ... &
Brovkin, V. 2023: Representation of soil hydrology in permafrost regions may explain large
part of inter-model spread in simulated Arctic and subarctic climate. Cryosphere, 17, 2095–
2118
de Vrese, P. and Brovkin, V. 2021: Timescales of the permafrost carbon cycle and legacy
effects of temperature overshoot scenarios. Nat. Comm., 12 (1), 2688
de Vrese, P., Stacke, T., Caves Rugenstein, J., Goodman, J., and Brovkin, V. 2021: Snowfall-
albedo feedbacks could have led to deglaciation of Snowball Earth starting from mid-latitudes.
Commun. Earth Env., 2 (1), 9
de Vrese, P., S. Stacke, Kleinen, T., and Brovkin, V. 2021: Diverging responses of high-latitude CO2 and CH4 emissions in idealized climate change scenarios. Cryosphere, 15, 1097–1130
de Vrese, P. and S. Stacke, 2020: Irrigation and hydrometeorological extremes. Clim. Dyn. 55,
1521–1537