Dr. Michel Bechtold

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsRemote Sensing,Hydrogeology, Hydrology, Limnology, Settlement Water Management, Water/Hydro Chemistry, Integrated Water Resources Management
Keywordsnumerical modeling, peatland, remote sensing, data assimilation, hydrology
Honours and awards

2013: Fritz-Scheffer-Preis for PhD thesis, Soil Science Society of Germany, juser.fz-juelich.de/record/136391

Current contact address

CountryBelgium
CityLeuven
InstitutionKatholieke Universiteit Leuven
InstituteDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dirk RooseDepartment of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2017

Program(s)

2016Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2020Tiemeyer, B., Freibauer, A., Bechtold, M., Albiac Borraz, E., Augustin, J., Bechtold, M., Beetz, S., Beyer, C., Ebli, M., Eickenscheidt, T., Fieldler, S., Förster, C., Gensior, A., Giebels, M., Glatzel, S., Heinichen, J., Hoffmann, M., Höper, H., Jurasinski, G., Drösler, M. A new methodology for organic soils in national greenhouse gas inventories: Data synthesis, derivation and application. In: Ecological Indicators, 2020,
2020Michel Bechtold, Gabrielle De Lannoy, Rolf Reichle, Dirk Roose, Nicole Balliston, Iuliia Burdun, Kevin Devito, Juliya Kurbatova, Maria Strack, Evgeny Zarov: Improved Groundwater Table and L-band Brightness Temperature Estimates for Northern Hemisphere Peatlands Using New Model Physics and SMOS Observations in a Global Data Assimilation Framework. In: Remote Sensing of Environment, 2020,
2019Säurich, A., Tiemeyer, B., Don, A., Fiedler, S., Bechtold, M., Amelung, W., Freibauer, A.: Drained organic soils under agriculture — The more degraded the soil the higher the specific basal respiration. In: Geoderma, 2019,
2019Ullrich Dettmann, Michel Bechtold, Thomas Viohl, Arndt Piayda, Liv Sokolowsky, Bärbel Tiemeyer: Evaporation experiments for the determination of hydraulic properties of peat and other organic soils: An evaluation of methods based on a large dataset. In: Journal of Hydrology, 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.05.088, 2019,
2019Vereecken H., Weihermüller L., Assouline S., Šim?nek J., Verhoef A., Herbst M., Archer N., Mohanty B., Montzka C., Vanderborght J., Balsamo G., Bechtold M., Boone A., Chadburn S., Cuntz M., Decharme B., Ducharne A., Ek M., Garrigues S., Goergen K., Ingwersen J., Kollet S., Lawrence DM., Li Q., Or D., Swenson S., De Vrese P., Walko R., Wu Y., Xue Y.: Infiltration from the pedon to global grid scales: An overview and outlook for land surface modelling. In: Vadose Zone Journal, 10.2136/vzj2018.10.0191, 2019,
2019Asmuss, T., Bechtold, M., Tiemeyer, B.: On the Potential of Sentinel-1 for High Resolution Monitoring of Water Table Dynamics in Grasslands on Organic Soils. In: Remote Sensing, 2019,
2019 M. Bechtold G.J.M. De Lannoy R.D. Koster R.H. Reichle S. Mahanama W. Bleuten M.A. Bourgault C. Brümmer I. Burdun A.R. Desai K. Devito T. Grünwald M. Grygoruk E.R. Humphreys J. Klatt J. Kurbatova A. Lohila T.M. Munir M.B. Nilsson J.S. Price M. Röhl A. Schneider B. Tiemeyer: PEAT?CLSM: A Specific Treatment of Peatland Hydrology in the NASA Catchment Land Surface Model. In: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 10.1029/2018MS001574, 2019,
2018Michel Bechtold, Simon de Canniere, Rolf Reichle, Gabrielle De Lannoy: Accounting for static and dynamic open water in the modeling of SMAP brightness temperatures over peatlands. In: Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2018,
2018Roberto Buizza, Paul Poli, Michel Rixen, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda, Michael G. Bosilovich, Stefan Brönnimann, Gilbert P. Compo, Dick P. Dee, Franco Desiato, Marie Doutriaux-Boucher, Masatomo Fujiwara, Andrea K. Kaiser-Weiss, Shinya Kobayashi, Zhiquan Liu, Simona Masina, Pierre-Philippe Mathieu, Nick Rayner, Carolin Richter, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Adrian J. Simmons, Jean-Noel Thépaut, Jeffrey D. Auger, Michel Bechtold, et al.: Advancing global and regional reanalyses. In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2018, 139-144
2018Michel Bechtold Ullrich Dettmann Lena Wöhl Wolfgang Durner Arndt Piayda Baerbel Tiemeyer: Comparing methods for measuring water retention of peat near permanent wilting point Bechtold, M ; Dettmann, U ; Wöhl, L ; Durner, W ; Piayda, A ; Tiemeyer, B. In: Soil Science Society of America Journal, 2018, 601-605
2018Ullrich Dettmann Michel Bechtold: Evaluating commercial moisture probes in reference solutions covering mineral to peat soil conditions. In: Vadose Zone Journal, 2018, 1-6
2018Michel Bechtold, Stefan Schlaffer, Bärbel Tiemeyer, Gabrielle De Lannoy: Inferring Water Table Depth Dynamics from ENVISAT-ASAR C-Band Backscatter over a Range of Peatlands from Deeply-Drained to Natural Conditions. In: Remote Sensing, 2018, 1-20
2018Tina Asmuß Michel Bechtold Bärbel Tiemeyer: Towards monitoring groundwater table depth in peatlands from Sentinel-1 Radar Data. In: Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium , 2018,