Coenders (-Gerrits), A.M.J.

Since 2010 Miriam is a lecturer and researcher at the Hydrology group. She is involved in the courses Hydrological Measurements (CIE4440), Hydrological Fieldwork in Luxembourg (CIE5471), and a new minor course "Meten aan Water" (CT3412). Her main research topics are interception and other evaporation measurements with isotopes and energy balances.

Interception was also the topic of Miriams PhD study on the role of interception in the hydrological cycle. This PhD study was carried out in cooperation with the Gabriel Lippmann Institute in Luxembourg. For more understanding of the interception process, canopy and litter interception were (and are) measured on three different plots in Europe. The spots are visited regularly to see how the interception process works. Further information about interception can be found on: www.miriamcoenders.nl

Furthermore, Miriam is the webmaster of the Boussinesq Center website and the website Hydrological Science Division of the European Geosciences Union.

Before Miriam started her PhD study she worked on her MSc-thesis about Gravity Measurements at the Water Resources Section. During her MSc-study in Hydrology she was also a student assistant, where she did several things like: maintaining website, organizing field trips, create posters and hydrological images, edit lecture notes and books, etc.

Publications

Sutanto, S.J., Wenninger, J., Coenders-Gerrits, A.M.J., and Uhlenbrook, S. (2012): Partitioning of evaporation into transpiration, soil evaporation and interception: a combination of hydrometric measurements and stable isotope analyses, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 9, 3657–3690. 

Tsiko, C.T., Makurira, H., Gerrits, A.M.J., and Savenije, H.H.G. (2011 in press): Measuring forest floor and canopy interception in a savannah ecosystem, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth. 

Gerrits AMJ and Savenije HHG (2011) Interception. In: Peter Wilderer (ed.) Treatise on Water Science, vol. 2, pp. 89–101 Oxford: Academic Press. 

Gerrits, A.M.J. and Savenije, H.H.G. 2011. (invited) Forest floor interception. In Levia, D.F., Carlyle-Moses, D.E. and Tanaka, T. (Eds.), Forest Hydrology and Biogeochemistry: Synthesis of Past Research and Future Directions. Ecological Studies Series, No. 216, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany 

Gerrits, A.M.J. (2010): The role of interception in the hydrological cycle. Dissertation Delft University of Technology. ISBN: 978-90-6562-248-8 

Gerrits, A.M.J., Pfister, L., Savenije, H.H.G. (2010): Spatial and temporal variability of canopy and forest floor interception in a beech forest, Hydrological Processes, Vol 24, 3011–3025

Gerrits, A.M.J. (2009). Na regen komt interceptie. Stromingen, 15(1), 37-40.

Gerrits, A.M.J., Savenije, H.H.G., Veling, E.J.M., and Pfister, L. (2009): Analytical derivation of the Budyko curve based on rainfall characteristics and a simple evaporation model, Water Resources Research; Vol. 45, No. 4, W04403

Gerrits, A.M.J., Savenije, H.H.G. and Pfister, L. (2009): Canopy and forest floor interception and transpiration measurements in a mountainous beech forest in Luxembourg, IAHS Redbook, 326, 18-24.

Tsiko, C.T., Makurira, H., Gerrits, A.M.J. and Savenije, H.H.G. (2008): Measuring forest floor and canopy interception in a savannah ecosystem (a case study of Harare, Zimbabwe). In: Abstract Volume, 9th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA Symp., November 2008, Johannesburg, South Africa, 9 

Gerrits, A.M.J., Savenije, H.H.G., and Pfister, L. (2007): Forest floor interception measurements, IHP-VI Technical Documents in Hydrology, 81, 81-86.

Gerrits, A.M.J., Savenije, H.H.G., Hoffmann, L. and Pfister, L. (2007): New technique to measure forest floor interception – an application in a beech forest in Luxembourg, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 11, 695-701.

Winsemius, H.C., Savenije, H.H.G., Gerrits, A.M.J., Zapreeva, E.A., Klees, R. (2005): Comparison of two model approaches in the Zambezi river basin with regard to model reliability and identifiability, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 10, 339-352.

Gerrits, A.M.J.: Hydrological modelling of the Zambezi catchment from gravity measurements, Master’s thesis, Delft, University of Technology, 2005.