Delphine Deryng

Partnership and User Engagement Specialist
Forecast, User Outreach and Engagement, Applications and Innovation Partnerships

Summary:
  • Delphine Deryng leads partnership and stakeholder engagement activities to facilitate the co-development of climate information and services in scope of Destination Earth (DestinE) and Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), two initiatives of the European Commission implemented by ECMWF.
  • For C3S, she focuses primarily on the implementation of national uptake actions: these include the coordination of forum with Copernicus participating countries and bi-lateral engagement as part of the National Collaboration Program (NCP) as well as technical management of contracts funded under the NCP.
  • She manages several ECMWF’s partnerships (e.g., with the Union for the Mediterranean, UNICEF, World Food Program) and act as the focal point for engagement related to agriculture.
  • She coordinates the development of the Copernicus Energy Hub, which aims to provide a centralised platform to access Copernicus data products and services across the six thematics for the energy sector.
Professional interests:

Delphine possesses extensive knowledge in the fields of climate change adaptation and mitigation, food and nutrition security and global agroecosystem modelling, as well as expertise in scientific capacity building and stakeholder engagement.

Domain of Expertise:

Climate change impacts & adaptation; Sustainable development; Food and nutrition security; Climate-smart landscape; Global agroecosystem modelling; Science communication (15yrs+)

Climate finance; Capacity building; Stakeholder engagement; Science-Policy-Practice nexus (6yrs+)

Geographical focus: Europe, Global, Least Developed Countries in Asia & Africa, sub-Saharan Africa

Career background:
Before joining ECWMF in 2023, Delphine worked seven years advising diverse groups on international climate and agriculture policy, including the Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States within the UNFCCC process. Delphine has previously held research associate positions at a number of international institutes in the USA, UK and Canada, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA GISS), the Earth Institute at Columbia University, the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, where she completed her PhD in 2014. Delphine also holds a Masters in Geography from McGill University (2009) and a Masters in Cosmology from the Université Paris Diderot (2006).
External recognitions
Delphine was a Lead Author to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the IPCC Working Group II, Chapter 5: “Food, fibre, and other ecosystem products”
  • 2024
    • Daniel Chrisendo, Sara Heikonen, Johannes Piipponen, Thomas Banafa, Delphine Deryng, Mohammad El-Wali, Matias Heino, Xavier Irz, Mika Jalava, Josias Láng-Ritter, Rachel Mazac, Venla Niva, Mia Pihlajamäki, Marja Roitto, Hanna Tuomisto, Matti Kummu (May 2024) Socioeconomic pathways toward sustainable food systems. DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4304589/v1
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • Ruane A.C., Phillips M., Müller C., Elliott J., Jägermeyr J., Arneth A., Balkovic J., Deryng D., Folberth C., Iizumi T., Izaurralde R.C., Khabarov N., Lawrence P., Liu W., Olin S., Pugh T.A.M., Rosenzweig C., Sakurai G., Schmid E., Sultan B., Wang X., de Wit A., Yang H. (February 2021) Strong regional influence of climatic forcing datasets on global crop model ensembles, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108313
    • Hasegawa T., Wakatsuki H., Ju H., Vyas S., Nelson G.C., Farrell A., Deryng D., Meza F., Makowski D. (February 2021) A global dataset for the projected impacts of climate change on four major crops, bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2021.05.27.444762
    • Berrang-Ford L., Siders A.R., Lesnikowski A., Fischer A.P., Callaghan M.W., Haddaway N.R., Mach K.J., Araos M., Shah M.A.R., Wannewitz M., Doshi D., Leiter T., Matavel C., Musah-Surugu J.I., Wong-Parodi G., Antwi-Agyei P., Ajibade I., Chauhan N., Kakenmaster W., Grady C., Chalastani V.I., Jagannathan K., Galappaththi E.K., Sitati A., Scarpa G., Totin E., Davis K., Hamilton N.C., Kirchhoff C.J., Kumar P., Pentz B., Simpson N.P., Theokritoff E., Deryng D., Reckien D., Zavaleta-Cortijo C., Ulibarri N., Segnon A.C., Khavhagali V., Shang Y., Zvobgo L., Zommers Z., Xu J., Williams P.A., Canosa I.V., van Maanen N., van Bavel B., van Aalst M., Turek-Hankins L.L., Trivedi H., Trisos C.H., Thomas A., Thakur S., Templeman S., Stringer L.C., Sotnik G., Sjostrom K.D., Singh C., Siña M.Z., Shukla R., Sardans J., Salubi E.A., Safaee Chalkasra L.S., Ruiz-Díaz R., Richards C., Pokharel P., Petzold J., Penuelas J., Pelaez Avila J., Murillo J.B.P., Ouni S., Niemann J., Nielsen M., New M., Nayna Schwerdtle P., Nagle Alverio G., Mullin C.A., Mullenite J., Mosurska A., Morecroft M.D., Minx J.C., Maskell G., Nunbogu A.M., Magnan A.K., Lwasa S., Lukas-Sithole M., Lissner T., Lilford O., Koller S.F., Jurjonas M., Joe E.T., Huynh L.T.M., Hill A., Hernandez R.R., Hegde G., Hawxwell T., Harper S., Harden A., Haasnoot M., Gilmore E.A., Gichuki L., Gatt A., Garschagen M., Ford J.D., Forbes A., Farrell A.D., Enquist C.A.F., Elliott S., Duncan E., Coughlan de Perez E., Coggins S., Chen T., Campbell D., Browne K.E., Bowen K.J., Biesbroek R., Bhatt I.D., Bezner Kerr R., Barr S.L., Baker E., Austin S.E., Arotoma-Rojas I., Anderson C., Ajaz W., Agrawal T., Abu T.Z. (February 2021) A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change, Nature Climate Change. DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01170-y
    • Wang X., Müller C., Elliot J., Mueller N.D., Ciais P., Jägermeyr J., Gerber J., Dumas P., Wang C., Yang H., Li L., Deryng D., Folberth C., Liu W., Makowski D., Olin S., Pugh T.A.M., Reddy A., Schmid E., Jeong S., Zhou F., Piao S. (February 2021) Global irrigation contribution to wheat and maize yield, Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21498-5
  • 2020
    • Toreti A., Deryng D., Tubiello F.N., Müller C., Kimball B.A., Moser G., Boote K., Asseng S., Pugh T.A.M., Vanuytrecht E., Pleijel H., Webber H., Durand J.-L., Dentener F., Ceglar A., Wang X., Badeck F., Lecerf R., Wall G.W., van den Berg M., Hoegy P., Lopez-Lozano R., Zampieri M., Galmarini S., O’Leary G.J., Manderscheid R., Mencos Contreras E., Rosenzweig C. (February 2020) Narrowing uncertainties in the effects of elevated CO2 on crops, Nature Food. DOI: 10.1038/s43016-020-00195-4
    • Falconnier G.N., Corbeels M., Boote K.J., Affholder F., Adam M., MacCarthy D.S., Ruane A.C., Nendel C., Whitbread A.M., Justes É., Ahuja L.R., Akinseye F.M., Alou I.N., Amouzou K.A., Anapalli S.S., Baron C., Basso B., Baudron F., Bertuzzi P., Challinor A.J., Chen Y., Deryng D., Elsayed M.L., Faye B., Gaiser T., Galdos M., Gayler S., Gerardeaux E., Giner M., Grant B., Hoogenboom G., Ibrahim E.S., Kamali B., Kersebaum K.C., Kim S.-H., van der Laan M., Leroux L., Lizaso J.I., Maestrini B., Meier E.A., Mequanint F., Ndoli A., Porter C.H., Priesack E., Ripoche D., Sida T.S., Singh U., Smith W.N., Srivastava A., Sinha S., Tao F., Thorburn P.J., Timlin D., Traore B., Twine T., Webber H. (February 2020) Modelling climate change impacts on maize yields under low nitrogen input conditions in sub-Saharan Africa, Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15261
  • 2019
    • Schewe J., Gosling S.N., Reyer C., Zhao F., Ciais P., Elliott J., Francois L., Huber V., Lotze H.K., Seneviratne S.I., van Vliet M.T.H., Vautard R., Wada Y., Breuer L., Büchner M., Carozza D.A., Chang J., Coll M., Deryng D., de Wit A., Eddy T.D., Folberth C., Frieler K., Friend A.D., Gerten D., Gudmundsson L., Hanasaki N., Ito A., Khabarov N., Kim H., Lawrence P., Morfopoulos C., Müller C., Müller Schmied H., Orth R., Ostberg S., Pokhrel Y., Pugh T.A.M., Sakurai G., Satoh Y., Schmid E., Stacke T., Steenbeek J., Steinkamp J., Tang Q., Tian H., Tittensor D.P., Volkholz J., Wang X., Warszawski L. (February 2019) State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes, Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08745-6
    • Kimball B.A., Boote K.J., Hatfield J.L., Ahuja L.R., Stockle C., Archontoulis S., Baron C., Basso B., Bertuzzi P., Constantin J., Deryng D., Dumont B., Durand J.-L., Ewert F., Gaiser T., Gayler S., Hoffmann M.P., Jiang Q., Kim S.-H., Lizaso J., Moulin S., Nendel C., Parker P., Palosuo T., Priesack E., Qi Z., Srivastava A., Stella T., Tao F., Thorp K.R., Timlin D., Twine T.E., Webber H., Willaume M., Williams K. (February 2019) Simulation of maize evapotranspiration: An inter-comparison among 29 maize models, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.02.037
    • Christoph Müller, Joshua Elliott, David Kelly, Almut Arneth, Juraj Balkovic, Philippe Ciais, Delphine Deryng, Christian Folberth, Steven Hoek, Roberto C. Izaurralde, Curtis D. Jones, Nikolay Khabarov, Peter Lawrence, Wenfeng Liu, Stefan Olin, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Ashwan Reddy, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Alex C. Ruane, Gen Sakurai, Erwin Schmid, Rastislav Skalsky, Xuhui Wang, Allard de Wit, Hong Yang (May 2019) The Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison phase 1 simulation dataset, Scientific Data. DOI: 10.1038/s41597-019-0023-8
    • Folberth C., Elliott J., Müller C., Balkovič J., Chryssanthacopoulos J., Izaurralde R.C., Jones C.D., Khabarov N., Liu W., Reddy A., Schmid E., Skalský R., Yang H., Arneth A., Ciais P., Deryng D., Lawrence P.J., Olin S., Pugh T.A.M., Ruane A.C., Wang X. (February 2019) Parameterization-induced uncertainties and impacts of crop management harmonization in a global gridded crop model ensemble, PLoS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221862
  • 2018
  • 2017
    • Bernhard Schauberger, Sotirios Archontoulis, Almut Arneth, Juraj Balkovic, Philippe Ciais, Delphine Deryng, Joshua Elliott, Christian Folberth, Nikolay Khabarov, Christoph Müller, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Susanne Rolinski, Sibyll Schaphoff, Erwin Schmid, Xuhui Wang, Wolfram Schlenker, Katja Frieler (January 2017) Consistent negative response of US crops to high temperatures in observations and crop models, Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13931
    • Müller C., Elliott J., Chryssanthacopoulos J., Arneth A., Balkovic J., Ciais P., Deryng D., Folberth C., Glotter M., Hoek S., Iizumi T., Izaurralde R.C., Jones C., Khabarov N., Lawrence P., Liu W., Olin S., Pugh T.A.M., Ray D.K., Reddy A., Rosenzweig C., Ruane A.C., Sakurai G., Schmid E., Skalsky R., Song C.X., Wang X., De Wit A., Yang H. (February 2017) Global gridded crop model evaluation: Benchmarking, skills, deficiencies and implications, Geoscientific Model Development. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-10-1403-2017
    • Katja Frieler, Bernhard Schauberger, Almut Arneth, Juraj Balkovič, James Chryssanthacopoulos, Delphine Deryng, Joshua Elliott, Christian Folberth, Nikolay Khabarov, Christoph Müller, Stefan Olin, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Sibyll Schaphoff, Jacob Schewe, Erwin Schmid, Lila Warszawski, Anders Levermann (June 2017) Understanding the weather signal in national crop‐yield variability, Earth's Future. DOI: 10.1002/2016EF000525
    • Porwollik V., Müller C., Elliott J., Chryssanthacopoulos J., Iizumi T., Ray D.K., Ruane A.C., Arneth A., Balkovič J., Ciais P., Deryng D., Folberth C., Izaurralde R.C., Jones C.D., Khabarov N., Lawrence P.J., Liu W., Pugh T.A.M., Reddy A., Sakurai G., Schmid E., Wang X., de Wit A., Wu X. (February 2017) Spatial and temporal uncertainty of crop yield aggregations, European Journal of Agronomy. DOI: 10.1016/j.eja.2016.08.006
    • Frieler K., Lange S., Piontek F., Reyer C.P.O., Schewe J., Warszawski L., Zhao F., Chini L., Denvil S., Emanuel K., Geiger T., Halladay K., Hurtt G., Mengel M., Murakami D., Ostberg S., Popp A., Riva R., Stevanovic M., SuzGBRi T., Volkholz J., Burke E., Ciais P., Ebi K., Eddy T.D., Elliott J., Galbraith E., Gosling S.N., Hattermann F., Hickler T., Hinkel J., Hof C., Huber V., Jägermeyr J., Krysanova V., Marcé R., Müller Schmied H., Mouratiadou I., Pierson D., Tittensor D.P., Vautard R., Van Vliet M., Biber M.F., Betts R.A., Leon Bodirsky B., Deryng D., Frolking S., Jones C.D., Lotze H.K., Lotze-Campen H., Sahajpal R., Thonicke K., Tian H., Yamagata Y. (February 2017) Assessing the impacts of 1.5ĝ€°C global warming - Simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b), Geoscientific Model Development. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-10-4321-2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
    • Conway D., Van Garderen E.A., Deryng D., Dorling S., Krueger T., Landman W., Lankford B., Lebek K., Osborn T., Ringler C., Thurlow J., Zhu T., Dalin C. (February 2015) Climate and southern Africa's water-energy-food nexus, Nature Climate Change. DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2735
    • Elliott J., Müller C., Deryng D., Chryssanthacopoulos J., Boote K.J., Büchner M., Foster I., Glotter M., Heinke J., Iizumi T., Izaurralde R.C., Mueller N.D., Ray D.K., Rosenzweig C., Ruane A.C., Sheffield J. (February 2015) The Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison: Data and modeling protocols for Phase 1 (v1.0), Geoscientific Model Development. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-8-261-2015
    • Makowski D., Asseng S., Ewert F., Bassu S., Durand J.L., Li T., Martre P., Adam M., Aggarwal P.K., Angulo C., Baron C., Basso B., Bertuzzi P., Biernath C., Boogaard H., Boote K.J., Bouman B., Bregaglio S., Brisson N., Buis S., Cammarano D., Challinor A.J., Confalonieri R., Conijn J.G., Corbeels M., Deryng D., De Sanctis G., Doltra J., Fumoto T., Gaydon D., Gayler S., Goldberg R., Grant R.F., Grassini P., Hatfield J.L., Hasegawa T., Heng L., Hoek S., Hooker J., Hunt L.A., Ingwersen J., Izaurralde R.C., Jongschaap R.E.E., Jones J.W., Kemanian R.A., Kersebaum K.C., Kim S.-H., Lizaso J., Marcaida M., Müller C., Nakagawa H., Naresh Kumar S., Nendel C., O'Leary G.J., Olesen J.E., Oriol P., Osborne T.M., Palosuo T., Pravia M.V., Priesack E., Ripoche D., Rosenzweig C., Ruane A.C., Ruget F., Sau F., Semenov M.A., Shcherbak I., Singh B., Singh U., Soo H.K., Steduto P., Stöckle C., Stratonovitch P., Streck T., Supit I., Tang L., Tao F., Teixeira E.I., Thorburn P., Timlin D., Travasso M., Rötter R.P., Waha K., Wallach D., White J.W., Wilkens P., Williams J.R., Wolf J., Yin X., Yoshida H., Zhang Z., Zhu Y. (February 2015) A statistical analysis of three ensembles of crop model responses to temperature and CO2 concentration, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.09.013
    • Müller C., Elliott J., Chryssanthacopoulos J., Deryng D., Folberth C., Pugh T.A.M., Schmid E. (February 2015) Implications of climate mitigation for future agricultural production, Environmental Research Letters. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/125004
    • Frieler K., Levermann A., Elliott J., Heinke J., Arneth A., Bierkens M.F.P., Ciais P., Clark D.B., Deryng D., Döll P., Falloon P., Fekete B., Folberth C., Friend A.D., Gellhorn C., Gosling S.N., Haddeland I., Khabarov N., Lomas M., Masaki Y., Nishina K., Neumann K., Oki T., Pavlick R., Ruane A.C., Schmid E., Schmitz C., Stacke T., Stehfest E., Tang Q., Wisser D., Huber V., Piontek F., Warszawski L., Schewe J., Lotze-Campen H., Schellnhuber H.J. (February 2015) A framework for the cross-sectoral integration of multi-model impact projections: Land use decisions under climate impacts uncertainties, Earth System Dynamics. DOI: 10.5194/esd-6-447-2015
  • 2014
    • Rosenzweig C., Elliott J., Deryng D., Ruane A.C., Müller C., Arneth A., Boote K.J., Folberth C., Glotter M., Khabarov N., Neumann K., Piontek F., Pugh T.A.M., Schmid E., Stehfest E., Yang H., Jones J.W. (February 2014) Assessing agricultural risks of climate change in the 21st century in a global gridded crop model intercomparison, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1222463110
    • Deryng D., Conway D., Ramankutty N., Price J., Warren R. (February 2014) Global crop yield response to extreme heat stress under multiple climate change futures, Environmental Research Letters. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/3/034011
    • Elliott J., Deryng D., Müller C., Frieler K., Konzmann M., Gerten D., Glotter M., Flörke M., Wada Y., Best N., Eisner S., Fekete B.M., Folberth C., Foster I., Gosling S.N., Haddeland I., Khabarov N., Ludwig F., Masaki Y., Olin S., Rosenzweig C., Ruane A.C., Satoh Y., Schmid E., Stacke T., Tang Q., Wisser D. (February 2014) Constraints and potentials of future irrigation water availability on agricultural production under climate change, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1222474110
    • Bassu S., Brisson N., Durand J.-L., Boote K., Lizaso J., Jones J.W., Rosenzweig C., Ruane A.C., Adam M., Baron C., Basso B., Biernath C., Boogaard H., Conijn S., Corbeels M., Deryng D., De Sanctis G., Gayler S., Grassini P., Hatfield J., Hoek S., Izaurralde C., Jongschaap R., Kemanian A.R., Kersebaum K.C., Kim S.-H., Kumar N.S., Makowski D., Müller C., Nendel C., Priesack E., Pravia M.V., Sau F., Shcherbak I., Tao F., Teixeira E., Timlin D., Waha K. (February 2014) How do various maize crop models vary in their responses to climate change factors?, Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12520
    • Piontek F., Müller C., Pugh T.A.M., Clark D.B., Deryng D., Elliott J., De Jesus Colón González F., Flörke M., Folberth C., Franssen W., Frieler K., Friend A.D., Gosling S.N., Hemming D., Khabarov N., Kim H., Lomas M.R., Masaki Y., Mengel M., Morse A., Neumann K., Nishina K., Ostberg S., Pavlick R., Ruane A.C., Schewe J., Schmid E., Stacke T., Tang Q., Tessler Z.D., Tompkins A.M., Warszawski L., Wisser D., Schellnhuber H.J. (February 2014) Multisectoral climate impact hotspots in a warming world, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1222471110
    • Nelson G.C., Valin H., Sands R.D., Havlík P., Ahammad H., Deryng D., Elliott J., Fujimori S., Hasegawa T., Heyhoe E., Kyle P., Von Lampe M., Lotze-Campen H., Mason D'Croz D., Van Meijl H., Van Der Mensbrugghe D., Müller C., Popp A., Robertson R., Robinson S., Schmid E., Schmitz C., Tabeau A., Willenbockel D. (February 2014) Climate change effects on agriculture: Economic responses to biophysical shocks, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1222465110
  • 2010
  • 2008