Publications

2019

external page Large influence of soil moisture on long-term terrestrial carbon uptake, by Green, J.K., S.I. Seneviratne, A.M. Berg, K.L. Findell, S. Hagemann, D.M. Lawrence, P. Gentine, 2019, Nature, 565:7740, 476-479, doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0848-x.

external page Potential of global land water recycling to mitigate local temperature extremes, by Hauser, M., W. Thiery, S.I. Seneviratne, 2019, Earth System Dynamics, 10:1, 157-169, doi: 10.5194/esd-10-157-2019.

external page Observed Trends in Global Indicators of Mean and Extreme Streamflow, by Gudmundsson, L., M. Leonard, H.X. Do, S. Westra, S.I. Seneviratne, 2019, Geophysical Research Letters, 46:2, 756-766, doi: 10.1029/2018GL079725.

external page Soil Moisture Effects on Afternoon Precipitation Occurrence in Current Climate Models, by Moon, H., B.P. Guillod, L. Gudmundsson, S.I. Seneviratne, 2019, Geophysical Research Letters, 46:3, 1861-1869, doi: 10.1029/2018GL080879.

external page Observational Constraints Recline Likelihood of Extreme Changes in Multidecadal Land Water Availability, by Padron, R.S., L. Gudmundsson, S.I. Seneviratne, 2019, Geophysical Research Letters, 46:2, 736-744, doi: 10.1029/2018GL080521.

external page Drought impacts on terrestrial primary production underestimated by satellite monitoring, by Stocker, B.D., J. Zscheischler, T.F. Keenan, I.C. Prentice, S.I. Seneviratne, J. Penuelas, 2019, Nature Geoscience, 12:4, 264-+, doi: 10.1038/s41561-019-0318-6.

2018

external page Changes in climate extremes over West and Central Africa at 1.5 degrees C and 2 degrees C global warming, by Diedhiou, A., A. Bichet, R. Wartenburger, S.I. Seneviratne, D.P. Rowell, M.B. Sylla, I. Diallo, S. Todzo, N.E. Toure, M. Camara, B.N. Ngatchah, N.A. Kane, L. Tall, F. Affholder, 2018, Environmental Research Letters, 13:6, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aac3e5.

external page Biogeophysical Impacts of Land‐Use Change on Climate Extremes in Low‐Emission Scenarios: Results From HAPPI‐Land, by Hirsch, A.L., B.P. Guillod, S.I. Seneviratne, U. Beyerle, L.R. Boysen, V. Brovkin, E.L. Davin, J.C. Doelman, H. Kim, D.M. Mitchell, T. Nitta, H. Shiogama, S. Sparrow, E. Stehfest, D.P. van Vuuren and S. Wilson, 2018, Earth's Future, 6:3, 396-409, doi: 10.1002/2017EF000744.

external page Modelled biophysical impacts of conservation agriculture on local climates, by Hirsch, A.L., R. Prestele, E.L. Davin, S.I. Seneviratne, W. Thiery, P.H. Verburg, 2018, Global Change Biology, 24:10, 4758-4774, doi: 10.1111/gcb.14362.

external page Sensitivity of atmospheric CO2 growth rate to observed changes in terrestrial water storage, by Humphrey, V. J. Zscheischler, P. Ciais, L. Gudmundsson, S. Sitch, S.I. Seneviratne, 2018, Nature, 560:7720, 628-631 doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0424-4.

external page Historical deforestation locally increased the intensity of hot days in northern mid-latitudes, by Lejeune, Q., E.L. Davin, L. Gudmundsson, J. Winckler and S.I. Seneviratne, 2018, Nature Climate Change, 8, 386–390, doi: 10.1038/s41558-018-0131-z.

external page Drought Persistence Errors in Global Climate Models, by Moon, H., L. Gudmundsson, S.I. Seneviratne, 2018, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi: 10.1002/2017JD027577.

external page A theoretical approach to assess soil moisture-climate coupling across CMIP5 and GLACE-CMIP5 experiments , by Schwingshackl, C., M. Hirschi, S.I. Seneviratne, 2018, Earth System Dynamics, 9:4, 1217-1234, doi: 10.5194/esd-9-1217-2018.

external page Global Contributions of Incoming Radiation and Land Surface Conditions to Maximum Near-Surface Air Temperature Variability and Trend, by Schwingshackl, C., M. Hirschi, S.I. Seneviratne, 2018, Geophysical Research Letters, 45:10, 5034-5044, doi: 10.1029/2018GL077794.

external page Climate extremes, land–climate feedbacks and land-use forcing at 1.5°C, by Seneviratne, S.I., R. Wartenburger, B.P. Guillod, A.L. Hirsch, M.M. Vogel, V. Brovkin, D.P. van Vuuren, N. Schaller, L. Boysen, K.V. Calvin, J. Doelman, P. Greve, P. Havlik, F. Humpenöder, T. Krisztin, D. Mitchell, A. Popp, K. Riahi, J. Rogelj, C-F. Schleussner, J. Sillmann, E. Stehfest, 2018, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A, 376:2119, doi: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0450.

external page Land radiative management as contributor to regional-scale climate adaptation and mitigation, by Seneviratne, S.I., S.J. Philipps, A.J. Pitman, A.L. Hirsch, E.L. Davin, M.G. Donat, M. Hirschi, A. Lenton, M. Wilhelm and B. Kravitz, 2018, Nature Geoscience, 11, 88-96, doi: 10.1038/s41561-017-0057-5.

external page The many possible climates from the Paris Agreement's aim of 1.5 degrees C warming , by Seneviratne, S.I., J. Rogelj, R. Seferian, R. Wartenburger, M.R. Allen, M. Cain, R.J. Millar, K.L. Ebi, N. Ellis, O. Hoegh-Guldberg, A.J. Payne, C.F. Schleussner, P. Tschakert, R.F. Warren, 2018, Nature, 558:7708, 41-49, doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0181-4.

external page Quantifying soil moisture impacts on light use efficiency across biomes, by Stocker, B.D., J. Zscheischler, T.F. Keenan, I.C. Prentice, J. Penuelas, S.I. Seneviratne, 2018, New Phytologist, 218:4, 1430-1449, doi: 10.1111/nph.15123.

external page Varying soil moisture-atmosphere feedbacks explain divergent temperature extremes and precipitation projections in central Europe, by Vogel, M.M., J. Zscheischler, S.I. Seneviratne, 2018, Earth System Dynamics, 9:3, 1107-1125, doi: 10.5194/esd-9-1107-2018.

external page Evapotranspiration simulations in ISIMIP2a - Evaluation of spatio-temporal characteristics with a comprehensive ensemble of independent datasets, by Wartenburger, R., S.I. Seneviratne, M. Hirschi, J. Chang, P. Ciais, D. Deryng, J. Elliott, C. Folberth, S.N. Gosling, L. Gudmundsson, A-J. Henrot, T. Hickler, A. Ito, N. Khabarov, H. Kim, G. Leng, J. Liu, X. Liu, Y. Masaki, C. Morfopoulos, C. Müller, H.M. Schmied, K. Nishina, R. Orth, Y. Pokhrel, T.A.M. Pugh, Y. Satoh, S. Schaphoff, E. Schmid, J. Sheffield, T. Stacke, J. Steinkamp, Q. Tang, W. Thiery, Y. Wada, X. Wang, G.P. Weedon, H. Yang, T. Zhou, 2018, Environmental Research Letters, 13:7, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aac4bb.

external page Assessing the Dynamic Versus Thermodynamic Origin of Climate Model Biases, by Wehrli, K., B.P. Guillod, M. Hauser, M. Leclair, S.I. Seneviratne, 2018, Geophysical Research Letters, 45:16, 8471-8479, doi: 10.1029/2018GL079220.

external page Future climate risk from compound events, by Zscheischler, J., S. Westra, B.J.J.M. van den Hurk, S.I. Seneviratne, P.J. Ward, A. Pitman, A. AghaKouchak, D.N. Bresch, M. Leonard, T. Wahl and X. Zhang, 2018, Nature Climate Change, 8, 469-477, doi: 10.1038/s41558-018-0156-3.

2017

external page Regional warming of hot extremes accelerated by surface energy fluxes, by Donat, M.G., A.J. Pitman, S.I. Seneviratne, 2017, Geophysical Research Letters, 44:13, 7011-7019, doi: 10.1002/2017GL073733.

external page Methods and Model Dependency of Extreme Event Attribution: The 2015 European Drought, by Hauser, M., L. Gudmunsson, A. Jézéquel, K. Haustein, R. Vautard, G.J. van Oldenborgh, L. Wilcox, S.I. Seneviratne, 2017, Earth’s Future, 5, doi: 10.1002/2017EF000612.

external page Investigating soil moisture–climate interactions with prescribed soil moisture experiments: an assessment with the Community Earth System Model (version 1.2), by Hauser, M., R. Orth, S.I. Seneviratne, 2017, Geoscientific Model Development, 10:4, 1665-1677, doi: 10.5194/gmd-10-1665-2017.

external page Can climate-effective land management reduce regional warming?, by Hirsch, A.L., M. Wilhelm, E.L. Davin, W. Thiery, S.I. Seneviratne, 2017, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122:4, doi: 10.1002/2016JD026125.

external page Basin-scale water-balance dataset (BSWB): an update, by Hirschi, M., S.I. Seneviratne, 2017, Earth System Science Data 9, 251-258, doi:10.5194/essd-9-251-2017.

external page A global reconstruction of climate-driven subdecadal water storage variability, by Humphrey, V., L. Gudmunsson, S.I. Seneviratne, 2017, Geophysical Research Letters, 44:5, doi: 10.1002/2017GL072564.

external page Historical Land-Cover Change Impacts on Climate: Comparative Assessment of LUCID and CMIP5 Multimodel Experiments, by Lejeune, Q., S.I. Seneviratne, E.L. Davin, 2017, Journal of Climate, 30, 1439-1459, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0213.1

external page Hydrological and biogeochemical constraints on terrestrial carbon cycle feedbacks, by Mystakidis, S., S.I. Seneviratne, N. Gruber, E.L. Davin, 2017, Environmental Research Letters, 12:1, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/12/1/014009.

external page A drought event composite analysis using satellite remote-sensing based soil moisture, by Nicolai-Shaw, N., J. Zscheischler, M. Hirschi, L. Gudmundsson, S.I. Seneviratne, 2017, Remote Sensing of Environment 203, 216-225, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.06.014.

external page Variability of Soil Moisture and Sea Surface Temperatures Similarly Important for Warm-Season Land Climate in the Community Earth System Model, by Orth, R., S.I. Seneviratne, 2017, Journal of Climate, 30:6, 2141-2162, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0567.1.

external page Large-Scale Controls of the Surface Water Balance Over Land: Insights From a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, by Padron, R.S., L. Gudmundsson, P. Greve, S.I. Seneviratne, 2017, Water Resources Research, 53:11, 9659-9678, doi: 10.1002/2017WR021215.

external page Quantifying spatio-temporal variations of soil moisture control on surface energy balance and near-surface air temperature, by Schwingshackl, C., M. Hirschi, S.I. Seneviratne, 2017, Journal of Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0727.1.

external page Refining multi-model projections of temperature extremes by evaluation against land-atmosphere coupling diagnostics, by Sippel, S., J. Zscheischler, M.D. Mahecha, R. Orth, M. Reichstein, M.M. Vogel, S.I. Seneviratne, 2017, Earth System Dynamics, 8, 387-403, doi: 10.5194/esd-8-387-2017.

external page Regional amplification of projected changes in extreme temperatures strongly controlled by soil moisture-temperature feedbacks, by Vogel, M.M., R. Orth, F. Cheruy, S. Hagemann, R. Lorenz, B.J.J.M. van den Hurk, S.I. Seneviratne, 2017, Geophysical Research Letters, 44:3, doi: 10.1002/2016GL071235.

external page Changes in regional climate extremes as a function of global mean temperature: an interactive plotting framework, by Wartenburger, R., M. Hirschi, M.G. Donat, P. Greve, A.J. Pitman, S.I. Seneviratne, 2017, Geoscientific Model Development, 10:9, 3609-3634, doi: 10.5194/gmd-10-3609-2017.

external page Dependence of drivers affects risks associated with compound events, by Zscheischler, J., S.I. Seneviratne, 2017, Science Advances, 3:6, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1700263.

2016

external page Anthropogenic climate change affects meteorological drought risk in Europe, by Gudmunsson, L., S.I. Seneviratne, 2016, Environmental Research Letters, 11:4, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/044005.

external page Observation-based gridded runoff estimates for Europe (E-RUN version 1.1), by Gudmunsson, L., S.I. Seneviratne, 2016, Earth System Science Data, 8, 279-295, doi: 10.5194/essd-8-279-2016.

external page Assessing Global Water Storage Variability from GRACE: Trends, Seasonal Cycle, Subseasonal Anomalies and Extremes, by Humphrey, V., L. Gudmunsson, S.I. Seneviratne, 2016, Surveys in Geophysics, 37:2, 357-395, doi: 10.1007/s10712-016-9367-1.

external page Record dry summer in 2015 challenges precipitation projections in Central Europe, by Orth, R., J. Zscheischler, S.I. Seneviratne, 2016, Scientific Reports 6, 28334, doi: 10.1038/srep28334.

external page Allowable CO2 emissions based on regional and impact-related climate targets, by Seneviratne, S.I., M. Donat, A.J. Pitman, R. Knutti, R.L. Wilby, 2016, Nature, 529, 477-483, doi: 10.1038/nature16542.

2015

external page Assessment of future changes in water availability and aridity, by Greve, P., S.I. Seneviratne, 2015, Geophysical Research Letters, 42:13, 5493-5499, doi: 10.1002/2015GL064127.

external page Towards observation-based gridded runoff estimates for Europe, by Gudmunsson, L., S.I. Seneviratne, 2015, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 19, 2859-2879, doi: 10.5194/hess-19-2859-2015.

external page Reconciling spatial and temporal soil moisture effects on afternoon rainfall, by Guillod, B.P. , B. Orlowsky, D.G. Miralles, A.J. Teuling, S.I. Seneviratne, 2015, Nature Communications, 6:7443, doi: 10.1038/ncomms7443.

external page Introduction of a simple-model-based land surface dataset for Europe, by Orth, R., S.I. Seneviratne, 2015, Environmental Research Letters, 10:4, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/4/044012.

external page Impact of soil moisture on extreme maximum temperatures in Europe, by Whan, K., J. Zscheischler, R. Orth, M. Shongwe, M. Rahimi, E.O. Asara, S.I. Seneviratne, 2015, Weather and Climate Extremes, 9, 57-67, doi: 10.1016/j.wace.2015.05.001.

external page Climate engineering of vegetated land for hot extremes mitigation: An Earth system model sensitivity study, by Wilhelm, M., E.L. Davin, S.I. Seneviratne, 2015, Journal of Geophysical Research, 120:7, 2612-2623, doi: 10.1002/2014JD022293.

external page A submonthly database for detecting changes in vegetation-atmosphere coupling, by Zscheischler, J., R. Orth, S.I. Seneviratne, 2015, Geophysical Research Letters, 42:22, doi: 10.1002/2015GL066563.