Full list of publications
(group member; *: led by group member; +: led by co-advised PhD student)
ISI-listed & IPCC
2021
Zhou, S., Williams, A. P., Lintner, B. R., Berg, A. M., Zhang, Y., Keenan, T. F., Cook, B. I. ; Hagemann, S., Seneviratne, S. I., Gentine, P., 2021: Soil moisture-atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands. Nature Climate Change, 11, 1, 38-44. (external page link)
2020
Lange, S., Volkholz, J., Geiger, T., Zhao, F., Vega, I. Veldkamp, T., Reyer, C. P. O. Warszawski, L., Huber, V., Jaegermeyr, J., Schewe, J., Bresch, D. N., Buechner, M., Chang, J., Ciais, P., Dury, M., Emanuel, K., Folberth, C., Gerten, D., Gosling, S. N., Grillakis, M., Hanasaki, N., Henrot, A.-J., Hickler, T., Honda, Y., Ito, A., Khabarov, N., Koutroulis, A., Liu, W., Mueller, C., Nishina, K., Ostberg, S., Mueller Schmied, H., Seneviratne, S. I., Stacke, T., Steinkamp, J., Thiery, W., Wada, Y., Willner, S., Yang, H., Yoshikawa, M., Yue, C. and Frieler, K., 2020: Projecting Exposure to Extreme Climate Impact Events Across Six Event Categories and Three Spatial Scales. Earths Future, 8, 12. (external page link)
Iturbide, M., Gutierrez, J. M., Alves, L. M., Bedia, J., Cerezo-Mota, R., Cimadevilla, E., Cofino, A. S., Di Luca, A., Henrique Faria, S., Gorodetskaya, I. V., Hauser, M., Herrera, S., Hennessy, K., Hewitt, H. T., Jones, R. G., Krakovska, S., Manzanas, R., Martinez-Castro, D., Narisma, G. T., Nurhati, I. S., Pinto, I., Seneviratne, S. I., van den Hurk, B. and Vera, C. S., 2020: An update of IPCC climate reference regions for subcontinental analysis of climate model data: definition and aggregated datasets. Earth System Science Data, 12, 4, 2959-2970. (external page link)
*Wehrli, K., Hauser, M. and S. I. Seneviratne, 2020: Storylines of the 2018 Northern Hemisphere heatwave at pre-industrial and higher global warming levels. Earth System Dynamics, 11, 4, 855-873. (external page link)
*Liu, L., Gudmundsson, L., Hauser, M., Qin, D., Li, S., and S. I. Seneviratne, 2020: Soil moisture dominates dryness stress on ecosystem production globally. Nature Communications, 11, 1. (external page link)
von Schuckmann, K., Cheng, L., Palmer, M. D., Hansen, J., Tassone, C., Aich, V., Adusumilli, S., Beltrami, H., Boyer, T., Cuesta-Valero, F. J., Desbruyeres, D., Domingues, C., Garcia-Garcia, A., Gentine, P., Gilson, J., Gorfer, M., Haimberger, L., Ishii, M., Johnson, G. C., Killick, R., King, B. A., Kirchengast, G., Kolodziejczyk, N., Lyman, J., Marzeion, B., Mayer, M., Monier, M., Monselesan, D. P., Purkey, S., Roemmich, D., Schweiger, A., Seneviratne, S. I., Shepherd, A., Slater, D. A., Steiner, A. K., Straneo, F., Timmermans, M.-L. and Wijffels, S. E., 2020: Heat stored in the Earth system: where does the energy go? Earth System Science Data, 12, 3, 2013-2041. (external page link)
Vautard, R., van Aalst, M, Boucher, O., Drouin, A., Haustein, K., Kreienkamp, F., van Oldenborgh, G. J., Otto, F. E. L., Ribes, A., Robin, Y., Schneider, M., Soubeyroux, J.-M., Stott, P., Seneviratne, S. I., Vogel, M. M. and Wehner, M., 2020: Human contribution to the record-breaking June and July 2019 heatwaves in Western Europe. Environ. Res. Let., 15, 9. (external page link)
*Vogel, M. M., Zscheischler, J., Fischer, E. M. and S.I. Seneviratne, 2020: Development of Future Heatwaves for Different Hazard Thresholds. JGR Atmospheres, 125, 9. (external page link)
Seneviratne, S. I., and M. Hauser, 2020: Regional climate sensitivity of climate extremes in CMIP6 and CMIP5 multi-model ensembles. Earth’s Future. (external page link)
*Vogel, M.M., M. Hauser, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2020: Projected changes in hot, dry and wet extremes’ clusters in CMIP6 multi-model ensemble. Env. Res. Lett., 15(9) (external page link)
*Beusch, L., L. Gudmundsson, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2020: Crossbreeding CMIP6 Earth System Models with an emulator for regionally optimized land temperature projections. Geophysical Res. Lett., 47 (15). (external page link)
*Padron, R., L. Gudmundsson, B. Decharme, A. Ducharne, D.M. Lawrence, J. Mao, D. Peano, G. Krinner, H. Kim, and S.I. Seneviratne (2020): Observed changes in dry-season water availability attributed to human-induced climate change. Nature Geoscience, 13, 477-481.(external page link; ETH news)
*Beusch, L., L. Gudmundsson, S. I. Seneviratne, 2020: Emulating Earth system model temperatures with MESMER: from global mean temperature trajectories to grid-point-level realizations on land. Earth System Dynamics, 11, 139-159 (external page link)
*Thiery, W., A. J. Visser, E. M. Fischer, M. Hauser, A. L. Hirsch, D. M. Lawrence, Q. Lejeune, E. L. Davin, S I. Seneviratne, 2020: Warming of hot extremes alleviated by expanding irrigation. Nature Communications, 11, 290 (external page link; ETH news)
*Vogel, M. M., J. Zscheischler, E.M. Fischer, and S.I. Seneviratne (2020). Development of future heatwaves for different hazard thresholds. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125, e2019JD032070. (external page link; ETH news)
Wicki, A., P. Lehmann, C. Hauck, S.I. Seneviratne, P. Waldner, and M. Staehli, 2020: Assessing the potential of soil moisture measurements for regional landslide early warning. Landslides, DOI: 10.1007/s10346-020-01400-y. (external page link)
*Padron, R.S., L. Gudmundsson, D. Michel, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2020: Terrestrial water loss at night: global relevance from observations and climate models. Hydr. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 793–807 (external page link)
2019
*Vogel, M. M., J. Zscheischler, R. Wartenburger, D. Dee, S. I. Seneviratne, 2019: Concurrent 2018 hot extremes across Northern Hemisphere due to human-induced climate change. Earth’s Future, 7, 692-703 (external page link)
*Wehrli K., B. P. Guillod, M. Hauser, M. Leclair, S. I. Seneviratne, 2019: Identifying key driving processes of major recent heatwaves. JGR Atmospheres, 124 , 11 ,746–11, 765, DOI: 10.1029/2019JD030635 (external page link; external page EOS news)
Friedlingstein P., M. Allen, J. G. Canadell, G. P. Peters, S. I. Seneviratne, 2019: Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”. Science, 10.1126/science.aay8060 (external page link)
Hoegh-Guldberg O., D. Jacob, M. Taylor, T. Guillén Bolaños, M. Bindi, S. Brown, I. A. Camilloni, A. Diedhiou, R. Djalante, K. Ebi, F. Engelbrecht, J. Guiot, Y. Hijioka, S. Mehrotra, C. W. Hope, A. J. Payne, H.-O. Pörtner, S. I. Seneviratne, A. Thomas, R. Warren, G. Zhou 2019: The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C. Science, 365, (external page link)
Kirchmeyer-Young, M.C., Wan, H., Zhang, X. and S.I. Seneviratne 2019: Importance of framing for extreme event attribution: the role of spatial and temporal scales. Earth's Future, 7 ,1192–1204. DOI: 10.1029/2019EF001253 (external page link)
Green, J.K., S. I. Seneviratne, A. M. Berg, K. L. Findell, S. Hagemann, D. M. Lawrence, P. Gentine, 2019: Large influence of soil moisture on long-term terrestrial carbon uptake. Nature, 565, 476–479 (external page link)
*Liu, L., L. Gudmundsson, M. Hauser, D. Qin, S. Li, S. I. Seneviratne, 2019: Revisiting assessments of ecosystem drought recovery. Environ. Res. Lett., 14, 114028 (external page link)
*Schwingshackl, C., E. L. Davin, M. Hirschi, S. L. Sørland, R. Wartenburger, S. I. Seneviratne, 2019: Regional climate model projections underestimate future warming due to missing plant physiological CO2 response. Environ. Res. Lett., 14, 114019 (external page link)
*Ghiggi, G., V. Humphrey, S.I. Seneviratne, and L. Gudmundsson, 2019: GRUN: an observation-based global gridded runoff dataset from 1902 to 2014. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11 (4), 1655-1674, doi: 10.5194/essd-11-1655-2019 (external page link)
Rineau F., R. Malina, N. Beenaerts, N. Arnauts, R. D. Bardgett, M. P. Berg, A. Boerema, L Bruckers, J. Clerinx, E. L. Davin, H. J. De Boeck, T. De Dobbelaer, M. Dondini, F. De Laender, J. Ellers, O. Franken, L. Gilbert, L. Gudmundsson, I. A. Janssens, D. Johnson, S. Lizin, B. Longdoz, P. Meire, D. Meremans, A. Milbau, M. Moretti, I. Nijs, A. Nobel, I. Sorin Pop, T. Puetz, W. Reyns, J. Roy, J. Schuetz, S. I. Seneviratne, P. Smith, F. Solmi, J. Staes, W. Thiery, S. Thijs, I. Vanderkelen, W. Van Landuyt, E. Verbruggen, N. Witters, J. Zscheischler, J. Vangronsveld, 2019: Towards more predictive and interdisciplinary climate change ecosystem experiments. Nature Climate Change, 9, 809-816 (external page link)
Stocker, B.D., J. Zscheischler, T.F. Keenan, I.C. Prentice, S.I. Seneviratne and J. Penuelas, 2019: Drought impacts on terrestrial primary production underestimated by satellite monitoring. Nature Geoscience, 12, 264–270, (external page link)
*Padrón, R. S., L. Gudmundsson, S.I. Seneviratne, 2019: Observational constraints reduce likelihood of extreme changes in multidecadal land water availability. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 736–744 DOI: 10.1029/2018GL080521 (external page link)
2018
*Wehrli, K., B. P. Guillod, M. Hauser, M. Leclair, S. I. Seneviratne, 2018: Assessing the Dynamic Versus Thermodynamic Origin of Climate Model Biases. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 8471-8479 (external page link)
Seneviratne, S.I., J. Rogelj, R. Séférian, 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: The many possible climates from the Paris Agreement's aim of 1.5°C warming. Nature. 558, 41-49 (external page link)
*Humphrey, V., J. Zscheischler, P. Ciais, L. Gudmundsson, S. Sitch, S.I. Seneviratne, 2018: Sensitivity of atmospheric CO2 growth rate to observed changes in terrestrial water storage. Nature, 560, 628-631 (external page link; ETH news)
Seneviratne, S.I., S.J. Phipps, A.J. Pitman, A.L. Hirsch, E.L. Davin, M.G. Donat, M. Hirschi, A. Lenton, M. Wilhelm, B. Kravitz, 2018: Land radiative management as contributor to regional-scale climate adaptation and mitigation. Nature Geoscience, volume 11, pages 88-96, doi:10.1038/s41561-017-0057-5 (external page link; ETH News)
*Lejeune, Q., E.L. Davin, L. Gudmundsson, J. Winckler, S.I. Seneviratne, 2018: Historical deforestation locally increased the intensity of hot days in northern mid-latitudes. Nature Climate Change, 8, 386-390. (external page link)
*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, X. Zhang, 2018: Future climate risk from compound events. Nature Climate Change, 8, 469-477. (external page link)
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: Climate extremes, land-climate feedbacks and land-use forcing at 1.5°C. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. 376. (external page link)
*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, S. Wilson, 2018: Biogeophysical Impacts of Land-Use Change on Climate Extremes in Low-Emission Scenarios: Results From HAPPI-Land. Earth’s Future, 6, 396-400 (external page link)
*Vogel, M.M., J. Zscheischler, S.I. Seneviratne, 2018: Varying soil moisture-atmosphere feedbacks explain divergent temperature extremes and precipitation in central Europe. Earth Syst. Dynam., 9, 1107-1125 (external page link)
Greve, P., L. Gudmundsson, S.I. Seneviratne, 2018: Regional Scaling of annual mean precipitation and water availability with global temperature change. Earth Syst. Dynam., 9, 227-240. (external page link)
*Moon, H., L. Gudmundsson, S.I. Seneviratne, 2018: Drought Persistence Errors in Global Climate Models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres., 123. (external page link)
Prestele R., Hirsch, A., Davin E. L., S. I. Seneviratne, Verburg P. H., 2018: A spatially explicit representation of conservation agriculture for application in global change studies. Global Change Biology, 24, 9, 4038-4053. (external page link)
*Ruth, C.E., D. Michel, M. Hirschi, S.I. Seneviratne, 2018: Comparative Study of a Long-Established Large Weighing Lysimeter and a State-of-the-Art Mini-lysimeter. Vadose Zone J., 17(1). (external page link)
*Stocker, B.D., J. Zscheischler, T.F. Keenan, I. Colin Prentice, J. Peñuelas, S.I. Seneviratne, 2018: Quantifying soil moisture impacts on light use efficiency across biomes. New Phytologist, 218. (external page link)
*Schwingshackl, C., M. Hirschi, S.I. Seneviratne, 2018: A theoretical approach to assess soil moisture–climate coupling across CMIP5 and GLACE-CMIP5 experiments. Earth System Dynamics, 9. external page (link)
*Schwingshackl, C., M. Hirschi, S.I. Seneviratne, 2018: Global Contributions of Incoming Radiation and Land Surface Conditions to Maximum Near-Surface Air Temperature Variability and Trend. Geophysical Research Letters, 45. (external page link)
2017
*Zscheischler, J., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2017: Dependence of drivers affects risks associated with compound events. Science Advances, 3(6). (external page link; ETH News)
Seneviratne, S.I., P. Ciais, 2017: Trends in ecosystem recovery from drought. Nature, 548, 164-165. (external page link)
*Gudmundsson, L., S.I. Seneviratne, and X. Zhang, 2017: Anthropogenic climate change detected in European renewable freshwater resources. Nature Climate Change. 7, 813-816. (external page link)
*Gudmundsson, L., P. Greve, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2017: Correspondence: Flawed assumptions compromise water yield assessment. Nature Communications, 8, 14795. (external page link)
Jones, G. D., B. Droz, P. Greve, P. Gottschalk, D. Poffet, S. P. McGrath, S.I. Seneviratne, P. Smith, and L. H. Winkel, 2017: Selenium deficiency risk predicted to increase under future climate change. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 114(11), 2848-2853. (external page link)
*Vogel, M.M., R. Orth, F. Cheruy, S. Hagemann, R. Lorenz, B.J.J.M. Hurk, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2017: Regional amplification of projected changes in extreme temperatures strongly controlled by soil moisture‐temperature feedbacks. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(3), 1511-1519. (external page link)
*Humphrey, V., L. Gudmundsson, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2017: A global reconstruction of climate-driven subdecadal water storage variability, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 2300–2309. (external page link; external page dataset)
*Hauser, M., L. Gudmundsson, R. Orth, A. Jezequel, K. Haustein, R. Vautard, G. J. van Oldenborgh, L. Wilcox and S.I. Seneviratne (2017). Methods and model dependency of extreme event attribution: The 2015 european drought. Earth’s Future, 5, 1034–1043. (external page link)
*Wartenburger, H., H. Hirschi, M.G. Donat, P. Greve, A.J. Pitman, S.I. Seneviratne, 2017: Changes in regional climate extremes as a function of global mean temperature: an interactive plotting framework. Geoscientific Model Development, 10, 3609-3634. (external page link)
*Orth, R. and S.I. Seneviratne, 2017: Variability of soil moisture and sea surface temperatures similarly important for warm-season land climate in the Community Earth System Model. Journal of Climate, 30, 2141–2162. (external page link)
*Hirsch, A. L., M. Wilhelm, E. L. Davin, W. Thiery, and S. I. Seneviratne, 2017: Can climate-effective land management reduce regional warming?, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 122. (external page link)
*Thiery, W., E. L. Davin, D. M. Lawrence, A. L. Hirsch, M. Hauser, and S. I. Seneviratne, 2017: Present-day irrigation mitigates heat extremes, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 122. (external page link)
*Schwingshackl, C., M. Hirschi and S. I. Seneviratne, 2017: Quantifying Spatiotemporal Variations of Soil Moisture Control on Surface Energy Balance and Near-Surface Air Temperature. Journal of Climate, 30, 7105-1724. (external page link)
*Nicolai-Shaw, N., J. Zscheischler., M. Hirschi, L. Gudmundsson, S.I. Seneviratne, 2017: A drought event composite analysis using satellite remote-sensing based soil moisture. Remote Sensing of Environment, 203, 216 - 225, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.06.014. (external page link)
Sippel, S., J. Zscheischler, M.D. Mahecha, R. Orth, M. Reichstein, M. Vogel, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2017: Refining multi-model projections of temperature extremes by evaluation against land-atmosphere coupling diagnostics. Earth System Dynamics, 8, 387-403. (external page link)
*Hirschi, M., D. Michel, I. Lehner, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2017: A site-level comparison of lysimeter and eddy covariance flux measurements of evapotranspiration, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 21(3), 1809-1825. (external page link)
*Hirschi, M. and S.I. Seneviratne, 2017: Basin-scale water-balance dataset (BSWB): an update. Earth System Science Data, 9(1), 251-258. (external page link; external page dataset)
*Hauser, M., R. Orth, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2017: Investigating soil moisture–climate interactions with prescribed soil moisture experiments: an assessment with the Community Earth System Model (version 1.2). Geoscientific Model Development 10.4 (2017): 1665-1677. (external page link)
Donat, M.G., A.J. Pitman and S.I. Seneviratne, 2017: Regional warming of hot extremes accelerated by surface energy fluxes. Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 7011–7019. (external page link)
*Mystakidis, S., S.I. Seneviratne, N. Gruber, and E.L. Davin, 2017: Hydrological and biogeochemical constraints on terrestrial carbon cycle feedbacks, Environmental Research Letters, 12(1), 014009. (external page link)
*Lejeune, Q., S.I. Seneviratne, and E.L. Davin, 2017: Historical Land-Cover Change Impacts on Climate: Comparative Assessment of LUCID and CMIP5 Multimodel Experiments, Journal of Climate, 30, 1439-1459. (external page link)
*Zscheischler, J., R. Orth, S.I. Seneviratne, 2017: Bivariate return periods of temperature and precipitation explain a large fraction of European crop yields. Biogeosciences. 14, 3309-3320. (external page link)
*Greve, P., M.L. Roderick, S.I. Seneviratne, 2017: Simulated changes in aridity from the last glacial maximum to 4xCO2. Environ. Res. Lett. 12. (external page link)
*Padrón, R.S., L. Gudmundsson, P. Greve, S.I. Seneviratne, 2017: Large-Scale Controls of the Surface Water Balance Over Land: Insights from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Water Resources Research, 53, 9659-9678. (external page link)
Zeng, Z., S. Piao, L.Z.X. Li, L. Zhou, P. Ciais, T. Wang, L. Yue, X. Lian, E.F. Wood, P. Friedlingstein, J. Mao, L.D. Estes, R.B. Myneni, S. Peng, X. Shi, S.I. Seneviratne, and Y. Wang. (2017). Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades. Nature Climate Change. (external page link)
Marotzke, J., C. Jakob, S. Bony, P.A. Dirmeyer, P.A. O'Gorman, E. Hawkins, S. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, C. Le Quéré, S. Nowicki, K. Paulavets, S.I. Seneviratne, B. Stevens. and M. Tuma, 2017: Climate research must sharpen its view. Nature Climate Change, 7, 89–91. (external page link)
2016
Seneviratne, S.I., M. Donat, A.J. Pitman, R. Knutti, and R.L. Wilby, 2016: Allowable CO2 emissions based on regional and impact-related climate targets. Nature, 529, 477-483, doi:10.1038/nature16542. (external page link; ETH News; external page NZZ; external page Tagesanzeiger; external page Blick; external page Daily Mail; external page Japan Times)
*Thiery, W., E.L. Davin, S.I. Seneviratne, K. Bedka, S. Lhermitte, and N.P.M. van Lipzig, 2016: Hazardous thunderstorm intensification over Lake Victoria. Nature Communications, 7, 12786. (external page link; ETH climate blog)
*Davin, E.L., E. Maisonnave, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2016: Is land surface processes representation a possible weak link in current Regional Climate Models? Environmental Research Letters, 11(7), 074027. (external page link)
*Orth, R., J. Zscheischler, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2016: Record dry summer in 2015 challenges precipitation projections in Central Europe. Scientific Reports, 6, 28334. (external page link; ETH climate blog)
*Orth, R., M.M. Vogel, J. Luterbacher, C. Pfister, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2016: Did European temperatures in 1540 exceed present-day records?. Environmental Research Letters, 11(11), 114021. (external page link)
Berg, A., K. Findell, B. Lintner, A. Giannini, S.I. Seneviratne, B. van den Hurk, R. Lorenz, A. Pitman, S. Hagemann, A. Meier, F. Cheruy, A. Ducharne, S. Malyshev, and P.C.D Milly, 2016: Land-atmosphere feedbacks amplify aridity increase over land under global warming. Nature Climate Change. (external page link)
*Hauser, M., R. Orth, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2016: Role of soil moisture versus recent climate change for the 2010 heat wave in western Russia. Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 2819–2826. (external page link)
*Humphrey, V., L. Gudmundsson, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2016: Assessing global water storage variability from GRACE: trends, seasonal cycle, subseasonal anomalies and extremes. Surveys in Geophysics, 37(2), 357-395. (external page link)
*Gudmundsson, L., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2016: Anthropogenic climate change affects meteorological drought risk in Europe. Environmental Research Letters, 11(4), 044005. (external page link)
*Gudmundsson, L., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2016: Observation-based gridded runoff estimates for Europe (E-RUN version 1.1), Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 8, 279-295. (external page link)
*Gudmundsson, L., P. Greve, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2016: The sensitivity of water availability to changes in the aridity index and other factors - a probabilistic analysis in the Budyko-space. Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 2016GL069763. (external page link)
*Michel, D., C. Jiménez, D.G. Miralles, M. Jung, M. Hirschi, A. Ershadi, B. Martens, M.F. McCabe, J.B. Fisher, Q. Mu, S.I. Seneviratne, E.F. Wood, D. Fernández-Prieto, 2016: The WACMOS-ET project – Part 1: Tower-scale evaluation of four remote-sensing-based evapotranspiration algorithms. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 20, 803-822. doi: 10.5194/hess-20-803-2016. (external page link).
Miralles, D.G., C. Jiménez, M. Jung, D. Michel, A. Ershadi, M.F. McCabe, M. Hirschi, B. Martens, A.J. Dolman, J.B. Fisher, Q. Mu, S.I. Seneviratne, E.F. Wood, D. Fernández-Prieto, 2016: The WACMOS-ET project – Part 2: Evaluation of global terrestrial evaporation data sets. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 20, 823-842, doi: 10.5194/hess-20-823-2016. (external page link).
*Mystakidis, S., E. Davin, N. Gruber, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2016: Constraining future terrestrial carbon cycle projections using observation-based water and carbon flux estimates. Global Change Biology, 22, 2198–2215, doi: 10.1111/gcb.13217. (external page link)
*Zscheischler, J., S. Fatichi, S. Wolf, P. D. Blanken, G. Bohrer, K. Clark, A. R. Desai, D. Hollinger, T. Keenan, K. Novick, and S. I. Seneviratne, 2016: Short-term favorable weather conditions are an important control of interannual variability in carbon and water fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 121, 2186–2198. (external page link)
Murray-Tortarolo, G., P. Friedlingstein, S. Sitch, S.I. Seneviratne, I. Fletcher, B. Mueller, P. Greve, A. Anav, Y. Liu, A. Ahlström, C. Huntingford, S. Levis, P. Levy, M. Lomas, B. Poulter, N. Viovy, S. Zaehle, and N. Zeng, 2016: The dry season intensity as a key driver of NPP trends. Geophys. Res. Lett., 43(6), 2632-2639. (external page link)
*Nicolai-Shaw, N., L. Gudmundsson, M. Hirschi, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2016: Long-term predictability of soil moisture dynamics at the global scale: Persistence versus large-scale drivers. Geophys. Res. Lett., 43 (16), 8554–8562. (external page link)
Lorenz, R., D. Argüeso, M. G. Donat, A. J. Pitman, B. van den Hurk, A. Berg, D. M. Lawrence, F. Chéruy, A. Ducharne, S. Hagemann, A. Meier, P.C.D. Milly, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2016: Influence of land-atmosphere feedbacks on temperature and precipitation extremes in the GLACE-CMIP5 ensemble. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 121, 607–623. (external page link)
Lawrence, D.M., G.C. Hurtt, A. Arneth, V. Brovkin, K.V. Calvin, A.D. Jones, C.D. Jones, P.J. Lawrence, N. de Noblet-Ducoudré, J. Pongratz, S.I. Seneviratne, and E. Shevliakova: The Land Use Model Intercomparison Project (LUMIP) contribution to CMIP6: rationale and experimental design. Geoscientific Model Development, 9, 2973-2998. (external page link)
Van den Hurk, B., H. Kim, G. Krinner, S. I. Seneviratne, C. Derksen, T. Oki, H. Douville, J. Colin, A. Ducharne, F. Cheruy, N. Viovy, M.J. Puma, Y. Wada, W. Li, B. Jia, A. Alessandri, D.M. Lawrence, G.P. Weedon, R. Ellis, S. Hagemann, J. Mao, M.G. Flanner, M. Zampieri, S. Materia, R.M. Law, J. Sheffield, 2016: LS3MIP (v1.0) contribution to CMIP6: the Land Surface, Snow and Soil moisture Model Intercomparison Project – aims, setup and expected outcome. Geoscientific Model Development, 9, 2809-2832. (external page link)
2015
*Guillod, B.P., B. Orlowsky, D.G. Miralles, A.J. Teuling, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2015: Reconciling spatial and temporal soil moisture effects on afternoon rainfall. Nature Communications, 6, 6443. (external page link; ETH Life)
*Gudmundsson, L. and S.I. Seneviratne, 2015: Towards observation-based gridded runoff estimates for Europe. Hydr. Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 2859-2879, doi:10.5194/hess-19-2859-2015. (external page link; external page highlighted in HESS)
*Greve, P., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2015: Assessment of future changes in water availability and aridity. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42(13), 5493-5499, doi:10.1002/2015GL064127. (external page link)
*Orth, R, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2015: Introduction of a simple-model-based land surface dataset for Europe. Env. Res. Lett., 10, 044012. (external page link)
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Seneviratne, S.I., and F.W. Zwiers, 2015: Attribution and prediction of extreme events: Editorial on the special issue. Weather and Climate Extremes, 9, 2-5. (external page link)
Whan, K., J. Zscheischler, R. Orth, M. Shongwe, M. Rahimi, E.O. Asare, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2015: Impact of soil moisture on extreme maximum temperatures in Europe. Weather and Climate Extremes, 9, 57-67, doi:10.1016/j.wace.2015.05.001. (external page link)
Nicholls, N., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2015: Comparing IPCC Assessments: How do the AR4 and SREX assessments of changes in extremes differ? Climatic Change, 133(1), 7-21 (external page link).
*Zscheischler, J., R. Orth, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2015: A sub-monthly database for detecting changes in vegetation-atmosphere coupling. Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1002/2015GL066563. (external page link)
*Wilhelm, M., E.L. Davin, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2015: Climate engineering of vegetated land for hot extremes mitigation: an Earth System Model sensitivity study. J. Geophysical Res., 120, 2612-2623, doi:10.1002/2014JD022293. (external page link)
*Lejeune, Q., E.L. Davin, B.P. Guillod, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2015: Influence of Amazonian deforestation on the future evolution of regional surface fluxes, circulation, surface temperature and precipitation. Climate Dynamics, 44 (9-10), 2769-2786. (external page link)
*Nicolai-Shaw, N., M. Hirschi, H. Mittelbach, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2015: Spatial representativeness of soil moisture using in situ, remote sensing, and land reanalysis data. J. Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 120, 9955–9964, doi:10.1002/2015JD023305. (external page link)
*Greve, P., L. Gudmundsson, B. Orlowsky, S.I. Seneviratne, 2015: Introducing a probabilistic Budyko framework. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 2261-2269, doi:10:1002/2015GL063449. (external page link)
Berg, A., B.R. Lintner, K. Findell, S.I. Seneviratne, van den Hurk, A. Ducharne, F. Cheruy, S. Hagemann, D.M. Lawrence, S. Malyshev, A. Meier, and P. Gentine, 2015: Interannual coupling between summertime surface temperature and precipitation over land: Processes and implications for climate change. J. Climate, 28 (3), 1308-1328, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00324.1. (external page link)
Frank, D., M. Reichstein, M. Bahn, K. Thonicke, D. Frank, M.D. Mahecha, P. Smith, M. van der Velde, S. Vicca, F. Babst, C. Beer, N. Buchmann, J.G. Canadell, P. Ciais, W. Cramer, A. Ibrom, F. Miglietta, B. Poulter, A. Rammig, S.I. Seneviratne, A. Walz, M. Wattenbach, M.A. Zavala, and J. Zscheischler, 2015. Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts. Global Change Biology, doi: 10.1111/gcb.12916, published online. (external page link)
Wild, M., D. Folini, M.Z. Hakuba, C. Schär, S.I. Seneviratne, S. Kato, D. Rutan, C. Ammann, E.F. Wood, G. König-Langlo, 2015: The energy balance over land and oceans: an assessment based on direct observations and CMIP5 climate models. Climate Dynamics, published online. (external page link)
*Orth, R., M. Staudinger, S.I. Seneviratne, J. Seibert, and M. Zappa, 2015: Does model performance improve with complexity? A case study with three hydrological models. J. Hydrology, 523, 147-159. (external page link)
2014
Seneviratne, S.I, M. Donat, B. Mueller, and L.V. Alexander, 2014: No pause in the increase of hot temperature extremes. Nature Climate Change, 4, 161-163. (external page link; external page Reuters; external page The Economist; external page SRF2 Wissenschaftsmagazin; external page CBC; external page Climate Central)
*Greve, P., B. Orlowsky, B. Mueller, J. Sheffield, M. Reichstein, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2014: Global assessment of trends in wetting and drying over land. Nature Geoscience, 7, 716-721, doi: 10.1038/NGEO2247. (external page link; ETH News; external page Phys.org; external page 20 Minuten; external page Le Temps; external page Washington Post (online); external page Nature Geoscience News and Views)
*Davin, E.L., S.I. Seneviratne, P. Ciais, A. Olioso, and T. Wang, 2014: Preferential cooling of hot extremes from cropland albedo management. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 111(27), 9757-9761, doi:10.1073/pnas.1317323111 (external page link; ETH News; external page Spiegel; external page Nature News).
*Gudmundsson, L., F. Castro Rego, M. Rocha, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2014: Predicting above normal wildfire activity in southern Europe as a function of meteorological drought. Environ. Res. Lett., 9, 084008, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/8/084008 (external page link)
*Orlowsky, B., A.Y. Hoekstra, L. Gudmundsson, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2014: Today's virtual water consumption and trade under future water scarcity. Environ. Res. Lett., 9, 074007. (external page link)
*Orth, R., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2014: Using soil moisture forecasts for sub-seasonal summer temperature predictions in Europe. Climate Dynamics, 43 (12), 3403-3418. (external page link)
*Hirschi, M., B. Mueller, W. Dorigo, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2014: Using remotely sensed soil moisture for land-atmosphere coupling diagnostics: The role of surface vs. root-zone soil moisture variability. Remote Sensing Environ., 154, 246-252. (external page link)
*Guillod, B.P., B. Orlowsky, D. Miralles, A.J. Teuling, P.D. Blanken, N. Buchmann, P. Ciais, M. Ek, K.L. Findell, P. Gentine, B.R. Lintner, R.L. Scott, B. van den Hurk, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2014: Land surface controls on afternoon precipitation diagnosed from observational data: uncertainties and confounding factors. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 8343-8367. (external page link)
Wetter, O., C. Pfister, J.P. Werner, E. Zorita, S. Wagner, S.I. Seneviratne, et al., 2014: The year-long unprecedented European heat and drought of 1540 - a worst case. Climatic Change, 125, 349-363, doi:10.1007/s10584-014-1184-2. (external page link).
*Orlowsky, B., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2014: On the spatial representativeness of temporal dynamics at European weather stations. Int. J. Climatology, 34, 3154-3160, doi:10.1002/joc.3903. (external page link)
Aemisegger, F., S. Pfahl, H. Sodemann, I. Lehner, S.I. Seneviratne, and H. Wernli, 2014: Deuterium excess as a proxy for continental moisture recycling and plant transpiration. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 4029-4054. (external page link)
Brocca, L., G. Zucco, H. Mittelbach, T. Moramarco, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2014: Absolute versus temporal anomaly and percent of saturation soil moisture spatial variability for six networks worldwide. Water Resources Research, 50, 5560–5576, doi:10.1002/2014WR015684. (external page link)
Sutanto, S.J., B. van den Hurk, P.A. Dirmeyer, S.I. Seneviratne, T. Röckmann, K.E. Trenberth, E.M. Blyth, J. Wenninger, and G. Hoffmann, 2014: HESS Opinions "A perspective on isotope versus non-isotope approaches to determine the contribution of transpiration to total evaporation". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 2815-2827. (external page link)
Kundzewicz, Z.W., S. Kanae, S.I. Seneviratne, J. Handmer, N. Nicholls, P. Peduzzi, R. Mechler, L.M. Bouwer, N. Arnell, K. Mach, R. Muir-Wood, G.R. Brakenridge, W. Kron, G. Benito, Y. Honda, K. Takahashi, and B. Sherstyukov, 2014: Flood risk and climate change - global and regional perspectives. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 59:1, 1-28, doi:10.1080/02626667.2013.857411. (external page link).
Hirsch, A.L., A.J. Pitman, S.I. Seneviratne, J.P. Evans, and V. Haverd, 2014: Summertime maximum and minimum temperature coupling asymmetry over Australia determined using WRF. Geophys. Res. Lett., 41(5), 1546-1552. (external page link)
Zscheischler, J., M.D. Mahecha, J. von Buttlar, S. Harmeling, M. Jung, A. Rammig, J.T. Randerson, B. Schölkopf, S.I. Seneviratne, E. Tomelleri, S. Zaehle, and M. Reichstein, 2014: A few extreme events dominate global interannual variability in gross primary production. Environ. Res. Lett., 9, 035001. (external page link)
*Mueller, B., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2014: Systematic land climate and evapotranspiration biases in CMIP5 simulations. Geophys. Res. Lett., 41 (1-7), doi:10.1002/2013GL058055. (external page link)
2013
Seneviratne, S.I., M. Wilhelm, T. Stanelle, B.J.J.M. van den Hurk, S. Hagemann, A. Berg, F. Cheruy, M.E. Higgins, A. Meier, V. Brovkin, M. Claussen, A. Ducharne, J.-L. Dufresne, K.L. Findell, J. Ghattas, D.M. Lawrence, S. Malyshev, M. Rummukainen, and B. Smith, 2013: Impact of soil moisture-climate feedbacks on CMIP5 projections: First results from the GLACE-CMIP5 experiment. Geophys. Res. Lett., 40 (19), 5212-5217 (external page link).
*Orlowsky, B., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2013: Elusive drought: Uncertainty in observed trends and short- and long-term CMIP5 projections. Hydr. Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 1765-1781, doi:10.5194/hess-17-1765-2013. (external page link)
*Lorenz, R., E.L. Davin, D.M. Lawrence, R. Stöckli, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2013: How important is vegetation phenology for European climate and heatwaves? J. Climate, 26, 10077-10100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00040.1 (external page link).
*Orth, R., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2013: Propagation of soil moisture memory to runoff and evapotranspiration. Hydr. Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 3895-3911, doi:10.5194/hess-17-3895-2013 (external page link).
*Orth, R., R.D. Koster, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2013: Inferring soil moisture memory from runoff observations. J. Hydrometeorology, 14 (6), 1773-1790, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-12-099.1. (external page link)
Teuling, A.J., A. van Loon, S.I. Seneviratne, I. Lehner, M. Aubinet, B. Heinesch, C. Bernhofer, T. Grünwald, H. Prasse, and U. Spank, 2013: Evapotranspiration amplifies European summer drought. Geophys. Res. Lett., 40 (10), 2071-2075. (external page link)
*Guillod, B., E.L. Davin, C. Kündig, G. Smiatek, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2013: Impact of soil map speci fications for European climate simulations. Climate Dynamics, 40, 123-141, doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1395-z. (external page link)
*Orth, R., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2013: Predictability of soil moisture and streamflow on sub-seasonal timescales: A case study. J. Geophysical Res. - Atmospheres, 118, 10963-10979, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50846 (external page link).
Reichstein, M., M. Bahn, P. Ciais, D. Frank, M.D. Mahecha, S.I. Seneviratne, J. Zscheischler, C. Beer, N. Buchmann, D.C. Frank, D. Papale, A. Rammig, P. Smith, K. Thonicke, M. van der Velde, S. Vicca, A. Walz, and M. Wattenbach, 2013: Climate extremes and the carbon cycle. Nature, 500, 287-295. (external page link)
*Mueller, B., M. Hirschi, C. Jimenez, P. Ciais, P. A. Dirmeyer, A. J. Dolman, J. B. Fisher, M. Jung, F. Ludwig, F. Maignan, D. Miralles, M.F. McCabe, M. Reichstein, J. Sheffield, K.C. Wang, E.F. Wood, Y. Zhang, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2013: Benchmark products for land evapotranspiration: LandFlux-EVAL multi-dataset synthesis. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 3707-3720, doi:10.5194/hess-17-3707-2013. (external page link)
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2012
Seneviratne, S.I., N. Nicholls, D. Easterling, C.M. Goodess, S. Kanae, J. Kossin, Y. Luo, J. Marengo, K. McInnes, M. Rahimi, M. Reichstein, A. Sorteberg, C. Vera, and X. Zhang, 2012: Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment. In: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation [Field, C.B., V. Barros, T.F. Stocker, D. Qin, D.J. Dokken, K.L. Ebi, M.D. Mastrandrea, K.J. Mach, G.-K. Plattner, S.K. Allen, M. Tignor, and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, pp. 109-230. (IPCC SREX Report) [external page Full IPCC SREX Report, external page Chapter 3]
-> Some media reports and background information on the IPCC SREX report:
ETH Klimablog: Das IPCC SREX in Kürze, Qualitätskontrolle im IPCC SREX; ETH Life Interview: Deutsch, English; external page IPCC SREX Video; Media articles: external page SciDevNet, external page NZZ, external page Die Zeit, external page Environmental Health Perspectives
IPCC, 2012: Summary for Policymakers. In: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation [Field, C.B., V. Barros, T.F. Stocker, D. Qin, D.J. Dokken, K.L. Ebi, M.D. Mastrandrea, K.J. Mach, G.-K. Plattner, S.K. Allen, M. Tignor, and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 1-19. (in external page English, external page Arabic, external page Chinese, external page French, external page Russian, and external page Spanish)
*Mueller, B., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2012: Hot days induced by precipitation deficits at the global scale. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 109 (31), 12398-12403, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1204330109. (external page pdf; ETH Life article; external page TagesAnzeiger; external page Los Angeles Times; external page Research Highlight in Nature Geoscience)
Seneviratne, S.I., 2012: Historical drought trends revisited. Nature, 491, 338-339. (external page link)
Quesada, B., R. Vautard, P. Yiou, M. Hirschi, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2012: Asymmetric European summer heat predictability from wet and dry Southern winter/springs. Nature Climate Change, 2, 736-741, doi:10.1038/nclimate1536. (external page link)
*Mittelbach, H., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2012: A new perspective on the spatio-temporal variability of soil moisture: Temporal dynamics versus time invariant contributions. Hydr. Earth Syst. Sci, 16, 2169–2179, doi:10.5194/hess-16-2169-2012. (external page link)
*Orth, R., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2012: Analysis of soil moisture memory from observations in Europe. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmospheres, 117, D15115, doi:10.1029/2011JD017366. (external page link)
*Lorenz, R., E.L. Davin, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2012: Modeling land-climate coupling in Europe: Impact of land surface representation on climate variability and extremes J. Geophys. Res. - Atmospheres, 117, D20109, doi: 10.1029/2012JD017755. (external page link).
Seneviratne, S.I., I. Lehner, J. Gurtz, A.J. Teuling, H. Lang, U. Moser, D. Grebner, L. Menzel, K. Schroff, T. Vitvar, and M. Zappa, 2012: Swiss pre-alpine Rietholzbach research catchment and lysimeter: Analysis of 32-year hydroclimatological time series and 2003 drought. Water Resources Research, 48, W06526, doi:10.1029/2011WR011749. (external page link)
*Davin, E.L., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2012: Role of land surface processes and diffuse/direct radiation partitioning in simulating the European climate. Biogeosciences, 9, 1695-1707. (external page link)
*Mittelbach, H., I. Lehner, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2012: Comparison of four soil moisture sensor types under field conditions in Switzerland. J. Hydrology, 430, 39-49, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.01.041. (external page link)
van den Hurk, B., F. Doblas-Reyes, G. Balsamo, R.D. Koster, S.I. Seneviratne, H. Camargo, 2012: Soil moisture effects on seasonal temperature and precipitation forecast scores in Europe. Climate Dynamics, 1-2, 349-362, doi: 10.1007/s00382-010-0956-2 (external page link).
*Orlowsky, B., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2012: Global changes in extreme events: Regional and seasonal dimension. Climatic Change, 110, 669-696, doi: 10.1007/s10584-011-0122-9. (external page link)
Seneviratne, S.I., and R.D. Koster, 2012: A revised framework for analyzing soil moisture memory in climate data: Derivation and interpretation. J. Hydrometeorology, 13, 404-412, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-11-044.1. (external page link)
2011
*Hirschi, M., S.I. Seneviratne, V. Alexandrov, F. Boberg, C. Boroneant, O.B. Christensen, H. Formayer, B. Orlowsky, and P. Stepanek, 2011: Observational evidence for soil-moisture impact on hot extremes in southeastern Europe. Nature Geoscience, 4, 17-21, doi:10.1038/ngeo1032. (external page link; external page News and Views; ETH Life article (German))
*Jaeger, E.B., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2011: Impact of soil moisture-atmosphere coupling on European climate extremes and trends in a regional climate model. Climate Dynamics, 36 (9-10), 1919-1939, doi: 10.1007/s00382-010-0780-8. (external page link)
*Davin, E.L, R. Stöckli, E.B. Jaeger, S. Levis, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2011: COSMO-CLM2: a new version of the COSMO-CLM model coupled to the Community Land Model. Climate Dynamics, 37, 1889-1907, doi: 10.1007/s00382-011-1019-z. (external page link)
Koster, R.D., S.P.P. Mahanama, T.J. Yamada, G. Balsamo, M. Boisserie, P. Dirmeyer, F. Doblas‐Reyes, C.T. Gordon, Z. Guo, J.H. Jeong, D. Lawrence, Z. Li, L. Luo, S. Malyshev, W. Merryfield, S.I. Seneviratne, T. Stanelle, B. van den Hurk, F. Vitart, and E.F. Wood, 2011. The second phase of the Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment: Soil moisture contributions to subseasonal forecast skill. J. Hydrometeorology, 12, 805-822, doi: 10.1175/2011JHM1365.1. (external page link)
*Mueller, B., S.I. Seneviratne, C. Jimenez, T. Corti, M. Hirschi, G. Balsamo, P. Ciais, P. Dirmeyer, J.B. Fisher, Z. Guo, M. Jung, F. Maignan, M.F. McCabe, R. Reichle, M. Reichstein, M. Rodell, J. Sheffield, A.J. Teuling, K. Wang, E.F. Wood, and Y. Zhang, 2011: Evaluation of global observations-based evapotranspiration datasets and IPCC AR4 simulations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L06402, doi:10.1029/2010GL046230 (external page link)
*Oliveira, P.J.C., E.L. Davin, S. Levis, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2011: Vegetation-mediated impacts of trends in global radiation on land hydrology: A global sensitivity study. Global Change Biology, 17, 3453-3467, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02506.x. (external page link)
*Corti, T., M. Wüest, D. Bresch, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2011: Drought-induced building damages from simulations at regional scale. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 11, 3335-3342. (external page link)
*Teuling, A.J., R. Stöckli, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2011: Bivariate color maps for climate research. Int. J. Climatology, 31(9), 1408-1412, doi:10.1002/joc.2153 (external page link)
*Orlowsky, B., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2011: Investigating spatial climate relations using CARTs: an application to persistent hot days in a multi-model ensemble. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmospheres, 116, D14106, doi:10.1029/2010JD015188. (external page link)
Rietkerk, M., V. Brovkin, P.M. van Bodegom, M. Claussen, S.C. Dekker, H.A.Dijkstra, S.V. Goryachkin, P. Kabat, E.H.van Nes, A.‐M. Neutel, S.E. Nicholson., C. Nobre, V. Petoukhov, A. Provenzale, M. Scheffer, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2011: Local ecosystem feedbacks and critical transitions in the climate system. Ecological Complexity, 8(3), 223-228. (external page link)
van der Molen, M.K., A.J. Dolman, P. Ciais, T. Eglin, N. Gobron, B.E. Law, P. Meir, W. Peters, O.L. Phillips, M. Reichstein, T. Chen, S.C. Dekker, M. Doubková, M.A. Friedl, M. Jung, B.J.J.M. van den Hurk, R.A.M. de Jeu, B. Kruijt, T. Ohta, K.T. Rebel, S. Plummer, S.I. Seneviratne, S. Sitch, A.J. Teuling, G. van der Werf, and G. Wang, 2011: Review: Drought and ecosystem carbon cycling. Agr. Forest Meteorol., 151(7), 765-773, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.01.018. (external page link)
Jimenez, C., C. Prigent, B. Mueller, S.I. Seneviratne, M.F. McCabe, E.F. Wood, W.B. Rossow, G. Balsamo, A.K. Betts, P.A. Dirmeyer, J.B. Fisher, M. Jung, M. Kanamitsu, R.H. Reichle, M. Reichstein, M. Rodell, J. Sheffield, K. Tu, and K. Wang, 2011: Global inter-comparison of 12 land surface heat flux estimates. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmospheres, 116, D02102 (external page link).
+Mahecha, M.D., M. Reichstein, N. Carvalhais, G. Lasslop, H. Lange, S.I. Seneviratne, R. Vargas, C. Ammann, M.A. Arain, A. Cescatti, I.A. Janssens, M. Migliavacca, L. Montagnani, A.D. Richardson, 2011: Response to Comment on “Global convergence in the temperature sensitivity of respiration at ecosystem level”. Science, 331 (6022), 1265 (external page link).
*Mueller, B., M. Hirschi, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2011: New diagnostic estimates of variations in terrestrial water storage based on ERA-Interim data. Hydrological Processes, 25 (7), 996-1008, doi: 10.1002/hyp.7652 (external page link).
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*Mittelbach, H., F. Casini, I. Lehner, A.J. Teuling, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2011: Soil moisture monitoring for climate research: Evaluation of a low cost sensor in the framework of the SwissSMEX campaign. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmosphere, 116, D05111 (external page link).
2007-2010
Seneviratne, S.I., T. Corti, E.L. Davin, M. Hirschi, E.B. Jaeger, I. Lehner, B. Orlowsky, and A.J. Teuling, 2010: Investigating soil moisture-climate interactions in a changing climate: A review. Earth-Science Reviews, 99, 3-4, 125-161, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.02.004. (external page link)
*Teuling, A.J., S.I. Seneviratne, R. Stöckli, M. Reichstein, E. Moors, P. Ciais, S. Luyssaert, B. van den Hurk, C. Ammann, C. Bernhofer, E. Dellwik, D. Gianelle, B. Gielen, T. Grünwald, K. Klumpp, L. Montagnani, C. Moureaux, M. Sottocornola, and G. Wohlfahrt, 2010: Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves. Nature Geoscience, 3, 722-727 doi:10.1038/ngeo950. (external page link; ETH Life article)
Jung, M., M. Reichstein, P. Ciais, S.I. Seneviratne, J. Sheffield, M.L. Goulden, G. Bonan, A. Cescatti, J. Chen, R. de Jeu, A.J. Dolman, W. Eugster, D. Gerten, D. Gianelle, N. Gobron, J. Heinke, J. Kimball, B.E. Law, L. Montagnani, Q. Mu, B. Mueller, K. Oleson, D. Papale, A.D. Richardson, O. Roupsard, S. Running, E. Tomelleri, N. Viovy, U. Weber, C. Williams, E. Wood, S. Zaehle, K. Zhang, 2010: Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply. Nature, 467, 951-954. doi:10.1038/nature09396. (external page link)
*Orlowsky, B., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2010: Statistical analyses of land-atmosphere feedbacks and their possible pitfalls. J. Climate, 23(14), 3918-3932. (external page link)
+Mahecha, M.D., M. Reichstein, N. Carvalhais, G. Lasslop, H. Lange, S.I. Seneviratne, R. Vargas, C. Ammann, M.A. Arain, A. Cescatti, I.A. Janssens, M. Migliavacca, L. Montagnani, A.D. Richardson, 2010: Global convergence in the temperature sensitivity of respiration at ecosystem level. Science, 329, 838-840. (external page link; ETH Life article (German))
*Hirschi, M., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2010: Intra-annual link of spring and autumn precipitation over France. Climate Dynamics, 35(7-8), 1207-1218, doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0734-1. (external page link)
*Hendricks Franssen, H.J., R. Stöckli, I. Lehner, E. Rotenberg, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2010: Energy balance closure of eddy-covariance data: A multisite analysis for European FLUXNET stations. Agr. Forest Meteor., 150(12), 1553-1567. (external page link)
*Lorenz, R., E.B. Jaeger, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2010: Persistence of heat waves and its link to soil moisture memory. Geophys. Res. Lett, 37, L09703, doi:10.1029/2010GL042764. (external page link)
*Teuling, A.J., I. Lehner, J.W. Kirchner, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2010: Catchments as simple dynamical systems: Experience from a Swiss prealpine catchment. Water Res. Res., 46, W10502. (external page link)
+Mahecha, M.D., M. Reichstein, M. Jung, S.I. Seneviratne, S. Zaehle, C. Beer, M.C. Brakhekke, N. Carvalhais, H. Lange, G. Le Maire, and E. Moors, 2010: Comparing observations and process-based simulations of biosphere-atmosphere exchanges on multiple time scales. J. Geophys. Res. - Biogeosciences, 115, G02003, doi:10.1029/2009JG001016. (external page link)
Koster, R.D., Mahanama, S., Yamada, T.J., Balsamo, G., Boisserie, M., Dirmeyer, P., Doblas-Reyes, F., Gordon, C.T., Guo, Z., Jeong J.H., Lawrence D., Li, Z., L. Luo, S. Malyshev, W. Merryfield, S.I. Seneviratne, T. Stanelle, B. van den Hurk, F. Vitart, and E.F. Wood, 2010. The contribution of land initialization to subseasonal forecast skill: First results from the GLACE-2 Project. Geophys. Res. Lett, 37, L02402, doi:10.1029/2009GL041677. (external page link)
*Teuling, A.J., M. Hirschi, A. Ohmura, M. Wild, M. Reichstein, P. Ciais, N. Buchmann, C. Ammann, L. Montagnani, A.D. Richardson, G. Wohlfahrt, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2009: A regional perspective on trends in continental evaporation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L02404, doi:10.1029/2008GL036584. (external page link)
*Jaeger, E.B., R. Stöckli and S.I. Seneviratne, 2009: Analysis of planetary boundary layer fluxes and land-atmosphere coupling in the Regional Climate Model CLM. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmospheres, 114, D17106. (external page link)
*Corti, T., V. Muccione, P. Köllner-Heck, D. Bresch, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2009: Simulating past droughts and associated building damages in France. Hydr. Earth Syst. Sci, 13, 1739-1747. (external page link)
Pitman, A.J., N. de Noblet-Ducoudré, F.T. Cruz, E.L. Davin, G.B. Bonan, V. Brovkin, M. Claussen, C. Delire, V. Gayler, B.J.J.M. van den Hurk, P.J. Lawrence, M.K. van der Molen, C. Müller, C.H. Reick, S.I. Seneviratne, B. J. Strengers, A. Voldoire, 2009: Uncertainties in climate responses to past land cover change: first results from the LUCID intercomparison study. Geophys. Res. Lett, 36, L14814, doi:10.1029/2009GL039076. (external page link)
Piao, S., L. Yin, X. Wang, P. Ciais, S. Peng, Z. Shen, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2009: Summer soil moisture regulated by precipitation frequency in China. Environ. Res. Lett., 4, 044012, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/044012. (external page link)
*Teuling, A.J., R. Uijlenhoet, B. van den Hurk, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2009: Parameter sensitivity in LSMs: An analysis using stochastic soil moisture models and ELDAS soil parameters. J. Hydrometeorology, 10 (3), 751-763, doi:10.1175/2008JHM1033.1. (external page link)
Seneviratne, S.I., and R. Stöckli, 2008: The role of land-atmosphere interactions for climate variability in Europe. In: Climate Variability and Extremes during the Past 100 years, Brönnimann et al. (eds.), Adv. Global Change Research, 33, Springer Verlag. (Book chapter) (link)
*Jaeger, E.B., I. Anders, D. Lüthi, B. Rockel, C. Schär, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2008: Analysis of ERA40-driven CLM simulations for Europe. Meteor. Zeit., 17 (4), 349-367. (external page link)
*Roesch, A., E.B. Jaeger, D. Lüthi, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2008: The analysis of CCLM model biases in relation to intra-ensemble model variability. Meteor. Zeit., 17 (4), 369-382. (external page link).
*Teuling, A.J., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2008: Contrasting spectral changes limit albedo impact on land-atmosphere coupling during the 2003 European heat wave. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L03401, doi:10.1029/2007GL032778. (external page link)
+Hirschi, M., S.I. Seneviratne, S. Hagemann, and C. Schär, 2007: Analysis of seasonal terrestrial water storage variations in regional climate simulations over Europe. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmospheres, 112, D22109, doi:10.1029/2006JD008338. (external page link)
+Fischer E.M., S.I. Seneviratne, P.L. Vidale, D. Lüthi, and C. Schär, 2007: Soil moisture - atmosphere interactions during the 2003 European summer heatwave. J. Climate, 20, 5081-5099. (external page link)
Jacob, D., L. Barring, O.B. Christensen, J.H. Christensen, S. Hagemann, M. Hirschi, E. Kjellström, G. Lenderink, B. Rockel, C. Schär, S.I. Seneviratne, S. Somot, A. van Ulden, B. van den Hurk, 2007: An inter-comparison of regional climate models for Europe: Design of the experiments and model performance. Clim. Change, 81 (1), 31-52. (external page link)
+Fischer E.M., S.I. Seneviratne, D. Lüthi, and C. Schär, 2007: The contribution of land-atmosphere coupling to recent European summer heatwaves. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L06707, doi:10.1029/2006GL029068. (external page link)
2002-2006
Seneviratne, S.I., D. Lüthi, M. Litschi, and C. Schär, 2006: Land-atmosphere coupling and climate change in Europe. Nature, 443, 205-209. (external page link; external page suppl. information; external page editor's summary)
Seneviratne, S.I., R.D. Koster, Z. Guo, P.A. Dirmeyer, E. Kowalczyk, D. Lawrence, P. Liu, C.-H. Lu, D. Mocko, K.W. Oleson, and D. Verseghy, 2006: Soil moisture memory in AGCM simulations: Analysis of Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (GLACE) data. J. Hydrometeorology, 7, 1090-1112. (external page link)
+Hirschi, M., P. Viterbo, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2006: Basin-scale water-balance estimates of terrestrial water storage from ECMWF operational forecast analysis data. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L21401, doi:10.1029/2006GL027659. (external page link)
Teuling, A.J., S.I. Seneviratne, C. Williams, and P.A. Troch, 2006: Observed timescales of evapotranspiration response to soil moisture. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L023403, doi:10.1029/2006GL028178. (external page link)
+Hirschi, M., S.I. Seneviratne and C. Schär, 2006: Seasonal variations in terrestrial water storage for major mid-latitude river basins. J. Hydrometeorology, 7(1), 39-60. (external page link)
Syed, T.H., J.S. Famiglietti, J. Chen, M. Rodell, S.I. Seneviratne, P. Viterbo, and C.R. Wilson, 2005: Total basin discharge for the Amazon and Mississippi River basins from GRACE and a land-atmosphere water balance. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32 (L24404), doi:10.1029/2005GL024851. (external page link)
Andersen, O.B., S.I. Seneviratne, J. Hinderer, and P. Viterbo, 2005: GRACE-derived terrestrial water storage depletion associated with the 2003 European heat wave. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32 (L18405), doi:10.1029/2005GL023574. (external page link)
Rodell, M., J.S. Famiglietti, J. Chen, S.I. Seneviratne, P. Viterbo, S. Holl, and C.R. Wilson, 2004: Basin scale estimates of evapotranspiration using GRACE and other observations. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31 (L20504), doi:10.1029/2004GL020873. (external page link)
Seneviratne, S.I., P. Viterbo, D. Lüthi, and C. Schär, 2004: Inferring changes in terrestrial water storage using ERA-40 reanalysis data: The Mississippi River basin. J. Climate, 17 (11), 2039-2057. (external page link)
Vidale, P.L., D. Lüthi, C. Frei, S.I. Seneviratne, and C. Schär, 2003: Predictability and uncertainty in a regional climate model. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmospheres, 108 (D18), 4586, doi: 10.1029/2002JD002810 (external page link)
Seneviratne, S.I., J.S. Pal, E.A.B. Eltahir, and C. Schär, 2002: Summer dryness in a warmer climate: A process study with a regional climate model. Climate Dynamics, 20, 69-85 (external page link)
Other publications (selected)
Seneviratne, S.I., B. van den Hurk, D. Lawrence, G. Krinner, G. Hurtt, H. Kim, C. Derksen, T. Oki, A. Boone, M. Ek, V. Brovkin, P. Dirmeyer, H. Douville, P. Friedlingstein, S. Hagemann, R. Koster, N. de Noblet-Ducoudre, and A. Pitman, 2015: Land processes, forcings, and feedbacks in climate change simulations: The CMIP6 "LandMIPs". GEWEX Newsletter, 24 (4), pp. 6-10. (Download link (PDF, 4.8 MB))
Seneviratne, S.I., R. Orth, S. Jörg-Hess, S. Kruse, I. Seidl, M. Stähli, M. Zappa, J. Seibert, M. Staudinger, K. Stahl, and M. Weiler, 2013: Trockenheit in der Schweiz - Ergebnisse des NFP-61-Projekts DROUGHT-CH. Aqua & Gas, 9, 38-47. (Download link (PDF, 5.1 MB))
Zwiers, F.W., L.V. Alexander, G.C. Hegerl, T.R. Knutson, J. Kossin, P. Naveau, N. Nicholls, C. Schär, S.I. Seneviratne, and X. Zhang, 2013: Challenges in Estimating and Understanding Recent Changes in the Frequency and Intensity of Extreme Climate and Weather Events. In: Climate Science for Serving Society: Research, Modelling and Prediction Priorities, G. Asrar and J.W. Hurrell (eds.), pp. 339-389. (external page link)
Seneviratne, S.I., 2012: Comment gérer les changements des extrêmes climatiques? Le rapport IPCC SREX. (Wie ist mit den Veränderungen der Klima extreme umzugehen? Der IPCC SREX Bericht). ProClim-Flash, 54. (external page link)
Seneviratne, S.I., 2012: The IPCC SREX report – What did we learn about extreme events since the AR4? C2SM Newsletter, 9. (link)
Friedlingstein, P., A.V. Gallego-Sala, E.M. Blyth, F.E. Hewer, S.I. Seneviratne, A. Spessa, P. Suntharalingam, and M. Scholze, 2012: The Earth system feedbacks that matter for contemporary climate. In: Understanding the Earth System: Global Change Science for Application; S.E. Cornell, I.C. Prentice, J.I. House, and C.J. Downy (eds.), Cambridge University Press. (external page link)
Seneviratne, S.I., C. Jimenez, C. Kummerow, M. McCabe, W. Rossow, E.F. Wood, M. Hirschi, B. Mueller, and A.J. Teuling, 2011: GEWEX-iLEAPS LandFlux/LandFlux-EVAL Workshop. GEWEX Newsletter, 21 (2), pp. 18-19. (Download link (PDF, 1.9 MB))
Seneviratne, S.I., C. Jimenez, C. Kummerow, M. McCabe, W. Rossow, E.F. Wood, M. Hirschi, B. Mueller, and A.J. Teuling, 2011: GEWEX-iLEAPS LandFlux/LandFlux-EVAL Workshop. ILEAPS Newsletter, 11, pp. 48-50. (Download link (PDF, 4.2 MB))
Seneviratne, S.I., T. Corti, E.L. Davin, M. Hirschi, E.B. Jaeger, I. Lehner, B. Orlowsky, and A.J. Teuling, 2010: Climate change and soil moisture–climate interactions: Using new diagnostics to identify hot spots of land–atmosphere coupling. ILEAPS Newsletter, 9, 18-21. (Download link (PDF, 7.3 MB))
Seneviratne, S.I., 2003: Terrestrial water storage: A critical variable for mid-latitude climate and climate change. PhD Thesis, ETH Zurich, 155 pp. (Download link (PDF, 6.6 MB))