Dr. Vincent Humphrey

Research area

Projects and research interests

• CONSTRAIN - Constraining uncertainty of multi-decadal climate projections

• Climate change, Earth system models, Satellite observations, model evaluation and model weighting, water and carbon cycles, plant hydraulics, sea level change, terrestrial water storage

• Machine learning, time series analysis, assimilation of observations

Publications

Humphrey, V., & Frankenberg, C. (2022). Continuous ground monitoring of vegetation optical depth and water content with GPS signals. Biogeosciences Discussions, 1-44. (preprint)

Konings, A. G., Saatchi, S. S., Frankenberg, C., Keller, M., Leshyk, V., Anderegg, W. R., Humphrey, V., ... & Zuidema, P. A. (2021). Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content. Global change biology, 27(23), 6005-6024 (link)

Humphrey, V., Berg, A., Ciais, P., Gentine, P., Jung, M., Reichstein, M., ... & Frankenberg, C. (2021). Soil moisture–atmosphere feedback dominates land carbon uptake variability. Nature, 592(7852), 65-69. (link)

Jensen, L., Eicker, A., Dobslaw, H., Stacke, T., & Humphrey, V. (2019). Long‐term wetting and drying trends in land water storage derived from GRACE and CMIP5 models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(17-18), 9808-9823. (link)

Humphrey, V., & Gudmundsson, L. (2019). GRACE-REC: a reconstruction of climate-driven water storage changes over the last century. Earth System Science Data, 11(3), 1153-1170. (link; dataset)

Gentine, P., Green, J. K., Guérin, M., Humphrey, V., Seneviratne, S. I., Zhang, Y., & Zhou, S. (2019). Coupling between the terrestrial carbon and water cycles—a review. Environmental Research Letters, 14(8), 083003. (link)

Ghiggi, G., Humphrey, V., Seneviratne, S. I., & Gudmundsson, L. (2019). GRUN: an observation-based global gridded runoff dataset from 1902 to 2014. Earth System Science Data, 11(4), 1655-1674. (link)

Humphrey V, Zscheischler J, Ciais P, Gudmundsson L, Sitch S, Seneviratne SI (2018). Sensitivity of atmospheric CO₂ growth rate to observed changes in terrestrial water storage. Nature (link; ETH news)

WCRP Global Sea Level Budget Group (2018). Global Sea Level Budget 1993–Present, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss (in press). doi:10.5194/essd-2018-53 (link)

Humphrey V, Gudmundsson L, Seneviratne SI (2017). A global reconstruction of climate-driven subdecadal water storage variability, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 2300–2309. doi:10.1002/2017GL072564 (link; dataset)

Humphrey V, Gudmundsson L, Seneviratne SI (2016). Assessing Global Water Storage Variability from GRACE: Trends, Seasonal Cycle, Subseasonal Anomalies and Extremes. Surveys in Geophysics 37(2). doi:10.1007/s10712-016-9367-1 (link)