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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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

Seneviratne, S. I., and M. Hauser, 2020: Regional climate sensitivity of climate extremes in CMIP6 and CMIP5 multi-model ensembles. Earth’s Future. (external pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made; 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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made; 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 pagelinkcall_made; 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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made; external pageEOS newscall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)  

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made; 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 pagelinkcall_made; 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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

*Moon, H., L. Gudmundsson, S.I. Seneviratne, 2018: Drought Persistence Errors in Global Climate Models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres., 123. (external pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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(linkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

2017

*Zscheischler, J., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2017: Dependence of drivers affects risks associated with compound events. Science Advances, 3(6). (external pagelinkcall_made; ETH News)

Seneviratne, S.I.,  P. Ciais, 2017: Trends in ecosystem recovery from drought. Nature, 548, 164-165. (external pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*Gudmundsson, L., P. Greve, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2017: Correspondence: Flawed assumptions compromise water yield assessment. Nature Communications, 8, 14795. (external pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made; external pagedatasetcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)  

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*Hirschi, M. and S.I. Seneviratne, 2017: Basin-scale water-balance dataset (BSWB): an update. Earth System Science Data, 9(1), 251-258. (external pagelinkcall_made; external pagedatasetcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made; ETH News; external pageNZZcall_made; external pageTagesanzeigercall_made; external pageBlickcall_made; external pageDaily Mailcall_made; external pageJapan Timescall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made; 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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made; 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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*Gudmundsson, L., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2016: Anthropogenic climate change affects meteorological drought risk in Europe. Environmental Research Letters, 11(4), 044005. (external pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made).

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 pagelinkcall_made).

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made; 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 pagelinkcall_made; external pagehighlighted in HESScall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*Orth, R, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2015: Introduction of a simple-model-based land surface dataset for Europe. Env. Res. Lett., 10, 044012. (external pagelinkcall_made)
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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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made).

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made; external pageReuterscall_made; external pageThe Economistcall_made; external pageSRF2 Wissenschaftsmagazincall_made; external pageCBCcall_made; external pageClimate Centralcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made; ETH News; external pagePhys.orgcall_made; external page20 Minutencall_made; external pageLe Tempscall_made; external pageWashington Post (online)call_made; external pageNature Geoscience News and Viewscall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made; ETH News; external pageSpiegelcall_made; external pageNature Newscall_made).

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made).

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made).

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made).

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made).

^*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 pagelinkcall_made).

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made).

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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)
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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 pageFull IPCC SREX Reportcall_made, external pageChapter 3call_made]
-> 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 pageIPCC SREX Videocall_made; Media articles: external pageSciDevNetcall_made, external pageNZZcall_made, external pageDie Zeitcall_made, external pageEnvironmental Health Perspectivescall_made

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 pageEnglishcall_made, external pageArabiccall_made, external pageChinesecall_made, external pageFrenchcall_made, external pageRussiancall_made, and external pageSpanishcall_made)

^*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 pagepdfcall_made; ETH Life article; external pageTagesAnzeigercall_made; external pageLos Angeles Timescall_made; external pageResearch Highlight in Nature Geosciencecall_made)

Seneviratne, S.I., 2012: Historical drought trends revisited. Nature, 491, 338-339. (external pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made).

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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made).

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made; external pageNews and Viewscall_made; 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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made).

⁺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 pagelinkcall_made).

^*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 pagelinkcall_made).
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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 pagelinkcall_made).

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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made; 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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*Orlowsky, B., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2010: Statistical analyses of land-atmosphere feedbacks and their possible pitfalls. J. Climate, 23(14), 3918-3932. (external pagelinkcall_made)

⁺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 pagelinkcall_made; 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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

⁺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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

^*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 pagelinkcall_made).

^*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 pagelinkcall_made)

⁺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 pagelinkcall_made)

⁺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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

⁺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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made; external pagesuppl. informationcall_made; external pageeditor's summarycall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

⁺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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

⁺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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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. (Downloadlink (PDF, 4.8 MB)vertical_align_bottom)

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. (Downloadlink (PDF, 5.1 MB)vertical_align_bottom)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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 pagelinkcall_made)

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. (Downloadlink (PDF, 1.9 MB)vertical_align_bottom)

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. (Downloadlink (PDF, 4.2 MB)vertical_align_bottom)

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. (Downloadlink (PDF, 7.3 MB)vertical_align_bottom)

Seneviratne, S.I., 2003: Terrestrial water storage: A critical variable for mid-latitude climate and climate change. PhD Thesis, ETH Zurich, 155 pp. (Downloadlink (PDF, 6.6 MB)vertical_align_bottom)