ETH - IACETH - Land-Climate Dynamics (Prof. Sonia Seneviratne)

Davin, E. L. and Seneviratne S. I. [2012]
Role of land surface processes and diffuse/direct radiation partitioning in simulating the European climate
Biogeosciences ; 9 ; 1695-1707
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Gudmundsson, L. and Bremnes, J. B. and Haugen, J. E. and Engen-Skaugen, T. [2012]
Technical Note: Downscaling RCM precipitation to the station scale using statistical transformations a comparison of methods
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. ; 16 (9) ; 3383-3390
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Gudmundsson, L. and Wagener, T. and Tallaksen, L. M. and Engeland, K. [2012]
Evaluation of nine large-scale hydrological models with respect to the seasonal runoff climatology in Europe
Water Resour. Res. ; 48 (11) ; W11504
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Guillod, B. P. and Davin, E. L. and Kündig, C. and Smiatek, G. and Seneviratne, S. I. [2012]
Impact of soil map specifications for European climate simulations
Climate Dynamics ; Springer
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Lorenz, R. and Davin, E. L. and Seneviratne, S. I. [2012]
Modeling land-climate coupling in Europe: Impact of land surface representation on climate variability and extremes
J. Geophys. Res. ; 117 (D20109) ; 16 PP.
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Mittelbach, H., and Lehner I., and S.I. Seneviratne [2012]
Comparison of four soil moisture sensor types under field conditions in Switzerland
Journal of Hydrology ; 430 ; 39-49
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Mittelbach, H. and Seneviratne, S.I. [2012]
A new perspective on the spatio-temporal variability of soil moisture: Temporal dynamics versus time invariant contributions
Hydr. Earth System Science ; 16 ; 2169-2179
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Mueller, B. and Seneviratne, S.I. [2012]
Hot days induced by precipitation deficits at the global scale
PNAS ; 109 (31) ; 12398-12403
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Orlowsky, B. and Seneviratne, S. I. [2012]
Elusive drought: uncertainty in observed trends and short- and long-term CMIP5 projections
HESS Discussion
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Orlowsky, B. and Seneviratne, S.I. [2012]
Global changes in extreme events: Regional and seasonal dimension
Climatic Change ; 110 ; 669-696
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Orth, R. and Seneviratne, S. I. [2012]
Analysis of soil moisture memory from observations in Europe
J. Geophys. Res. ; 117 (D15115)
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Quesada, B. and Vautard, R. and Yiou, P. and Hirschi, M. and Seneviratne, S.I. [2012]
Asymmetric European summer heat predictability from wet and dry Southern winter/springs
Nature Climate Change
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Seneviratne, S.I. [2012]
Historical drought trends revisited
Nature ; 491 (339) ; Macmillan Publishers Limited
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Seneviratne, S.I. and Koster, R.D. [2012]
A revised framework for analyzing soil moisture memory in climate data: Derivation and interpretation
J. Hydrometeorology ; 13 ; 404-412
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Seneviratne, S.I. and Lehner, I. and Gurtz, J. and Teuling, A.J. and Lang, H. and Moser, U. and Grebner, D. and Menzel, L. and Schroff, K. and Vitvar, T. and Zappa M. [2012]
Swiss pre-alpine Rietholzbach research catchment and lysimeter: Analysis of 32-year hydroclimatological time series and 2003 drought
Water Resources Research ; 48 (W06526)
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Van den Hurk, Bart, Francisco Doblas-Reyes, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Randal D. Koster, Sonia I. Seneviratne and Helio Camargo Jr. [2012]
Soil moisture effects on seasonal temperature and precipitation forecast scores in Europe
Climate Dynamics ; 1-2 ; 349-362
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Corti, T. and Wüest, M. and Bresch, D. and Seneviratne, S. [2011]
Drought-induced building damages from simulations at regional scale
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. ; 11 ; 3335-3342
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Davin, E. L., Stoeckli, R., Jaeger, E. B., Levis, S. and Seneviratne S. I. [2011]
COSMO-CLM2: a new version of the COSMO-CLM model coupled to the Community Land Model
Clim. Dyn. ; 37 (9) ; 1889-1907
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Hirschi, M. and Seneviratne, S. I. and Alexandrov, V. and Boberg, F. and Boroneant, C. and Christensen, O. B. and Formayer, H. and Orlowsky, B. and Stepanek P. [2011]
Observational evidence for soil-moisture impact on hot extremes in southeastern Europe
Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038/NGEO1032 ; 4 ; 17-21
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Jiménez, C., C. Prigent, B. Mueller, S. Seneviratne, M. McCabe, E. Wood, W. Rossow, G. Balsamo, A. Betts, P. Dirmeyer, J. Fisher, M. Jung, M. Kanamitsu, R. Reichle, M. Reichstein, M. Rodell, J. Sheffield, K. Tu, and K. Wang [2011]
Global inter-comparison of 12 land surface heat flux estimates
Journal of Geophysical Research
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Mittelbach, Heidi, Francesca Casini, Irene Lehner, Adriaan J. Teuling and Sonia I. Seneviratne [2011]
Soil moisture monitoring for climate research: Evaluation of a low‐cost sensor in the framework of the Swiss Soil Moisture Experiment (SwissSMEX) campaign
J. Geophys. Res. ; 116 (D05111)
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Mueller, B. and Hirschi, M. and Seneviratne, S.I. [2011]
New diagnostic estimates of variations in terrestrial water storage based on ERA-Interim data
Hydrological Processes ; 25 (7) ; 996-1008
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Mueller, B., Seneviratne, S.I., Jimenez, C., Corti, T., Hirschi, M., Balsamo, G., Ciais, P., Dirmeyer, P., Fisher, J.B., Guo, Z., Jung, M., Maignan, F., McCabe, M.F., Reichle, R., Reichstein, M., Rodell, M., Sheffield, J., Teuling, A.J., Wang, K., Wood, E.F. and Zhang, Y. [2011]
Evaluation of global observations-based evapotranspiration datasets and IPCC AR4 simulations
Geophys. Res. Lett. ; 38 (L06402)
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Oliveira, P.J.C., and Davin, E.L. and Levis, S. and Seneviratne, S.I. [2011]
Vegetation-mediated impacts of trends in global radiation on land hydrology: A global sensitivity study
Global Change Biology ; 17 ; 3453-3467
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Orlowsky, B. and Seneviratne, S.I. [2011]
Investigating spatial climate relations using CARTs: an application to persistent hot days in a multi-model ensemble
J. Geophys. Res. ; 116, D14106
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Rietkerk, M. and Brovkin, V. and van Bodegom, P.M. and Claussen, M. and Dekker, S.C. and Dijkstra, H.A. and Goryachkin, S.V. and Kabat, P. and van Nes, E.H. and Neutel, A.-M. and Nicholson, S.E. and Nobre, C. and Petoukhov, V. and Provenzale, A. and Scheffer, M. and Seneviratne, S.I. [2011]
Local ecosystem feedbacks and critical transitions in the climate system
Ecological Complexity ; 8(3) ; 223-228
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van der Molen, M.K. and Dolman, A.J. and Ciais, P. and Eglin, T. and Gobron, N. and Law, B.E. and Meir, P. and Peters, W. and Phillips, O.L. and Reichstein, M. and Chen, T. and Dekker, S.C. and Doubková, M. and Friedl, M.A. and Jung, M. and van den Hurk, B.J.J.M. and de Jeu, R.A.M. and Kruijt, B. and Ohta, T. and Rebel, K.T. and Plummer, S. and Seneviratne, S.I. and Sitch, S. and Teuling, A.J. and van der Werf, G. and Wang, G. [2011]
Drought and ecosystem carbon cycling
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ; 151(7) ; 765-773
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Davin, E. L. and N. de Noblet-Ducoudré [2010]
Climatic impact of global-scale deforestation: radiative versus non-radiative processes
J. Climate ; 23 ; 97-112
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Hendricks Franssen, H.J. and Stöckli, R. and Lehner, I. and Rotenberg, E. and Seneviratne S.I. [2010]
Energy balance closure of eddy-covariance data: A multisite analysis for European FLUXNET stations
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ; 150 (12) ; 1553-1567
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Hirschi, M. and Seneviratne, S. I. [2010]
Intra-annual link of spring and autumn precipitation over France
Climate Dynamics ; 35 ; 1207-1218
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Jaeger, E.B., and Seneviratne, S. I [2010]
Impact of soil moisture-atmosphere coupling on European climate extremes and trends in a regional climate model
Clim. Dynam., doi: 10.1007/s00382-010-0780-8
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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, and K. Zhang [2010]
A recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply
Nature ; 467 ; 951-954
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Koster, R.D. and Mahanama, S. and Yamada, T.J. and Balsamo, G. and Boisserie, M. and Dirmeyer, P. and Doblas-Reyes, F. and Gordon, C.T. and Guo, Z. and Jeong J.H. and Lawrence D. and Li, Z. and Luo, L. and Malyshev, S. and Merryfield, W. and Seneviratne, S.I. and Stanelle, T. and van den Hurk, B. and Vitart, F. and Wood, E.F. [2010]
The contribution of land initialization to subseasonal forecast skill: First results from the GLACE-2 Project
Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2009GL041677 ; 37 (L02402)
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Koster, R.D. and Mahanama, S.P.P. and Yamada, T.J. and Balsamo, G. and Boisserie, M. and Dirmeyer, P. and Doblas‐Reyes, F. and Gordon, C.T. and Guo, Z. and Jeong, J.H. and Lawrence, D. and Li, Z. and Luo, L. and Malyshev, S. and Merryfield, W. and Seneviratne, S.I. and Stanelle, T. and van den Hurk, B. and Vitart, F. and Wood, E.F. [2010]
The second phase of the Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment: Soil moisture contributions to subseasonal forecast skill
Hydrometeorology
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Lehner, I. and Teuling, A.J. and Gurtz, J. and Seneviratne, S.I. [2010]
Long-term water balance in the pre-alpine Rietholzbach catchment: First comparison of evapotranspiration estimates
IAHS Red Book series ; 336 ; 54-58 ; 978-1-907161-08-7 ; IAHS
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Lorenz, R., Jaeger, E.B. and Seneviratne, S.I. [2010]
Persistence of heat waves and its link to soil moisture memory
Geophys. Res. Lett. ; 37 (L09703)
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Mahecha, M.D. and Reichstein, M. and Carvalhais, N. and Lasslop, G. and Lange, H. and Seneviratne, S.I. and Vargas, R. and Ammann, C. and Arain, M.A. and Cescatti, A. and Janssens, I.A. and Migliavacca, M. and Montagnani, L. and Richardson, A.D. [2010]
Global convergence in the temperature sensitivity of respiration at ecosystem level
Science ; 331 (6022) ; 838-840
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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) ; 21 pp
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Orlowsky, B. and Seneviratne, S.I. [2010]
Statistical analyses of land-atmosphere feedbacks and their possible pitfalls.
J. Climate ; 23 (14) ; 3918-3932
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Orlowsky B., Bothe O., Fraedrich K., Gerstengarbe F.-W. and Zhu X. [2010]
Future climates from bias-bootstrapped weather analogues: an application to the Yangtze river basin
J. Climate ; 23 (13) ; 3509-3524
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Seneviratne, S.I. and Corti, T. and Davin, E.L. and Hirschi, M. and Jaeger, E.B. and Lehner, I. and Orlowsky, B. and Teuling, A.J. [2010]
Investigating soil moisture-climate interactions in a changing climate: A review.
Earth-Science Reviews ; 99 (3-4) ; 125-161
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Teuling, A.J. and Lehner, I. and Kirchner, J.W. and Seneviratne, S.I. [2010]
Catchments as simple dynamical systems: Experience from a Swiss prealpine catchment
Water Resources Research ; 46 ; W10502
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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
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Teuling, A.J., Stoeckli, R. and Seneviratne, S.I. [2010]
Bivariate color maps for visualizing climate data
Int. J. Climatology, DOI: 10.1002/joc.2153
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Balsamo, G. and Viterbo, P. and Beljaars, A. and van den Hurk, B. and Hirschi, M. and Betts, A. K. and Scipal K. [2009]
A revised hydrology for the ECMWF model: Verification from field site to terrestrial water storage and impact in the Integrated Forecast System
Journal of Hydrometeorology ; 10 (3) ; 623-643
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Corti, T. and Muccione, V. and Köllner-Heck, P. and Bresch, D. and Seneviratne, S. I. [2009]
Simulating past droughts and associated building damages in France
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. ; 13 ; 1739-1747
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Corti, T. and Peter, T. [2009]
A simple model for cloud radiative forcing
Atmos. Chem. Phys. ; 9 ; 5751-5758
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Jaeger, E.B., and Stöckli, R. and Seneviratne, S.I. [2009]
Analysis of planetary boundary layer fluxes and land-atmosphere coupling in the Regional Climate Model CLM
J. Geophys. Res. - Atmospheres ; 114 (D17106)
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Piao, S. and Yin, L. and Wang, X. and Ciais, P. and Peng, S. and Shen, Z. and Seneviratne, S.I. [2009]
Summer soil moisture regulated by precipitation frequency in China
Environ. Res. Lett. ; 4 (044012)
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Pitman, A.J. and de Noblet-Ducoudré, N. and Cruz, F.T. and Davin, E.L. and Bonan, G.B. and Brovkin, V. and Claussen, M. and Delire, C. and Gayler, V. and van den Hurk, B.J.J.M. and Lawrence, P.J. and van der Molen, M.K. and Müller, C. and Reick, C.H. and Seneviratne, S.I. and Strengers, B.J. and Voldoire, A. [2009]
Uncertainties in climate responses to past land cover change: first results from the LUCID intercomparison study
Geophys. Res. Lett. ; 36 (L14814)
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Teuling, A.J. and Hirschi, M. and Ohmura, A. and Wild, M. and Reichstein, M. and Ciais, P. and Buchmann, N. and Ammann, C. and Montagnani, L. and Richardson, A.D. and Wohlfahrt, G. and Seneviratne, S.I. [2009]
A regional perspective on trends in continental evaporation
Geophys. Res. Lett. ; 36 (L02404)
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Teuling, A.J., and Uijlenhoet, R., and van den Hurk, B., and Seneviratne, S.I. [2009]
Parameter sensitivity in LSMs: An analysis using stochastic soil moisture models and ELDAS soil parameters.
J. Hydrometeorology ; 10 (3) ; 751-763
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Viviroli, D., Mittelbach H., Gurtz J. and R. Weingartner [2009]
Continuous simulation for flood estimation in ungauged mesoscale catchments of Switzerland Part II: Parameter regionalisation and flood estimation results
Journal of Hydrology ; 377 (1-2) ; 208-225
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Jaeger, E.B. and Anders, I. and Lüthi, D. and Rockel, B. and Schär, C. and Seneviratne, S.I. [2008]
Analysis of ERA40-driven CLM simulations for Europe
Meteorologische Zeitschrift ; 17 (4) ; 349-367
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Lyon, S. W. and Dominguez, F. and Gochis, D. J. and Brunsell, N. A. and Castro, C. L. and Chow,F.K. and Fan, Y. and Fuka, D. and Hong, Y. and Kucera, P. A. and Nesbitt, S. W. and Salzmann, N. and Schmidli, J. and Snyder, P. K. and Teuling, A. J. and Twine, T. E. and Levis, S. and Lundquist, J. D. and Salvucci, G. D. and Sealy, A. M. and Walter, M. T. [2008]
Coupling terrestrial and atmospheric water dynamics to improve prediction in a changing environment
Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. ; 89 (9) ; 1275-1279
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Roesch, A. and Jaeger, E.B. and Lüthi, D. and Seneviratne, S.I. [2008]
Analysis of CCLM model biases in relation to intra-ensemble model variability
Meteorologische Zeitschrift ; 17 (4) ; 369-382
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Seneviratne, S.I. and Stöckli, R. [2008]
The role of land-atmosphere interactions for climate variability in Europe
Advances in Global Change Research ; 33 ; 390pp ; Springer Verlag
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Teuling, A.J. and Seneviratne, S. I. [2008]
Contrasting spectral changes limit albedo impact on land-atmosphere coupling during the 2003 European heat wave
Geophys. Res. Lett. ; 35 ; L03401
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Fischer, E.M. and Seneviratne, S.I. and Lüthi, D. and Schär, C. [2007]
Contribution of land-atmosphere coupling to recent European summer heat waves
Geophys. Res. Lett. ; L06707 (34) ; Art. No L06707
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Fischer, E. M. and Seneviratne, S. I. and Vidale, P. L. and Lüthi, D. and Schär, C. [2007]
Soil moisture-atmosphere interactions during the 2003 European summer heat wave
J. Climate ; 20 (20) ; 5081--5099
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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. ; 112 (D22109) ; Art. No D22109
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Jacob, D., L. Bärring, O.B. Christensen, J.H. Christensen, M. de Castro, M. Déqué, F. Giorgi, S. Hagemann, M. Hirschi, R. Jones, E. Kjellström, G. Lenderink, B. Rockel, E. Sanchez, C. Schär, S.I. Seneviratne, S. Somot, A. van Ulden, B. Van den Hurk [2007]
An inter-comparison of regional climate models for Europe: model performance in present-day climate
Climatic Change ; 81 ((1)) ; 31-52
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Troch, P.A., Durcik, M., Seneviratne, S. I., Hirschi, M., Teuling, A.J., Hurkmans R., and Hasan, S. [2007]
New datasets to estimate terrestrial water storage change
EOS T. Am Geophys. Un. ; 88 (45) ; 469-470
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Hirschi, M. and Seneviratne, S. I. and Schär, C. [2006]
Seasonal variations in terrestrial water storage for major midlatitude river basins
Journal of Hydrometeorology ; 7 (1) ; 39-60
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Hirschi, M., Viterbo, P. and Seneviratne, S.I. [2006]
Basin-scale water-balance estimates of terrestrial water storage variations from ECMWF operational forecast analysis
Geophys. Res. Lett. ; 33 (L21401)
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Seneviratne, S.I., D. Luethi, M. Litschi, and C. Schär [2006]
Land-atmosphere coupling and climate change in Europe
Nature ; 443 ; 205-209
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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
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Teuling, A.J. and Seneviratne, S.I. and Williams, C. and Troch, P.A. [2006]
Observed timescales of evapotranspiration response to soil moisture
Geophys. Res. Lett. ; 33 (23) ; L023403
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Andersen, O.B., S.I. Seneviratne, J. Hinderer, P. Viterbo [2005]
GRACE-derived terrestrial water storage depletion associated with the 2003 European heat wave
Geophysical Research Letters ; 32 (L18405)
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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)
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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 abservations
Geophys. Res. Lett. ; 31 (L20504)
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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
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Vidale, P.L., D. Lüthi, C Frei, S.I. Seneviratne, C. Schär [2003]
Predictability and uncertainty in a regional climate model
J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 108 (D18), 4586, doi: 10.1029/2002JD002810
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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 Dyn., 20, 69-85
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