Publications

(group member; *: led by group member; +: led by co-advised PhD student)

Peer-reviewed

Submitted

^*Mueller, B., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2012: Hot days induced by precipitation deficits at the global scale. Submitted to PNAS (in review).

^*Mittelbach, H., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2012: A new perspective on the spatio-temporal variability of soil moisture: Temporal dynamics versus time invariant contributions. Submitted to Hydr. Earth Syst. Sci.

^*Lorenz, R., E.L. Davin, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2012: Land-climate coupling in Europe: An analysis with a coupled biosphere-atmosphere Regional Climate Model. Submitted to J. Geophys. Res. - Atmospheres

^*Oliveira, P.J.C., E.L. Davin, B. Orlowsky, K. Stahl, L. Tallaksen, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2012: Simulated and observed inter-annual variability and trends in European runoff. Submitted to J. Hydrology.

^*Orth, R., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2012: Analysis of soil moisture memory from observations in Europe. Submitted to J. Geophys. Res. - Atmospheres.

Accepted or in press

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: The Swiss pre-alpine Rietholzbach research catchment and lysimeter: Analysis of 32-­year hydroclimatological time series and 2003 drought. Water Resources Research, in press. (pdf)

^*Guillod, B., E.L. Davin, C. Kündig, G. Smiatek, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2012: Impact of soil map specifications for European climate simulations. Climate Dynamics, in press.

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, in press.

2012

^*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. (pdf)

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 (IPCC SREX Report). [Full IPCC SREX Report, Chapter 3; SREX web site]

IPCC, 2012: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation - Summary for Policymakers [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, 24pp. (in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish)

^*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. (pdf)

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. (pdf)

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 (pdf).

^*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. (pdf)

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. (pdf; link; 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. (pdf)

^*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. (pdf)

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. (pdf)

^*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 (pdf)

^*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. (pdf)

^*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. (pdf)

^*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 (pdf)

^*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. (pdf)

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. (pdf)

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. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 151(7), 765-773, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.01.018. (pdf)

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 (pdf).

⁺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 (pdf).

^*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 (pdf)

^*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 (pdf).

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. (pdf)

^*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. (pdf; 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. (pdf; link)

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

⁺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. (pdf; 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. (pdf)

^*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. For. Meteor., 150(12), 1553-1567. (pdf)

^*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. (pdf)

^*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. (pdf)

⁺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. (pdf)

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. (pdf)

2009

^*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. (pdf)

^*Corti, T., V. Muccione, P. Köllner-Heck, D. Bresch, and S.I. Seneviratne, 2009: Simulating past droughts and associated building damages in France. HESS, 13, 1739-1747. (pdf)

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. (pdf)

^*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. (pdf)

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. (pdf)

^*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. (pdf)

2007-2008

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) (pdf)

^*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. (pdf)

^*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. (pdf).

^*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. (pdf)

Troch, P.A., M. Durcik, S.I. Seneviratne, M. Hirschi, A.J. Teuling, R. Hurkmans, and S. Hasan, 2007: New datasets to estimate terrestrial water storage change. EOS T. Am. Geophys. Un., 88(45), 469-470.

⁺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. (pdf)

⁺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. (pdf)

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. (pdf)

⁺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. (pdf)

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. (pdf; suppl. information; link; 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. (pdf)

⁺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. (pdf)

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. (pdf)

⁺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. (pdf)

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. (pdf)

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. (pdf)

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. (pdf)

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. (pdf)

Seneviratne, S.I., 2003: Terrestrial water storage: A critical variable for mid-latitude climate and climate change. PhD Thesis, ETH Zurich, 155 pp.

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 (pdf)

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 (pdf)

Other publications

Seneviratne, S.I., 2012: The IPCC SREX report – What did we learn about extreme events since the AR4? C2SM Newsletter, 9. (pdf)

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 Mini-Workshop. GEWEX Newsletter, 21 (2). (pdf)

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 Mini-Workshop. ILEAPS Newsletter, 11, 48-50. (pdf)

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. (pdf)