Mueller, Brigitte

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Research interests

• Land-climate interactions
• Large-scale terrestrial water storage (BSWB)
• Land surface processes
• Influence of soil water deficits on heat waves
• Evaluation of global land evapotranspiration datasets (LandFlux-EVAL, see also box on the right)
• Merging of evapotranspiration datasets
• CMIP3 and CMIP5 evaluation (evaporation, precipitation)

Publications

Mueller, B., Hirschi, M., Jimenez, C., Ciais, P., Dirmeyer, P. A., Dolman, A. J., Fisher, J. B., Jung, M., Ludwig, F., Maignan, F., Miralles, D., McCabe, M. F., Reichstein, M., Sheffield, J., Wang, K. C., Wood, E. F., Zhang, Y., and Seneviratne, S. I.: Benchmark products for land evapotranspiration: LandFlux-EVAL multi-dataset synthesis, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., 10, 769-805, doi:10.5194/hessd-10-769-2013, 2013. Link

Schwalm, C.R., D.N. Huntzinger, A.M. Michalak, J.B. Fisher, J.S. Kimball, B. Mueller, K. Zhang, Y. Zhang, in review. Sensitivity of inferred climate model skill to choice of benchmarking datasets and evaluation decisions. Geophysical Research Letters, accepted.

Martius, O., H. Sodemann, H. Joos, S. Pfahl, A. Winschall, M. Croci-Maspoli, M. Graf, E. Madonna, B. Mueller, S. Schemm, J. Sedlacek, M. Sprenger, and H. Wernli: The role of upper-level dynamics and surface processes for the Pakistan flood in July 2010. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, accepted.

Mueller, B. and S.I. Seneviratne (2012): Hot days induced by precipitation deficits at the global scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109 (31), 12398-12403, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1204330109. pdf for download (5.5MB) Link
Link to Nature Geoscience Research Highlight

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. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L06402, doi:10.1029/2010GL046230. Link

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, doi:10.1038/nature09396. Link

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, doi:10.1029/2010JD014545. Link

Mueller, B., M. Hirschi, and S.I. Seneviratne (2010): New diagnostic estimates of variations in terrestrial water storage based on ERA-Interim data. Hydrological Processes, doi: 10.1002/hyp.7652. Link

Broennimann, S., M. Schraner, B. Mueller, A. Fischer, D. Brunner, E. Rozanov, and T. Egorova (2006): The 1986-1989 ENCO cycle in a chemical climate model. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 6, 4669-4685, doi:10.5194/acp-6-4669-2006. Link

Selected not peer-reviewed publications

Evans, J.P., M.F. McCabe, B. Mueller, X. Meng, and A. Ershadi (2011): A comparison of satellite evapotranspiration estimation efforts. WIRADA Science Symposium Proceedings, Melbourne, Australia, August 2011. download

Seneviratne, S.I., C. Jimenez, C. Kummerow, M.F. McCabe, W.B. Rossow, E.F. Wood, M. Hirschi, B. Mueller, and A.J. Teuling (2011): LandFlux-EVAL Workshop. GEWEX Newsletter, 21 (2), May 2011. download

Seneviratne, S. I., C. Jimenez, C. Kummerow, M. McCabe, W. B. Rossow, E. F. Wood, M. Hirschi, B. Mueller and A. J. Teuling (2011): GEWEX-iLEAPS LandFlux/LandFlux-EVAL Workshop. iLEAPS Newsletter, 11, pages 48–50, September 2011. download

Selected presentations at conferences

For an extended list of presentations, see list

Presentation: Land evapotranspiration in reanalyses
abstract and presentation
4th WCRP International Conference on Reanalyses
7–11 May 2012, Silver Spring, Maryland

Presentation: Analyses of global evapotranspiration datasets
abstract
and
Poster: Soil moisture anomalies during the Russian heat wave of 2010
abstract
EGU General Assembly
6 April 2011, Vienna, Austria

Presentation: Analysis of multi-year global evapotranspiration datasets and IPCC AR4 model simulations
abstract and presentation
25th Conference on Hydrology - American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting AMS
23–27 January 2011, Seattle, Washington

Poster: Evaluation of global observations-based evapotranspiration datasets and IPCC AR4 simulations
ESA Earth observation and water cycle science conference
November 2010, ESA Frascati, Italy

Presentation: Analysis of multi-year global evapotranspiration datasets and IPCC AR4 model simulations: First results from the LandFlux-EVAL project
abstract
2nd Hydrology Delivers Earth System Science to Society, Joint meeting for GSWP/GLASS Asia Flux/FLUXNET LandFlux-EVAL CEOP
June 2010, Tokyo, Japan

Poster: First results from the LandFlux-EVAL intercomparison project:
Analysis of multi-year evapotranspiration datasets download
and
Terrestrial water storage estimates from water balance diagnostics and satellite retrievals download
EGU
May 2010, Vienna, Austria

Poster: Terrestrial water storage changes from basin scale water balance diagnostics and satellite retrievals download
ADAGUG workshop
December 2008, Amsterdam, Holland

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