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Sonia Seneviratne

Prof. Sonia Seneviratne Institut für Atmosphäre und Klima (IAC) ETH Zürich ETH Zentrum, CHN N 11 Universitätstr. 16 CH-8092 Zürich Switzerland Phone: +41 (0) 44 632 80 76 Phone2: +41 (0) 44 633 27 55 Fax: +41 (0) 44 633 10 58 E-mail: sonia.seneviratne(at)env.ethz.ch URL Institution: www.iac.ethz.ch/people/sonia Phone: +41 (0) 44 632 80 76 Phone2: +41 (0) 44 633 27 55 Fax: +41 (0) 44 633 10 58 E-mail: sonia.seneviratne(at)env.ethz.ch URL Institution: www.iac.ethz.ch/people/sonia

with involvement of Sonia Seneviratne

Programs in which Sonia Seneviratne holds an official function:

C2SM

member

Additional functions:
Coordinating Lead Author: IPCC Special Report "Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX)", Chapter 3 - Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment

Scientific Steering Group, EU-FP6 project CECILIA (2006-2009)
Scientific Steering Committee, ILEAPS (2008-)
Associate Editor, J. Hydrometeorology (2009-)
Scientific Advisory Committee, ECMWF (2011-)

... on Global Environmental Change
...the list may contain publications from other authors with same last name and first name initial.

Key Publications of Sonia Seneviratne (up to five) :
Seneviratne, S.I., D. Lüthi, M. Litschi, and C. Schär, 2006: Land-atmosphere coupling and climate change in Europe. Nature, 443, 205-209.

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. Hydrometeor., 7, 1090-1112.

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

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.

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


Expertise of Sonia Seneviratne:

Expertise Category	Specific Expertise
Expert Type	Expert Type
	Scientific / Fundamental Research
Topic Atmosphere	Atmosphere
	Climate
	Global Warming
Topic Hydrosphere	Hydrosphere
	Precipitation / Runoff
Topic Biosphere	Biosphere
Topic Integrated Systems	Integrated Systems and Ecology
	Hydrogeochemical Cycle
Topic Ecosystems	Ecosystems
	Terrestrial Ecosystems
Scope	Process Studies
	Causes of Change
	Impact of Change
	Vulnerability to Change
Spatial Zones	Spatial Zones
	Mountain / Highland
	Lowland
	Urban
	Rural
Spatial Scale	Spatial Scale
	Global / Hemispheric
	Continental
	Regional
	National / Cultural
Time Frame	Time Frame
	Recent / Today
	Future
Statistical Focus	Statistical Focus
	Extreme Events
	Mean Change / Trends
	Variability
Methods	Method
	Data Collection - Measurement
	Data Analysis
	Modeling

Specialties of Sonia Seneviratne:
Winner of a Swiss Global Change Day Poster Award 2001 (WCRP)
Recipient of NCCR-Climate Postdoctoral Fellowship 2003-2004

Role of land-atmosphere interactions for climate variability, extreme events, and climate change

Our group investigates the role of land-atmosphere interactions for climate variability, extreme events, and climate change, based on numerical experiments and the analysis of model and observational data. We are mostly dedicated to fundamental research, but also address climate applications linked with these research questions.

Land-atmosphere interactions play a major role for extreme events such as drought, heat waves and heavy precipitation. We investigate the underlying feedbacks in climate models and observations. Some of our research is concerned with concrete applications, for instance related to the development of seasonal forecasting and early warning capabilities for droughts in Switzerland and Central Europe.


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