Sonia Seneviratne
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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)ethz.ch URL Institution: https://iac.ethz.ch Personal URL: link |
Additional functions:
ProClim Steering Committee
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group I Vice-Chair (2023-; AR7)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): Coordinating Lead Author, (2018-2021)
IPCC 6th Assessment Report, Working Group I, Chapter 11 - "Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate"
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): Lead Author (2017-2018)
IPCC Special Report on "1.5°C Global Warming"
World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Extremes Grand Challenge: Co-Chair (2015-2021)
World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) GEWEX Core Project: Co-Chair (2014-2018)
Scientific Advisory Committee, ECMWF (2011-2015)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): Coordinating Lead Author (2009-2011)
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"
Key Publications of Sonia Seneviratne (up to ten) :
Seneviratne, S.I., X. Zhang, M. Adnan, W. Badi, C. Dereczynski, A. Di Luca, S. Ghosh, I. Iskandar, J. Kossin, S. Lewis, F. Otto, I. Pinto, M. Satoh, S.M. Vicente-Serrano, M. Wehner, and B. Zhou, 2021: Chapter 11: Weather and Climate Extreme Events in a Changing Climate. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S. L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M. I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J.B.R. Matthews, T. K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 1513–1766, doi:10.1017/9781009157896.013. (https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Chapter11.pdf)
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.
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.
Zscheischler, J., and S.I. Seneviratne, 2017: Dependence of drivers affects risks associated with compound events. Science Advances, 3(6).
Seneviratne, S.I., M.G. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Seneviratne, S.I., D. Lüthi, M. Litschi, and C. Schär, 2006: Land-atmosphere coupling and climate change in Europe. Nature, 443, 205-209.
Expertise of Sonia Seneviratne:
| Expertise Category | Specific Expertise |
|---|---|
| Expert Type | Expert Type |
| Scientific / Fundamental Research | |
| Scope | Process Studies |
| Causes of Change | |
| Impact of Change | |
| Vulnerability to Change | |
| Adaptation Measures to Change | |
| Mitigation of Change | |
| Topic Atmosphere | Atmosphere |
| Meteorology | |
| Climate | |
| Global Warming | |
| Topic Hydrosphere | Hydrosphere |
| Fresh Water Systems / Rivers / Lakes | |
| Precipitation / Runoff | |
| Topic Biosphere | Biosphere |
| Plants | |
| Biodiversity | |
| Topic Integrated Systems | Integrated Systems and Ecology |
| Carbon Cycle | |
| Hydrogeochemical Cycle | |
| Topic Ecosystems | Ecosystems |
| Terrestrial Ecosystems | |
| Topic Economy/ResourceUse | Economy / Resource Use |
| Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery | |
| Land Cover / Land Use / Landscape | |
| Topic Health | Health |
| Topic Sustainability | Sustainability |
| Topic Risk & Disaster Management | Topic Risk and Disaster Management |
| 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 | |
| Time Scale | Time Scale |
| Seasonal / Annual | |
| Decadal / Centennial | |
| Methods | Method |
| Data Collection | |
| Data Collection - Measurement | |
| Data Analysis | |
| Literature Study | |
| Modeling | |
| Energy Working Group | Ecological Dimension |
Specialties of Sonia Seneviratne:
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Last update: 12/5/23
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