Sonia I. Seneviratne

Research interests

Publications

• Reducing the health effects of hot weather and heat extremes: from personal cooling strategies to green cities

  The Lancet · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(21)01209-5

• A framework for complex climate change risk assessment

  One Earth · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.03.005

• Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change

  Science · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba3996

• Soil moisture–atmosphere feedback dominates land carbon uptake variability

  Nature · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03325-5

• Soil moisture dominates dryness stress on ecosystem production globally

  Nature Communications · 2020 · 10.1038/s41467-020-18631-1

• An update of IPCC climate reference regions for subcontinental analysis of climate model data: definition and aggregated datasets

  Earth system science data · 2020 · 10.5194/essd-12-2959-2020

• The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C

  Science · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw6974

• Large influence of soil moisture on long-term terrestrial carbon uptake

  Nature · 2019 · 10.1038/s41586-018-0848-x

• Land–atmosphere feedbacks exacerbate concurrent soil drought and atmospheric aridity

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2019 · 10.1073/pnas.1904955116

• Land–atmospheric feedbacks during droughts and heatwaves: state of the science and current challenges

  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2018 · 10.1111/nyas.13912

• Future climate risk from compound events

  Nature Climate Change · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0156-3

• ESA CCI Soil Moisture for improved Earth system understanding: State-of-the art and future directions

  Remote Sensing of Environment · 2017 · 10.1016/j.rse.2017.07.001

• Dependence of drivers affects risks associated with compound events

  Science Advances · 2017 · 10.1126/sciadv.1700263

• Allowable CO2 emissions based on regional and impact-related climate targets

  Nature · 2016 · 10.1038/nature16542

• Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

  Global Change Biology · 2015 · 10.1111/gcb.12916

• Global assessment of trends in wetting and drying over land

  Nature Geoscience · 2014 · 10.1038/ngeo2247

• Flood risk and climate change: global and regional perspectives

  Hydrological Sciences Journal · 2013 · 10.1080/02626667.2013.857411

• Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

  Nature · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12350

• Changes in Climate Extremes and their Impacts on the Natural Physical Environment

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139177245.006

• Hot days induced by precipitation deficits at the global scale

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · 10.1073/pnas.1204330109

• Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

  Nature · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09396

• Observational evidence for soil-moisture impact on hot extremes in southeastern Europe

  Nature Geoscience · 2010 · 10.1038/ngeo1032

• Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves

  Nature Geoscience · 2010 · 10.1038/ngeo950

• Investigating soil moisture–climate interactions in a changing climate: A review

  Earth-Science Reviews · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.02.004

• Contribution of land‐atmosphere coupling to recent European summer heat waves

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2007 · 10.1029/2006gl029068

• Soil Moisture–Atmosphere Interactions during the 2003 European Summer Heat Wave

  Journal of Climate · 2007 · 10.1175/jcli4288.1

• Land–atmosphere coupling and climate change in Europe

  Nature · 2006 · 10.1038/nature05095

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