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Sonia I. Seneviratne

Sonia I. Seneviratne

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Environmental Sciences
Switzerland
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Best Female Scientists

D-Index
131
Citations
71110
World Ranking
336
National Ranking
1

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
141
Citations
83163
World Ranking
44
National Ranking
2

Sonia I. Seneviratne publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sonia I. Seneviratne sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 600 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Sonia I. Seneviratne D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sonia I. Seneviratne sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 141 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Sonia I. Seneviratne is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and is active in the field of Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Global and Planetary Change.

Their research spans multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Water Science and Technology, and Environmental Engineering.

Main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Sonia I. Seneviratne underline their engagement with climate and environmental challenges globally:

  • Soil moisture dominates dryness stress on ecosystem production globally, 2020, Nature Communications
  • An update of IPCC climate reference regions for subcontinental analysis of climate model data: definition and aggregated datasets, 2020, Earth system science data
  • Reducing the health effects of hot weather and heat extremes: from personal cooling strategies to green cities, 2021, The Lancet
  • A framework for complex climate change risk assessment, 2021, One Earth
  • Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change, 2021, Science

Frequent coauthors they collaborate with include:

  • Lukas Gudmundsson
  • Mathias Hauser
  • Wim Thiery
  • Dominik L. Schumacher
  • Édouard L. Davin

Their publications frequently appear in key venues such as:

  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Earth's Future
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Earth system science data

In 2013, Sonia I. Seneviratne was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Best Publications

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

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Thierry Corti;Edouard Léopold Davin;Martin Hirschi

  • Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment.

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Neville Nicholls;David Easterling;Clare M. Goodess

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

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • Future climate risk from compound events

    Jakob Zscheischler;Seth Westra;Bart J. J. M. van den Hurk;Bart J. J. M. van den Hurk;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

    Markus Reichstein;Michael Bahn;Philippe Ciais;Dorothea Frank

  • Land–atmosphere coupling and climate change in Europe

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Daniel Lüthi;Michael Litschi;Christoph Schär

  • Flood risk and climate change: global and regional perspectives

    Zbigniew W Kundzewicz;Shinjiro Kanae;Sonia I Seneviratne;John W Handmer

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

    Wouter Dorigo;Wolfgang Wagner;Clement Albergel;Franziska Albrecht

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

    E. M. Fischer;S. I. Seneviratne;P. L. Vidale;D. Lüthi

  • Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment: An overview of the IPCC SREX report

    S. I. Seneviratne;N. Nicholls;D. Easterling;C. M. Goodess

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

    Dorothe A. Frank;Markus Reichstein;Michael Bahn;Kirsten Thonicke

  • Impacts of 1.5°C Global Warming on Natural and Human Systems

    O. Hoegh-Guldberg;D. Jacob;M. Bindi;S. Brown

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

    Diego G. Miralles;Pierre Gentine;Sonia I. Seneviratne;Adriaan J. Teuling

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

    O. Hoegh-Guldberg;D. Jacob;M. Taylor;T. Guillén Bolaños

  • Global assessment of trends in wetting and drying over land

    Peter Greve;Boris Orlowsky;Brigitte Mueller;Brigitte Mueller;Justin Sheffield

  • Soil moisture dominates dryness stress on ecosystem production globally.

    Laibao Liu;Lukas Gudmundsson;Mathias Hauser;Dahe Qin

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

    Martin Hirschi;Sonia I. Seneviratne;Vesselin Alexandrov;Fredrik Boberg

  • Technical Summary: Global warming of 1.5°C. An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty

    M. Allen;P. Antwi-Agyei;F. Aragon-Durand;M. Babiker

  • Dependence of drivers affects risks associated with compound events.

    Jakob Zscheischler;Sonia I. Seneviratne

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

    E. M. Fischer;S. I. Seneviratne;D. Lüthi;C. Schär

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

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Markus G. Donat;Andy J. Pitman;Reto Knutti

  • An inter-comparison of regional climate models for Europe: model performance in present-day climate

    Daniela Jacob;Lars Bärring;Ole Bøssing Christensen;Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Wim Thiery
Wim Thiery Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Rene Orth
Rene Orth Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Jakob Zscheischler
Jakob Zscheischler Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Adriaan J. Teuling
Adriaan J. Teuling Wageningen University & Research
Stefan Hagemann
Stefan Hagemann Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Pierre Gentine
Pierre Gentine Columbia University
David M. Lawrence
David M. Lawrence National Center for Atmospheric Research

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