Publications

(unpublished)

Humphrey, V., Gentine, P. & Frankenberg, C. (in prep.). Identification of plant rooting depth from satellite observations.

Humphrey, V., Berg, A., Ciais, P., Frankenberg, C., Gentine, P., Jung, M., Reichstein, M. & Seneviratne, S. I. (in prep.). Conflicting drivers of land carbon uptake variability reconciled by land-atmosphere coupling.

Humphrey, V., Nicolai-Shaw, N. , Gudmundsson, L. & Seneviratne, S. I. (in prep.). Soil moisture residence time in models and observations.

Scientific journals

Frederikse, T., Landerer, F., Caron, L., Adhikari, S., Parkes, D., Humphrey, V. W., ... & Wu, Y. H. (2020). The causes of sea-level rise since 1900. Nature, 584(7821), 393-397. Access here

Yin, Y., Byrne, B., Liu, J., Wennberg, P. O., Davis, K. J., Magney, T., Kohler, P., He, L., Jeyaram, R., Humphrey, V., Gerken, T., Feng, S., Digangi, J.P. & Frankenberg, C. (2020). Cropland carbon uptake delayed and reduced by 2019 Midwest floods. AGU Advances, 1(1), e2019AV000140. Access here

Ghiggi, G., Humphrey, V., Seneviratne, S.I. & Gudmundsson, L. (2019). GRUN: An observations-based global gridded runoff dataset from 1902 to 2014. Earth System Science Data, 11(4), 1655-1674. Access here

Humphrey, V., & Gudmundsson, L. (2019). GRACE-REC: a reconstruction of climate-driven water storage changes over the last century. Earth System Science Data, 11(3), 1153-1170. Access here

Jensen, L., Eicker, A., Dobslaw, H., Stacke, T., & Humphrey, V. (2019). Long‐term wetting and drying trends in land water storage derived from GRACE and CMIP5 models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. Access here. News coverage: IDW-online

Gentine, P., Green, J. K., Guérin, M., Humphrey, V., Seneviratne, S. I., Zhang, Y., & Zhou, S. (2019). Coupling between the terrestrial carbon and water cycles—a review. Environmental Research Letters, 14(8), 083003. Access here

Zhong, Y., Feng, W., Humphrey, V., & Zhong, M. (2019). Human-Induced and Climate-Driven Contributions to Water Storage Variations in the Haihe River Basin, China. Remote Sensing, 11(24), 3050. Access here

Humphrey, V., Zscheischler, J., Ciais, P., Gudmundsson, L., Sitch, S., & Seneviratne, S. I. (2018). Sensitivity of atmospheric CO2 growth rate to observed changes in terrestrial water storage. Nature, 560(7720), 628. Access freely here. Figures for media outlets. News coverage: La Liberté, Le Figaro, Blick, Le Courrier, Luzerner Zeitung, Tribune de Genève, 24 Heures, Le Matin, Le Nouvelliste, SwissInfo, Tunisie Soir, Environmental News Network, Lab Roots, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education

WCRP Global Sea Level Budget Group (2017). Global sea-level budget 1993-present. Earth System Science Data, 10, 1551-1590. Access here

Humphrey, V., Gudmundsson, L., & Seneviratne, S. I. (2017). A global reconstruction of climate‐driven subdecadal water storage variability. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(5), 2300-2309. Access here

Humphrey, V., Gudmundsson, L., & Seneviratne, S. I. (2016). Assessing global water storage variability from GRACE: Trends, seasonal cycle, subseasonal anomalies and extremes. Surveys in Geophysics, 37(2), 357-395.. Access here


Open access datasets

Humphrey, V. and Gudmundsson, L.: GRACE-REC: a reconstruction of climate-driven water storage changes over the last century, Dataset, figshare, https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7670849, 2019.

Ghiggi, G., Seneviratne, S. I., Humphrey, V. and Gudmundsson, L.: GRUN: Global Runoff Reconstruction (GRUN_v1), ETH Zurich., https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000324386, 2019.


PhD Thesis

Humphrey, V. (2017). Terrestrial water storage: large-scale variability and impacts on the global carbon cycle (Doctoral dissertation, ETH Zurich). Access here