Vincent Humphrey

4.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
30 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Vincent Humphrey is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Vincent Humphrey has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Oceanography and 10 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Vincent Humphrey's work include Climate variability and models (13 papers), Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (11 papers) and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (7 papers). Vincent Humphrey is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (13 papers), Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (11 papers) and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (7 papers). Vincent Humphrey collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Vincent Humphrey's co-authors include Lukas Gudmundsson, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Philippe Ciais, Pierre Gentine, Gionata Ghiggi, Christian Frankenberg, Stephen Sitch, Jakob Zscheischler, Alexis Berg and Markus Reichstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Vincent Humphrey

28 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Soil moisture–atmosphere feedback dominates land carbon uptake variability

2021 386 citations Vincent Humphrey, Alexis Berg et al. Nature profile →
Sensitivity of atmospheric CO2 growth rate to observed changes in terrestrial water storage

2018 368 citations Vincent Humphrey, Jakob Zscheischler et al. Nature profile →
The causes of sea-level rise since 1900

2020 361 citations Thomas Frederikse, Felix W. Landerer et al. Nature profile →
GRACE-REC: a reconstruction of climate-driven water storage changes over the last century

2019 192 citations Vincent Humphrey, Lukas Gudmundsson Earth system science data profile →

Peers

Vincent Humphrey

GPC

OCEAN

WST

Shuang Yi China

H. K. Beaudoing United States

Augusto Getirana United States

Muriel Bergé‐Nguyen France

A. Milewski United States

Brian Thomas United States

Charles Verpoorter France

Linghong Ke China

Jiangfeng Wei China

Jim Gower Canada

Shuang Yi China

Vincent Humphrey

1.1k ×0.7

GPC

1.1k ×1.2

OCEAN

1.2k ×1.7

723 ×1.5

WST

192 ×0.6

Citations per year, relative to Vincent Humphrey Vincent Humphrey (= 1×) peers Shuang Yi

Countries citing papers authored by Vincent Humphrey

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vincent Humphrey

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vincent Humphrey

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Vincent Humphrey. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Vincent Humphrey based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Vincent Humphrey. Vincent Humphrey is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gudmundsson, Lukas, Basil Kraft, Stijn Hantson, et al.. (2025). BuRNN (v1.0): A Data-Driven Fire Model. NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council).

Yao, Yitong, Vincent Humphrey, Alexandra G. Konings, et al.. (2024). Investigating Diurnal and Seasonal Cycles of Vegetation Optical Depth Retrieved From GNSS Signals in a Broadleaf Forest. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(6). 14 indexed citations

Zhao, Meng, Vincent Humphrey, Andrew F. Feldman, & Alexandra G. Konings. (2024). Temperature Is Likely an Important Omission in Interpreting Vegetation Optical Depth. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(15). 5 indexed citations

Humphrey, Vincent, et al.. (2024). A Distinct Role for Aerosol and GHG Forcing in Historical CMIP6 Evapotranspiration Trends. Earth s Future. 12(10).

Humphrey, Vincent, Matthew Rodell, & Annette Eicker. (2023). Using Satellite-Based Terrestrial Water Storage Data: A Review. Surveys in Geophysics. 44(5). 1489–1517. 54 indexed citations

Humphrey, Vincent & Christian Frankenberg. (2023). Continuous ground monitoring of vegetation optical depth and water content with GPS signals. Biogeosciences. 20(9). 1789–1811. 23 indexed citations

Zhong, Yulong, et al.. (2023). Separating the Precipitation‐ and Non‐Precipitation‐ Driven Water Storage Trends in China. Water Resources Research. 59(3). 19 indexed citations

Fischer, Erich, Urs Beyerle, Claudia Gessner, et al.. (2023). Storylines for unprecedented heatwaves based on ensemble boosting. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4643–4643. 55 indexed citations

Wang, Kai, Ana Bastos, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2022). Regional and seasonal partitioning of water and temperature controls on global land carbon uptake variability. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3469–3469. 51 indexed citations

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Padrón, Ryan S., Lukas Gudmundsson, Laibao Liu, Vincent Humphrey, & Sonia I. Seneviratne. (2022). Drivers of intermodel uncertainty in land carbon sink projections. Biogeosciences. 19(23). 5435–5448. 15 indexed citations

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Ghiggi, Gionata, Vincent Humphrey, Sonia I. Seneviratne, & Lukas Gudmundsson. (2021). G‐RUN ENSEMBLE: A Multi‐Forcing Observation‐Based Global Runoff Reanalysis. Water Resources Research. 57(5). 74 indexed citations

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Humphrey, Vincent, Alexis Berg, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2021). Soil moisture–atmosphere feedback dominates land carbon uptake variability. Nature. 592(7852). 65–69. 386 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yin, Yi, Brendan Byrne, Junjie Liu, et al.. (2020). Cropland Carbon Uptake Delayed and Reduced by 2019 Midwest Floods. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 46 indexed citations

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Frederikse, Thomas, Felix W. Landerer, Lambert Caron, et al.. (2020). The causes of sea-level rise since 1900. Nature. 584(7821). 393–397. 361 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jensen, Laura, Annette Eicker, Henryk Dobslaw, Tobias Stacke, & Vincent Humphrey. (2019). Long‐Term Wetting and Drying Trends in Land Water Storage Derived From GRACE and CMIP5 Models. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(17-18). 9808–9823. 40 indexed citations

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Ghiggi, Gionata, Vincent Humphrey, Sonia I. Seneviratne, & Lukas Gudmundsson. (2019). GRUN: an observation-based global gridded runoff dataset from 1902 to 2014. Earth system science data. 11(4). 1655–1674. 184 indexed citations

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Humphrey, Vincent & Lukas Gudmundsson. (2019). GRACE-REC: a reconstruction of climate-driven water storage changes over the last century. Earth system science data. 11(3). 1153–1170. 192 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ghiggi, Gionata, Vincent Humphrey, Sonia I. Seneviratne, & Lukas Gudmundsson. (2019). GRUN: An observations-based global gridded runoff dataset from 1902 to 2014. 13 indexed citations

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Humphrey, Vincent, Jakob Zscheischler, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2018). Sensitivity of atmospheric CO2 growth rate to observed changes in terrestrial water storage. Nature. 560(7720). 628–631. 368 indexed citations breakdown →

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Humphrey, Vincent, Lukas Gudmundsson, & Sonia I. Seneviratne. (2016). Assessing Global Water Storage Variability from GRACE: Trends, Seasonal Cycle, Subseasonal Anomalies and Extremes. Surveys in Geophysics. 37(2). 357–395. 201 indexed citations

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