Michael Lehning

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Fields of expertise

Interaction Cryosphere - Atmosphere in particular Snow Processes Natural Hazards Warning and Forecasting Turbulence and Boundary Layer Flows over Alpine Terrain Mountain Hydrology and Permafrost Dynamics Renewable Energy (Wind and Solar) in the Alps and as Contribution to the Swiss Energy Change Agenda

Grants

2010: EU Interreg and Cantonal Funding for application oriented work in Alpine flood forecasting and climate change, P. I. 2009: Swiss National Science Foundation: Wind tunnel investigations of shear stress partitioning over plants, P. I. 2009: Swiss National Science Foundation: Field investigations of surface heterogeneity and land-surface exchange in mountains, P. I. 2008: ETH CCES grant Swiss Experiment Main Project Project on new technology and interdisciplinary environmental observation systems, P. I. 2008: HYDROSYS: EU Project on new technology and hydrological consequences of cryosphere degradation in the ALPS, P.I. 2007: SNF REQUIP Terrestrial Laser Scanning System, P.I. 2007: ETH CCES grant EXTREMES on spatial extreme value statistics, Co-P. I. 2006: ETH CCES grant Swiss Experiment Pre-Project, P. I. 2006: Swiss National Science Foundation: Wind tunnel investigation of snow ventilation, P. I. 2005: KTI: Development of high resolution forecasting models of road surface conditions for winter road maintenance, P. I. 2004: AWARE: EU Project on water resources in Alpine catchments with a focus on snow cover processes, P. I. 2003: Swiss National Science Foundation: Small scale investigation of flow, snow drift and surface energy balance, P. I. 2002: Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology: Distributed Computing (GRID) for Natural Hazard Prediction, Co - P. I. 2000: Swiss National Science Foundation: REQUIP: A cold, two phase wind tunnel with natural snow particles, P. I. 1997: Swiss National Science Foundation: Boundary layer wind field and the associated snow transport over high alpine topography, P. I. 1992: Scholarship for foreign studies at UC Davis.

Awards

Bavarian scholarship for highly gifted students (1988 - 1992) Award for the best student paper presentation at a conference of the American Meteorological Society in Charlotte (1995), USA. Award for extraordinary performance in transfer of scientific knowledge to users, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (2001). Offer (Ruf) of a full professorship (chair: W3) in environmental physics at the University of Tübingen (2009).

Publications

Infoscience publications

Infoscience

Banner Cloud Formation at the Matterhorn: Measurements versus Large-Eddy Simulations

M. L. Thomas; S. W. Hoch; H. Huwald; M. Lehning; B. J. A. van Schaik et al.

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 2025. DOI : 10.1175/jas-d-24-0193.1.

Michael Lehning

Fields of expertise

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Awards

Publications

Infoscience publications

Infoscience

Banner Cloud Formation at the Matterhorn: Measurements versus Large-Eddy Simulations

The MatterHEX Experiment – Investigating Atmospheric Flow Patterns in Highly Complex Terrain Related to Banner Cloud Formation

Retrieval of Surface Solar Radiation through Implicit Albedo Recovery from Temporal Context

Renewable Energy Outlook II for Switzerland

Parameterizing Snow Sublimation in Conditions of Drifting and Blowing Snow

Governing Processes of Structure-Borne Snowdrifts: A Case Study at Neumayer Station III

Assessment and comparison of thermal stabilisation measures at an Alpine permafrost site, Switzerland

Towards a physically and microstructure-based equation for the evolution of the specific surface area in snow

Superconducting Gravimeter Observations Show That a Satellite-Derived Snow Depth Image Improves the Simulation of the Snow Water Equivalent Evolution in a High Alpine Site

Policy-relevance of a Model Inter-comparison: Switzerland in the European Energy Transition

Large eddy simulation of near-surface boundary layer dynamics over patchy snow

Snow Particle Motion in Process of Cornice Formation

Identifying airborne snow metamorphism with stable water isotopes

Looking back at the last 15 years of operational avalanche warning with the Snowpack model in Switzerland

Interpreting Sentinel-1 radar backscattering for the melt dynamic of an alpine snowpack with a high resolution ground truth dataset

Seasonal snow-atmosphere modeling: let's do it

Flow and Snow in Complex Terrain

Confirmation of the power gain for solar photovoltaic systems in alpine areas and across scales

Intermediate complexity atmospheric modeling in complex terrain: is it right?

A seasonal snowpack model forced with dynamically downscaled forcing data resolves hydrologically relevant accumulation patterns

Influence of air flow features on alpine wind energy potential

Potential und Gestehungskosten von Solar- und Windanlagen in den Alpen

Influence of sun cups on surface albedo of wet Alpine snowpack

The influence of sub-seasonal to seasonal atmospheric temperature variability on alpine permafrost

Developing, Testing, and Modeling of an Innovative Thermal Stabilization Method for Alpine Permafrost Protection

Snowfall deposition in mountainous terrain: a statistical downscaling scheme from high-resolution model data on simulated topographies

Aeolian snow transport induces airborne snow metamorphism with implications for snowpack physical properties

Quantifying urban climate response to large-scale forcing modified by local boundary layer effects

Future Changes in Dynamics of Extreme Precipitation and Dry Periods in the Swiss Alps and Consequences for Hydropower Production

Understanding snow saltation parameterizations: lessons from theory, experiments and numerical simulations

Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Extreme Precipitation and Dry Spells in Alpine Catchments under Changing Climatic Conditions

Efficient Mountainous Wind Energy Assessment through the Combination of Models and Measurements

Linking snow microstructural parameters to modeling specific surface area evolution based on 3D tomography data

Profile measurements of snow transport and micrometeorology at Mizuho Station in Antarctica

Turbulence and Heat exchange in the Near-Surface Boundary Layer over Patchy Snow

Turbulence in the Strongly Heterogeneous Near-Surface Boundary Layer over Patchy Snow

Using stable water isotopes to improve our understanding of snow processes across scales

Impact of intercepted and sub-canopy snow microstructure on snowpack response to rain-on-snow events under a boreal canopy

Good enough: Intermediate complexity atmospheric models improve the representation of processes affecting seasonal snow

Characterizing airborne snow metamorphism using stable water isotope measurements in snow and vapor from ring wind tunnel experiments

Southward migration of the zero-degree isotherm latitude over the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic Peninsula: Cryospheric, biotic and societal implications

Inter-comparison of spatial models for high shares of renewable electricity in Switzerland

Determining return levels of extreme daily precipitation, reservoir inflow, and dry spells

Coupling of submeso-scale motion with near-surface turbulence over patchy snow cover

Flow and Snow in Complex Terrain: across-scale modelling for a correct surface mass balance

Southward shift in the zero-degree isotherm latitude (ZIL) in the Antarctic Peninsula

A Case Study on Drivers of the Isotopic Composition of Water Vapor at the Coast of East Antarctica

CRYOWRF—Model Evaluation and the Effect of Blowing Snow on the Antarctic Surface Mass Balance

A Database of Snow on Sea Ice in the Central Arctic Collected during the MOSAiC expedition

Convection of snow: when and why does it happen?

Evidence of Strong Flux Underestimation by Bulk Parametrizations During Drifting and Blowing Snow

Combining Weather Station Data and Short-Term LiDAR Deployment to Estimate Wind Energy Potential with Machine Learning: A Case Study from the Swiss Alps

Maximum Wind Energy Production (MaxWEP): Maximizing Winter Production of Energy by Exploiting Terrain Potential

Decentralized green energy transition promotes peace

Towards a fully physical representation of snow on Arctic sea ice using a 3D snow-atmosphere model

Wind conditions for snow cornice formation in a wind tunnel

Reproducibility Dataset for CRYOWRF v1.0

Introducing CRYOWRF v1.0: multiscale atmospheric flow simulations with advanced snow cover modelling

A Case Study on Drivers of the Isotopic Composition of Water Vapour at the Coast of East Antarctica

Constraining Latent and Sensible Heat Fluxes during Drifting and Blowing Snow Events in Antarctica using in–situ Measurements and Large–Eddy Simulations

Snow transport in extreme environments: from small to large scale modeling

Measuring snow transport and sublimation near Princess Elisabeth Station, Antarctica

Towards continuous measurements of snow drift and sublimation in polar environments

Assessing sublimation during snow transport and sublimation effects on the isotopic composition of water vapor

A Novel Method to Quantify Near-Surface Boundary-Layer Dynamics at Ultra-High Spatio-Temporal Resolution

Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Snow on Central Arctic Sea Ice and its Implications

Observations and simulations of new snow density in the drifting snow-dominated environment of Antarctica

Fingerprints of Frontal Passages and Post-Depositional Effects in the Stable Water Isotope Signal of Seasonal Alpine Snow

Modelling snow sublimation to improve estimates of sea level rise

Analyzing the effects of snow-atmosphere interactions on snow surface dynamics based on automated 3D laser scanning data

Simulation of snow slide-off from solar panels and modelling of subsequent snow accumulation using the Material Point Method

Future trends in wind resources and their consistency in the Indian sub-continent

Parameterizing snow saltation: the exponential decay of the mass flux profile and its relation to the saltation dynamics