Michael Lehning
EPFL Valais Wallis
EPFL ENAC IIE CRYOS
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UNIL - Université de Lausanne
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Fields of expertise
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
Turbulence in the Strongly Heterogeneous Near-Surface Boundary Layer over Patchy Snow
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2024. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-023-00856-4.Understanding snow saltation parameterizations: lessons from theory, experiments and numerical simulations
The Cryosphere. 2024. DOI : 10.5194/tc-18-1287-2024.Influence of sun cups on surface albedo of wet Alpine snowpack
2024-03-25. EGU23, the 25th EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria and Online, 23-28 April, 2023. DOI : 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-14338.Aeolian snow transport induces airborne snow metamorphism with implications for snowpack physical properties
European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 14-19, 2024.Using stable water isotopes to improve our understanding of snow processes across scales
European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 14-19, 2024.Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Extreme Precipitation and Dry Spells in Alpine Catchments under Changing Climatic Conditions
European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 14-19, 2024.Flow and Snow in Complex Terrain
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Berlin, Germany, July 12-16, 2023.Snowfall deposition in mountainous terrain: a statistical downscaling scheme from high-resolution model data on simulated topographies
Frontiers In Earth Science. 2024-01-08. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2023.1308269.The influence of sub-seasonal to seasonal atmospheric temperature variability on alpine permafrost
EGU2024.Developing, Testing, and Modeling of an Innovative Thermal Stabilization Method for Alpine Permafrost Protection
EGU2024.Coupling of submeso-scale motion with near-surface turbulence over patchy snow cover
28th IUGG General Assembly 2023, Berlin, July 11-20, 2023.Flow and Snow in Complex Terrain: across-scale modelling for a correct surface mass balance
28th IUGG General Assembly 2023, Berlin, July 11-20, 2023.Southward shift in the zero-degree isotherm latitude (ZIL) in the Antarctic Peninsula
28th IUGG General Assembly 2023, Berlin, July 11-20, 2023.Correction to: Evidence of Strong Flux Underestimation by Bulk Parametrizations During Drifting and Blowing Snow
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2023. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-023-00809-x.Towards a fully physical representation of snow on Arctic sea ice using a 3D snow-atmosphere model
JGR: Earth Surface. 2023. DOI : 10.22541/essoar.167898493.35163091/v2.The High-resolution Intermediate Complexity Atmospheric Research (HICAR v1.1) model enables fast dynamic downscaling to the hectometer scale
Geoscientific Model Development. 2023-09-01. DOI : 10.5194/gmd-16-5049-2023.Southward migration of the zero-degree isotherm latitude over the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic Peninsula: Cryospheric, biotic and societal implications
Science Of The Total Environment. 2023-12-05. DOI : 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168473.Towards continuous measurements of snow drift and sublimation in polar environments
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Berlin, Germany, July 12-16, 2023.Characterizing airborne snow metamorphism using stable water isotope measurements in snow and vapor from ring wind tunnel experiments
AGU23 Annual Meeting: Wide. Open. Science., San Francisco, CA, USA, 11-15 December 2023.Snow transport in extreme environments: from small to large scale modeling
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10150.Measuring snow transport and sublimation near Princess Elisabeth Station, Antarctica
SINTER seminar, Online, 2023-10-27.Assessing sublimation during snow transport and sublimation effects on the isotopic composition of water vapor
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10139.Inter-comparison of spatial models for high shares of renewable electricity in Switzerland
Applied Energy. 2023-11-15. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.121700.Wind, Hail, and Climate Extremes: Modelling and Attribution Studies for Environmental Data
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-11082.A Database of Snow on Sea Ice in the Central Arctic Collected during the MOSAiC expedition
Scientific Data. 2023-06-22. DOI : 10.1038/s41597-023-02273-1.Determining return levels of extreme daily precipitation, reservoir inflow, and dry spells
Frontiers In Water. 2023-07-24. DOI : 10.3389/frwa.2023.1141786.CRYOWRF—Model Evaluation and the Effect of Blowing Snow on the Antarctic Surface Mass Balance
Journal Of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. 2023-06-27. DOI : 10.1029/2022JD037744.A Case Study on Drivers of the Isotopic Composition of Water Vapor at the Coast of East Antarctica
Journal Of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface. 2023-07-01. DOI : 10.1029/2023JF007062.Convection of snow: when and why does it happen?
Frontiers In Earth Science. 2023-06-15. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2023.1167760.Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Snow on Central Arctic Sea Ice and its Implications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10233.Evidence of Strong Flux Underestimation by Bulk Parametrizations During Drifting and Blowing Snow (vol 182, pg 119, 2022)
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2023-05-20. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-023-00809-x.Combining Weather Station Data and Short-Term LiDAR Deployment to Estimate Wind Energy Potential with Machine Learning: A Case Study from the Swiss Alps
Boundary Layer Meteorology. 2023-05-11. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-023-00808-y.Decentralized green energy transition promotes peace
Frontiers In Environmental Science. 2023-03-03. DOI : 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1118987.Maximum Wind Energy Production (MaxWEP): Maximizing Winter Production of Energy by Exploiting Terrain Potential
2023-03-31Wind conditions for snow cornice formation in a wind tunnel
Cryosphere. 2023-02-08. DOI : 10.5194/tc-17-639-2023.Reproducibility Dataset for CRYOWRF v1.0
2023-02-01.Constraining Latent and Sensible Heat Fluxes during Drifting and Blowing Snow Events in Antarctica using in–situ Measurements and Large–Eddy Simulations
24th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Denver, USA and online, January 8-12, 2023.A Case Study on Drivers of the Isotopic Composition of Water Vapour at the Coast of East Antarctica
ESS Open Archive. 2023-01-11. DOI : 10.22541/essoar.167340708.83192511/v1.A Novel Method to Quantify Near-Surface Boundary-Layer Dynamics at Ultra-High Spatio-Temporal Resolution
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2023. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-022-00752-3.Introducing CRYOWRF v1.0: multiscale atmospheric flow simulations with advanced snow cover modelling
Geoscientific Model Development. 2023-01-30. DOI : 10.5194/gmd-16-719-2023.Simulation of snow slide-off from solar panels and modelling of subsequent snow accumulation using the Material Point Method
2022-10-01Wind-Topo: Measurement-Based Deep Learning Generation of High-Resolution Wind Fields in Complex Terrain
AMS mountain meteorology, Park City, 2022-06-20.The Complexity of Alpine Weather: An Asset for the Energy Transition
AMS mountain meteorology, Park City, 2022-06-20.Towards better estimates of wind power potentials in the Alps
Applied Machine Learning Days, Lausanne, 2022-03-30.Wind-Topo_Model
2022-03-16.How much snow sublimates in Extreme Environments: Quantifying blowing snow sublimation
International Glaciological Society, Davos, 26.09.2022.Preprocessing Antarctic Weather Station (AWS) data in python
2022.Risk Profiles of Impactful and Extreme Hydrological Events for Alpine Reservoirs
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23-27 May 2022.Reproducibility dataset for CRYOWRF validation
2022.Dataset for: Future water temperature of rivers in Switzerland under climate change investigated with physics-based models
2022.Exploring alternative possibilities for sublimation measurements over snow and ice surfaces
International Symposium on Snow, Davos, Switzerland, September 2022.Surface snow isotopic composition: Post-depositional processes in an alpine snowpack
The Cryosphere in a changing climate – A scientific symposium in the memory of Koni Steffen, Davos, Switzerland, June 23-24, 2022.Observations and simulations of new snow density in the drifting snow-dominated environment of Antarctica
Journal Of Glaciology. 2022-12-14. DOI : 10.1017/jog.2022.102.Fingerprints of Frontal Passages and Post-Depositional Effects in the Stable Water Isotope Signal of Seasonal Alpine Snow
Journal Of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. 2022-11-27. DOI : 10.1029/2022JD037469.Addressing impact of climate change on wind and solar energy infrastructures: the case of India
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9465.Parameterizing snow saltation: the exponential decay of the mass flux profile and its relation to the saltation dynamics
International Symposium on Snow (IGS), Davos, Switzerland, Septembre 25-30, 2022.High-speed imaging of snow saltation: wind tunnel experiments using natural snow
EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, May 23-27, 2022.Modelling snow sublimation to improve estimates of sea level rise
Atmospheric Science Day, Lausanne, Switzerland, Novembre 10, 2022.Analyzing the effects of snow-atmosphere interactions on snow surface dynamics based on automated 3D laser scanning data
2022-10-01Future trends in wind resources and their consistency in the Indian sub-continent
Sustainable Energy Technologies And Assessments. 2022-10-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.seta.2022.102460.Modeling the small-scale deposition of snow onto structured Arctic sea ice during a MOSAiC storm using snowBedFoam 1.0.
Geoscientific Model Development. 2022-08-29. DOI : 10.5194/gmd-15-6429-2022.Snowfall and snow accumulation during the MOSAiC winter and spring seasons
Cryosphere. 2022-06-17. DOI : 10.5194/tc-16-2373-2022.Idealized Study of a Static Electrical Field on Charged Saltating Snow Particles
Frontiers In Earth Science. 2022-06-15. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2022.880466.Parametrizing drifting snow sublimation in the saltation layer
EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022.Water vapour fluxes above snow in conditions of drifting and blowing snow
CATCH Open Science Workshop, 2022-05-10.Snow sublimation in Antarctica
IIE Green Days, Anzère, Switzerland, 2022-06-17.Considering snow depositions and transport mechanisms in meteorological analysis of predicting snow loads on buildings
Cold Regions Science And Technology. 2022-09-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.coldregions.2022.103614.Climate Change Impact Assessment for Future Wind and Solar Energy Installations in India
Frontiers In Energy Research. 2022-05-11. DOI : 10.3389/fenrg.2022.859321.Water vapor transport in snowpacks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9659.Wind-Topo: Downscaling near-surface wind fields to high-resolution topography in highly complex terrain with deep learning
Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society. 2022-03-29. DOI : 10.1002/qj.4265.Sources of Primary Electricity Supply
2022-09-01TopoCLIM: rapid topography-based downscaling of regional climate model output in complex terrain v1.1
Geoscientific Model Development. 2022-03-02. DOI : 10.5194/gmd-15-1753-2022.Future water temperature of rivers in Switzerland under climate change investigated with physics-based models
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 2022-02-24. DOI : 10.5194/hess-26-1063-2022.SWEET-EDGE: Enabling Decentralized renewable Generation in the Alps
2022-01-28. Energy Research Talks , Disentis/Mustér, January 26-28, 2022. p. 36-38.Modeling Snow Saltation: The Effect of Grain Size and Interparticle Cohesion
Journal Of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. 2022-01-16. DOI : 10.1029/2021JD035260.Convection of water vapour in snowpacks
Journal Of Fluid Mechanics. 2022-01-19. DOI : 10.1017/ijm.2021.1146.Evidence of Strong Flux Underestimation by Bulk Parametrizations During Drifting and Blowing Snow
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2022. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-021-00653-x.The effect of sublimation on snow isotopic composition
2021-02-05Dataset for: Climate change scenarios at hourly time-step over Switzerland from an enhanced temporal downscaling approach
2021.A comparison of hydrological models with different level of complexity in Alpine regions in the context of climate change
Hydrology And Earth System Sciences. 2021-12-06. DOI : 10.5194/hess-2021-562.Meteorology and snow transport at S17 near Syowa, Antarctica, in austral summer 2018/2019
2021.Modelling the small-scale deposition of snow onto structured Arctic sea ice during a MOSAiC storm using snowBedFoam 1.0.
Geoscientific Model Development. 2021-08-27. DOI : 10.5194/gmd-2021-254.Modeling snow saltation: the effect of grain size and interparticle cohesion
2021.Influence of Meteorological Conditions on Artificial Ice Reservoir (Icestupa) Evolution
Frontiers in Earth Science. 2021-11-13. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2021.771342.Snowfall and snow accumulation processes during the MOSAiC winter and spring season
The Cryosphere. 2021-04-26. DOI : 10.5194/tc-2021-126.Evolution and spatial variability of small-scale surface roughness of snow and sea ice during MOSAiC
AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA & Online, 13-17 December 2021.On the necessity of including vapor kinetics to model the specific surface area evolution in snow
EGU General Assembly 2021, vEGU21: Gather Online, April 19-30, 2021.The influence of drifting and blowing snow on surface (turbulent) mass- and energy exchange assessed with different methods
AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA & Online, 13-17 December 2021.A snowfall downscaling scheme for mountainous terrain
EGU General Assembly 2021, vEGU21: Gather Online, April 13-30, 2021.Precipitation over the Southern Ocean: synoptic analysis and model evaluation using ground-based remote sensing and in-situ measurements
EGU General Assembly 2021, vEGU21: Gather Online, April 13-30, 2021.Simulating airborne 'snow walls' of Antarctica using CRYOWRF v1.0
EGU General Assembly 2021, vEGU21: Gather Online, April 19-30, 2021.Snowfall and snow accumulation processes during the MOSAiC winter and spring season
EGU General Assembly 2021, vEGU21: Gather Online, April 13-30, 2021.The inFuence of drifting and blowing snow on surface (turbulent) mass- and energy exchange assessed with different methods
AGU Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, USA, December 13-17, 2021.Forward scattering of snow as a factor in local surface energy balance and winter PV production
AGU Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, USA, December 13-17, 2021.A review in snow saltation dynamics and its implications for the surface mass balance
American Geophysical Union 2021 (AGU Fall Meeting 2021), New Orleans, LA & Online Everywhere, December 13-17, 2021.How important are snow transport and sublimation for the mass balance of Antarctica?
Geneva Cryosphere Hub, UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), Geneva, Switzerland, November 1-12, 2021.High resolution static data for WRF over Switzerland
2021-07-02.100% erneuerbar – und zwar mit Köpfchen
2021-10-01.Synergistic optimization of renewable energy installations through evolution strategy
Environmental Research Letters. 2021-05-20. DOI : 10.1088/1748-9326/abfc75.Changement climatique et température des rivières
Aqua & Gas. 2021.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Environmental Sciences and Engineering