Michael Lehning
EPFL Valais Wallis
EPFL ENAC IIE CRYOS
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UNIL - Université de Lausanne
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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
Governing Processes of Structure-Borne Snowdrifts: A Case Study at Neumayer Station III
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 2025. DOI : 10.1029/2024JF008180.Assessment and comparison of thermal stabilisation measures at an Alpine permafrost site, Switzerland
2025Towards a physically and microstructure-based equation for the evolution of the specific surface area in snow
Journal of Glaciology. 2025. DOI : 10.1017/jog.2024.109.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
Geophysical Research Letters. 2024. DOI : 10.1029/2024GL112483.Policy-relevance of a Model Inter-comparison: Switzerland in the European Energy Transition
2024Large eddy simulation of near-surface boundary layer dynamics over patchy snow
FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE. 2024. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2024.1415327.Snow Particle Motion in Process of Cornice Formation
2024Identifying airborne snow metamorphism with stable water isotopes
The Cryosphere. 2024. DOI : 10.5194/tc-18-4493-2024.Looking back at the last 15 years of operational avalanche warning with the Snowpack model in Switzerland
2024. International Snow Science Workshop ISSW 2024, Tromsø, Norway, 2024-09-23 - 2024-09-27.Interpreting Sentinel-1 radar backscattering for the melt dynamic of an alpine snowpack with a high resolution ground truth dataset
2024. International Snow Science Workshop ISSW 2024, Tromsø, Norway, 2024-09-23 - 2024-09-27.Seasonal snow-atmosphere modeling: let's do it
CRYOSPHERE. 2024. DOI : 10.5194/tc-18-4315-2024.Flow and Snow in Complex Terrain
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Berlin, Germany, July 12-16, 2023.Confirmation of the power gain for solar photovoltaic systems in alpine areas and across scales
Frontiers in Energy Research. 2024. DOI : 10.3389/fenrg.2024.1372680.Intermediate complexity atmospheric modeling in complex terrain: is it right?
Frontiers In Earth Science. 2024. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2024.1388416.A seasonal snowpack model forced with dynamically downscaled forcing data resolves hydrologically relevant accumulation patterns
Frontiers In Earth Science. 2024. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2024.1393260.Influence of air flow features on alpine wind energy potential
Frontiers In Energy Research. 2024. DOI : 10.3389/fenrg.2024.1379863.Potential und Gestehungskosten von Solar- und Windanlagen in den Alpen
Die Alpen für eine klimapositive Schweiz; Altdorf: Urner Institut Kulturen der Alpen, 2024. p. 37 - 41.Influence of sun cups on surface albedo of wet Alpine snowpack
2024. EGU23, the 25th EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria and Online, 23-28 April, 2023. DOI : 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-14338.The influence of sub-seasonal to seasonal atmospheric temperature variability on alpine permafrost
EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 2024-04-14 - 2024-04-19.Developing, Testing, and Modeling of an Innovative Thermal Stabilization Method for Alpine Permafrost Protection
EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 2024-04-14 - 2024-04-19.Snowfall deposition in mountainous terrain: a statistical downscaling scheme from high-resolution model data on simulated topographies
Frontiers In Earth Science. 2024. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2023.1308269.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.Profile measurements of snow transport and micrometeorology at Mizuho Station in Antarctica
2024.Understanding snow saltation parameterizations: lessons from theory, experiments and numerical simulations
The Cryosphere. 2024. DOI : 10.5194/tc-18-1287-2024.Linking snow microstructural parameters to modeling specific surface area evolution based on 3D tomography data
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10559.Quantifying urban climate response to large-scale forcing modified by local boundary layer effects
Frontiers in Environmental Science. 2024. DOI : 10.3389/fenvs.2024.1438917.Turbulence in the Strongly Heterogeneous Near-Surface Boundary Layer over Patchy Snow
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2024. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-023-00856-4.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.Impact of intercepted and sub-canopy snow microstructure on snowpack response to rain-on-snow events under a boreal canopy
The Cryosphere. 2024. DOI : 10.5194/tc-18-2783-2024.Future Changes in Dynamics of Extreme Precipitation and Dry Periods in the Swiss Alps and Consequences for Hydropower Production
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10649.Good enough: Intermediate complexity atmospheric models improve the representation of processes affecting seasonal snow
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10825.Turbulence and Heat exchange in the Near-Surface Boundary Layer over Patchy Snow
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10837.Efficient Mountainous Wind Energy Assessment through the Combination of Models and Measurements
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10246.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.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. DOI : 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168473.Inter-comparison of spatial models for high shares of renewable electricity in Switzerland
Applied Energy. 2023. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.121700.Determining return levels of extreme daily precipitation, reservoir inflow, and dry spells
Frontiers In Water. 2023. DOI : 10.3389/frwa.2023.1141786.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.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. DOI : 10.1029/2023JF007062.CRYOWRF—Model Evaluation and the Effect of Blowing Snow on the Antarctic Surface Mass Balance
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2023. DOI : 10.1029/2022JD037744.A Database of Snow on Sea Ice in the Central Arctic Collected during the MOSAiC expedition
Scientific Data. 2023. DOI : 10.1038/s41597-023-02273-1.Convection of snow: when and why does it happen?
Frontiers In Earth Science. 2023. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2023.1167760.Evidence of Strong Flux Underestimation by Bulk Parametrizations During Drifting and Blowing Snow (vol 182, pg 119, 2022)
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2023. 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. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-023-00808-y.Maximum Wind Energy Production (MaxWEP): Maximizing Winter Production of Energy by Exploiting Terrain Potential
2023Decentralized green energy transition promotes peace
Frontiers In Environmental Science. 2023. DOI : 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1118987.Towards a fully physical representation of snow on Arctic sea ice using a 3D snow-atmosphere model
2nd MOSAiC Science Conference, Boulder, CO, USA, 13-17 February 2023.Wind conditions for snow cornice formation in a wind tunnel
Cryosphere. 2023. DOI : 10.5194/tc-17-639-2023.Reproducibility Dataset for CRYOWRF v1.0
2023.Introducing CRYOWRF v1.0: multiscale atmospheric flow simulations with advanced snow cover modelling
Geoscientific Model Development. 2023. DOI : 10.5194/gmd-16-719-2023.A Case Study on Drivers of the Isotopic Composition of Water Vapour at the Coast of East Antarctica
2023Constraining 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.Assessing sublimation during snow transport and sublimation effects on the isotopic composition of water vapor
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10139.Towards continuous measurements of snow drift and sublimation in polar environments
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Berlin, Germany, July 12-16, 2023.Measuring snow transport and sublimation near Princess Elisabeth Station, Antarctica
SINTER seminar, Online, 2023-10-27.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.Snow transport in extreme environments: from small to large scale modeling
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10150.Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Snow on Central Arctic Sea Ice and its Implications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10233.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.Observations and simulations of new snow density in the drifting snow-dominated environment of Antarctica
Journal Of Glaciology. 2022. 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. DOI : 10.1029/2022JD037469.Modelling snow sublimation to improve estimates of sea level rise
Atmospheric Science Day, Lausanne, Switzerland, Novembre 10, 2022.Future trends in wind resources and their consistency in the Indian sub-continent
Sustainable Energy Technologies And Assessments. 2022. DOI : 10.1016/j.seta.2022.102460.Simulation of snow slide-off from solar panels and modelling of subsequent snow accumulation using the Material Point Method
2022Analyzing the effects of snow-atmosphere interactions on snow surface dynamics based on automated 3D laser scanning data
2022Parameterizing 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.How much snow sublimates in Extreme Environments: Quantifying blowing snow sublimation
International Glaciological Society, Davos, 26.09.2022.Considering snow depositions and transport mechanisms in meteorological analysis of predicting snow loads on buildings
Cold Regions Science And Technology. 2022. DOI : 10.1016/j.coldregions.2022.103614.Modeling the small-scale deposition of snow onto structured Arctic sea ice during a MOSAiC storm using snowBedFoam 1.0.
Geoscientific Model Development. 2022. DOI : 10.5194/gmd-15-6429-2022.Wind-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.Snowfall and snow accumulation during the MOSAiC winter and spring seasons
Cryosphere. 2022. DOI : 10.5194/tc-16-2373-2022.Snow sublimation in Antarctica
IIE Green Days, Anzère, Switzerland, 2022-06-17.Idealized Study of a Static Electrical Field on Charged Saltating Snow Particles
Frontiers In Earth Science. 2022. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2022.880466.Climate Change Impact Assessment for Future Wind and Solar Energy Installations in India
Frontiers In Energy Research. 2022. DOI : 10.3389/fenrg.2022.859321.Water vapour fluxes above snow in conditions of drifting and blowing snow
CATCH Open Science Workshop, 2022-05-10.High-speed imaging of snow saltation: wind tunnel experiments using natural snow
EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, May 23-27, 2022.Towards better estimates of wind power potentials in the Alps
Applied Machine Learning Days, Lausanne, 2022-03-30.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. DOI : 10.1002/qj.4265.Wind-Topo_Model
2022.TopoCLIM: rapid topography-based downscaling of regional climate model output in complex terrain v1.1
Geoscientific Model Development. 2022. 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. DOI : 10.5194/hess-26-1063-2022.SWEET-EDGE: Enabling Decentralized renewable Generation in the Alps
2022. Energy Research Talks, Disentis/Mustér, January 26-28, 2022. p. 36 - 38.Convection of water vapour in snowpacks
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2022. DOI : 10.1017/ijm.2021.1146.Reproducibility dataset for CRYOWRF validation
2022.Exploring alternative possibilities for sublimation measurements over snow and ice surfaces
International Symposium on Snow, Davos, Switzerland, September 2022.Dataset for: Future water temperature of rivers in Switzerland under climate change investigated with physics-based models
2022.Parametrizing drifting snow sublimation in the saltation layer
EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 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.Preprocessing Antarctic Weather Station (AWS) data in python
2022.Addressing impact of climate change on wind and solar energy infrastructures: the case of India
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9465.Evidence of Strong Flux Underestimation by Bulk Parametrizations During Drifting and Blowing Snow
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2022. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-021-00653-x.Risk Profiles of Impactful and Extreme Hydrological Events for Alpine Reservoirs
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23-27 May 2022.Water vapor transport in snowpacks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9659.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.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. DOI : 10.5194/hess-2021-562.Influence of Meteorological Conditions on Artificial Ice Reservoir (Icestupa) Evolution
Frontiers in Earth Science. 2021. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2021.771342.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, 2021.100% erneuerbar – und zwar mit Köpfchen
2021.Modelling the small-scale deposition of snow onto structured Arctic sea ice during a MOSAiC storm using snowBedFoam 1.0.
2021Evaluating a prediction system for snow management
Cryosphere. 2021. DOI : 10.5194/tc-15-3949-2021.How Forward-Scattering Snow and Terrain Change the Alpine Radiation Balance With Application to Solar Panels
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2021. DOI : 10.1029/2020JD034333.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.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.Similarity conditions and cube model tests of snow drift and precipitation preferential deposition patterns
Journal Of Wind Engineering And Industrial Aerodynamics. 2021. DOI : 10.1016/j.jweia.2021.104694.High resolution static data for WRF over Switzerland
2021.Synergistic optimization of renewable energy installations through evolution strategy
Environmental Research Letters. 2021. DOI : 10.1088/1748-9326/abfc75.Method and device for ascertaining an installation angle between a roadway on which a vehicle travels and a detection direction of a measurement or radar sensor
Jenoptik Robot GmbH: US 2021/0124041 A1 . 2021.Snowfall and snow accumulation processes during the MOSAiC winter and spring season
The Cryosphere. 2021. DOI : 10.5194/tc-2021-126.River Temperature Evolution in Switzerland over the 21st Century
EGU General Assembly 2021, Online conference, April 19-30, 2021.The effect of sublimation on snow isotopic composition
2021Climate change scenarios at hourly time‐step over Switzerland from an enhanced temporal downscaling approach
International Journal of Climatology. 2021. DOI : 10.1002/joc.7032.The complex winds of the Alps: an unseen asset for the energy transition
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9253.Meteorology and snow transport at S17 near Syowa, Antarctica, in austral summer 2018/2019
2021.Changement climatique et température des rivières
Aqua & Gas. 2021.Past and future impacts of climate change on swiss river temperature and discharge investigated with data analysis and numerical modelling
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8871.Modeling snow saltation: the effect of grain size and interparticle cohesion
2021.Dataset for: Climate change scenarios at hourly time-step over Switzerland from an enhanced temporal downscaling approach
2021.Multi-Resolution Convolutional Neural Network for High-Resolution Downscaling of Wind Fields from Operational Weather Prediction Models in Complex Terrain
AGU fall Meeting 2020, Online conference, December 1-17, 2020.PV on high alpine reservoir wall - Axpo's pioneer project in the Swiss Alps
HYDRO 2020, Online conference, Octobre 26-28, 2020.Modelling the small-scale deposition of snow onto structured Arctic sea ice using OpenFOAM
2020Estimating the free troposphere measurement quality from high-altitude stations using topographic analysis
2020The monitoring and modelling of snow preparation in alpine and cross country ski areas
2020100% renewable – 100% doable
2020.The Impact of Diffusive Water Vapor Transport on Snow Profiles in Deep and Shallow Snow Covers and on Sea Ice
Frontiers in earth Science. 2020. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2020.00249.The Influence of Mountain-Ridge Scale Snow Precipitation Processes on the Local Snow Distribution
27th IUGG General Assembly, Montréal, Canada, 8-18 july, 2019.Radar measurements of blowing snow off a mountain ridge
The Cryosphere. 2020. DOI : 10.5194/tc-14-1779-2020.Changes in Climatology, Snow Cover, and Ground Temperatures at High Alpine Locations
Frontiers In Earth Science. 2020. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2020.00100.Simulation of snow management in Alpine ski resorts using three different snow models
Cold Regions Science And Technology. 2020. DOI : 10.1016/j.coldregions.2020.102995.Wie sich wasser, sonne und wind zu einem 100% erneuerbaren elektrizitätssystem in der Schweiz ergänzen
Energiegespräche Disentis 2020, Disentis, Suisse, Janvier 22-24, 2020.Version 1 of a sea ice module for the physics-based, detailed, multi-layer SNOWPACK model
Geoscientific Model Development. 2020. DOI : 10.5194/gmd-13-99-2020.Stream temperature and discharge evolution in Switzerland over the last 50 years: annual and seasonal behaviour
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 2020. DOI : 10.5194/hess-24-115-2020.Stream Temperature Evolution in Switzerland: Recent past and future
2020. EGU2020 General Assembly, Online conference, May 4-8, 2020. DOI : 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-16432.REMA topography and AntarcticaLC2000 for WRF
2020.Understanding snow bedform formation by adding sintering to a cellular automata model
The Cryosphere. 2019. DOI : 10.5194/tc-13-3239-2019.Downscaling of gridded wind fields using Deep Learning methods
2019UAV based photogrammetry for snow height determination with GNSS/INS assisted aerial control
2019Preferential Deposition of Snow and Dust Over Hills: Governing Processes and Relevant Scales
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2019. DOI : 10.1029/2018JD029614.Solarstrom aus den Bergen ersetzt Atomkraftwerke
AlpEnforce Sommertagung, 12 TWh Strom aus Gebirgs-PV-Anlagen, ETH Zurich, 2019-06-18.Cohesion-Induced Enhancement of Aeolian Saltation
Geophysical Research Letters. 2019. DOI : 10.1029/2019GL082195.Spatiotemporal dynamics of snow erosion, deposition and horizontal mass flux
Journal of Glaciology. 2019. DOI : 10.1017/jog.2019.3.NUMERICAL WEATHER MODELS FOR RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF ALPINE WIND POWER
EnergieForschungsGespräche 2019, Disentis, Switzerland, 23.01-25.01.2019.The bright side of PV production in snow-covered mountains
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS). 2019. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1720808116.The Importance of Near-Surface Winter Precipitation Processes in Complex Alpine Terrain
Journal of Hydrometeorology. 2019. DOI : 10.1175/JHM-D-18-0055.1.Potential and uncertainty of wind energy in the Swiss Alps
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9350.Medienanlass zur Wolken- und Schneemesskampagne von SLF, ETHZ u.a. in Davos Wolfgang.
2019.How well do we understand the influence of drifting and blowing snow in extreme environments?
AGU Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco, December 9-13, 2019.Precipitation over the Southern Ocean: comparison of several ship-based measurement techniques during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition
EGU General Assembly 2019, Vienna, Austria, 7-12 April.Local radiation maxima in snow-covered mountains and its influence on PV winter production
AGU Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco, US, December 9-13, 2019.Precipitation over the Southern Ocean: learning from measurements during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition
ACE-DATA workshop, Lausanne, Switzerland, 14-15 October 2019.Detailed simulations of spatial snow accumulation patterns and near surface snow properties in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica
AGU Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco, December 9-13, 2019.Precipitation during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition: multi-sensor observations and Polar-WRF model evaluation
2019 Polar CORDEX Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, 7-9 October, 2019.Trends in Swiss river discharge and temperatures under climate change: observations and simulations
On the suitability of the Thorpe-Mason model for calculating sublimation of saltating snow
Cryosphere. 2018. DOI : 10.5194/tc-12-3499-2018.How Are Turbulent Sensible Heat Fluxes and Snow Melt Rates Affected by a Changing Snow Cover Fraction?
Frontiers In Earth Science. 2018. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2018.00154.Improvement of Wind Power Assessment in Complex Terrain: The Case of COSMO-1 in the Swiss Alps
Frontiers In Energy Research. 2018. DOI : 10.3389/fenrg.2018.00102.Representation of Horizontal Transport Processes in Snowmelt Modeling by Applying a Footprint Approach
Frontiers In Earth Science. 2018. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2018.00120.Spatial variability in snow precipitation and accumulation in COSMO–WRF simulations and radar estimations over complex terrain
The Cryosphere. 2018. DOI : 10.5194/tc-12-3137-2018.Investigation of a wind-packing event in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica
Cryosphere. 2018. DOI : 10.5194/tc-12-2923-2018.Charting the course: A possible route to a fully renewable Swiss power system
Energy. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.energy.2018.08.018.Polarforscher in der Schweiz
2018.Is the Thorpe and Mason model valid for drifting and blowing snow?
2018. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, Vienna, Austria, April 4-13, 2018.The European mountain cryosphere: a review of its current state, trends, and future challenges
The Cryosphere. 2018. DOI : 10.5194/tc-12-759-2018.Des avalanches d'un nouveau type
2018.The impact of snow on solar PV production
Weekly Seminar at the Swiss Snow and Avalanche Research Institute (SLF/WSL), Davos, Switzerland, 2018-01-17.Small-scale spatio-temporal dynamics of snowmelt and its influence on runoff generation in a high Alpine catchment
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8559.Wind-packing of snow: How do wind crusts form?
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8628.Snow farming: conserving snow over the summer season
CRYOSPHERE. 2018. DOI : 10.5194/tc-12-385-2018.Near-surface ventilation as a key for modeling the thermal regime of coarse blocky rock glaciers
PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES. 2018. DOI : 10.1002/ppp.1978.Dataset on PV Production in Snow Covered Mountains
2018.Snowpack runoff formation processes during rain-on-snow events
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8197.Hydrological response of two high altitude Swiss catchments to energy balance and temperature index melt schemes
POLAR SCIENCE. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.polar.2018.06.007.From the Clouds to the Ground - Snow Precipitation Patterns in Complex Terrain
POLAR2018, Davos, Switzerland, 2018-06-19.Investigation of snow melt dynamics and boundary layer processes over a melting snow surface
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8529.Wind Tunnel Experiments: Influence of Erosion and Depositionon Wind-Packing of New Snow
Frontiers in Earth Science. 2018. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2018.00004.From the clouds to the ground - Effects of flow-precipitation interactions on snow distribution in complex alpine terrain
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8636.Modelling the arctic snowpack properties in Svalbard using SNOWPACK
2018Interactions between drifting snow and surface dynamics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8513.Numerical Experiments of Atmospheric Boundary Layer flows : interplay between distributed drag elements and buoyancy effects
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8409.The bright side of snow cover effect on PV production - How to lower the seasonal mismatch between electricity supply and demand in a fully renewable Switzerland
European Geophysical Union, Vienna, Austria, 23.-28.04.2017.Impact of climate change in Switzerland on socioeconomic snow indices
Theoretical And Applied Climatology. 2017. DOI : 10.1007/s00704-015-1676-7.Upscaling the evolution of snow microstructure : from 4D image analysis to rigorous models
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7996.Fragmentation of wind-blown snow crystals
Geophysical Research Letters. 2017. DOI : 10.1002/2017GL073039.Wind tunnel experiments: saltation is necessary for wind-packing
Journal Of Glaciology. 2017. DOI : 10.1017/jog.2017.53.Simulating the influence of snow surface processes on soil moisture dynamics and streamflow generation in an alpine catchment
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 2017. DOI : 10.5194/hess-21-4053-2017.Energy- and momentum-conserving model of splash entrainment in sand and snow saltation
Geophysical Research Letters. 2017. DOI : 10.1002/2016GL071822.Influence of slope-scale snowmelt on catchment response simulated with the Alpine3D model
Water Resources Research. 2017. DOI : 10.1002/2017WR021278.Stochastic modeling of snow transport and hydrologic response in alpine terrain
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7532.Modelling liquid water transport in snow under rain-on-snow conditions – considering preferential flow
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 2017. DOI : 10.5194/hess-21-1741-2017.A close-ridge small-scale atmospheric flow field and its influence on snow accumulation
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2017. DOI : 10.1002/2016JD026258.Wind tunnel observations of weak and strong snow saltation dynamics
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 2017. DOI : 10.1002/2016Jf004111.Distributed snow and rock temperature modelling in steep rock walls using Alpine3D
Cryosphere. 2017. DOI : 10.5194/tc-11-585-2017.Firn Meltwater Retention on the Greenland Ice Sheet: A Model Comparison
Frontiers In Earth Science. 2017. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2017.00003.How much can we save? Impact of different emission scenarios on future snow cover in the Alps
Cryosphere. 2017. DOI : 10.5194/tc-11-517-2017.The bright side of snow cover effects on PV production - How to lower the seasonal mismatch between electricity supply and demand in a fully renewable Switzerland
EGU General Assembly 2017, Vienna, Austria, 8-13.April 2017.Impact of Extreme Land Surface Heterogeneity on Micrometeorology over Spring Snow Cover
Journal Of Hydrometeorology. 2017. DOI : 10.1175/Jhm-D-17-0074.1.How do patchy snow covers affect turbulent sensible heat fluxes? – Numerical analysis and experimental findings
2017. EGU 2017, Vienna, Austria, April 23-28, 2017.Potential contributions of wind power to a stable and highly renewable Swiss power supply
Applied Energy. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.01.085.Interplay between photovoltaic, wind energy and storage hydropower in a fully renewable Switzerland
Energy. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.energy.2017.06.092.Snow farming: Conserving snow over the summer season
The Cryosphere Discussions. 2017. DOI : 10.5194/tc-2017-93.How do Stability Corrections Perform in the Stable Boundary Layer Over Snow?
Boundary Layer Meteorology. 2017. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-017-0262-1.Simulating ice layer formation under the presence of preferential flow in layered snowpacks
The Cryosphere. 2016. DOI : 10.5194/tc-10-2731-2016.Wind tunnel experiments: cold-air pooling and atmospheric decoupling above a melting snow patch
The Cryosphere. 2016. DOI : 10.5194/tc-10-445-2016.LES modeling of wind over Antarctic snow-Ice formations using a dynamic surface roughness approach
2016. 22nd Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Salt Lake City, USA, June 20-24, 2016.Decoupling of mass flux and turbulent wind fluctuations in drifting snow
Geophysical Research Letters. 2016. DOI : 10.1002/2016Gl068171.Mountain Snow Distribution and how it may Change in the Future
Cryosphere workshop - From process understanding to impacts and adaptation, Riederalp, VS, Switzerland, 15-19 March 2016.Reliable Averages and Risky Extremes
EGU 2016, Vienna, Austria, 17-22, 2016.Estimating Non-Conductive Heat Flow Leading to Intra-Permafrost Talik Formation at the Ritigraben Rock Glacier (Western Swiss Alps)
Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. 2016. DOI : 10.1002/ppp.1911.Stream temperature modeling in mountainous environments
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7160.Changes in snow distribution and surface topography following a snowstorm on Antarctic sea ice
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 2016. DOI : 10.1002/2016Jf003893.Quantifying Particle Numbers and Mass Flux in Drifting Snow
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2016. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-016-0170-9.Sensitivity of Alpine3D modeled snow cover to modifications in DEM resolution, station coverage and meteorological input quantities
Environmental Modelling & Software. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.02.017.Impact of combined wind and solar energy on the Swiss electricity system
SCCER-SoE Annual Conference, Sion, Switzerland, September 12, 2016.A new ring‐shaped wind tunnel facility to study wind‐packing of snow.
2016. 14th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, November 18-19, 2016.Bodennahe atmosphärische Prozesse und ihre Wirkung auf die hochalpine Schneedecke
Promet. 2016.Using GIS data and satellite-derived irradiance to optimize siting of PV installations in Switzerland
EGU 2016, Vienna, Austria, 17-22, 2016.Reliable Averages and Risky Extremes – Analysis of spatiotemporal variability in solar irradiance and persistent cloud cover patterns over Switzerland
Energy Procedia. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.egypro.2016.10.035.Wind slab formation in snow: experimental setup and first results.
2016. EGU 2016, Vienna, Austria, April 17-22, 2016.Scaling Precipitation Input to Spatially Distributed Hydrological Models by Measured Snow Distribution
Frontiers In Earth Science. 2016. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2016.00108.StreamFlow 1.0: an extension to the spatially distributed snow model Alpine3D for hydrological modelling and deterministic stream temperature prediction
Geoscientific Model Development. 2016. DOI : 10.5194/gmd-9-4491-2016.Snowmelt observations at the slope scale and implications for the catchment response using the Alpine3D model
14th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Genève, Suisse, November 19th, 2016.Large Scale Deployment of PV Units in Existing Distribution Networks: Optimization of the Installation Layout
2016. 19th Power Systems Computation Conference, Genoa, Italy, June 20-24, 2016. p. 1 - 6. DOI : 10.1109/PSCC.2016.7541023.Wind Energy Potential in Switzerland: Discovering Localized Thermo-topographic Flows and Associated Wind Resource
22nd Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, June 20-24, 2016.Influence of Initial Snowpack Properties on Runoff Formation during Rain-on-Snow Events
Journal of Hydrometeorology. 2016. DOI : 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0181.1.Low-cost sensors for distributed surface-atmosphere heat exchange monitoring – a novel component of citizen observatories
Intl. Conference on Citizen Observatories for Water Management, Venice, Italy, June, 7-10 2016.Recent advances in liquid water flow modelling in the physics based SNOWPACK model
Workshop on observing and modelling meltwater retention processes in snow and firn on ice sheets and glaciers, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 3, 2016.Are flat-field snow depth measurements representative? A comparison of selected index sites with areal snow depth measurements at the small catchment scale
Hydrological Processes. 2015. DOI : 10.1002/hyp.10295.Atmospheric Flow Development and Associated Changes in Turbulent Sensible Heat Flux over a Patchy Mountain Snow Cover
Journal Of Hydrometeorology. 2015. DOI : 10.1175/Jhm-D-14-0036.1.Study of snow-atmosphere interactions over an Antarctic surface using large eddy simulations coupled with a Lagrangian stochastic model
2015 Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of fluid Dynamics, Boston, Massachussetts, USA, November 22-24, 2015.Verification of the multi-layer SNOWPACK model with different water transport schemes
The Cryosphere. 2015. DOI : 10.5194/tc-9-2271-2015.Distributed Sensible Heat Flux Measurement for Wireless Sensor Networks
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2015, San Francisco, USA, December 2015.Stream temperature prediction in ungauged basins: review of recent approaches and description of a new physics-derived statistical model
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 2015. DOI : 10.5194/hess-19-3727-2015.Liquid water flow in snow and hydrological implications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6441.Scale-dependent effects of solar radiation patterns on the snow-dominated hydrologic response
Geophysical Research Letters. 2015. DOI : 10.1002/2015GL064075.Granulation of snow: From tumbler experiments to discrete element simulations
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 2015. DOI : 10.1002/2014Jf003294.Small scale variability of snow density on Antarctic sea ice
26th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Prague, Czech Republic, June-July 22-2, 2015.A New Analytical Model for the Prediction of Stream Temperature in Ungauged Basins
26th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Prague, Czech Repulic, June 22-July 2, 2015.Spatio-temporal Snowmelt Dynamics and Hydrological Response in an Alpine Catchment (Invited)
AGU Fall Meeting 2015, San Francisco, California, USA, December 14-18, 2015.Wind-driven snow distribution patterns over an Antarctic ice floe
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 14-18, 2015.Comparison of stream temperature modeling approaches: the case of a high Alpine watershed
2015 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, California, USA, December 14-18, 2015.Carbon storage versus albedo change: radiative forcing of forest expansion in temperate mountainous regions of Switzerland
Biogeosciences. 2015. DOI : 10.5194/bg-12-467-2015.Theoretical framework for estimating snow distribution through point measurements
The Cryosphere Discussions. 2015. DOI : 10.5194/tcd-9-1-2015.Change in snow distribution patterns over an Antarctic ice floe following a snow storm event
26th IUGG General Assembly 2015, Prague, Czech Republic, June 22-July 2, 2015.Time-adaptive wind turbine model for an LES framework
Wind Energy. 2015. DOI : 10.1002/we.1877.Thermodynamics in the hydrologic response: Travel time formulation and application to Alpine catchments
Water Resources Research. 2015. DOI : 10.1002/2014WR016228.Simulations of 21st century snow response to climate change in Switzerland from a set of RCMs
International Journal Of Climatology. 2015. DOI : 10.1002/joc.4205.Identification of snow precipitation mechanisms and accumulation patterns over complex terrain with very high resolution radar data and terrestrial laser scans
33rd International Conference on Alpine Meteorology, Innsbruck, Austria, August 31 - September 4, 2015.Risks and Reliability in a Fully Renewable Switzerland
2015. European Safety and Reliability Conference 2015, Zurich, Switzerland, September 7-10, 2015.3-D simulations of snow transport, erosion and deposition using a Large Eddy Simulation coupled with a Lagrangian Stochastic Model
26th IUGG General Assembly 2015, Prague, Czech Republic, June 22-July 2, 2015.Theoretical analysis of errors when estimating snow distribution through point measurements
The Cryosphere. 2015. DOI : 10.5194/tc-9-1249-2015.A two-layer canopy model with thermal inertia for an improved snowpack energy balance below needleleaf forest (model SNOWPACK, version 3.2.1, revision 741)
Geoscientific Model Development. 2015. DOI : 10.5194/gmd-8-2379-2015.Snowmelt dynamics and streamflow response in an alpine catchment
26th IUGG General Assembly 2015, Prague, Czech Republic, June 22 - July 2, 2015.Thermal energy in dry snow avalanches
Cryosphere. 2015. DOI : 10.5194/tc-9-1819-2015.Local Extremes In The Lidar-Derived Snow Cover Of Alpine Glaciers
Geografiska Annaler Series A-Physical Geography. 2015. DOI : 10.1111/geoa.12111.Influence of snow cover properties on avalanche dynamics
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6475.The Signature of Hillslope Aspects on the Hydrologic Response of Snow-Covered Catchments
AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, California, USA.Mobile and static sensors in a citizen-based observatory of water
EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, 27 April - 2 May, 2014.Analysis of surface drag over Antarctic sea ice from High-Resolution measurements from Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Large Eddy Simulations
IGS Sea ice in a changing environment, Hobart, Australia, March 10-14.Small scale investigation and statistical modelling of mountain snow depth
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6345.Theoretical Framework for the Assessment of Uncertainties in Snow Depth Measurements
AGU Fall Meet, Abstract C31E-07, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 15-19, 2014.Snow particle characteristics in the saltation layer
Journal Of Glaciology. 2014. DOI : 10.3189/2014JoG13J079.Orographic effects on snow deposition patterns in mountainous terrain
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2014. DOI : 10.1002/2013Jd019880.Solving Richards Equation for snow improves snowpack meltwater runoff estimations in detailed multi-layer snowpack model
Cryosphere. 2014. DOI : 10.5194/tc-8-257-2014.Investigating the Monthly Mean Stream Temperature Dynamics
General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, Wien, Austria, April 27-May 2, 2014.Hydrological and thermal response modelling based on travel time formulation of water end energy transport in snow-covered alpine catchments
EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna, 27 April – 02 May.Flow and Temperature Dynamics in the Hydrologic Response: Travel Time Formulation and Application to Alpine Catchments
AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, California, USA.Elevation dependency of mountain snow depth
The Cryosphere. 2014. DOI : 10.5194/tc-8-2381-2014.Spatially-resolved mean flow and turbulence help explain observed erosion and deposition patterns of snow over Antarctic sea ice
AGU Fall Meeting, Abstract C22A-04, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 15-19, 2014.Modelling Small-Scale Drifting Snow with a Lagrangian Stochastic Model Based on Large-Eddy Simulations
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2014. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-014-9934-2.Spatial variability of surface roughness and snow resistance of snow covered sea ice
2014. International Symposium on Sea Ice in a Changing Environment, International Glaciological Society, IGS, Hobart, Australia, 10-14 March 2014.Influence of snow cover properties on avalanche dynamics
Cold Regions Science And Technology. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.coldregions.2013.10.002.Evaluation of modelled snow depth and snow water equivalent at three contrasting sites in Switzerland using SNOWPACK simulations driven by different meteorological data input
Cold Regions Science And Technology. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.coldregions.2013.12.004.Experimental assessment of Owen's second hypothesis on surface shear stress induced by a fluid during sediment saltation
Geophysical Research Letters. 2014. DOI : 10.1002/2014Gl061069.Model simulations of the modulating effect of the snow cover in a rain-on-snow event
Hydrology And Earth System Sciences. 2014. DOI : 10.5194/hess-18-4657-2014.Hydrological and thermal response modeling based on travel time formulation of water and energy transport in snow-covered Alpine catchments
EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria.Flow and Temperature Dynamics in the Hydrologic Response of Alpine Catchments: Travel Time Formulation and Geomorphologic Signatures
Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2014, Fribourg, Switzerland.Modeling the monthly mean stream temperature dynamics
12th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Fribourg, Switzerland, November 22, 2014.Response of snow cover and runoff to climate change in high Alpine catchments of Eastern Switzerland
Advances in Water Resources. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.12.009.Spatial Structure of Turbulent Heat Exchange at the Snow-Atmosphere Interface Inferred from Time-sequential Infrared Thermography
AGU Fall Meeting 2013, San Francisco, USA, December 9-13, 2013.Statistical modelling of the snow depth distribution in open alpine terrain
Hydrology And Earth System Sciences. 2013. DOI : 10.5194/hess-17-3005-2013.Observations, theory, and modeling of the differential accumulation of Antarctic megadunes
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 2013. DOI : 10.1002/2013Jf002844.Wind Tunnel Experiments and Modelling of Particle-Laden Boundary Layer Flows
AGU Fall Meeting 2013, San Francisco, USA, December 9-13, 2013.Seasonal small-scale spatial variability in alpine snowfall and snow accumulation
Water Resources Research. 2013. DOI : 10.1002/wrcr.20135.Application of large-scale computing infrastructure for diverse environmental research applications using GC3Pie
EGU 2013, Vienna, Austria, April 7-13, 2013.Separating local topography from snow effects on momentum roughness in mountain regions
AGU 2013, San Francisco, USA, December 9-13, 2013.Characterizing the spatial snow depth distribution in mountainous terrain
DACA 2013, Davos, Suisse, July 7-11, 2013.Snow transport in the turbulent boundary layer
2013. DACA-13: Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly DACA-13. Air, Ice & Process Interactions. An IUGG (IAMAS & IACS) event., Davos, Switzerland., July 8-12, 2013.Measuring the thermal balance of a snow avalanche
DACA 2013, Davos, Suisse, July 7-11, 2013.Seasonal simulation of drifting snow sublimation in Alpine terrain
Water Resources Research. 2013. DOI : 10.1002/wrcr.20137.A comparison between two statistical and a physically-based model in snow water equivalent mapping
Advances in Water Resources. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.advwatres.2013.11.011.Measurements of the pore-scale water flow through snow using Fluorescent Particle Tracking Velocimetry
Water Resources Research. 2013. DOI : 10.1002/2013Wr013960.Improving stream flow discharge modelling during snow melt
EGU 2013, Vienna, Austria, April 7-13, 2013.Wind tunnel measurements of sediment mass fluxes in different dense live plant canopies
DACA 2013, Davos, Suisse, July 7-11, 2013.Boundary layer processes over a patchy mountain snow cover and associated changes in the energy balance
Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly 2013, Davos, Suisse, July 7-11, 2013.A comparison between modeled and measured permafrost temperatures at Ritigraben borehole, Switzerland
EGU 2013, Vienna, Austria, April 7-13, 2013.Influence of turbulence-induced pressure fluctuations on snow pack interstitial transport dynamics
Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly 2013, Davos, Suisse, July 7-11, 2013.WeSenseIt – a citizen-based observatory of water
11th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Lausanne, Suisse, November 15-16, 2013.Atmospheric boundary layers in complex terrain and over ice, snow and vegetated surfaces
DACA 2013, Davos, Suisse, July 7-11, 2013.The Uncertainty of Seasonal Snow Energy- and Mass Balance Simulations as a Function of Typical Input Uncertainty
AGU Fall Meeting 2013, San Francisco, USA, December 9-13, 2013.Analysis of surface drag over Antarctic sea ice from combined analyses of high-resolution measurements from Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Large Eddy Simulations
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, December 9-13, 2013.Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions Monitoring in Davos, Switzerland, Before, During and After the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012
EGU 2013, Vienna, Austria, April 7-13, 2013.LES modeling of wind over Antarctic snow-ice formations using a dynamic surface roughness approach.
AGU General Assembly Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA.LES modeling of wind over Antarctic snow-ice formations using a dynamic surface roughness approach
AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, December 9-13, 2013.Snow-atmosphere interactions and hydrological consequences
Advances In Water Resources. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.advwatres.2013.02.001.Assessment of future snow pack in two Alpine regions
Symposium The Water Cycle in a Changing Climate, ETH Zurich, Suisse, July 1-2, 2013.Snow cover runoff and stream discharge modelling during snow melt in Alpine terrain
DACA 2013, Davos, Suisse, July 7-11, 2013.Event-driven deposition of snow on the Antarctic Plateau: analyzing field measurements with SNOWPACK
Cryosphere. 2013. DOI : 10.5194/tc-7-333-2013.SNOWPACK: where do we stand today?
International Snow Science Workshop, Grenoble, Chamonix Mont-Blanc, 2013.Effect of winds in a mountain pass on turbine performance
Wind Energy. 2013. DOI : 10.1002/we.1650.High-resolution surface structure of sea ice floes from terrestrial laser scanning
DACA 2013, Davos, Switzerland, July 07-11, 2013.Application of large-scale computing infrastructure for diverse environmental research applications using GC3Pie
EGU General Assembly 2013, Vienna, Austria, 7-12 April, 2013.EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF A CONSTANT SURFACE SHEAR STRESS IN PARTICLE SALTATION LAYERS
14TH EUROPEAN TURBULENCE CONFERENCE, Lyon, France, September 1-4, 2013.Modelling Drifting Snow Sublimation and Investigating Small-Scale Snow Transport
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5882.Comparison of hydrologic response between a conceptual and a travel time distribution model for a snow-covered alpine catchment using Alpine3D
EGU 2013, Vienna, Austria, April 7-13, 2013.Use of a multilayer snow model to assess grazing conditions for reindeer
Annals Of Glaciology. 2013. DOI : 10.3189/2013AoG62A306.Simulating melt crust and ice lens formation in a physically based snowpack model
DACA 2013, Davos, Suisse, July 7-11, 2013.Relative importance of advective heat transport and boundary layer decoupling in the melt dynamics of a patchy snow cover
Advances In Water Resources. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.03.001.Climatic physical snowpack properties for large-scale modeling examined by observations and a physical model
Polar Science. 2012. DOI : 10.1016/j.polar.2012.02.003.Studies of the spatial variability of alpine snowfall using an X-band polarimetric radar
2012. ERAD 2012 7th European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology, Toulouse, France, June 24-29, 2012.High-resolution vertical profiles of polarimetric X-band weather radar observables during snowfall in the Swiss Alps
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 2012. DOI : 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-015.1.Sensitivity of turbulent fluxes to wind speed over snow surfaces in different climatic settings
Advances in Water Resources. 2012. DOI : 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.06.010.Improved snowmelt simulations with a canopy model forced with photo-derived direct beam canopy transmissivity
Water Resources Research. 2012. DOI : 10.1029/2012WR012285.Wind Tunnel Studies of Shear Stress Partitioning in Live Plant Canopies
Lausanne, EPFL, 2012. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5403.Enabling effective problem-oriented research for sustainable development
Ecology and Society. 2012. DOI : 10.5751/ES-05045-170408.Spatially resolved skin friction velocity measurements using Irwin sensors: A calibration and accuracy analysis
Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. 2012. DOI : 10.1016/J.JWEIA.2012.02.018.Kleinräumige Schneeverteilung und Einfluss der Topographie, in Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt WSL (Hrsg.)
Alpine Schnee- und Wasserresourcen gestern, heute, morgen; Forum für Wissen, 2012. p. 13 - 18.Shear-Stress Partitioning in Live Plant Canopies and Modifications to Raupach's Model
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2012. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-012-9719-4.Micrometeorological processes driving snow ablation in an Alpine catchment
The Cryosphere Discussions. 2011. DOI : 10.5194/tc-5-1083-2011.Spatio-Temporal Surface Shear-Stress Variability in Live Plant Canopies and Cube Arrays
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2011. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-011-9690-5.A theoretical assessment of heat transfer by ventilation in homogeneous snowpacks
Water Resources Research. 2011. DOI : 10.1029/2010WR010008.Persistence in intra-annual snow depth distribution: 1. Measurements and topographic control
Water Resources Research. 2011. DOI : 10.1029/2010WR009426.Altitudinal dependency of snow amounts in two small alpine catchments: can catchment-wide snow amounts be estimated via single snow or precipitation stations?
Annals of Glaciology. 2011. DOI : 10.3189/172756411797252248.Drifting snow sublimation: A high-resolution 3-D model with temperature and moisture feedbacks
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2011. DOI : 10.1029/2011JD015754.Scaling properties of wind and snow depth distribution in an Alpine catchment
Journal of Geophysical Research. 2011. DOI : 10.1029/2010JD014886.Persistence in intra-annual snow depth distribution: 2. Fractal analysis of snow depth development
Water Resources Research. 2011. DOI : 10.1029/2010WR009429.Mountain snow distribution governed by an altitudinal gradient and terrain roughness
Geophysical Research Letters. 2011. DOI : 10.1029/2011GL048927.Spatio-temporal measurements and analysis of snow depth in a rock face
The Cryosphere Discussions. 2011. DOI : 10.5194/tc-5-893-2011.Aerodynamic Roughness Length of Fresh Snow
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2011. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-011-9623-3.Aeolian sediment transport over vegetation canopies: A wind tunnel study with live plants
Aeolian Research. 2011. DOI : 10.1016/j.aeolia.2011.01.003.Measurements of surface shear stress distribution in real plant canopies
2011.Wind influence on snow depth distribution and accumulation over glaciers
Journal of Geophysical Research. 2010. DOI : 10.1029/2009JF001261.Mapping snow depth return levels: smooth spatial modeling versus station interpolation
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 2010. DOI : 10.5194/hess-14-2527-2010.Spatial and temporal variability of snow depth and SWE in a small mountain catchment
The Cryosphere. 2010. DOI : 10.5194/tc-4-215-2010.Explicit validation of a surface shortwave radiation balance model over snow-covered complex terrain
Journal of Geophysical Research. 2010. DOI : 10.1029/2010JD013970.Micrometeorological and morphological observations of surface hoar dynamics on a mountain snow cover
Water Resources Research. 2010. DOI : 10.1029/2009WR008198.Textile protection of snow and ice: Measured and simulated effects on the energy and mass balance
Cold Regions Science and Technology. 2010. DOI : 10.1016/j.coldregions.2010.03.011.Parameterization for wind-induced preferential deposition of snow
Hydrological Processes. 2010. DOI : 10.1002/hyp.7776.Meteorological Modeling of Very High-Resolution Wind Fields and Snow Deposition for Mountains
Journal of Hydrometeorology. 2010. DOI : 10.1175/2010JHM1216.1.Understanding snow-transport processes shaping the mountain snow-cover
The Cryosphere. 2010. DOI : 10.5194/tc-4-545-2010.POP-C++ and Alpine3D: Petition for a New HPC Approach
Advanced ICTs for Disaster Management and Threat Detection: Collaborative and Distributed Frameworks; Information Science Reference, 2010. p. 237 - 261.Statistical evaluation of local to regional snowpack stability using simulated snow-cover data
Cold Regions Science and Technology. 2010. DOI : 10.1016/j.coldregions.2010.04.012.Numerical modeling of liquid water movement through layered snow based on new measurements of the water retention curve
Cold Regions Science and Technology. 2010. DOI : 10.1016/j.coldregions.2010.09.003.Snow cover response to climate change in a high alpine and half-glacierized basin in Switzerland
Hydrology Research. 2010. DOI : 10.2166/nh.2010.115.Sublimation of snow in an Alpine catchment
2010. AMS Mountain Meteorology Conference, Sunvalley Lake Tahoe.Effective Metadata Management in Federated Sensor Networks
2010. The Third IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC2010), Newport Beach, California, USA, June 7-9, 2010. DOI : 10.1109/SUTC.2010.29.Simulations of future snow cover and discharge in Alpine headwater catchments
Hydrological Processes. 2009. DOI : 10.1002/hyp.7195.Permafrost and climate in Europe: Monitoring and modelling thermal, geomorphological and geotechnical responses
Earth-Science Reviews. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.earscirev.2008.12.002.Instrumenting the Earth: Next Generation Sensor Networks in Environmental Science
The Fourth Paradigm, Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery; Microsoft Research, 2009. p. 45 - 51.Extreme value statistics of snowfall in the Swiss Alpine region
Water Resources Research. 2009. DOI : 10.1029/2009WR007916.Albedo effect on radiative errors in air temperature measurements
Water Resources Research. 2009. DOI : 10.1029/2008WR007600.Rapid degradation of ground ice in a ventilated talus slope: Flüela Pass, Swiss Alps
Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. 2009. DOI : 10.1002/ppp.638.Radiosity Approach for the Shortwave Surface Radiation Balance in Complex Terrain
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 2009. DOI : 10.1175/2009JAS2940.1.Climate change and natural hazards in the Grisons
Schweizerische Zeitschrift fuer Forstwesen. 2009.Verification of moisture budgets during drifting snow conditions in a cold wind tunnel
Water Resources Research. 2009. DOI : 10.1029/2008WR007522.Statistical forecasting of regional avalanche danger using simulated snow-cover data
Journal of Glaciology. 2009. DOI : 10.3189/002214309790152429.On the saltation of fresh snow in a wind tunnel: Profile characterization and single particle statistics
Journal of Geophysical Research. 2008. DOI : 10.1029/2007JF000975.Avalanche forecasting in a heavy snowfall area using the snowpack model
Cold Regions Science and Technology. 2008. DOI : 10.1016/j.coldregions.2007.05.013.Assessment of snow transport in avalanche terrain
Cold Regions Science and Technology. 2008. DOI : 10.1016/j.coldregions.2007.05.012.Inhomogeneous precipitation distribution and snow transport in steep terrain
Water Resources Research. 2008. DOI : 10.1029/2007WR006545.Application of the Alpine 3D model for glacier mass balance and glacier runoff studies at Goldbergkees, Austria
Hydrological Processes. 2008. DOI : 10.1002/hyp.7102.Fine-scale modeling of the boundary layer wind field over steep topography
Water Resources Research. 2008. DOI : 10.1029/2007WR006544.Simulation of seasonal snow-cover distribution for glacierized sites on Sonnblick, Austria, with the Alpine3D model
Annals of Glaciology. 2008. DOI : 10.3189/172756408787814924.Improvement and validation of a snow saltation model using wind tunnel measurements
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 2008. DOI : 10.1002/esp.1673.Sensor Metadata Management and its Application in Collaborative Environmental Research
2008. 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, December 7-12, 2008. DOI : 10.1109/eScience.2008.27.Snow physics as relevant to snow photochemistry
Atmospheric Chemistry And Physics. 2008. DOI : 10.5194/acp-8-171-2008.Observations of cross‐ridge flows across steep terrain
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 2008. DOI : 10.1002/qj.259.On Shear-Driven Ventilation of Snow
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2008. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-007-9235-0.Impact of the microstructure of snow on its temperature: A model validation with measurements from Summit, Greenland
Journal of Geophysical Research. 2008. DOI : 10.1029/2007JD009562.A sensitivity study of factors influencing warm/thin permafrost in the Swiss Alps
Journal of Glaciology. 2008. DOI : 10.3189/002214308786570881.A comparison of measurement methods: terrestrial laser scanning, tachymetry and snow probing for the determination of the spatial snow-depth distribution on slopes
Annals of Glaciology. 2008. DOI : 10.3189/172756408787814726.Statistical properties of fresh snow roughness
Water Resources Research. 2008. DOI : 10.1029/2007WR006689.Validationof the SNOWPACK model in five different snow zones in Finland
Boreal Environment Research. 2007.Klimaänderungen und Naturgefahren
Bündner Wald. 2007.ALPINE3D: a detailed model of mountain surface processes and its application to snow hydrology
Hydrological Processes. 2006. DOI : 10.1002/hyp.6204.Snow saltation threshold measurements in a drifting-snow wind tunnel
Journal of Glaciology. 2006. DOI : 10.3189/172756506781828430.Evaluating and improving the stability predictions of the snow cover model SNOWPACK
Cold Regions Science and Technology. 2006. DOI : 10.1016/j.coldregions.2006.05.007.Risk Management and Physical Modelling for Mountainous Natural Hazards
Extreme Events in Nature and Society; Springer, 2005. p. 277 - 294.Seasonal study of directional reflectance properties of snow
EARSeL eProceedings. 2005.Energy Balance and Thermophysical Processes in Snowpacks
Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences; John Wiley & Sons, 2005.Application of the snow cover model SNOWPACK to snow avalanche warning in Niseko, Japan
Cold Regions Science and Technology. 2005. DOI : 10.1016/j.coldregions.2005.05.007.SNOWPACK model simulations for snow in Hokkaido, Japan
Annals of Glaciology. 2004. DOI : 10.3189/172756404781815121.Review of SNOWPACK and ALPINE3D applications, in Snow Engineering
2004. Fifth International Conference on Snow Engineering, Davos, Switzerland, 5-8 July 2004. p. 299 - 307.SN_GUI: a graphical user interface for snowpack modeling
Computers & Geosciences. 2004. DOI : 10.1016/j.cageo.2004.05.011.Measurements and model calculations of the solar shortwave fluxes in snow on Summit, Greenland
Annals of Glaciology. 2004. DOI : 10.3189/172756404781814753.Modeling snow instability with the snow-cover model SNOWPACK
Annals of Glaciology. 2004. DOI : 10.3189/172756404781815220.Application of the numerical snowpack model (SNOWPACK) to the wet-snow region in Japan
Annals of Glaciology. 2004. DOI : 10.3189/172756404781815239.Field measurements of snow-drift threshold and mass fluxes, and related model simulations
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2004. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-004-8659-z.Temperatures in two boreholes at Flüela Pass, Eastern Swiss Alps: the effect of snow redistribution on permafrost distribution patterns in high mountain areas
Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. 2004. DOI : 10.1002/ppp.500.Estimating snow conditions in Finland in the late 21st century using the SNOWPACK model with regional climate scenario data as input
Annals of Glaciology. 2004. DOI : 10.3189/172756404781814843.Numerical simulation of the interaction processes between snow cover and alpine permafrost
2003. p. 697 - 702.Evaluation of snow-surface energy balance models in alpine terrain
Journal of Hydrology. 2003. DOI : 10.1016/S0022-1694(03)00255-5.Snow drift: acoustic sensors for avalanche warning and research
Natural Hazards and Earth System Science. 2002. DOI : 10.5194/nhess-2-121-2002.A physical SNOWPACK model for the Swiss avalanche warning Part III: meteorological forcing, thin layer formation and evaluation
Cold Regions Science and Technology. 2002. DOI : 10.1016/S0165-232X(02)00072-1.Equilibrium Saltation: Mass Fluxes, Aerodynamic Entrainment, and Dependence on Grain Properties
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2002. DOI : 10.1023/A:1015516420286.Effect of unsteady wind on drifting snow: first investigations
Natural Hazards and Earth System Science. 2002. DOI : 10.5194/nhess-2-129-2002.Ozone and PAN Formation Inside and Outside of the Berlin Plume – Process Analysis and Numerical Process Simulation
Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry. 2002. DOI : 10.1023/A:1015732532499.A physical SNOWPACK model for the Swiss avalanche warning Part II. Snow microstructure
Cold Regions Science and Technology. 2002. DOI : 10.1016/S0165-232X(02)00073-3.Measurements and one-dimensional model calculations of snow transport over a mountain ridge
Annals of Glaciology. 2001. DOI : 10.3189/172756401781819616.Schnee und Lawinen
Enzyklopädie Naturwissenschaft und Technik; ECOMED Verlag, 2001.An objective snow profile comparison method and its application to SNOWPACK
Cold Regions Science and Technology. 2001. DOI : 10.1016/S0165-232X(01)00044-1.A snowdrift index based on SNOWPACK model calculations
Annals of Glaciology. 2000. DOI : 10.3189/172756400781819770.Combining snow drift and SNOWPACK models to estimate snow loading in avalanche slopes
Snow engineering, Recent advances and developments; Rotterdam: Balkema, 2000. p. 113 - 122.The regional pollutant budget of the atmospheric boundary layer: Concept, interpretations and observational results
Meteorologische Zeitschrift. 1998. DOI : 10.1127/metz/7/1998/112.Operational Use of a Snowpack Model for the Avalanche Warning Service in Switzerland: Model Development and First Experiences
1998. NGI Anniversary Conference, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, May 1998. p. 169 - 174.Transport of air pollutants from the boundary layer to the free tropospere over complex terrain
Physics and Chemistry of The Earth. 1998. DOI : 10.1016/S0079-1946(98)00108-6.Vertical exchange and regional budgets of air pollutants over densely populated areas
Atmospheric Environment. 1998. DOI : 10.1016/S1352-2310(97)00249-5.Transport processes and regional pollutant budgets over topography of varying complexity
ETHZ, 1997. DOI : 10.3929/ethz-a-001747101.Pollutant transport over complex terrain: Flux and budget calculations for the pollumet field campaign
Atmospheric Environment. 1996. DOI : 10.1016/1352-2310(96)00007-6.Fluxes of Momentum and Scalars between the Atmospheric Boundary Layer and the Free Troposphere over Complex Terrain
1996. 24th International Conference on Alpine Meteorology, ICAM 96, Slovenia, September, 9th - 13th 1996. p. 283 - 290.An inversion algorithm for determining area-source emissions from downwind concentration measurements
Air & waste : journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. 1994. DOI : 10.1080/10473289.1994.10467315.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Environmental Sciences and Engineering
PhD Students
Asemann Patricia Lea Elisabeth, Carletti Francesca, Cintas Albin Manuel, Engbers Rainette, Frischholz Yael, Giger Tim Marco, Hames Océane, Mödl Anja, Schilt Ueli, Sharaborova Elizaveta, Van Schaik Brandon Jacobus Adrianus,Past EPFL PhD Students
Brauchli Tristan Jonas , Braun Anna , Brito Melo Daniela , Comola Francesco , Crivelli Philip , Dujardin Jérôme François Sylvain , Faure Françoise , Gallice Aurélien , Gerber Franziska , Groot Zwaaftink Christine Dorothea , Grünewald Thomas , Haugeneder Michael , Jafari Mahdi , Kristianti Fanny , Krol Quirien Eibhilín , Kruyt Albertus Christiaan , Michel Adrien , Milojevic Tatjana , Mott-Grünewald Rebecca Maria , Reynolds Dylan Stewart , Schlögl Sebastian , Sharma Varun , Sigmund Armin , Sommer Christian Gabriel , Steinkogler Walter , Wagner David Nicholas , Walter Benjamin Andreas , Wever Nander , Würzer Sebastian , Zakari Yasmine ,Courses
Physics and chemistry of the atmosphere
The course provides an introduction to the physical and chemical processes that govern the atmospheric dynamics at small and large scales. The basis is laid for an in depth understanding of our atmospheric environment and the climate system.
Physics and hydrology of snow
This course covers principles of snow physics, snow hydrology, snow-atmosphere interaction, and snow modeling. It transmits detailed understanding of physical processes within the snow and at its interfaces with the atmosphere and the ground, and presents field, laboratory, and modeling techniques.