Michael Lehning

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michael.lehning@epfl.ch +41 21 693 80 81 http://cryos.epfl.ch

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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

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

V. Heinisch; J. Dujardin; P. Gabrielli; P. Jain; M. Lehning et al.

Applied Energy. 2023-11-15. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.121700.

Michael Lehning

Fields of expertise

Grants

Awards

Publications

Infoscience publications

Infoscience

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

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 (vol 182, pg 119, 2022)

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

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

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

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

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

Measuring snow transport and sublimation near Princess Elisabeth Station, Antarctica

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

Wind, Hail, and Climate Extremes: Modelling and Attribution Studies for Environmental Data

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

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

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

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

How much snow sublimates in Extreme Environments: Quantifying blowing snow sublimation

Considering snow depositions and transport mechanisms in meteorological analysis of predicting snow loads on buildings

Sources of Primary Electricity Supply

Modeling the small-scale deposition of snow onto structured Arctic sea ice during a MOSAiC storm using snowBedFoam 1.0.

Wind-Topo: Measurement-Based Deep Learning Generation of High-Resolution Wind Fields in Complex Terrain

The Complexity of Alpine Weather: An Asset for the Energy Transition

Snowfall and snow accumulation during the MOSAiC winter and spring seasons

Snow sublimation in Antarctica

Idealized Study of a Static Electrical Field on Charged Saltating Snow Particles

Climate Change Impact Assessment for Future Wind and Solar Energy Installations in India

Water vapour fluxes above snow in conditions of drifting and blowing snow

High-speed imaging of snow saltation: wind tunnel experiments using natural snow

Towards better estimates of wind power potentials in the Alps

Wind-Topo: Downscaling near-surface wind fields to high-resolution topography in highly complex terrain with deep learning

Wind-Topo_Model

TopoCLIM: rapid topography-based downscaling of regional climate model output in complex terrain v1.1

Future water temperature of rivers in Switzerland under climate change investigated with physics-based models

SWEET-EDGE: Enabling Decentralized renewable Generation in the Alps

Convection of water vapour in snowpacks

Modeling Snow Saltation: The Effect of Grain Size and Interparticle Cohesion

Preprocessing Antarctic Weather Station (AWS) data in python

Risk Profiles of Impactful and Extreme Hydrological Events for Alpine Reservoirs

Reproducibility dataset for CRYOWRF validation

Dataset for: Future water temperature of rivers in Switzerland under climate change investigated with physics-based models

Exploring alternative possibilities for sublimation measurements over snow and ice surfaces

Surface snow isotopic composition: Post-depositional processes in an alpine snowpack

Addressing impact of climate change on wind and solar energy infrastructures: the case of India

Parametrizing drifting snow sublimation in the saltation layer

Water vapor transport in snowpacks

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

The influence of drifting and blowing snow on surface (turbulent) mass- and energy exchange assessed with different methods

Evolution and spatial variability of small-scale surface roughness of snow and sea ice during MOSAiC

A review in snow saltation dynamics and its implications for the surface mass balance

A comparison of hydrological models with different level of complexity in Alpine regions in the context of climate change

Influence of Meteorological Conditions on Artificial Ice Reservoir (Icestupa) Evolution

How important are snow transport and sublimation for the mass balance of Antarctica?

100% erneuerbar – und zwar mit Köpfchen

Modelling the small-scale deposition of snow onto structured Arctic sea ice during a MOSAiC storm using snowBedFoam 1.0.

Evaluating a prediction system for snow management

How Forward-Scattering Snow and Terrain Change the Alpine Radiation Balance With Application to Solar Panels

The inFuence of drifting and blowing snow on surface (turbulent) mass- and energy exchange assessed with different methods

Forward scattering of snow as a factor in local surface energy balance and winter PV production

Similarity conditions and cube model tests of snow drift and precipitation preferential deposition patterns

High resolution static data for WRF over Switzerland

Synergistic optimization of renewable energy installations through evolution strategy

Blowing snow in Antarctica and its contribution to the surface mass balance