Michael Lehning

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EPFL ENAC SSIE-GE
GR A0 392 (Bâtiment GR)
Station 2
CH-1015 Lausanne

+41 21 693 80 81
Office: GR A0 392
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EPFL ENAC IIE CRYOS
GR A0 392 (Bâtiment GR)
Station 2
CH-1015 Lausanne

+41 21 693 80 81
+41 21 693 63 92
Office: GR A0 392
EPFL > ENAC > IIE > CRYOS

Web site: Web site: https://cryos.epfl.ch

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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

The Impact of Diffusive Water Vapor Transport on Snow Profiles in Deep and Shallow Snow Covers and on Sea Ice

M. Jafari; I. Gouttevin; M. Couttet; N. Wever; A. Michel et al.

Frontiers in earth Science. 2020-07-16. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2020.00249.

Michael Lehning

Fields of expertise

Grants

Awards

Publications

Infoscience publications

Infoscience

The Impact of Diffusive Water Vapor Transport on Snow Profiles in Deep and Shallow Snow Covers and on Sea Ice

The Influence of Mountain-Ridge Scale Snow Precipitation Processes on the Local Snow Distribution

Radar measurements of blowing snow off a mountain ridge

Changes in Climatology, Snow Cover, and Ground Temperatures at High Alpine Locations

Simulation of snow management in Alpine ski resorts using three different snow models

Version 1 of a sea ice module for the physics-based, detailed, multi-layer SNOWPACK model

Stream temperature and discharge evolution in Switzerland over the last 50 years: annual and seasonal behaviour

Understanding snow bedform formation by adding sintering to a cellular automata model

Preferential Deposition of Snow and Dust Over Hills: Governing Processes and Relevant Scales

Solarstrom aus den Bergen ersetzt Atomkraftwerke

Cohesion-Induced Enhancement of Aeolian Saltation

Spatiotemporal dynamics of snow erosion, deposition and horizontal mass flux

NUMERICAL WEATHER MODELS FOR RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF ALPINE WIND POWER

The bright side of PV production in snow-covered mountains

Precipitation and Radiosonde Measurements Over the Southern Ocean During the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition

Precipitation over the Southern Ocean: learning from measurements during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition

Precipitation during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition: multi-sensor observations and Polar-WRF model evaluation

Precipitation over the Southern Ocean: comparison of several ship-based measurement techniques during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition

Local radiation maxima in snow-covered mountains and its influence on PV winter production

How well do we understand the influence of drifting and blowing snow in extreme environments?

Detailed simulations of spatial snow accumulation patterns and near surface snow properties in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

Medienanlass zur Wolken- und Schneemesskampagne von SLF, ETHZ u.a. in Davos Wolfgang.

Potential and uncertainty of wind energy in the Swiss Alps

The Importance of Near-Surface Winter Precipitation Processes in Complex Alpine Terrain

Large wind farms can destroy stratocumulus clouds-evidence from large eddy simulations.

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

How Are Turbulent Sensible Heat Fluxes and Snow Melt Rates Affected by a Changing Snow Cover Fraction?

Improvement of Wind Power Assessment in Complex Terrain: The Case of COSMO-1 in the Swiss Alps

Representation of Horizontal Transport Processes in Snowmelt Modeling by Applying a Footprint Approach

Spatial variability in snow precipitation and accumulation in COSMO–WRF simulations and radar estimations over complex terrain

Investigation of a wind-packing event in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica

Charting the course: A possible route to a fully renewable Swiss power system

Polarforscher in der Schweiz

Is the Thorpe and Mason model valid for drifting and blowing snow?

The European mountain cryosphere: a review of its current state, trends, and future challenges

Des avalanches d'un nouveau type

The impact of snow on solar PV production

Modelling the arctic snowpack properties in Svalbard using SNOWPACK

Revisiting the Thorpe-Mason model for calculating sublimation of saltating snow

Dataset on PV Production in Snow Covered Mountains

From the Clouds to the Ground - Snow Precipitation Patterns in Complex Terrain

Local surface mass balance processes in East Antarctica

Local snow transport and surface evolution processes in East Antarctica

Wind Tunnel Experiments: Influence of Erosion and Depositionon Wind-Packing of New Snow

Snow farming: conserving snow over the summer season

Near-surface ventilation as a key for modeling the thermal regime of coarse blocky rock glaciers

Hydrological response of two high altitude Swiss catchments to energy balance and temperature index melt schemes

Wind-packing of snow: How do wind crusts form?

Small-scale spatio-temporal dynamics of snowmelt and its influence on runoff generation in a high Alpine catchment

Investigation of snow melt dynamics and boundary layer processes over a melting snow surface

From the clouds to the ground - Effects of flow-precipitation interactions on snow distribution in complex alpine terrain

Toward a systematic integration of optical remote sensing for inland waters studies

Interactions between drifting snow and surface dynamics

Snowpack runoff formation processes during rain-on-snow events

Numerical Experiments of Atmospheric Boundary Layer flows

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

Complementing hydropower with PV and wind: Optimal energy mix in a fully renewable Switzerland

Optimization of photovoltaic potential and its integration in Switzerland using genetic algorithm and optimal power flow

A Swiss electrical model

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

Wind tunnel experiments: saltation is necessary for wind-packing

Impact of Extreme Land Surface Heterogeneity on Micrometeorology over Spring Snow Cover

Influence of slope-scale snowmelt on catchment response simulated with the Alpine3D model

Wind tunnel observations of weak and strong snow saltation dynamics

Upscaling the evolution of snow microstructure

Ecological response of tree saplings to simulated climate change along an elevational gradient (CLIMARBRE)

A close-ridge small-scale atmospheric flow field and its influence on snow accumulation

How do Stability Corrections Perform in the Stable Boundary Layer Over Snow?

Snow farming: Conserving snow over the summer season

Interplay between photovoltaic, wind energy and storage hydropower in a fully renewable Switzerland

Simulating the influence of snow surface processes on soil moisture dynamics and streamflow generation in an alpine catchment

Fragmentation of wind-blown snow crystals