Michael Lehning

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

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Station 2
CH-1015 Lausanne

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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

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S. Biollaz; M. Densing; A. Kim; W. Schenler; K. Treyer et al.

2022-09-01

Michael Lehning

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Publications

Infoscience publications

Infoscience

Sources of Primary Electricity Supply

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

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

Water vapor transport in snowpacks

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

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

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

Snowfall and snow accumulation processes during the MOSAiC winter and spring season

Snowfall and snow accumulation processes during the MOSAiC winter and spring season

On the necessity of including vapor kinetics to model the specific surface area evolution in snow

A snowfall downscaling scheme for mountainous terrain

Precipitation over the Southern Ocean: synoptic analysis and model evaluation using ground-based remote sensing and in-situ measurements

Simulating airborne 'snow walls' of Antarctica using CRYOWRF v1.0

River Temperature Evolution in Switzerland over the 21st Century

Climate change scenarios at hourly time‐step over Switzerland from an enhanced temporal downscaling approach

Dataset for: Climate change scenarios at hourly time-step over Switzerland from an enhanced temporal downscaling approach

Meteorology and snow transport at S17 near Syowa, Antarctica, in austral summer 2018/2019

Modeling snow saltation: the effect of grain size and interparticle cohesion

Changement climatique et température des rivières

The complex winds of the Alps: an unseen asset for the energy transition

Past and future impacts of climate change on swiss river temperature and discharge investigated with data analysis and numerical modelling

Multi-Resolution Convolutional Neural Network for High-Resolution Downscaling of Wind Fields from Operational Weather Prediction Models in Complex Terrain

PV on high alpine reservoir wall - Axpo's pioneer project in the Swiss Alps

Estimating the free troposphere measurement quality from high-altitude stations using topographic analysis

Modelling the small-scale deposition of snow onto structured Arctic sea ice using OpenFOAM

The monitoring and modelling of snow preparation in alpine and cross country ski areas

100% renewable – 100% doable

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

Wie sich wasser, sonne und wind zu einem 100% erneuerbaren elektrizitätssystem in der Schweiz ergänzen

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

REMA topography and AntarcticaLC2000 for WRF

Stream Temperature Evolution in Switzerland: Recent past and future

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

UAV based photogrammetry for snow height determination with GNSS/INS assisted aerial control

Downscaling of gridded wind fields using Deep Learning methods

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