Publications by Michael Lehning

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Theoretical considerations suggest that saltation dynamics is dominated by either aerodynamic entrainment or by a combination of ejection and rebound at a given time and location. Calling these two regimes weak and strong saltation, respectively, we have i ...

Snow plays an essential role in the Arctic as the interface between the sea ice and the atmosphere. Optical properties, thermal conductivity and mass distribution are critical to understanding the complex Arctic sea ice system's energy balance and mass dis ...

This paper considers metadata generation and tracking in a collaborative environment where users publish raw sensor data in the form of virtual sensors and post-process data by means of filtering, modeling, or query processing techniques. In the metadata s ...

Rough terrain in mid- and high latitudes is often covered with highly reflective snow, giving rise to a very complex transfer of incident sunlight. In order to simplify the radiative transfer in weather and climate models, snow is generally treated as an i ...

This work presents the first extensive study of climate change impacts on rivers temperature in Switzerland. Results show that even for low emissions scenarios, water temperature increase will lead to adverse effect for both ecosystems and socioeconomic se ...

The SUNWELL Modelling Environment is a combination of data and code that models electricity production from satellite-derived irradiance data and other spatial data sets for all of Switzerland. This ensemble accompanies the publication "The bright side of ...

We compare two of the most common methods of quantifying mass flux, particle numbers and particle-size distribution for drifting snow events, the snow-particle counter (SPC), a laser-diode-based particle detector, and particle tracking velocimetry based on ...

Data from the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition allowed us to investigate the temporal dynamics of snowfall, snow accumulation, and erosion in great detail for almost the whole accumulation season (N ...

We assess sensible heat-flux parametrizations in stable conditions over snow surfaces by testing and developing stability correction functions for two alpine and two polar test sites. Five turbulence datasets are analyzed with respect to, (a) the validity ...

Static input data (topography, landuse and soiltype) for the WRF preprocessing system WPS is provided for Switzerland and its neighboring countries between 45-49 N and 4-12 E. The data is provided at a resolution of 1 s. Topography is based on the Aster da ...

Snow management, i. e., snowmaking and grooming, is an integral part of modern ski resort management. While the current snow cover distribution on the slopes is often well known thanks to the usage of advanced monitoring techniques, information about its f ...

Introduction: High Alpine regions show a great potential for solar photovoltaic electricity production in winter due to the reflective properties of snow and the larger number of sun hours compared to lower urban and peri-urban regions. In countries with a ...

The atmospheric boundary layer over mountains shows a wide range of special characteristics, especially when mountains are covered with snow. This contribution discusses how cloud dynamics, prferential deposition and snow transport shape the obeserved high ...

Rain-on-snow events can cause severe flooding in snow-dominated regions. These are expected to become more frequent in the future as climate change shifts the precipitation from snowfall to rainfall. However, little is known about how winter rainfall inter ...

Geophys . Res. Abstr. 18: EGU2016‐11274. The formation of wind-hardened surface layers, also known as wind slabs or wind crusts, is studied. Better knowledge about which processes and parameters are important will lead to an improved understanding of the m ...

It is well known that snow avalanches exhibit granulation phenomena, i.e., the formation of large and apparently stable snow granules during the flow. The size distribution of the granules has an influence on flow behavior which, in turn, affects runout di ...

Solar radiation is a dominant driver of snowmelt dynamics and streamflow generation in alpine catchments. A better understanding of how solar radiation patterns affect the hydrologic response is needed to assess when calibrated temperature-index models are ...

The invention relates to a method (500) for ascertaining an installation angle (αInstall) between a roadway (170) on which a vehicle (100) travels and a detection direction (122) of a measurement or radar sensor (105). The method (500) has a step (510) of ...

Model and Data: Dujardin, J.; Lehning, M. Wind-Topo_model. EnviDat 2022 ...

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Wind tunnel observations of weak and strong snow saltation dynamics

A Database of Snow on Sea Ice in the Central Arctic Collected during the MOSAiC expedition

Sensor Metadata Management and its Application in Collaborative Environmental Research

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

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

Dataset on PV Production in Snow Covered Mountains

Quantifying Particle Numbers and Mass Flux in Drifting Snow

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

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

High resolution static data for WRF over Switzerland

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

Confirmation of the power gain for solar photovoltaic systems in alpine areas and across scales

Bodennahe atmosphärische Prozesse und ihre Wirkung auf die hochalpine Schneedecke

Impact of intercepted and sub-canopy snow microstructure on snowpack response to rain-on-snow events under a boreal canopy

Wind slab formation in snow: experimental setup and first results

Granulation of snow: From tumbler experiments to discrete element simulations

Snow-atmosphere interactions and hydrological consequences

Scale-dependent effects of solar radiation patterns on the snow-dominated hydrologic response

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

Wind-Topo_Model