Publications related to Snowpack

Good enough: Intermediate complexity atmospheric models improve the representation of processes affecting seasonal snow

Snow plays a crucial role in processes regulating ecosystems, the climate, and human development. Mountain snowpack in particular has great relevance for downstream communities. Knowledge about the distribution and properties of the snowpack thus help in p ...

EPFL2024

Influence of sun cups on surface albedo of wet Alpine snowpack

Michael Lehning, Mathias Thierry Pierre Bavay, Francesca Carletti

In high elevation Alpine areas, characterised by high snow accumulation and radiation-driven melt processes, the formation of peculiar ablation features called sun cups can be observed. Sun cups likely influence the energy and mass balance of the wet snowp ...

2024

Convection of snow: when and why does it happen?

Michael Lehning, Mahdi Jafari

Convection of water vapor in snowpacks is supposed to have a major impact on snow density and microstructure profiles with strong implications for the thermal regime and snow stability. However, the process has never been directly measured and only recentl ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Towards a fully physical representation of snow on Arctic sea ice using a 3D snow-atmosphere model

Michael Lehning, Adrien Michel, Mahdi Jafari, Océane Hames, Nander Wever, Marc Schneebeli Zeugin, David Nicholas Wagner

In high elevation Alpine areas, characterised by high snow accumulation and radiation-driven melt processes, the formation of peculiar ablation features called sun cups can be observed. Sun cups likely influence the energy and mass balance of the wet snowp ...

2023

Convection of water vapour in snowpacks

Varun Sharma, Michael Lehning, Mahdi Jafari

This paper studies numerically the convection of water vapour in snowpacks using an Eulerian-Eulerian two-phase approach. The convective water vapour transport in snow and its effects on snow density are often invoked to explain observed density profiles, ...

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2022

Water vapor transport in snowpacks

Mahdi Jafari

This thesis is an in-depth treatment of water vapor transport in snowpacks and its impacts on snow structure. The aim is to better understand this transport process and to lay the basis for a model representation in physics-based multi-layer snow models. O ...

EPFL2022

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

Michael Lehning, Tobias Jonas, Dylan Stewart Reynolds, Michael Haugeneder

The lateral transport of heat above abrupt (sub-)metre-scale steps in land surface temperature influences the local surface energy balance. We present a novel experimental method to investigate the stratification and dynamics of the near-surface atmospheri ...

SPRINGER2022

Evaluating a prediction system for snow management

Michael Lehning

The evaluation of snowpack models capable of accounting for snow management in ski resorts is a major step towards acceptance of such models in supporting the daily decision-making process of snow production managers. In the framework of the EU Horizon 202 ...

COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH2021

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

Michael Lehning, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Jérôme François Sylvain Dujardin, Franziska Gerber, Daniela Brito Melo, Armin Sigmund, Benjamin Andreas Walter

Drifting and blowing snow is a dominant process shaping snow-covered surfaces in particular in extreme environments such as high mountains or polar regions. Because the process is complicated to describe, as it covers scales from below 1 mm to several kilo ...

2021

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

Varun Sharma, Michael Lehning, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Jérôme François Sylvain Dujardin, Franziska Gerber, Daniela Brito Melo, Armin Sigmund, Benjamin Andreas Walter

Drifting and blowing snow is a dominant process shaping snow-covered surfaces in particular in extreme environments such as high mountains or polar regions. Because the process is complicated to describe, as it covers scales from below 1 mm to several kilo ...

2021

Snowpack

Good enough: Intermediate complexity atmospheric models improve the representation of processes affecting seasonal snow

Influence of sun cups on surface albedo of wet Alpine snowpack

Convection of snow: when and why does it happen?

Towards a fully physical representation of snow on Arctic sea ice using a 3D snow-atmosphere model

Convection of water vapour in snowpacks

Water vapor transport in snowpacks

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

Evaluating a prediction system for snow management

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

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

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

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

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

Towards a fully physical representation of snow on Arctic sea ice using a 3D snow-atmosphere model

Convection of water vapour in snowpacks

Evaluating a prediction system for snow management

Water vapor transport in snowpacks