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Brief communication: Application of a muonic cosmic ray snow gauge to monitor the snow water equivalent on alpine glaciers

Rebecca Gugerli

Monitoring the snow water equivalent (SWE) in the harsh environments of high mountain regions is a challenge. Here, we explore the use of muon counts to infer SWE. We deployed a muonic cosmic ray snow gauge (mu-CRSG) on a Swiss glacier during the snow-rich ...

COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH2022

Wind energy has played a major role in the development of our society since 5000 BC when the first sail boats traveled the Nile River. Wind technology continued to advance with the invention of wind-powered pumps and mills in China and the Middle East as e ...

EPFL2021

A snowfall downscaling scheme for mountainous terrain

Michael Lehning

In mountainous terrain, the spatial and temporal variability of the snow cover is driven by the interaction of meteorological processes with the underlying topography. Typically, terrain-precipitation-wind interactions predominantly shape the spatial snow ...

2021

The relative contribution of secondary ice processes in Alpine mixed-phase clouds

Athanasios Nenes, Alexis Berne, Georgia Sotiropoulou, Paraskevi Georgakaki, Etienne Gabriel Henri Vignon

In-situ observations of mixed-phase clouds (MPCs) forming over mountain tops regularly reveal that ice crystal number concentrations (ICNCs) are orders of magnitude higher than ice-nucleating particle concentrations. This discrepancy has often been attribu ...

2021

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The correct representation of Antarctic clouds in atmospheric models is crucial for accurate projections of the future Antarctic climate. This is particularly true for summer clouds which play a critical role in the surface melting of the ice shelves in th ...

2021

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Snow covered regions are frequently subjected to strong winds. This leads to the erosion of the snow surface and the occurrence of drifting and blowing snow events. To correctly predict and model these phenomena is of the utmost importance to assess snowpa ...

2021

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Ground based and airborne observations of orographic mixed-phase clouds (MPCs) forming over mountain top research stations have long reported a discrepancy between the measured ice crystal number concentrations (ICNCs) and the concentration of ice nucleati ...

2021

Precipitation is the result of a chain of meteorological processes ranging from the large- to the micro-scale. While the transport of moisture and lifting mechanisms leading to cloud formation are mostly governed by dynamical processes, the formation and g ...

EPFL2021

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

Varun Sharma, Michael Lehning, Franziska Gerber

When a well-developed, high velocity katabatic flow draining down the ice sheet of Antarctica reaches the coast, it experiences an abrupt and rapid transition due to change in slope resulting in formation of a hydraulic jump. A remarkable manifestation of ...

2021

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

Varun Sharma, Michael Lehning, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Daniela Brito Melo, Armin Sigmund

This presentation is part of the session 'Contributing to climate science through research in polar and high-altitude regions: the early-career researchers' point of view' in the Geneva Cryosphere HUB of the COP26 conference. We discuss the mass balance of ...

2021