Publications by Sebastian Schlögl

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

Michael Lehning, Sebastian Schlögl, Charles Fierz

The energy balance of an alpine snow cover significantly changes once the snow cover gets patchy. The local advection of warm air causes above-average snow ablation rates at the upwind edge of the snow patch. As lateral transport processes are typically no ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2018

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

Sebastian Schlögl

In this thesis, we investigate the surface energy balance of a snow pack for a continuous and a patchy snow cover. Snow surface temperatures have been validated to assess the accuracy of the surface energy balance of a continuous snow pack for individual p ...

EPFL2018

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

Michael Lehning, Sebastian Schlögl

The melting mountain snow cover in spring typically changes from a continuous snow cover to a mosaic of patches of snow and bare ground, inducing an extreme heterogeneity of the land surface. A comprehensive measurement campaign, the Dischma experiment, wa ...

American Meteorological Society2017

How much can we save? Impact of different emission scenarios on future snow cover in the Alps

Michael Lehning, Sebastian Schlögl, Mathias Thierry Pierre Bavay

This study focuses on an assessment of the future snow depth for two larger Alpine catchments. Automatic weather station data from two diverse regions in the Swiss Alps have been used as input for the Alpine3D surface process model to compute the snow cove ...

Copernicus GmbH2017

How do patchy snow covers affect turbulent sensible heat fluxes? – Numerical analysis and experimental findings

Michael Lehning, Sebastian Schlögl

The surface energy balance of a snow cover significantly changes once the snow cover gets patchy. The substantial progress in knowledge about the surface energy balance of patchy snow covers is a mandatory requirement to reduce biases in flux parameterizat ...

2017

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

Michael Lehning, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Sebastian Schlögl, Koichi Nishimura

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 ...

2017

Sensitivity of Alpine3D modeled snow cover to modifications in DEM resolution, station coverage and meteorological input quantities

Michael Lehning, Sebastian Schlögl, Mathias Thierry Pierre Bavay

This study presents a comprehensive sensitivity and uncertainty assessment of important input parameters on the Alpine3D modeled snow water equivalent (SWE) for two different alpine catchments. Horizontal resolution of the DEM grid, station coverage and se ...

Elsevier2016