Michael Lehning

18.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
312 papers, 11.1k citations indexed

About

Michael Lehning is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Lehning has authored 312 papers receiving a total of 11.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 257 papers in Atmospheric Science, 84 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 82 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Michael Lehning's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (237 papers), Climate change and permafrost (89 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (84 papers). Michael Lehning is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (237 papers), Climate change and permafrost (89 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (84 papers). Michael Lehning collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Michael Lehning's co-authors include Perry Bartelt, Charles Fierz, Rebecca Mott, T. Grünewald, Bob Brown, Michael Schirmer, Mathias Bavay, Henning Löwe, Nander Wever and Andrew Clifton and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Michael Lehning

288 papers receiving 10.3k citations

Hit Papers

A physical SNOWPACK model for the Swiss avalanche warning 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A physical SNOWPACK model for the Swiss avalanche warning
    2002 580 citations Perry Bartelt, Michael Lehning profile →

Peers

Michael Lehning
John W. Pomeroy Canada
Walter W. Immerzeel Netherlands
L. C. Smith United States
Guoqing Zhang China
Jeff Dozier United States
S.M. de Jong Netherlands
Oliver Korup Germany
Duncan J. Quincey United Kingdom
Dorothy K. Hall United States
Hongjie Xie United States
John W. Pomeroy Canada
Michael Lehning
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Countries citing papers authored by Michael Lehning

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Lehning

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Lehning. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Lehning based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Michael Lehning. Michael Lehning is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Gjorgiev, Blazhe, Xin Wen, Jérôme Dujardin, et al.. (2025). Policy-relevance of a model inter-comparison: Switzerland in the European energy transition. Applied Energy. 391. 125906–125906. 5 indexed citations
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Nadeau, Daniel F., Florent Dominé, Nander Wever, et al.. (2024). Impact of intercepted and sub-canopy snow microstructure on snowpack response to rain-on-snow events under a boreal canopy. ˜The œcryosphere. 18(6). 2783–2807. 7 indexed citations
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Koch, Franziska, Simon Gascoin, Paul Schattan, et al.. (2024). Superconducting Gravimeter Observations Show That a Satellite‐Derived Snow Depth Image Improves the Simulation of the Snow Water Equivalent Evolution in a High Alpine Site. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(24). 1 indexed citations
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Milojevic, Tatjana, Juliette Blanchet, & Michael Lehning. (2023). Determining return levels of extreme daily precipitation, reservoir inflow, and dry spells. Frontiers in Water. 5. 4 indexed citations
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Gerber, Franziska, Varun Sharma, & Michael Lehning. (2023). CRYOWRF—Model Evaluation and the Effect of Blowing Snow on the Antarctic Surface Mass Balance. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(12). 10 indexed citations
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Lehning, Michael, et al.. (2023). A Case Study on Drivers of the Isotopic Composition of Water Vapor at the Coast of East Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 128(7). 1 indexed citations
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Lehning, Michael, et al.. (2023). Convection of snow: when and why does it happen?. Frontiers in Earth Science. 11.
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Dujardin, Jérôme, Francesco Comola, Varun Sharma, et al.. (2021). Evidence of Strong Flux Underestimation by Bulk Parametrizations During Drifting and Blowing Snow. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 182(1). 119–146. 22 indexed citations
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Sharma, Varun, et al.. (2021). Modeling Snow Saltation: The Effect of Grain Size and Interparticle Cohesion. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(1). 18 indexed citations
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Wever, Nander, Nina Maaß, Katherine Leonard, et al.. (2020). Version 1 of a sea ice module for the physics-based, detailed, multi-layer SNOWPACK model. Geoscientific model development. 13(1). 99–119. 18 indexed citations
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Comola, Francesco, Johan Gaume, Jasper F. Kok, & Michael Lehning. (2019). Cohesion‐Induced Enhancement of Aeolian Saltation. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(10). 5566–5574. 36 indexed citations
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Sharma, Varun, Francesco Comola, & Michael Lehning. (2018). On the suitability of the Thorpe–Mason model for calculating sublimation of saltating snow. ˜The œcryosphere. 12(11). 3499–3509. 19 indexed citations
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Comola, Francesco & Michael Lehning. (2017). Energy‐ and momentum‐conserving model of splash entrainment in sand and snow saltation. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(3). 1601–1609. 42 indexed citations
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Mitterer, Christoph, et al.. (2013). The Systematic Snow Cover Diagnosis: A Process-Based Approach for Avalanche Danger Assessment. DORA WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research). 199–202. 5 indexed citations
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Schirmer, Michael & Michael Lehning. (2011). Persistence in intra‐annual snow depth distribution: 2. Fractal analysis of snow depth development. Water Resources Research. 47(9). 52 indexed citations
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Schirmer, Michael, Jürg Schweizer, & Michael Lehning. (2009). Regional stability evaluation with modelled snow cover data. DORA WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research). 306–312.
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Lehning, Michael, Mathias Bavay, Henning Löwe, M. B. Parlange, & Karl Aberer. (2007). Das Swiss Experiment und die Zukunft der Vorhersage von alpinen Naturgefahren. DORA WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research). 3 indexed citations
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Lehning, Michael, et al.. (2005). Model Assessment of Permafrost Development for a Large Alpine Catchment. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 2 indexed citations
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Lehning, Michael, et al.. (1998). A network of automatic weather and snow stations and supplementary model calculations providing snowpack information for avalanche warning. DORA WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research). 9 indexed citations
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Lehning, Michael. (1998). The regional pollutant budget of the atmospheric boundary layer: Concept, interpretations and observational results. Meteorologische Zeitschrift. 7(7). 112–119. 3 indexed citations

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