Publications
”One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.”
– Crates.

Figures of snow bedform formation by adding sintering to a cellular automata model (Sharma, Braud et al. 2019).
2026
Journal Articles
Wind turbine performance in high-alpine terrain as influenced by temperature, snow cover and turbulence
Energy Reports. 2026. Vol. 15. DOI : 10.1016/j.egyr.2026.109322.Satellite-guided, AI-enhanced framework for assessing UHI-driven cooling and heating loads
Frontiers in Remote Sensing. 2026. Vol. 7. DOI : 10.3389/frsen.2026.1770048.Make every kilowatt count: Modeling solar power integration with thermal storage and heating electrification
Solar Energy Advances. 2026. DOI : 10.1016/j.seja.2026.100135.Resolving three-dimensional wind velocity fields in complex terrain using sequential wind-Doppler LiDAR, CFD and wind turbine measurements – Gotthard Pass, Switzerland
Open Research Europe. 2026. Vol. 5. DOI : 10.12688/openreseurope.19095.3.The future is in the past? A flexible resampling approach to generate multivariate time series
Environmental Research Letters. 2026. DOI : 10.1088/1748-9326/ae51af.Identification of hydro-meteorological drivers for forest low greenness events in Europe
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 2026. Vol. 26, num. 3, p. 1183 – 1205. DOI : 10.5194/nhess-26-1183-2026.Assessing wind dynamics and turbine power at Princess Elisabeth station, Antarctica, using Doppler wind LiDAR and vertical array anemometers
Energy Conversion and Management. 2026. Vol. 352. DOI : 10.1016/j.enconman.2026.121074.Antarctic Wind Atlas: Gradient-Boosting based Quantile Mapping on 15 years of Climatological Reanalysis
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 2026. DOI : 10.1175/bams-d-25-0096.1.Retrieval of surface solar radiation with deep-learning using contextually recovered background reflectance
Solar Energy. 2026. Vol. 304, p. 114188. DOI : 10.1016/j.solener.2025.114188.Optimizing snow distribution in alpine PV systems: CFD-based design guidelines for power plant layout
Cold Regions Science and Technology. 2026. Vol. 241, p. 104654. DOI : 10.1016/j.coldregions.2025.104654.Iceberg-Induced Snowdrift Formation on Antarctic Landfast Sea Ice: Effects of Wind and Iceberg Size
Journal of Glaciology. 2026. DOI : 10.1017/jog.2026.10139.Conference Papers
Modeling with SCHNAPS: the Snow Cover and High-resolutioN Atmospheric Processes System
2026. EGU26, the 26th EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, and online, 2026-05-03 – 2026-05-08. DOI : 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-12973.Magnitude and controls of snow sublimation at a high-elevation Swiss alpine site
2026. EGU26, the 26th EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, and online, 2026-05-03 – 2026-05-08. DOI : 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-18102.Heat extremes in subseasonal hindcasts: a General Extreme Value perspective
2026. EGU26, the 26th EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, and online, 2026-05-03 – 2026-05-08. DOI : 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-18203.Large-scale Clustering of Natural Snowfall: Collective Precipitation Dynamics in Three Dimensions
2026. EGU26, the 26th EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, and online, 2026-05-03 – 2026-05-08. DOI : 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-19729.Transport of blowing snow particles through turbulent motions
2026. EGU26, the 26th EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, and online, 2026-05-03 – 2026-05-08. DOI : 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-5092.Working Papers
The importance of alpine blowing snow for cloud processes
2026
A Novel Analytical Tool to Capture Wind Profile Variability for Wind Energy Assessment: Fast, Simple, and Beyond State-of-the-Art in Complex Terrain
2026
Reports
Demonstration Project Alpine-PV: Muttsee (GL), Performance Analysis and Snow Induced Losses
2026
Posters
Effect of blowing snow on ice number concentrations
C2SM Modeling Workshop, Dübendorf, Suisse, 2026-01-13.Talks
Importance of intraseasonal atmospheric temperature variability for permafrost in the Swiss Alps
Climate and Cryosphere Open Science Conference 2026, Wellington, New Zealand, 2026-02-09 – 2026-02-12.2025
Journal Articles
Characterization of the near-surface air temperature dynamics over glaciers using thermal infrared measurements
Frontiers in Earth Science. 2025. Vol. 13. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2025.1658491.Iceberg influence on snow distribution and slush formation on Antarctic landfast sea ice from airborne multi-sensor observations
The Cryosphere. 2025. Vol. 19, num. 11, p. 6319 – 6339. DOI : 10.5194/tc-19-6319-2025.Spatiotemporal variability of turbulent fluxes in snow-covered mountain terrain
Frontiers in Earth Science. 2025. Vol. 13. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2025.1640842.Multitemporal analysis of Sentinel-1 backscatter during snowmelt using high-resolution field measurements and radiative transfer modelling
The Cryosphere. 2025. Vol. 19, num. 11, p. 5579 – 5612. DOI : 10.5194/tc-19-5579-2025.Snow particle motion in process of cornice formation
The Cryosphere. 2025. Vol. 19, num. 11, p. 5389 – 5402. DOI : 10.5194/tc-19-5389-2025.Assessment of thermal stabilization measures based on numerical simulations at a Swiss alpine permafrost site
The Cryosphere. 2025. Vol. 19, num. 10, p. 4277 – 4301. DOI : 10.5194/tc-19-4277-2025.Unveiling the Complex Structure of Vertical Mode‐Two Kelvin Waves Driving Strong Nearshore Currents in Large, Deep Lake Geneva
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 2025. Vol. 130, num. 10. DOI : 10.1029/2025jc022353.Effect of Snow Cornice Formation on Wind Fields and Snow Deposition: Insights From Numerical Simulations
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2025. Vol. 130, num. 15, p. e2024JD042702. DOI : 10.1029/2024JD042702.Banner Cloud Formation at the Matterhorn: Measurements versus Large-Eddy Simulations
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 2025. DOI : 10.1175/jas-d-24-0193.1.Extreme weather in the Southern Hemisphere in early 2022
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 2025. DOI : 10.1175/bams-d-23-0141.1.The MatterHEX Experiment – Investigating Atmospheric Flow Patterns in Highly Complex Terrain Related to Banner Cloud Formation
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 2025. DOI : 10.1175/bams-d-24-0108.1.The value of weather forecasts for optimally placed wind and solar electricity generators
Frontiers in Energy Research. 2025. Vol. 13, p. 1533778. DOI : 10.3389/fenrg.2025.1533778.Parameterizing Snow Sublimation in Conditions of Drifting and Blowing Snow
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 2025. Vol. 17, num. 5. DOI : 10.1029/2024ms004332.Policy-relevance of a model inter-comparison: Switzerland in the European energy transition
Applied Energy. 2025. Vol. 391. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125906.Governing Processes of Structure-Borne Snowdrifts: A Case Study at Neumayer Station III
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 2025. Vol. 130, num. 3, p. e2024JF008180. DOI : 10.1029/2024JF008180.Bound states and deconfined spinons in the dynamical structure factor of the J1-J2 spin-1 chain
Physical Review B. 2025. Vol. 111, num. 6, p. 064404. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.111.064404.Resolving three-dimensional wind velocity fields with sequential wind-Doppler LiDAR for wind energy in the complex terrain – Gotthard Pass, Switzerland
Open Research Europe. 2025. Vol. 5. DOI : 10.12688/openreseurope.19095.1.Towards a physically and microstructure-based equation for the evolution of the specific surface area in snow
Journal of Glaciology. 2025. DOI : 10.1017/jog.2024.109.Conference Papers
From national to local scale: The optimal renewable integration strategy in Switzerland
2025. EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 2025-04-27 – 2025-05-02.Automated reduced-order model generation of radiant heating terminals
2025. International Scientific Conference on the Built Environment in Transition, Hybrid, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2025-09-03 – 2025-09-05. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/3140/2/022029.How can a geothermal storage system be optimally integrated into a local district? A case study.
2025. International Scientific Conference on the Built Environment in Transition, Hybrid, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2025-09-03 – 2025-09-05. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/3140/6/062012.Energy planning in Sirnach: a case study of a Swiss-wide support tool
2025. International Scientific Conference on the Built Environment in Transition, Hybrid, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2025-09-03 – 2025-09-05. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/3140/4/042015.Reviews
Stabilizing permafrost with solar-powered cooling systems
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 2025. Vol. 6, num. 2. DOI : 10.1038/s43017-025-00644-3.Theses
Factor-graph Optimisation with Vehicle Dynamic Models for Mapping & Sensing Applications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2025.Modeling snow transport and accumulation processes around obstacles in polar and alpine landscapes
Lausanne, EPFL, 2025.Working Papers
Daily Urban Land Surface Temperature from Physics-Guided Temporal Fusion: Long-Term Accuracy, Uncertainty, and Interpretability
2025
Mesoscale eddies drive complex, large-scale three-dimensional biochemical variability in the mixed layer of a large lake (Lake Geneva)
2025
Invited perspectives: Towards usable compound event research
2025
Impacts of Antarctic heatwaves amplified by climate change through water vapor and cloud feedbacks
2025
Air temperature partitioning of snow accumulation, erosion and melt: a regime shift occurring on Mt. Ortles (Eastern Italian Alps)
2025
Snowdrift and Accumulation on Landfast Ice Around Antarctic Icebergs: Insights from Modeling and Observational Data
2025
Simulating the effect of natural convection in a tundra snow cover
2025
Optimizing Snow Distribution in Alpine Pv Systems: Cfd-Based Design Guidelines for Power Plant Layout
2025
Assessing Wind Dynamics and Turbine Power at Princess Elisabeth Station, Antarctica, Using Doppler Wind Lidar and Vertical Array Anemometers
2025
Reports
Renewable Energy Outlook II for Switzerland
2025
Posters
Analysis of annual turbulent structures in East Antarctica
23rd Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Bern, Switzerland, 2025-12-05 – 2025-12-06.Year-round vertical sensible heat flux profiles at Princess Elisabeth station, Antarctica
D·A·CH 2025 Meteorology Conference, Bern, 2025-06-23 – 2025-06-27.Retrieval of Surface Solar Radiation through Implicit Albedo Recovery from Temporal Context
EXCLAIM Symposium 2025, Zurich, 2025-06-02 – 2025-06-04.Snow Microstructure over Antarctic Landfast Ice
EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 2025-04-27 – 2025-05-02.Numerical modeling and laboratory assessment of thermal stabilization measures for mountain permafrost
15th DACH Permafrost Conference, Davos, Switzerland, 2025-01-08 – 2025-01-10.Talks
Measuring surface-atmosphere exchange and drifting and blowing snow in East Antarctica
23rd Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Bern, Switzerland, 2025-12-05 – 2025-12-06.Experimental Study of Thermal Processes in Permafrost With and Without Thermal Stabilization System
23rd Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Bern, Switzerland, 2025-12-05 – 2025-12-06.Measuring and modeling surface-atmosphere exchange processes in East Antarctica
Busan IAMAS-IACS-IAPSO Joint Assembly 2025, Busan, South Korea, 2025-07-20 – 2025-07-25.Instrumentation of a Tall Tower at Princess Elisabeth Station to study the vertical energy exchange during blowing snow events in Antarctica
30th International Symposium on Polar Sciences, Incheon, South Korea, 2025-07-16 – 2025-07-18.Air temperature control on snow erosion at a high-elevation site in the Eastern European Alps
EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 2025-04-27 – 2025-05-02.Signals of a superconducting gravimeter at the high-alpine Mt. Zugspitze show that a satellite-derived snow depth image improves the simulation of the snow water equivalent evolution
EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 2025-04-27 – 2025-05-02.Characteristics of a Novel Sampling for Future Extremes
EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 2025-04-27 – 2025-05-02.Drifting Snow around Icebergs: Understanding the Role of Iceberg Size and Shape Through Modeling and Observational Data
EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 2025-04-27 – 2025-05-02.Hydro-Meteorological Drivers of Forest Damage over Europe
EGU25, the 27th EGU General Assembly, Vienne, Austria, 2025-04-27 – 2025-05-02.Global risks of renewable energy droughts under climate change
EGU25, the 27th EGU General Assembly, Vienne, Austria, 2025-04-27 – 2025-05-02.Student Projects
Assessing the spatial representativeness of firn core observations in the Greenland Ice Sheet percolation zone
2025.Datasets
Swiss electricity system modeling — HV grid – hydropower topology and inflows – renewable productions – past and forecast meteorological data
2025.Meteorological Time Series Aligned with Projected Temperature Changes
2025.Assessment of thermal stabilisation measures based on numerical simulations at a Swiss Alpine permafrost site
2025.CH-POA300 — Hourly Plane-of-Array Solar Irradiance at High Resolution for Switzerland
2025.2024
Journal Articles
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. 2024. Vol. 51, num. 24, p. 1 – 11. DOI : 10.1029/2024GL112483.Dynamics of K2 Ni2 (SO4 )3 governed by proximity to a 3D spin liquid model
Nature communications. 2024. Vol. 15, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-024-51362-1. Synthetic Wind Estimation for Small Fixed-Wing Drones
Atmosphere. 2024. Vol. 15, num. 11. DOI : 10.3390/atmos15111339.Large eddy simulation of near-surface boundary layer dynamics over patchy snow
FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE. 2024. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2024.1415327.Identifying airborne snow metamorphism with stable water isotopes
The Cryosphere. 2024. Vol. 18, num. 9, p. 4493 – 4515. DOI : 10.5194/tc-18-4493-2024.Seasonal snow-atmosphere modeling: let’s do it
CRYOSPHERE. 2024. num. 9, p. 4315 – 4333. DOI : 10.5194/tc-18-4315-2024.Post-depositional modification on seasonal-to-interannual timescales alters the deuterium-excess signals in summer snow layers in Greenland
The Cryosphere. 2024. Vol. 18, num. 8, p. 3653 – 3683. DOI : 10.5194/tc-18-3653-2024.Wind tunnel experiments to quantify the effect of aeolian snow transport on the surface snow microstructure
The Cryosphere. 2024. Vol. 18, num. 8, p. 3633 – 3652. DOI : 10.5194/tc-18-3633-2024.Linear Estimation of Deterministic Accelerometer Errors
Navigation-Journal Of The Institute Of Navigation. 2024. Vol. 71, num. 3. DOI : 10.33012/navi.656.Identifying Aerodynamics of Delta-Wing Drones for Model-Based Navigation: A Comparative Study
IEEE Access. 2024. Vol. 12, p. 91649 – 91663. DOI : 10.1109/access.2024.3421579.Confirmation of the power gain for solar photovoltaic systems in alpine areas and across scales
Frontiers in Energy Research. 2024. Vol. 12. DOI : 10.3389/fenrg.2024.1372680.Influence of air flow features on alpine wind energy potential
Frontiers In Energy Research. 2024. Vol. 12, p. 1379863. DOI : 10.3389/fenrg.2024.1379863.Conference Papers
Interpreting Sentinel-1 radar backscattering for the melt dynamic of an alpine snowpack with a high resolution ground truth dataset
2024. International Snow Science Workshop ISSW 2024, Tromsø, Norway, 2024-09-23 – 2024-09-27.Looking back at the last 15 years of operational avalanche warning with the Snowpack model in Switzerland
2024. International Snow Science Workshop ISSW 2024, Tromsø, Norway, 2024-09-23 – 2024-09-27.Model-Based Fusion of GNSS and Multiple-IMUs
2024. 11th International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace (MetroAeroSpace), Lublin, Poland, 2024-06-03-2024-06-05. DOI : 10.1109/metroaerospace61015.2024.10591587.Book Chapters
Potential und Gestehungskosten von Solar- und Windanlagen in den Alpen
Die Alpen für eine klimapositive Schweiz; Altdorf: Urner Institut Kulturen der Alpen, 2024. p. 37 – 41.Working Papers
Policy-relevance of a Model Inter-comparison: Switzerland in the European Energy Transition
2024
Identification of hydro-meteorological drivers for low greenness events in Europe
2024
Snow Particle Motion in Process of Cornice Formation
2024