Dr. Henning Löwe

Function

Groupleader

Snow and Atmosphere

Snow Physics

Contact

loewe(at)slfto make life hard for spam bots.ch

+41 81 417 01 54+41 81 417 01 54

WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
Flüelastrasse 11
7260 Davos Dorf

Site

Davos Da B 1 17

Research Interests

My research is devoted to the physical understanding of microstructural controls on snow physical properties (heat transfer, mechanics, electromagnetics, crystal growth) in the context of remote sensing, polar climatology and natural hazards. I mainly rely on statistical physics, numerical simulations, and the analysis of experimental data (field and lab), in particular from micro-computed tomography experiments. My main goal is the unification of microstructural characterizations of snow to develop models that can be parametrized by micro-scale experiments to predict macro-scale behavior of snow for diverse applications in cryospheric sciences.

Positions and Boards

Head of Group Snow Physics, SLF Davos
Lecturer, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich
Member of the WSL Research Commission
Co-chair IACS Working group "MicroSnow"

Thesis Topics

There are always opportunities for MSc/BSc topics. Just send me an email.

Teaching

You want to know more about Snow Physics? Visit our lecture "Snowcover: Physics and modeling" at ETH, Zurich. The lecture is held every spring semester.

Publications, CV

Can be found here.

Academic Education

Diploma Physics, University of Göttingen
PhD Theoretical Physics, University of Göttingen
Postdoc, Snowcover and Micrometeorology, SLF, Davos

WEITERFÜHRENDE INFORMATIONEN

WSL-Publikationen

Wissenschaftliche Artikel Peer-reviewt

Blatny, L.; Löwe, H.; Gaume, J., 2023: Microstructural controls on the plastic consolidation of porous brittle solids. Acta Materialia, 250: 118861 (14 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.actamat.2023.118861

Picard, G.; Löwe, H.; Domine, F.; Arnaud, L.; Larue, F.; Favier, V.; Le Meur, E.; Lefebvre, E.; Savarino, J.; Royer, A., 2022: The microwave snow grain size: a new concept to predict satellite observations over snow-covered regions. AGU Advances, 3, 4: e2021AV000630 (19 pp.). doi: 10.1029/2021AV000630

Schürholt, K.; Kowalski, J.; Löwe, H., 2022: Elements of future snowpack modeling - Part 1: a physical instability arising from the nonlinear coupling of transport and phase changes. Cryosphere, 16, 3: 903-923. doi: 10.5194/tc-16-903-2022

Sandells, M.; Löwe, H.; Picard, G.; Dumont, M.; Essery, R.; Floury, N.; Kontu, A.; Lemmetyinen, J.; Maslanka, W.; Morin, S.; Wiesmann, A.; Mätzler, C., 2022: X-ray tomography-based microstructure representation in the Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer model. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 60, 2: 4301115 (15 pp.). doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3086412

Picard, G.; Löwe, H.; Mätzler, C., 2022: Brief communication: a continuous formulation of microwave scattering from fresh snow to bubbly ice from first principles. Cryosphere, 16, 9: 3861-3866. doi: 10.5194/tc-16-3861-2022

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Weitere wissenschaftliche Publikationen

Wiesmann, A.; Caduff, R.; Werner, C.; Frey, O.; Schneebeli, M.; Löwe, H.; Jaggi, M.; Schwank, M.; Naderpour, R.; Fehr, T., 2019: ESA SnowLab project: 4 years of wide band scatterometer measurements of seasonal snow. In: 2019: 2019 IEEE international geoscience & remote sensingsymposium. Proceedings. IGARSS 2019. IEEE international geoscience and remote sensing symposium, Yokohama. 5745-5748. doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2019.8898961

Picard, G.; Sandells, M.; Löwe, H., 2018: A new active/passive microwave radiative transfer model for snow (SMRT) to foster inter-comparisons of model components. In: 2018: Observing, understandig and forecasting the dynamics of our planet. 2018 IEEE international geoscience and remote sensing symposium (IGARSS 2018), Valencia, Spain. 6276-6279. doi: 10.1109/IGARSS.2018.8517407

Calonne, N.; Cetti, C.; Fierz, C.; Van Herwijnen, A.; Jaggi, M.; Löwe, H.; Matzl, M.; Schmid, L.; Schneebeli, M., 2016: A unique time series of daily and weekly snowpack measurements at Weissfluh-Joch, Davos, Switzerland. In: 2016: International snow science workshop proceedings 2016. International snow science workshop, ISSW 2016, Breckenridge, CO, USA, October 2-7, 2016. 684-689.

Steinkogler, W.; Gaume, J.; Löwe, H.; Sovilla, B.; Lehning, M., 2014: Granulation of snow: experiments and discrete element modeling. In: 2014: International snow science workshop proceedings 2014. International snow science workshop, ISSW 2014, Banff, AB, Canada, September 29 - October 3, 2014. 733-737.

Proksch, M.; Reuter, B.; Löwe, H.; Schweizer, J.; Schneebeli, M., 2014: Quantitative snow stratigraphy and stability derived from high-resolution penetrometry. In: 2014: International snow science workshop proceedings 2014. International snow science workshop, ISSW 2014, Banff, AB, Canada, September 29 - October 3, 2014. 196-201.

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