Charles Fierz

Best Publications

• A physical SNOWPACK model for the Swiss avalanche warning: Part II. Snow microstructure

  Michael Lehning;Perry Bartelt;Bob Brown;Charles Fierz

  736
  Citations

• A physical SNOWPACK model for the Swiss avalanche warning Part III: meteorological forcing, thin layer formation and evaluation

  Michael Lehning;Perry Bartelt;Bob Brown;Charles Fierz

  595
  Citations

• Validation of the energy budget of an alpine snowpack simulated by several snow models (SnowMIP project)

  Pierre Etchevers;Eric Martin;Ross Brown;Charles Fierz

  324
  Citations

• ESM-SnowMIP: assessing snow models and quantifying snow-related climate feedbacks

  Gerhard Krinner;Chris Derksen;Richard Essery;Mark Flanner

  214
  Citations

• Solving Richards Equation for snow improves snowpack meltwater runoff estimations in detailed multi-layer snowpack model

  N. Wever;C. Fierz;C. Mitterer;H. Hirashima

  211
  Citations

• The 2008 international classification of seasonal snow on the ground

  C. Fierz;R.L. Armstrong;Y. Durand;P. Etchevers

  200
  Citations

• Scientific and Human Errors in a Snow Model Intercomparison

  Cecile B. Menard;Richard Essery;Gerhard Krinner;Gabriele Arduini

  163
  Citations

• Intercomparison of snow density measurements: bias, precision, and vertical resolution

  Martin Proksch;Nick Rutter;Charles Fierz;Martin Schneebeli

  154
  Citations

• Assessment of snow transport in avalanche terrain

  Michael Lehning;Charles Fierz

  151
  Citations

• Evaluation of modelled snow depth and snow water equivalent at three contrasting sites in Switzerland using SNOWPACK simulations driven by different meteorological data input

  Edgar Schmucki;Edgar Schmucki;Christoph Marty;Charles Fierz;Michael Lehning

  138
  Citations

• Verification of the multi-layer SNOWPACK model with different water transport schemes

  Nander Wever;Lino Schmid;Achim Heilig;Olaf Eisen;Olaf Eisen;Olaf Eisen

  136
  Citations

• Event-driven deposition of snow on the Antarctic Plateau: analyzing field measurements with SNOWPACK

  C. D. Groot Zwaaftink;A. Cagnati;A. Crepaz;C. Fierz

  117
  Citations

• Evaluating and improving the stability predictions of the snow cover model SNOWPACK

  Jürg Schweizer;Sascha Bellaire;Charles Fierz;Michael Lehning

  108
  Citations

• Forcing the snow-cover model SNOWPACK with forecasted weather data

  S. Bellaire;J. B. Jamieson;C. Fierz

  100
  Citations

• Simulating ice layer formation under the presence of preferential flow in layered snowpacks

  Nander Wever;Sebastian Würzer;Charles Fierz;Michael Lehning

  98
  Citations

• An objective snow profile comparison method and its application to SNOWPACK

  Michael Lehning;Charles Fierz;Chris Lundy

  89
  Citations

• Micrometeorological and morphological observations of surface hoar dynamics on a mountain snow cover

  F. Stössel;M. Guala;C. Fierz;C. Manes

  87
  Citations

• Modeling snow instability with the snow-cover model SNOWPACK

  Michael Lehning;Charles Fierz;Bob Brown;Bruce Jamieson

  84
  Citations

• Meteorological and evaluation datasets for snow modelling at 10 reference sites: description of in situ and bias-corrected reanalysis data

  Cécile B. Ménard;Richard Essery;Alan Barr;Paul Bartlett

  78
  Citations

• Intercomparison of measurements of bulk snow density and water equivalent of snow cover with snow core samplers: instrumental bias and variability induced by observers

  J. Ignacio López‐Moreno;Leena Leppänen;Bartłomiej Luks;Ladislav Holko

  61
  Citations