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Peter Lehmann

Peter Lehmann

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
47
Citations
7590
World Ranking
5842
National Ranking
145

Overview

Peter Lehmann is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering. Their work spans several subfields, including Environmental Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Atmospheric Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics of Peter Lehmann's research include:

  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Peter Lehmann has coauthored numerous publications with frequent collaborators such as Dani Or, Sara Bonetti, Tomislav Hengl, Surya Gupta, and Andreas Papritz.

Their recent published papers include:

  • "Assessing the potential of soil moisture measurements for regional landslide early warning," 2020, Landslides
  • "Annual precipitation explains variability in dryland vegetation greenness globally but not locally," 2021, Global Change Biology
  • "Global Prediction of Soil Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Using Random Forest in a Covariate-Based GeoTransfer Function (CoGTF) Framework," 2021, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Global influence of soil texture on ecosystem water limitation," 2024, Nature
  • "Choice of Pedotransfer Functions Matters when Simulating Soil Water Balance Fluxes," 2021, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Peter Lehmann frequently publishes in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications (Wageningen University & Research), Landslides, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, and Water Resources Research.

Best Publications

  • Characteristic lengths affecting evaporative drying of porous media

    Peter Lehmann;Shmuel Assouline;Dani Or

  • Advances in Soil Evaporation Physics—A Review

    Dani Or;Peter Lehmann;Ebrahim Shahraeeni;Nima Shokri

  • Quantifying the role of vegetation in slope stability: a case study in Tuscany (Italy).

    M. Schwarz;M. Schwarz;F. Preti;F. Giadrossich;P. Lehmann

  • Quantifying lateral root reinforcement in steep slopes – from a bundle of roots to tree stands

    M. Schwarz;M. Schwarz;P. Lehmann;P. Lehmann;D. Or

  • Prediction of capillary hysteresis in a porous material using lattice-Boltzmann methods and comparison to experimental data and a morphological pore network model

    B. Ahrenholz;J. Tölke;P. Lehmann;A. Peters

  • Drying front and water content dynamics during evaporation from sand delineated by neutron radiography

    N. Shokri;P. Lehmann;P. Vontobel;D. Or

  • Coupling of evaporative fluxes from drying porous surfaces with air boundary layer: Characteristics of evaporation from discrete pores

    Ebrahim Shahraeeni;Peter Lehmann;Dani Or

  • Critical evaluation of enhancement factors for vapor transport through unsaturated porous media

    N. Shokri;P. Lehmann;D. Or

  • Rainfall threshold for hillslope outflow: an emergent property of flow pathway connectivity

    P. Lehmann;P. Lehmann;Christoph Hinz;Gavan Mcgrath;H.J. Tromp-Van Meerveld;H.J. Tromp-Van Meerveld

  • Characteristics of evaporation from partially wettable porous media

    N. Shokri;P. Lehmann;D. Or

  • Monitoring and prediction in early warning systems for rapid mass movements

    M. Stähli;M. Sättele;C. Huggel;B.W. McArdell

  • Evaporation from layered porous media

    N. Shokri;N. Shokri;P. Lehmann;D. Or

  • Temporal variation in N2O and N2 fluxes from a permanent pasture in Switzerland in relation to management, soil water content and soil temperature

    A.O Rudaz;E Wälti;G Kyburz;P Lehmann

  • Assessing the potential of soil moisture measurements for regional landslide early warning

    Adrian Wicki;Peter Lehmann;Christian Hauck;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • Evaporation and capillary coupling across vertical textural contrasts in porous media.

    Peter Lehmann;Dani Or

  • Hydromechanical triggering of landslides: From progressive local failures to mass release

    Peter Lehmann;Dani Or

  • Unsaturated water flow across soil aggregate contacts

    A. Carminati;A. Kaestner;P. Lehmann;H. Flühler

  • Effect of hysteresis on water flow in a sand column with a fluctuating capillary fringe

    Peter Lehmann;Fritz Stauffer;Christoph Hinz;Christoph Hinz;Olivier Dury

  • Evaporation rates across a convective air boundary layer are dominated by diffusion

    E. Haghighi;E. Shahraeeni;P. Lehmann;D. Or

  • Evolution of soil wetting patterns preceding a hydrologically induced landslide inferred from electrical resistivity survey and point measurements of volumetric water content and pore water pressure

    Peter Lehmann;Francesca Gambazzi;Francesca Gambazzi;Barbara Suski;Ludovic Baron

Frequent Co-Authors

Dani Or
Dani Or University of Nevada Reno
Manfred Krafczyk
Manfred Krafczyk Technische Universität Braunschweig
Shmuel Assouline
Shmuel Assouline Agricultural Research Organization
Denis Cohen
Denis Cohen New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Rainer Helmig
Rainer Helmig University of Stuttgart
Wolfgang Durner
Wolfgang Durner Technische Universität Braunschweig
Simone Fatichi
Simone Fatichi National University of Singapore

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