Publications related to Severe weather

Vertical changes of the Co and Mn speciation along a lateritic regolith developed on peridotites (New Caledonia)

Because they can host significant amounts of Co, the Mn-oxides are commonly considered as the major Co-bearing mineral species in lateritic environments. However, little is known about the process leading to the formation and/or the weathering of these Co- ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Modelling liquid water transport in snow under rain-on-snow conditions – considering preferential flow

Michael Lehning, Nander Wever, Sebastian Würzer, Tobias Jonas

Rain on snow (ROS) has the potential to generate severe floods. Thus, precisely predicting the effect of an approaching ROS event on runoff formation is very important. Data analyses from past ROS events have shown that a snowpack experiencing ROS can eith ...

Copernicus GmbH2017

Fragmentation of wind-blown snow crystals

Michael Lehning, Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Francesco Comola, Enrico Paterna

Understanding the dynamics driving the transformation of snowfall crystals into blowing snow particles is critical to correctly account for the energy and mass balances in polar and alpine regions. Here we propose a fragmentation theory of fractal snow cry ...

2017

Anthropogenic- and natural sources of dust in peatland during the Anthropocene

Alexandre Buttler, Vincent Eric Jules Jassey, Mariusz Lamentowicz

As human impact have been increasing strongly over the last decades, it is crucial to distinguish human-induced dust sources from natural ones in order to define the boundary of a newly proposed epoch -the Anthropocene. Here, we track anthropogenic signatu ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Snow Avalanches.

Christophe Ancey

Avalanches have long been a natural threat to humans in mountainous areas. At the end of the Middle Ages, the population in Europe experienced significant growth, leading to an intensive exploitation of upper valleys. At almost the same time, Europe’s clim ...

Oxford University Press2016

A radar-based regional extreme rainfall analysis to derive the thresholds for a novel automatic alert system in Switzerland

Alexis Berne, Marco Gabella, Urs Martin Germann, Luca Panziera

This paper presents a regional extreme rainfall analysis based on 10 years of radar data for the 159 regions adopted for official natural hazard warnings in Switzerland. Moreover, a nowcasting tool aimed at issuing heavy precipitation regional alerts is in ...

Copernicus GmbH2016

LCA as key factor for implementation of inertia in a low carbon performance driven design: the case of the smart living building in Fribourg, Switzerland

Marilyne Andersen, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme, Endrit Hoxha, Arianna Brambilla

The building sector is known as a major contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy consumption. These impacts are commonly evaluated by life cycle assessment (LCA), which assess the potential impacts of a building from the construction to the ...

2016

Examining Building Design Decisions Under Long Term Weather Variability and Microclimatic Effects: A case-based exploratory study

Marilyne Andersen, Luisa Pastore, Parag Rastogi, Margaux Marie Valérie Peltier, Minu Agarwal

Thermal building simulation currently uses Typical Meteorological Year (TMY) data to guide the design decision-making process or for compliance with energy standards. TMY data usually excludes extremes and in many cases are gathered from microclimatic cont ...

2016

Assessing wet snow avalanche activity using detailed physics based snowpack simulations

Nander Wever, Charles Fierz

Water accumulating on microstructural transitions inside a snowpack is often considered a prerequisite for wet snow avalanches. Recent advances in numerical snowpack modeling allow for an explicit simulation of this process. We analyze detailed snowpack si ...

American Geophysical Union2016

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Severe weather

Vertical changes of the Co and Mn speciation along a lateritic regolith developed on peridotites (New Caledonia)

Modelling liquid water transport in snow under rain-on-snow conditions – considering preferential flow

Fragmentation of wind-blown snow crystals

Implementation and Performance Analysis of the Lightning Potential Index as a Forecasting Tool

Anthropogenic- and natural sources of dust in peatland during the Anthropocene

Snow Avalanches.

A radar-based regional extreme rainfall analysis to derive the thresholds for a novel automatic alert system in Switzerland

LCA as key factor for implementation of inertia in a low carbon performance driven design: the case of the smart living building in Fribourg, Switzerland

Examining Building Design Decisions Under Long Term Weather Variability and Microclimatic Effects: A case-based exploratory study

Assessing wet snow avalanche activity using detailed physics based snowpack simulations

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Implementation and Performance Analysis of the Lightning Potential Index as a Forecasting Tool

Snow Avalanches.

Anthropogenic- and natural sources of dust in peatland during the Anthropocene

A radar-based regional extreme rainfall analysis to derive the thresholds for a novel automatic alert system in Switzerland

Assessing wet snow avalanche activity using detailed physics based snowpack simulations

Modelling liquid water transport in snow under rain-on-snow conditions – considering preferential flow

Fragmentation of wind-blown snow crystals

LCA as key factor for implementation of inertia in a low carbon performance driven design: the case of the smart living building in Fribourg, Switzerland

Examining Building Design Decisions Under Long Term Weather Variability and Microclimatic Effects: A case-based exploratory study

Vertical changes of the Co and Mn speciation along a lateritic regolith developed on peridotites (New Caledonia)