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The effects of future land use and land cover change on the chemical composition of the atmosphere and air quality are largely unknown. To investigate the potential effects associated with future changes in vegetation driven by atmospheric CO2 concentratio ...

2012

Free Cooling-Aware Dynamic Power Management for Green Datacenters

David Atienza Alonso, Martino Ruggiero, Jungsoo Kim

Free cooling, i.e., directly using outside cold air and/or water to cool down datacenters, can provide significant power savings of datacenters. However, due to the limited cooling capability, which is tightly coupled with climate conditions, free cooling ...

IEEE Press2012

Comfort and Technologies: From the Individual’s Needs to Cleantech

Marilyne Andersen

The Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Performance-Integrated Design (LIPID) is one of the two (ultimately five) ‘mirror’ labs for the EPFL Middle East campus. Synergistic research and education initiatives are being developed with a focus on climate as a dri ...

2011

Response of herbaceous vegetation functional diversity to land use change across five sites in Europe and Israel

Jiri Dolezal, Aurélie Thébault

Only a few studies have examined responses of grassland functional diversity to management and major environmental gradients, in order to address the question of whether grassland use can promote functional divergence. For five grassland sites in Israel, P ...

2011

Towards a Minergie Standard for tropical climates

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Franco Vigliotti, Claude-Alain Roulet, Fouad Aabid

The Swiss Minergie®-standard is, by the number of labelled buildings (> 20'000) one of the most successful building energy labels in the world. It is obviously a strong incentive for designing comfortable, low energy buildings. This standard is now valid f ...

EPFL2011

Spatial modelling of extreme snow depth

Anthony Christopher Davison, Juliette Ferial Blanchet

The spatial modelling of extreme snow is important for adequate risk management in Alpine and high altitude countries. A natural approach to such modelling is through the theory of max-stable processes, an infinite-dimensional extension of multivariate ext ...

2011

Modelling the retreat of Grosser Aletschgletscher, Switzerland, in a changing climate

Guillaume Jouvet, Heinz Blatter, Martin Funk

For more than a century Alpine glaciers have been retreating dramatically, and they are expected to shrink even more quickly over the coming decades. This study addresses the future evolution of Grosser Aletschgletscher, Switzerland, the largest glacier in ...

International Glaciological Society2011

Stochastic modeling of salt accumulation in the root zone due to capillary flux from brackish groundwater

Andrea Rinaldo, Samir Suweis

[1] Groundwater can be a source of both water and salts in semiarid areas, and therefore, capillary pressure-induced upward water flow may cause root zone salinization. To identify which conditions result in hazardous salt concentrations in the root zone, ...

2011

Relationship between tourism demand in the Swiss Alps and hot summer air temperatures associated with climate change

Martine Rebetez, Gaëlle Serquet

We quantified the impacts of hot summer air temperatures on tourism in the Swiss Alps by analysing the relationship between temperature and overnight stays in 40 Alpine resorts. Several temperature thresholds were tested to detect the relationship between ...

Springer Netherlands2011

Climate Change and Tourism in Switzerland: a Survey on Impacts, Vulnerability and Possible Adaptation Measures

Cecilia Matasci, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

The tourism industry is particularly affected by climate change, being very climate- and weather- dependent. Moreover, particularly in the Alpine region, it is specially exposed to natural hazards. Nonetheless, this industry is an important pillar of the S ...

NCCR Climate - Swiss Climate Research2010

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