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Flood control

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Swiss Competences in River Engineering and Restoration

The world is like a river, running along in its bed, this way and that, forming sandbanks by chance and then being forced by these to take a different course. Whereas this all proceeds smoothly and easily and gradually, the river engineers have great diffi ...

CRC Press/Balkema2014

Integrated flood forecasting and management system in a complex catchment area in the Alps—implementation of the MINERVE project in the Canton of Valais

Javier García Hernández, Bastien Roquier

A complex hydrologic-hydraulic model has been developed for the Upper Rhone River basin in Switzerland. It is currently operational in the Canton of Valais for real-time flood forecasting and management, providing automatic warnings to the crisis cell of t ...

2014

Morphodynamic differences induced by different confluence angles in widen confluences

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Sebastián Guillén Ludeña, António Heleno Cardoso

River widening is commonly used as a solution for the rehabilitation of rivers with the main purposes of allowing the river to adjust to its natural dynamics and to improve riparian and instream habitat for flora and fauna, by increasing the heterogeneity ...

CRC Press/Balkema2014

Effects of successive floods on bed load transport in a steep flume.

Christophe Ancey, Joris Heyman, Blaise Etienne Marceau Dhont, Pascal Venetz

Rivers in mountainous areas are subject to cyclic perturbations due for instance to summer storms or daily variations in snowmelt. Such phenomena cause successive floods occurring under very similar forcing conditions. However, as shown by several field st ...

2014

Design of a bed load and driftwood filtering dam, analysis of the phenomena and hydraulic design

Giovanni De Cesare

Flood protection often calls on to the realization of retention works for bed load as well as wood and debris flow. Certain relatively recent arrangements did not perform according to their intended function, what shows the complexity of the design and the ...

CRC Press/Balkema2014

Above and below-ground Salix dynamics in response to river processes

Paolo Perona

Riparian vegetation influences hydraulic and morphodynamic river processes and may contribute to sediment stabilization. In turn, vegetation recruitment and growth on non-cohesive fluvial deposits strongly depends on river hydrology and the ability of root ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Information content of prior hydrological knowledge in EGU visitors for streamflow prediction

Steven Vincent Weijs

Citizens living in flood-prone areas sometimes outperform hydrological models in terms of flood prediction. An interesting question is whether this is due to more access to information, more prior knowledge or better pattern recognition capabilities. In th ...

2014

Measuring surface flow velocity with smartphones: potential for citizen observatories

Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Steven Vincent Weijs, Tristan Jonas Brauchli

Stream flow velocity is an important variable for discharge estimation and research on sediment dynamics. Given the influence of the latter on rating curves (stage-discharge relations), and the relative scarcity of direct streamflow measurements, surface v ...

2014

Measuring surface flow velocity with smartphones: potential for citizen observatories

Steven Vincent Weijs, Zichong Chen

2014

Design of a diversion structure for the management of residual risks using physical model tests

Giovanni De Cesare, Raphaël Sprenger, Antoine Magnollay

As revitalization and protection against floods are essential in our time, the town of Delémont in Switzerland has set up a major project named “Delémont Marée Basse”. Part of the project, the residual risk plans to be managed by a lateral overflow bypassi ...

CRC Press/Balkema2014

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