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Biomorphodynamics of river banks in vegetated channels with self-formed width

Laboratory and field studies investigating the mutual interaction between riparian vegetation dynamics and river morphodynamics have revealed that riparian vegetation may play an important role in the evolution of channel beds and river banks. In order to ...

2022

The Genesis of Molecular Volcano Plots

Matthew Wodrich, Michael Markus Busch, Boodsarin Sawatlon

For the past two decades, linear free energy scaling relationships and volcano plots have seen frequent use as computational tools that aid in understanding and predicting the catalytic behavior of heterogeneous and electrocatalysts. Based on Sabatier's pr ...

2021

Probabilistic Terrain Mapping for Mobile Robots With Uncertain Localization

Marco Hutter

Mobile robots build on accurate, real-time mapping with onboard range sensors to achieve autonomous navigation over rough terrain. Existing approaches often rely on absolute localization based on tracking of external geometric or visual features. To circum ...

2018

Field study on drainage densities and rescaled width functions in a high‐altitude alpine catchment

Andrea Rinaldo, Marc Parlange, Raphaël Mutzner

This paper addresses the effect of accurately mapping spatially heterogeneous drainage densities in high-altitude alpine basins on Rescaled Width Functions (RWFs), used in some applications as a minimalist model of the hydrologic response. The channel netw ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Hydrological Processes in a High Alpine Watershed

Raphaël Mutzner

Alpine hydrology is particularly challenging due to the complexity of mountainous terrain and the spatial and temporal variability of meteorological parameters such as precipitation, temperature and evaporation. Yet improving our understanding of hydrologi ...

EPFL2015

Effect of water on the frictional behaviour of cohesive rocks during earthquakes

Marie Estelle Solange Violay, Andrea Cavallo

Fluid-rock interactions can control earthquake nucleation and the evolution of earthquake sequences. Experimental studies of fault frictional properties in the presence of fluid can provide unique insights into these interactions. We report the first resul ...

2014

Could electrical conductivity replace water level in rating curves for alpine streams?

Marc Parlange, Steven Vincent Weijs, Raphaël Mutzner

Streamflow time series are important for inference and understanding of the hydrological processes in alpine watersheds. Because streamflow is expensive to continuously measure directly, it is usually derived from measured water levels, using a rating curv ...

American Geophysical Union2013

Present state of global wetland extent and wetland methane modelling: methodology of a model inter-comparison project (WETCHIMP)

Jed Oliver Kaplan

The Wetland and Wetland CH4 Intercomparison of Models Project (WETCHIMP) was created to evaluate our present ability to simulate large-scale wetland characteristics and corresponding methane (CH4) emissions. A multi-model comparison is essential to evaluat ...

Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh2013

Algorithm for Flow Direction Enforcement Using Subgrid-Scale Stream Location Data

Producing realistic surface water flow patterns can be difficult for hydrologic models when there is insufficient grid resolution as a result of computational constraints or when available digital elevation model (DEM) data are relatively coarse. This tech ...

2011

A Toolbox of Models for Evaluating Appropriateness of Infiltration Predictions in Coupled Surface and Subsurface Flow Applications

Dani Or

A number of coupled surface and subsurface flow models include Richards' equation (RE) solutions to simulate flow through the vadose zone, but the question of the appropriate application of RE at the watershed scale remains unclear. Published applications ...

2005

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