Publications related to Eastern Alps

Characterisation of the melting layer variability in an Alpine valley based on polarimetric X-band radar scans

Alexis Berne, Marco Gabella, Urs Martin Germann, Floortje Elisabeth Maria Van den Heuvel

The melting layer designates the transition region from solid to liquid precipitation, and is a typical feature of the vertical structure of stratiform precipitation. As it is characterised by a well-known signature in polarimetric radar variables, it can ...

COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH2018

An Analysis of Lightning Activity in the Säntis Region through the Big Hiatus in Global Warming

Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Amirhossein Mostajabi, Aleksandr Smorgonskii

The response of local lightning to local surface temperature is examined near the Säntis mountain (2502 m ASL) in the eastern Swiss Alps during the first of the two hiatuses in global warming covering the time periods 1940-1972 and 1998-2014. The mountain ...

2018

LMA Observation of Upward Flashes at Santis Tower: Preliminary Results

Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Amirhossein Mostajabi

Lightning striking tall towers is mainly of the upward lightning type, which is characterized by the absence of a first return stroke and the presence of an initial continuous current (ICC) with or without superimposed pulses. The Santis Tower is 124 m tal ...

IEEE2018

Swiss Rainfall Mass Curves and their Influence on Extreme Flood Simulation

Anton Schleiss, Javier García Hernández, Bettina Schaefli, Fränz Zeimetz, Guillaume Mathieu Artigue

Extreme flood estimates for dam safety are routinely obtained from hydrologic simulations driven by selected design storms. The temporal structure of such design storms can be obtained from Rainfall Mass Curves (RMCs), which are adimensionalized curves of ...

2018

Influence of slope-scale snowmelt on catchment response simulated with the Alpine3D model

Michael Lehning, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Ernesto Trujillo Gomez, Tristan Jonas Brauchli

Snow and hydrological modeling in alpine environments remains challenging because of the complexity of the processes affecting the mass and energy balance. This study examines the influence of snowmelt on the hydrological response of a high-alpine catchmen ...

2017

A Comparison between the GPM Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar and Ground-Based Radar Precipitation Rate Estimates in the Swiss Alps and Plateau

Alexis Berne, Marco Gabella, Peter James Speirs

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) provides a unique set of three-dimensional radar precipitation estimates across much of the globe. Both terrain and climatic conditions can have a strong influence ...

American Meteorological Society2017

Relevance of the correlation between precipitation and the 0 C isothermal altitude for extreme flood estimation

Anton Schleiss, Javier García Hernández, Bettina Schaefli, Fränz Zeimetz, Guillaume Mathieu Artigue

Extreme floods are commonly estimated with the help of design storms and hydrological models. In this paper, we propose a new method to take into account the relationship between precipitation intensity (P) and air temperature (T) to account for potential ...

2017

Social network analysis and qualitative interviews for assessing geographic characteristics of tourism business networks

Romano Tobias Wyss

This study integrates quantitative social network analysis (SNA) and qualitative interviews for understanding tourism business links in isolated communities through analysing spatial characteristics. Two case studies are used, the Surselva-Gotthard region ...

Public Library of Science2016

Multiregional Satellite Precipitation Products Evaluation over Complex Terrain

Alexis Berne

An extensive evaluation of nine global-scale high-resolution satellite-based rainfall (SBR) products is performed using aminimumof 6 years (within the period of 2000-13) of reference rainfall data derived from rain gauge networks in nine mountainous region ...

American Meteorological Society2016

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Eastern Alps

Characterisation of the melting layer variability in an Alpine valley based on polarimetric X-band radar scans

An Analysis of Lightning Activity in the Säntis Region through the Big Hiatus in Global Warming

LMA Observation of Upward Flashes at Santis Tower: Preliminary Results

Swiss Rainfall Mass Curves and their Influence on Extreme Flood Simulation

Influence of slope-scale snowmelt on catchment response simulated with the Alpine3D model

A Comparison between the GPM Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar and Ground-Based Radar Precipitation Rate Estimates in the Swiss Alps and Plateau

Relevance of the correlation between precipitation and the 0 C isothermal altitude for extreme flood estimation

Negative elevation-dependent warming trend in the Eastern Alps

Social network analysis and qualitative interviews for assessing geographic characteristics of tourism business networks

Multiregional Satellite Precipitation Products Evaluation over Complex Terrain

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A Comparison between the GPM Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar and Ground-Based Radar Precipitation Rate Estimates in the Swiss Alps and Plateau

An Analysis of Lightning Activity in the Säntis Region through the Big Hiatus in Global Warming

LMA Observation of Upward Flashes at Santis Tower: Preliminary Results

Relevance of the correlation between precipitation and the 0 C isothermal altitude for extreme flood estimation

Influence of slope-scale snowmelt on catchment response simulated with the Alpine3D model

Negative elevation-dependent warming trend in the Eastern Alps

Social network analysis and qualitative interviews for assessing geographic characteristics of tourism business networks

Characterisation of the melting layer variability in an Alpine valley based on polarimetric X-band radar scans

Swiss Rainfall Mass Curves and their Influence on Extreme Flood Simulation

Multiregional Satellite Precipitation Products Evaluation over Complex Terrain