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Seasonal Spatial Patterns of Surface Water Temperature, Surface Heat Fluxes and Meteorological Forcing Over Lake Geneva

David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Damien Bouffard, Abolfazl Irani Rahaghi

In many lakes, surface heat flux (SHF) is the most important component controlling the lake’s energy content. Accurate methods for the determination of SHF are valuable for water management, and for use in hydrological and meteorological models. Large lake ...

2015

Comparison of stream temperature modeling approaches: the case of a high Alpine watershed

Michael Lehning, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Francesco Comola, Aurélien Gallice

Stream temperature controls important aspects of the riverine habitat, such as the rate of spawning or death of many fish species, or the concentration of numerous dissolved substances. In the current context of accelerating climate change, the future evol ...

2015

Hydraulic-hydrologic model for the Zambezi River using satellite data and artificial intelligence techniques

José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos

The development of hydraulic-hydrologic models is a challenge in the case of large catchment areas with scarce or erroneous measurement data and observations. With his study Mr. Dr. José Pedro Matos made several original contributions in order to overcome ...

EPFL - LCH2014

The Signature of Hillslope Aspects on the Hydrologic Response of Snow-Covered Catchments

Andrea Rinaldo, Michael Lehning, Bettina Schaefli, Francesco Comola, Gianluca Botter, Pierfrancesco Da Ronco

The hydrologic response of Alpine catchments embeds the geomorphologic signature of the dominant drivers influencing snowmelt runoff dynamics. The focus of this work is the role of aspect as the main control on incoming radiation. We investigate the link b ...

2014

Ensemble projections of wildfire activity and carbonaceous aerosol concentrations over the western United States in the mid-21st century

Jed Oliver Kaplan

We estimate future wildfire activity over the western United States during the mid-21st century (2046-2065), based on results from 15 climate models following the A1B scenario. We develop fire prediction models by regressing meteorological variables from t ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013

A comparison between remotely-sensed and modelled surface soil moisture (and frozen status) at high latitudes

Isabelle Amandine Gouttevin

In this study, the combined surface status and surface soil moisture products retrieved by the ASCAT sensor within the ESA-DUE Permafrost project are compared to the hydrological outputs of the land surface model ORCHIDEE over Northern Eurasia. The objecti ...

2013

Snowfall Limit Forecasts and Hydrological Modeling

Andrea Rinaldo, Cara Christine Tobin, Bettina Schaefli

Hydrological flood forecasting in mountainous areas requires accurate partitioning between rain and snowfall to properly estimate the extent of runoff contributing areas. Here a method to make use of snowfall limit information-a standard output of limited- ...

Amer Meteorological Soc2012

Improving Alpine Flood Prediction through Hydrological Process Characterization and Uncertainty Analysis

Cara Christine Tobin

Among the many challenges of Alpine flood prediction is describing complex, meteo-hydrological processes in a simplified, robust manner that can be easily integrated into operational forecasting. In this dissertation, improved methods to characterize these ...

EPFL2012

Technology’s Role in Proving Indirect Ecosystem Services and Monitoring their use, the example of a wireless network of meteorlogical stations and agroforestry trees in a West African Parkland

Jean-Claude Bolay, Marc Parlange, Alexandre Repetti, Natalie Claire Ceperley, Theophile Mande

The Gourmantche people of South Eastern Burkina recognize Sclerocarya birrea as a locally important agroforestry tree because of its cultural, agricultural, and nutritional value. Although it is understood to provide hydrologic benefits to surrounding crop ...

2012

Flood Management in a Complex River Basin with a Real-Time Decision Support System Based on Hydrological Forecasts

Javier García Hernández

During the last decades, the Upper Rhone River basin has been hit by several flood events causing significant damages in excess of 500 million Swiss Francs. From this situation, the 3rd Rhône river training project was planned in order to improve the flood ...

EPFL2011

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