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Turbulence in the Strongly Heterogeneous Near-Surface Boundary Layer over Patchy Snow
Michael Lehning, Dylan Stewart Reynolds, Michael Haugeneder
The near-surface boundary layer above patchy snow cover in mountainous terrain is characterized by a highly complex interplay of various flows on multiple scales. In this study, we present data from a comprehensive field campaign that cover a period of 21 ...
2024Automation in steep terrain agriculture: an optimal controller to prevent tipping and slipping of tethered robots on slopes
Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Max Mirko Polzin
Autonomous robots have the potential to fundamentally transform conventional farming methods, e.g. by enabling economically viable farming of sloped arable land. However, navigation on slopes in harsh conditions is challenging for robots as they must be pr ...
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2023Maximum Wind Energy Production (MaxWEP): Maximizing Winter Production of Energy by Exploiting Terrain Potential
Michael Lehning, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Jérôme François Sylvain Dujardin, Franziska Gerber, Fanny Kristianti, Sebastian Wilhelm Hoch
The objective of this project has been to explore the potential of the wind over complex terrain, as an energy source during wintertime in Switzerland. A wind assessment method is developed based on short-term wind profile measurements with a wind lidar, l ...
Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE2023Supercell Thunderstorms in the Alpine Region - From Weather Radar Observations to Idealized Modeling
The high-impact nature and increasing occurrence of severe weather phenomena pushes forward research on their occurrence and improving our understanding thereof. Supercell thunderstorms are the focus of much severe convective research, as they represent on ...
EPFL2023TopoCLIM: rapid topography-based downscaling of regional climate model output in complex terrain v1.1
This study describes and evaluates a new downscaling scheme that specifically addresses the need for hillslope-scale atmospheric-forcing time series for modelling the local impact of regional climate change projections on the land surface in complex terrai ...
2022A Downscaling Intercomparison Study: The Representation of Slope- and Ridge-Scale Processes in Models of Different Complexity
Varun Sharma, Franziska Gerber, Dylan Stewart Reynolds
Spatially distributed meteorological information at the slope scale is relevant for many processes in complex terrain, yet information at this sub-km spatial resolution is difficult to obtain. While downscaling to kilometer resolutions is well described in ...
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