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Understanding snow saltation parameterizations: lessons from theory, experiments and numerical simulations

Michael Lehning, Daniela Brito Melo, Armin Sigmund

Drifting and blowing snow are important features in polar and high mountain regions. They control the surface mass balance in windy conditions and influence sublimation of snow and ice surfaces. Despite their importance, model representations in weather an ...

2024

Snow transport in extreme environments: from small to large scale modeling

Daniela Brito Melo

The cold regions on Earth, such as the polar and high mountain regions, are snow covered for at least a part of the year. These snow-covered surfaces are highly dynamic, particularly under the influence of strong winds. The aeolian or wind-driven transport ...

EPFL2023

Characterizing airborne snow metamorphism using stable water isotope measurements in snow and vapor from ring wind tunnel experiments

Michael Lehning, Sonja Wahl, Luca Bianchi, Benjamin Andreas Walter

Drifting-blowing snow events are frequent phenomena in alpine and polar regions with direct effects on the local mass and energy balance that are difficult to quantify. In addition to this immediate impact of the blowing snow cloud the aeolian transport mo ...

2023

Insights Into the Dynamics of Vegetated Alternate Bars by Means of Flume Experiments

Giulio Calvani

Alternate bars are bedforms recognizable in straight or weakly curved channels as a result of riverbed instability. The length and height of alternate bars scale with the river width and the water depth, respectively. During low water stages, alternate bar ...

2023

Mechanistic 2D flow-erosion modelling of vegetated river banks

Giovanni De Cesare, Paolo Perona, Massimiliano Schwarz

We present a simple, vertically-explicit 2D model of river bank erosion that also takes the effect of sediment stabilization by plant roots into account. The model is solved in quasi-analytical form for an exemplary non-stationary hydrograph temporal signa ...

2023

Morphological evolution of the Rhone River in the Martigny bend

Giovanni De Cesare, Azin Amini, Samuel Luke Vorlet, Najla Schaller

Sustainable water management is a principal matter to ensure safety of waterways (Berga, 2016). In this framework, the correction of the Martigny bend is a priority measure of the 3rd Rhone River correction in Switzerland, which aims at increasing the floo ...

2022

GALET: A deep learning image segmentation model for drone-based grain size analysis of gravel bars

Giovanni De Cesare, Christian Mörtl

In this study, we present the deep learning image segmentation model for drone-based grain size analysis of gravel bars called GALET. The objectives are to quantify the performance of the code and to test its applicability in river research and management. ...

International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR)2022

Density currents driven by differential cooling in lakes: occurrence, dynamics and implications for littoral-pelagic exchange

Tomy Doda

Cross-shore flows exchange water laterally in lakes, with ecological implications for the ecosystem. One example is the convective circulation induced by differential cooling, also known as the thermal siphon. This lateral flow forms when the sloping sides ...

EPFL2022

Parameterizing snow saltation: the exponential decay of the mass flux profile and its relation to the saltation dynamics

Varun Sharma, Michael Lehning, Daniela Brito Melo, Armin Sigmund

Drifting snow events lead to snow redistribution and enhance snow sublimation. Taking into account the importance of snow sublimation to the correct prediction of the surface mass balance, a general consensus has emerged within the scientific community on ...

2022

Different erosion and entrainment mechanisms in snow avalanches

Johan Alexandre Philippe Gaume, Betty Sovilla, Xingyue Li

Erosion significantly affects the dynamics of gravity-driven mass flows. In snow avalanches, the snow cover can be substantially eroded but only partially entrained, however, there are very limited investigations to substantiate this difference. Here, we s ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

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