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Sedimentological processes in the Rhone Delta subaquatic canyons (France-Switzerland)

Deltas are very sensitive environments and highly vulnerable to variations in water discharge and the amount of suspended sediment load provided by the delta-forming currents. Human activities in the watershed, such as building of dams and irrigation ditch ...

2012

Failure risk analysis of riverbank ripraps with Monte Carlo simulation

Anton Schleiss, Michael Pfister, Mona Jafarnejad Chaghooshi

The potential failure evaluation of river embankment structures such as ripraps, resulting from erosion or over-flows during flood events, is the main issue of their stability and safety assessment. Moreover, a changed sediment transport in rivers as a pos ...

Taylor & Francis Group, CRC Press (2012

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

Improved interpolation of meteorological forcings and hydrologic implications for a Swiss alpine region

Andrea Rinaldo, Alexis Berne, Cara Christine Tobin, Marc Parlange, Ludovico Nicotina

This paper presents a comparative study on the mapping of temperature and precipitation fields in complex Alpine terrain. Its relevance hinges on the major impact that inadequate interpolations of meteorological forcings bear on the accuracy of hydrologic ...

2011

Flood management in a complex river basin with a real-time decision support system based on hydrological forecasts

Javier García Hernández

In alpine valleys with strong urban development, river training works for flood safety become more and more difficult to implement because of economic and environmental constraints. Thus flood management has a great importance especially in river basins eq ...

EPFL - LCH2011

Decision Support System for the hydropower plants management : the MINERVE project

Anton Schleiss, Javier García Hernández

The MINERVE project was initiated for flood management in the Upper Rhone river basin. Its first goal is the prediction of floods. The second one is the optimum management of the complex system of hydropower plants located in the basin in order to diminish ...

CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group2011

Heterogeneity of soil carbon pools and fluxes in a channelized and a restored floodplain section (Thur River, Switzerland)

Claire Guenat, Edward Mitchell, François Gillet, Bertrand Fournier

Due to their spatial complexity and dynamic nature, floodplains provide a wide range of ecosystem functions. However, because of flow regulation, many riverine floodplains have lost their characteristic heterogeneity. Restoration of floodplain habitats and ...

2011

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

Energy dissipation downstream of Piano Key Weirs – Case of study of Gloriettes Dam (France)

Martin Peter Bieri, Matteo Paolo Elia Antonio Federspiel

The Gloriettes concrete arch dam in the French Pyrenees showed a deficit of 80 m3/s for the new design flood of 150 m3/s. To address the problem, a Piano Key Weir (PKW) as an additional spillway was designed. The existence of a geotechnically unstable zone ...

CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group2011

Flood-plain mapping: a critical discussion of deterministic and probabilistic approaches

Different methodologies for flood-plain mapping are analysed and discussed by comparing deterministic and probabilistic approaches using hydrodynamic numerical solutions. In order to facilitate the critical discussion, state-of-art techniques in the field ...

2010

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