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

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

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

A collaborative demand forecasting process with event-based fuzzy judgements

Philippe Wieser, Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Omar Ayadi

Mathematical forecasting approaches can lead to reliable demand forecast in some environments by extrapolating regular patterns in time-series. However, unpredictable events that do not appear in historical data can reduce the usefulness of mathematical fo ...

Elsevier2011

Accounting for Observational Uncertainty in Forecast Verification: An Information-Theoretical View on Forecasts, Observations, and Truth

Steven Vincent Weijs, Nicolaas Cornelis van de Giesen

Recently, an information-theoretical decomposition of Kullback–Leibler divergence into uncertainty, reliability, and resolution was introduced. In this article, this decomposition is generalized to the case where the observation is uncertain. Along with a ...

2011

Analysis of the sensitivity of ski tourism demand to climate change in Switzerland

Camille Gonseth, Cecilia Matasci

Impacts of climate change on winter tourism supply have attracted considerable interest in recent years. In comparison, only few studies have addressed so far the effects on demand. In this article, we analyze how snow and weather conditions currently impa ...

2011

A network of disdrometers to quantify the small-scale variability of the raindrop size distribution

Alexis Berne, André Studzinski, Joël Jaffrain

Insight into the spatial variability of the (rain) drop size distribution (DSD), and hence rainfall, is of primary importance for various environmental applications like cloud/precipitation microphysical processes, numerical weather modeling, and estimatio ...

American Geophysical Union2011

Spatio-temporal measurements and analysis of snow depth in a rock face

Michael Lehning

Snow in rock faces plays a key role in the alpine environment for permafrost distribution, snow water storage or runoff in spring. However, a detailed assessment of snow depths in steep rock walls has never been attempted. To understand snow distribution i ...

2011

Considering weather in simulating traffic

André-Gilles Dumont, Ashish Bhaskar, Minh Hai Pham, Sofia Samoili

The impact of weather on traffic and its behavior is not well studied in literature primarily due to lack of integrated traffic and weather data. Weather can significant effect the traffic and traffic management measures developed for fine weather might no ...

2011

A Semantically Enabled Service Architecture for Mashups over Streaming and Stored Data

Jean Paul Calbimonte Perez, Manolis Karpathiotakis

Sensing devices are increasingly being deployed to monitor the physical world around us. One class of application for which sensor data is pertinent is environmental decision support systems, e.g. flood emergency response. However, in order to interpret th ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2011

Stochastic Generation of Wind Patterns over Lake Geneva

David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Amir Mehdi Razmi, Nicolas Le Dantec, Caitlin Ellen Barry

Lake Geneva (length 74 km on the long east-west axis, surface area 562 km2, volume 89 km3) is a freshwater lake bordered by Switzerland and France. The lake’s hydrodynamics are forced principally by wind and seasonality, with inflows and the Coriolis effec ...

2011

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