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Alexis Berne, Marco Gabella, Urs Martin Germann, Floortje Elisabeth Maria Van den Heuvel

The melting layer designates the transition region from solid to liquid precipitation, and is a typical feature of the vertical structure of stratiform precipitation. As it is characterised by a well-known signature in polarimetric radar variables, it can ...

COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH2018

Tributaries affect the thermal response of lakes to climate change

Alfred Johny Wüest, Damien Bouffard

Thermal responses of inland waters to climate change varies on global and regional scales. The extent of warming is determined by system-specific characteristics such as fluvial input. Here we examine the impact of ongoing climate change on two alpine trib ...

European Geosciences Union2018

A la redécouverte du Rhône, du lac et du paysage

Ye Zhang

L'énoncé du projet consiste en un travail sur deux contextes paysagers très différents en lien avec l'eau, en l'occurrence le lac Léman et le Rhône. Le choix s'est porté sur les deux bouts du lac, Genève et son paysage urbain d'une part, et le paysage “nat ...

2016

Transport and mixing in Lac Léman

David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Andrea Cimatoribus

Lake Geneva (Lac Léman) is the largest freshwater body in Western Europe. It is a deep peri-alpine lake whose importance stems from being not only an essential freshwater source in the region, but also a major tourist destination, a fishery and a waterway. ...

2016

El sistema operacional MINERVE para la previsión de crecidas en el Cantón de Valais, Suiza

Javier García Hernández, Alain Tommy Foehn

In recent decades, the watershed of the Rhône River, upstream of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, has suffered three major floods that have caused damages for over 500 million dollars. This led to the third correction of the Rhône River, which aims to improve f ...

2016

Le jardin d'une ville territoire, un projet d'hybridation

Anne Charlotte Claude Dorothée Françoise Astrup Chauvaux

Entre la chaîne jurassienne et le lac Léman, le plateau suisse accueille l'un des plus grands couloirs industriels du pays, né de l'installation des voies ferrées dans la plaine alluviale de la Venoge. Ce n'est que depuis ces dernières décennies qu'il a vu ...

2016

Evaluation des flux de biphényles polychlorés (PCBs) dans les affluents du lac Léman à l’aide de capteurs passifs

The aim of this study is to investigate Lake Geneva’s tributaries using passive samplers in order to establish polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) fluxes. Silicon rubber sheets are therefore deployed during six weeks at the mouth of eight tributaries and in fou ...

2016

The role of mass-transport deposits and turbidites in shaping modern lacustrine deepwater channels

Nicolas Le Dantec

Subaquatic canyons are an important pathway for sediment transport into oceanic and lacustrine basins. Understanding the mechanisms governing their geomorphological evolution is a key to predict the sediment distribution patterns through these sediment con ...

Elsevier2016

Are flood-driven turbidity currents hot spots for priming effect in lakes?

Damien Bouffard

In deep stratified lakes, such as Lake Geneva, flood-driven turbidity currents are thought to contribute to the replenishment of deep oxygen by significant transport of river waters saturated with oxygen into the hypolimnion. The overarching aim of this st ...

Copernicus GmbH2016

Waves generated by ship convoy: Comparison of physical and numerical modeling with in-situ measurements

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Michael Pfister, Robin Amacher, Théodora Cohen Liechti

A part of the domestic waste of the city of Geneva (Switzerland) is transported with ship convoys on the Rhone River to the waste incineration station. These convoys generate waves, which partially endangers the stability of the river banks and the riparia ...

2016

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