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Flood management in the Upper Rhone River basin: from forecast to decision

Anton Schleiss, Javier García Hernández, Tristan Jonas Brauchli

The MINERVE project of flood forecast and management upstream from Lake Geneva is nowadays operational. It aims to protect against inundations in the Rhone Valley, through the Valais and Vaud Cantons. Two main objectives are expected. The first is the hydr ...

2011

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

The decision support tool MINDS for flood management in the upper Rhone river

Anton Schleiss, Javier García Hernández

The Upper Rhone River is located in the Swiss Alps. Several hydropower schemes with large reservoirs were built in the catchment area, strongly influencing its hydrological regime. In past decades, several floods caused disasters in the catchment area. The ...

2011

Avant-projet de production de froid et de chaleur par utilisation d’énergies renouvelables à partir de l’eau du Léman

Samuel-François Haury

Les projets Genève-Lac-Urbain (GLU) et Genève-Lac-Aéroport (GLA) visent à valoriser l’énergie thermique présente dans le lac Léman. En effet, le plus grand lac Alpin est un réservoir d’énergie froide facilement accessible. En hiver, l’eau du lac Léman peut ...

2011

Hydropeaking indicators for characterization of the Upper-Rhone River in Switzerland

Anton Schleiss, Tobias Meile

River channelization and the construction of high-head storage schemes have been the basis of agricultural and socio-economic development in many alpine regions. One example is the Upper-Rhone River in Switzerland. The Upper-Rhone's morphology changed cons ...

2011

Influence of tributary widening on confluence morphodynamics

Marcelo Leite Ribeiro

Confluences are the nodes of the fluvial network. They are typically characterized by highly heterogeneous conditions that are favorable for a sound fluvial ecosystem, and play a key role in the connectivity of the river system. During the past centuries, ...

EPFL - LCH2011

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

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

Hybride Modellierung zur Optimierung der Strömungsbedingungen und des Geschiebetriebs beim Flusskraftwerk Lavey

Anton Schleiss, Martin Peter Bieri, Michael Müller

Wie viele Flusskraftwerke ist auch das Kraftwerk Lavey an der Rhone (Schweiz) von einer steten Verlandung seines Stauraums betroffen, sodass regelmässig Spülungen durchgeführt werden müssen. Im Rahmen des Ausbauvorhabens Lavey+ sollen die Abflüsse der Rhon ...

Technische Universtität München2010

Flood forecast and management model of the Rhone river optimal use of the alpine hydropower schemes for the reduction of peak flows

Anton Schleiss, Frédéric Jordan

A semi-distributed hydrological model was developed for the upper Rhone River basin in Switzerland to provide 72 h lead time discharge forecasts for the optimization of a multireservoir system during floods The performance of the model is presented and cor ...

2010

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