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Hydrologic response simulation of a snow-covered alpine catchment using a travel time distribution model coupled to alpine3D

Fully distributed models of alpine catchment surface processes typically use the geomorphological information provided by digital maps for describing the dynamics of rain, snow, soil and vegetation with much detail. These models are largely used to provide ...

2013

SNOWPACK: where do we stand today?

Michael Lehning, Nander Wever, Mathias Thierry Pierre Bavay, Charles Fierz

The Swiss snow-cover model SNOWPACK is presently used in many applications from snow sports and engineering to climate change assessment but also for avalanche warning. The core routines are packed in a library that also serves as the basic module for the ...

2013

Improving stream flow discharge modelling during snow melt

Michael Lehning, Nander Wever, Charles Fierz

The importance of the snow cover for the hydrological cycle is well known but the understanding is still limited. For example, the effect of rain-on-snow on melt water runoff and the coupling between spring snow melt and stream flow discharge are difficult ...

2013

Climatic effects of 1950-2050 changes in US anthropogenic aerosols-Part 1: Aerosol trends and radiative forcing

Athanasios Nenes

We calculate decadal aerosol direct and indirect (warm cloud) radiative forcings from US anthropogenic sources over the 1950-2050 period. Past and future aerosol distributions are constructed using GEOS-Chem and historical emission inventories and future p ...

2012

Hydrologic Activity of Deciduous Agroforestry Tree Observed through Monitoring of Stable Isotopes in Stem Water, Solar Radiation Attenuation, and Sapflow

Marc Parlange, Natalie Claire Ceperley, Theophile Mande

The net benefit of agroforestry trees for small scale farmers in dryland agricultural systems is debatable because while they provide significant direct and indirect services, they also consume considerable amounts of scare water resources. In this study w ...

2012

Improved snowmelt simulations with a canopy model forced with photo-derived direct beam canopy transmissivity

Michael Lehning

The predictive capacity of a physically based snow model to simulate point-scale, subcanopy snowmelt dynamics is evaluated in a mixed conifer forest, southern Sierra Nevada, California. Three model scenarios each providing varying levels of canopy structur ...

Amer Geophysical Union2012

Evolution of superficial lake water temperature profile under diurnal radiative forcing

Ulrich Lemmin, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Marc Parlange, Ivan Lunati, Nikki Vercauteren

In lentic water bodies, such as lakes, the water temperature near the surface typically increases during the day, and decreases during the night as a consequence of the diurnal radiative forcing (solar and infrared radiation). These temperature variations ...

American Geophysical Union2011

Integrating point glacier mass balance observations into hydrologic model identification

Bettina Schaefli

The hydrology of high mountainous catchments is often predicted with conceptual precipitation-discharge models that simulate the snow accumulation and ablation behavior of a very complex environment using as only input temperature and precipitation. It is ...

European Geosciences Union2011

Relating the X-band Opacity of a Tropical Tree Canopy to Sapflow, Rain Interception and Dew Formation

Marc Schneebeli Zeugin

During summer and autumn 2007, a 11 GHz microwave radiometer was deployed in an experimental tree plantation in Sardinilla, Panama. The opacity of the tree canopy was derived from incoming brightness temperatures received on the ground. A collocated eddy-c ...

2011

System-Level Thermal-Aware Design of 3D Multiprocessors with Inter-Tier Liquid Cooling

David Atienza Alonso, Arvind Raj Mahankali Sridhar

Rising chip temperatures and aggravated thermal reliability issues have characterized the emergence of 3D multiprocessor system-on-chips (3D-MPSoCs), necessitating the development of advanced cooling technologies. Microchannel based inter-tier liquid cooli ...

EDA2011

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