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Nowcasting of High-Intensity Rainfall for Urban Applications in the Netherlands

Radar rainfall nowcasting has mostly been applied to relatively large (often rural) domains (e.g., river basins), although rainfall nowcasting in small urban areas is expected to be more challenging. Here, we selected 80 events with high rainfall intensiti ...

Amer Meteorological Soc2024

Monitoring and prediction in Early Warning Systems (EWS) for rapid mass movements

Alexis Berne, Alessio Ferrari, Marc Schleiss, Dani Or

Rapid mass movements (RMM) pose a substantial risk to people and infrastructure. Reliable and cost-efficient measures have to be taken to reduce this risk. One of these measures includes establishing and advancing the State of Practice in the application o ...

Copernicus Publications2015

Stochastic simulation of intermittent rainfall using the concept of “dry drift”

Alexis Berne, Marc Schleiss, Sabine Chamoun

A stochastic rainfall simulator based on the concept of “dry drift” is proposed. It is characterized by a new and nonstationary representation of rainfall in which the average rain rate (in log-space) depends on the distance to the closest surrounding dry ...

American Geophysical Union2014

Nonstationarity in Intermittent Rainfall: The “Dry Drift"

Alexis Berne, Marc Schleiss, Sabine Chamoun

A particular aspect of the nonstationary nature of intermittent rainfall is investigated. It manifests itself in the fact that the average rain rate varies with the distance to the surrounding dry areas. The authors call this fundamental link between the r ...

2014

Quantification and Modeling of Wet-Antenna Attenuation for Commercial Microwave Links

Alexis Berne, Marc Schleiss

Data from a new experimental setup deployed in Dübendorf (Switzerland) are used to quantify and model the magnitude and dynamics of the wet-antenna attenuation (WAA) affecting a 1.85-km commercial microwave link at 38 GHz. The results show that the WAA exh ...

2013

Assessing the potential of using telecommunication microwave links in urban drainage modelling

Marc Schleiss

The ability to predict the runoff response of an urban catchment to rainfall is crucial for managing drainage systems effectively and controlling discharges from urban areas. In this paper we assess the potential of commercial microwave links (MWL) to capt ...

IWA Publishing2013

Cytomegalovirus evolution in congenitally infected twins

Marc Schleiss

Elsevier Sci Ltd2012

Variability of the Rain Drop Size Distribution : Stochastic Simulation and Application to Telecommunication Microwave Links

Marc Schleiss

Precipitation is an important component of the Earth' water cycle and needs to be carefully monitored. Its large variability over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales must be taken into account. For example, hydrological models require accurate rain ...

EPFL2012

Scaling analysis of the variability of the rain drop size distribution at small scale

Alexis Berne, Marc Schleiss, Joël Jaffrain

Like precipitation, the raindrop size distribution (DSD) is strongly variable in space and time. Understanding this variability is important for quantifying and minimizing some of the uncertainties in radar measurements and their interpretation in terms of ...

Elsevier2012

Stochastic simulation of intermittent DSD fields in time

Alexis Berne, Marc Schleiss, Joël Jaffrain

A method for the stochastic simulation of (rain)drop size distributions (DSDs) in space and time using geostatistics is presented. At each pixel, the raindrop size distribution is described by a Gamma distribution with two or three stochastic parameters. T ...

American Meteorological Society2012