Publications by Theo Baracchini

Integrating Inland and Coastal Water Quality Data for Actionable Knowledge

Damien Bouffard, Camille Roland Marie Minaudo, Theo Baracchini

Water quality measures for inland and coastal waters are available as discrete samples from professional and volunteer water quality monitoring programs and higher-frequency, near-continuous data from automated in situ sensors. Water quality parameters als ...

MDPI2021

Meteolakes: An operational online three-dimensional forecasting platform for lake hydrodynamics

Alfred Johny Wüest, Damien Bouffard, Theo Baracchini

Environmental management depends on high-quality monitoring and its meaningful interpretation. The combination of local weather dynamics, regional anthropogenic stresses and global environmental changes make the evaluation of monitoring information in dyna ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Data assimilation of in situ and satellite remote sensing data to 3D hydrodynamic lake models: a case study using Delft3D-FLOW v4.03 and OpenDA v2.4

Alfred Johny Wüest, Damien Bouffard, Theo Baracchini

The understanding of physical dynamics is crucial to provide scientifically credible information on lake ecosystem management. We show how the combination of in situ observations, remote sensing data, and three-dimensional hydrodynamic (3D) numerical simul ...

2020

An automated calibration framework and open source tools for 3D lake hydrodynamic models

Alfred Johny Wüest, Damien Bouffard, Andrea Cimatoribus, Theo Baracchini

Understanding lake dynamics is crucial to provide scientifically credible information for ecosystem management. In this context, three-dimensional hydrodynamic models are a key information source to assess critical but often subtle changes in lake dynamics ...

2020

Resolving biogeochemical processes in lakes using remote sensing

Alfred Johny Wüest, Damien Bouffard, Vincent Maurice Nouchi, Theo Baracchini

Remote sensing helps foster our understanding of inland water processes allowing a synoptic view of water quality parameters. In the context of global monitoring of inland waters, we demonstrate the benefit of combining in-situ water analysis, hydrodynamic ...

2019

From observations to 3D forecasts: Data assimilation for high resolution lakes monitoring

Theo Baracchini

Lake mesoscale processes have no secrets for artists, they have some for scientists and policy-makers. In the introduction to this dissertation, we saw that poets and painters depict the lake with rich variability. This vision conflicts with conventional a ...

EPFL2019

Le Lac de Zurich en Ligne - Prévisions hydrodynamiques 3D en temps-réel sur meteolakes.ch. Aqua & Gas - Fachzeitschrift für Gas, Wasser und Abwasser

Alfred Johny Wüest, Damien Bouffard, Theo Baracchini

Les lacs constituent d’importantes ressources en eau potable en Suisse, château d’eau de l’Europe. Pourtant, ils sont souvent négligés dans le cycle hydrologique global. Menacés à la fois à l’échelle globale par les changements climatiques, ainsi qu’à l’éc ...

2019

Seasonality in cholera dynamics: A rainfall-driven model explains the wide range of patterns in endemic areas

Enrico Bertuzzo, Theo Baracchini

Seasonal patterns in cholera dynamics exhibit pronounced variability across geographical regions, showing single or multiple peaks at different times of the year. Although multiple hypotheses related to local climate variables have been proposed, an unders ...

2017