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Evolution of stream and lake water temperature under climate change

Alfred Johny Wüest, Damien Bouffard, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Adrien Michel, Bettina Schaefli, Carl Love Mikael Råman Vinnå, Martin Schmid

This report presents past observations and projects the future development of water temperature in Swiss lakes and rivers. Projections are made until the end of the 21st century using the CH2018 climate scenarios. Besides climate change effects on temperat ...

Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)2021

Swiss Potential for Hydropower Generation and Storage - Synthesis report

François Avellan, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Martin Schmid, Paolo Burlando, David Felix

Hydropower (HP) is the backbone of the Swiss electricity system providing around 60 % (36 TWh/a) of the total electricity generated on a yearly average. With the planned phase-out of nuclear power plants, HP and other Renewable Energy Sources (RES) will ne ...

ETH Zurich2021

Overview of recent gyrotron R&D towards DEMO within EUROfusion Work Package Heating and Current Drive

Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémy Genoud, Ioannis Pagonakis, Martin Schmid, Konstantinos Avramidis

Gyrotron R&D within the EUROfusion Work Package Heating and Current Drive (WPHCD) is addressing the challenging requirements posed on gyrotrons by the European concept for a demonstration fusion power plant (EU DEMO). These requirements, as specified withi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Ensemble modelling of ice cover for a reservoir affected by pumped-storage operation and climate change

Martin Schmid, Ulrike Kobler

Ensemble modelling was used to assess the robustness of projected impacts of pumped-storage (PS) operation and climate change on reservoir ice cover. To this end, three one-dimensional and a two-dimensional laterally averaged hydrodynamic model were set up ...

WILEY2019

Towards Advanced Fusion Gyrotrons: 2018 Update on Activities within EUROfusion

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Ioannis Pagonakis, Martin Schmid, Konstantinos Avramidis

During the ongoing pre-concept phase (2014 - 2020) for a possible future European DEMOnstration Fusion Power Plant (DEMO) the activities within EUROfusion WP HCD EC Gyrotron R&D and Advanced Developments are focusing on options for near-term solutions, and ...

E D P SCIENCES2019

Report of recent experiments with the European 1 MW, 170 GHz CW and SP prototype gyrotrons for ITER

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Christian Schlatter, Francisco Sanchez, Ioannis Pagonakis, Martin Schmid, Konstantinos Avramidis

The European 1 MW, 170 GHz industrial CW prototype gyrotron has been designed within EGYC (European GYrotron Consortium) in collaboration with the industrial partner Thales Electron Devices (TED) and under the coordination of Fusion for Energy (F4E). This ...

E D P SCIENCES2019

Drivers of deep-water renewal events observed over 13 years in the South Basin of Lake Baikal

Alfred Johny Wüest, Martin Schmid

Lake Baikal, with a depth of 1637 m, is characterized by deep-water intrusions that bridge the near-surface layer to the hypolimnion. These episodic events transfer heat and oxygen over large vertical scales and maintain the permanent temperature stratifie ...

Amer Geophysical Union2015

Characterisation of the subaquatic groundwater discharge that maintains the permanent stratification within Lake Kivu; East Africa

Alfred Johny Wüest, Martin Schmid

Warm and cold subaquatic groundwater discharge into Lake Kivu forms the large-scale density gradients presently observed in the lake. This structure is pertinent to maintaining the stratification that locks the high volume of gases in the deepwater. Our re ...

Public Library of Science2015

Large lakes as sources and sinks of anthropogenic heat: Capacities and limits

Alfred Johny Wüest, Martin Schmid

The goal of reducing carbon fuel and thereby saving energy will increase the use of lake water for heating and cooling of riparian infrastructures. This raises the question of which heat use designs meet the ecological and technical requirements for lakes, ...

2014

Lake surface temperatures in a changing climate: a global sensitivity analysis

Alfred Johny Wüest, Martin Schmid, Stefan Hunziker

We estimate the effects of climatic changes, as predicted by six climate models, on lake surface temperatures on a global scale, using the lake surface equilibrium temperature as a proxy. We evaluate interactions between different forcing variables, the se ...

Springer Verlag2014