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Nearfield development of the negatively buoyant Rhône River inflow into Lake Geneva as an interflow: suspended particulate matter and associated fluxes.
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EPFL2023Reduction of riverbed clogging related to sediment flushing
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The ecological effects of dams on sediment and river flow have been subject to an increasing attention, leading to the implementation of mitigation measures such as environmental flow release and sediment replenishment. However, fine sediment dynamics have ...
CRC Press/Balkema2023Experimental modeling of fine sediment routing: SEDMIX device with thrusters
Giovanni De Cesare, Azin Amini, Montana Marshall
Reservoir sedimentation is a key challenge for storage sustainability because it causes volume loss, affecting hydropower production capacity, dam safety, and flood management. A preliminary EPFL study proposed and studied an innovative device (called SEDM ...
CRC Press/Balkema2023Enhancing Flood Resilience: Sediment Management in Le Bez Torrent
Giovanni De Cesare, Azin Amini, Romain Nathan Hippolyte Merlin Van Mol
In the canton of Bern, Switzerland, the “Le Bez” torrent is known for its flash floods, causing sediment and wood debris buildup in Villeret village settled on the alluvial fan. To mitigate this issue, a sediment/wood trap system is being implemented upstr ...
Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT)2023Sediment transfer in the Rhône River Basin, Switzerland: the role of localized severe Alpine storm events on triggering turbidity currents in Lake Geneva
David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Koen Blanckaert, François Mettra
In Lake Geneva, a deep peri-Alpine lake in Switzerland, the sublacustrine Rhône River delta presents a deep canyon, the Rhône Canyon. Previous studies and recent observations show that low-velocity underflows and high-velocity turbidity currents pass frequ ...
2021The influence of climate on water chemistry states and dynamics in rivers across Australia
For effective water quality management and policy development, spatial variability in the mean concentrations and dynamics of riverine water quality needs to be understood. Using water chemistry (calcium, electrical conductivity, nitrate-nitrite, soluble r ...
WILEY2021Field characterization of the negatively buoyant inflow of the Rhône River into Lake Geneva
David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Koen Blanckaert
River inflows have a major influence on lake and reservoir water quality through their input of momentum, heat, oxygen, sediment, nutrients and contaminants. The fate of these components is controlled by the hydrodynamic processes at the interface between ...
2020Quasi-stationary flow structure in turbidity currents
Giovanni De Cesare, Shun Nomura
A turbidity current is a particle-laden current driven by density differences due to suspended sediment particles. Turbidity currents can transport large amounts of sediment down slopes over great distances, and play a significant role in fluvial, lake and ...
IRTCES2020Effect thresholds of metals in stream sediments based on in situ oligochaete communities
Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari, Régis Lionel Vivien
Aquatic oligochaetes, comprising a large number of species showing various degrees of resistance to chemical pollution, are recognized as valuable bioindicators of sediments’ quality. In the Geneva area (Switzerland), oligochaete tools were previously test ...
2020Design of sediment detention basins: Scaled model experiments and application
Anton Schleiss, Sebastian Schwindt, Mona Jafarnejad Chaghooshi, Anita Hélène Roth
Sediment detention basins are implemented on mountain rivers to trap solid material that may aggravate the flooding of downstream settlements. However, retention structures built in the past may unnecessarily retain sediment during non-hazardous flood even ...
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