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Climat tropical de savane

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Towards a Minergie Standard for tropical climates

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Franco Vigliotti, Claude-Alain Roulet, Fouad Aabid

The Swiss Minergie®-standard is, by the number of labelled buildings (> 20'000) one of the most successful building energy labels in the world. It is obviously a strong incentive for designing comfortable, low energy buildings. This standard is now valid f ...

EPFL2011

Stochastic modeling of salt accumulation in the root zone due to capillary flux from brackish groundwater

Andrea Rinaldo, Samir Suweis

[1] Groundwater can be a source of both water and salts in semiarid areas, and therefore, capillary pressure-induced upward water flow may cause root zone salinization. To identify which conditions result in hazardous salt concentrations in the root zone, ...

2011

Comfort and Technologies: From the Individual’s Needs to Cleantech

Marilyne Andersen

The Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Performance-Integrated Design (LIPID) is one of the two (ultimately five) ‘mirror’ labs for the EPFL Middle East campus. Synergistic research and education initiatives are being developed with a focus on climate as a dri ...

2011

Modelling of evaporation in alpine glaciers and watersheds

Diane Von Gunten

Summary and conclusion: In this report, we first study evaporation and condensation on alpine glaciers. We present two models of ice evaporation and we compare them with observations. We afterwards estimate the impact of ice evaporation in present and futu ...

2011

Performance of Anidolic Daylighting Systems in tropical climates – Parametric studies for identification of main influencing factors

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Friedrich Linhart, Stephen Wittkopf

Making daylight more available in buildings is highly desirable, not only for reasons of energy-efficiency, but also for improvement of occupants’ health and well-being. Core-daylighting, that is daylight provision in areas situated at considerable distanc ...

Elsevier2010

The vulnerability of Switzerland towards climate change : the case of tourism

Cecilia Matasci, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

Tourism is one of the main sources of income in many Swiss Alpine regions. But this industry is highly sensitive to climate conditions. Then, tourism in the Alpine region is effectively affected (both positively and negatively) by climate change and people ...

2010

Actions microclimatique et environnementale des ouvrages d'art routier [Microclimatic and environmental actions of road structures]

Eugen Brühwiler, André-Gilles Dumont, David Conciatori

Les différentes zones d’un ouvrage d’art routier sont étudiées en fonction de leur degré d’exposition au microclimat environnant. Les conditions climatiques provenant de stations météorologiques et la cinétique des véhicules permettent de définir des zones ...

2009

Microclimatic and environmental actions of road structures

André-Gilles Dumont, David Conciatori

Various areas of a highway structure are studied regarding their level of exposure to the surrounding microclimate. Climate conditions from meteorological stations and vehicle kinetics are used to determine zones that are exposed to salt products and clima ...

National Research Council Canada2009

ON CORRELATING BIRD MIGRATION TRAJECTORY WITH CLIMATE CHANGES

José Antonio Fernandes de Macedo, Janaina Oleinik Moura Rosa

Climate changes are expected to affect bird migration in several aspects including timing changes, breeding and migration orientation. The correlation analysis of several climate conditions (e.g. temperature, wind, humidity, etc) and bird migration traject ...

2009

Satellite cartography of atmospheric methane from SCIAMACHY onboard ENVISAT: (II) Comparison with inverse model simulations

Jed Oliver Kaplan

We extend the analysis of a global CH4 data set retrieved from SCIAMACHY (Frankenberg et al., 2006) by making a detailed comparison with inverse TM5 model simulations for 2003 that are optimized versus high accuracy CH4 surface measurements from the NOAA E ...

2007

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