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Figures of snow bedform formation by adding sintering to a cellular automata model (Sharma, Braud et al. 2019).
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Journal Articles
2024
Influence of air flow features on alpine wind energy potential
Frontiers In Energy Research. 2024-05-24. Vol. 12, p. 1379863. DOI : 10.3389/fenrg.2024.1379863.Formulation of stress intensity factor under pure bending condition in multilayer pavements using numerical study and model tree approach
Fatigue & Fracture Of Engineering Materials & Structures. 2024-04-25. DOI : 10.1111/ffe.14314.Aerodynamic modeling of a delta-wing UAV for model-based navigation
CEAS Aeronautical Journal. 2024-03-19. Vol. 15, p. 283–301. DOI : 10.1007/s13272-024-00727-9.Airborne sensor fusion: Expected accuracy and behavior of a concurrent adjustment
ISPRS Open Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 2024-02-22. Vol. 12, num. April, p. 100057. DOI : 10.1016/j.ophoto.2023.100057.VDMNav: Software Architecture for Aerodynamically Constrained Navigation on Small Fixed-Wing Drones
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 2024-01-25. Vol. 9, num. 3, p. 2869 – 2876. DOI : 10.1109/LRA.2024.3358758.Impact of intercepted and sub-canopy snow microstructure on snowpack response to rain-on-snow events under a boreal canopy
The Cryosphere. 2024. Vol. 18, num. 6, p. 2783-2807. DOI : 10.5194/tc-18-2783-2024.Turbulence in the Strongly Heterogeneous Near-Surface Boundary Layer over Patchy Snow
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2024. Vol. 190, num. 2, p. 1-28. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-023-00856-4.Understanding snow saltation parameterizations: lessons from theory, experiments and numerical simulations
The Cryosphere. 2024. Vol. 18, num. 3, p. 1287-1313. DOI : 10.5194/tc-18-1287-2024.On the importance of the humidity flux for the surface mass balance in the accumulation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Cryosphere. 2024-01-15. Vol. 18, num. 1, p. 289-305. DOI : 10.5194/tc-18-289-2024.2023
Inter-comparison of spatial models for high shares of renewable electricity in Switzerland
Applied Energy. 2023-11-15. Vol. 350, p. 121700. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.121700.Determining return levels of extreme daily precipitation, reservoir inflow, and dry spells
Frontiers In Water. 2023-07-24. Vol. 5, p. 1141786. DOI : 10.3389/frwa.2023.1141786.A Case Study on Drivers of the Isotopic Composition of Water Vapor at the Coast of East Antarctica
Journal Of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface. 2023-07-01. Vol. 128, num. 7, p. e2023JF007062. DOI : 10.1029/2023JF007062.CRYOWRF—Model Evaluation and the Effect of Blowing Snow on the Antarctic Surface Mass Balance
Journal Of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. 2023-06-27. Vol. 128, num. 12, p. e2022JD037744. DOI : 10.1029/2022JD037744.A Database of Snow on Sea Ice in the Central Arctic Collected during the MOSAiC expedition
Scientific Data. 2023-06-22. Vol. 10, num. 1, p. 398. DOI : 10.1038/s41597-023-02273-1.Convection of snow: when and why does it happen?
Frontiers In Earth Science. 2023-06-15. Vol. 11, p. 1167760. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2023.1167760.Evidence of Strong Flux Underestimation by Bulk Parametrizations During Drifting and Blowing Snow (vol 182, pg 119, 2022)
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2023-05-20. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-023-00809-x.Combining Weather Station Data and Short-Term LiDAR Deployment to Estimate Wind Energy Potential with Machine Learning: A Case Study from the Swiss Alps
Boundary Layer Meteorology. 2023-05-11. Vol. 188, num. 1, p. 185-208. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-023-00808-y.Decentralized green energy transition promotes peace
Frontiers In Environmental Science. 2023-03-03. Vol. 11, p. 1118987. DOI : 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1118987.Wind conditions for snow cornice formation in a wind tunnel
Cryosphere. 2023-02-08. Vol. 17, num. 2, p. 639-651. DOI : 10.5194/tc-17-639-2023.Introducing CRYOWRF v1.0: multiscale atmospheric flow simulations with advanced snow cover modelling
Geoscientific Model Development. 2023-01-30. Vol. 16, num. 2, p. 719-749. DOI : 10.5194/gmd-16-719-2023.A Case Study on Drivers of the Isotopic Composition of Water Vapour at the Coast of East Antarctica
ESS Open Archive. 2023-01-11. DOI : 10.22541/essoar.167340708.83192511/v1.Correction to: Evidence of Strong Flux Underestimation by Bulk Parametrizations During Drifting and Blowing Snow
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2023. Vol. 188, p. 345. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-023-00809-x.Towards a fully physical representation of snow on Arctic sea ice using a 3D snow-atmosphere model
JGR: Earth Surface. 2023. DOI : 10.22541/essoar.167898493.35163091/v2.The High-resolution Intermediate Complexity Atmospheric Research (HICAR v1.1) model enables fast dynamic downscaling to the hectometer scale
Geoscientific Model Development. 2023-09-01. Vol. 16, num. 17, p. 5049-5068. DOI : 10.5194/gmd-16-5049-2023.Geospatial segmentation of high-resolution photovoltaic production maps for Switzerland
Frontiers In Energy Research. 2023-10-09. Vol. 11, p. 1254932. DOI : 10.3389/fenrg.2023.1254932.Snow-Atmosphere Humidity Exchange at the Ice Sheet Surface Alters Annual Mean Climate Signals in Ice Core Records
Geophysical Research Letters. 2023-10-28. Vol. 50, num. 20, p. e2023GL104249. DOI : 10.1029/2023GL104249.Retrieval of Snow Depth on Arctic Sea Ice From Surface-Based, Polarimetric, Dual-Frequency Radar Altimetry
Geophysical Research Letters. 2023-10-28. Vol. 50, num. 20, p. e2023GL104461. DOI : 10.1029/2023GL104461.On the possibility of extending the service life of winter roads using renewable energy sources
Arctic: Ecology and Economy. 2023. Vol. 13, num. 4, p. 570-578. DOI : 10.25283/2223-4594-2023-4-570-578.Inverter Heat Pumps as a Variable Load for Off-Grid Solar-Powered Systems
Energies. 2023. Vol. 16, num. 16, p. 5987. DOI : 10.3390/en16165987.FLIIMP : a community software for the processing, calibration, and reporting of liquid water isotope measurements on cavity-ring down spectrometers
MethodsX. 2023-07-27. Vol. 11, p. 102297. DOI : 10.1016/j.mex.2023.102297.An empirical model to calculate snow depth from daily snow water equivalent: SWE2HS 1.0
Geoscientific Model Development. 2023-07-19. Vol. 16, num. 14, p. 4063-4081. DOI : 10.5194/gmd-16-4063-2023.A Snapshot on the Buildup of the Stable Water Isotopic Signal in the Upper Snowpack at EastGRIP on the Greenland Ice Sheet
Journal Of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface. 2023-02-01. Vol. 128, num. 2, p. e2022JF006767. DOI : 10.1029/2022JF006767.Wind Transport of Snow Impacts Ka- and Ku-band Radar Signatures on Arctic Sea Ice
The Cryosphere. 2023. Vol. 17, num. 6, p. 2211–2229. DOI : 10.5194/tc-2022-116.Thermal Conductivity of Snow on Arctic Sea Ice
EGUsphere [preprint]. 2023-02-03. DOI : 10.5194/egusphere-2023-83.A Novel Method to Quantify Near-Surface Boundary-Layer Dynamics at Ultra-High Spatio-Temporal Resolution
Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 2023. Vol. 186, p. 177–197. DOI : 10.1007/s10546-022-00752-3.2022
Observations and simulations of new snow density in the drifting snow-dominated environment of Antarctica
Journal Of Glaciology. 2022-12-14. p. PII S0022143022001022. DOI : 10.1017/jog.2022.102.Fingerprints of Frontal Passages and Post-Depositional Effects in the Stable Water Isotope Signal of Seasonal Alpine Snow
Journal Of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. 2022-11-27. Vol. 127, num. 22, p. e2022JD037469. DOI : 10.1029/2022JD037469.Future trends in wind resources and their consistency in the Indian sub-continent
Sustainable Energy Technologies And Assessments. 2022-10-01. Vol. 53, p. 102460. DOI : 10.1016/j.seta.2022.102460.Considering snow depositions and transport mechanisms in meteorological analysis of predicting snow loads on buildings
Cold Regions Science And Technology. 2022-09-01. Vol. 201, p. 103614. DOI : 10.1016/j.coldregions.2022.103614.Modeling the small-scale deposition of snow onto structured Arctic sea ice during a MOSAiC storm using snowBedFoam 1.0.
Geoscientific Model Development. 2022-08-29. Vol. 15, num. 16, p. 6429-6449. DOI : 10.5194/gmd-15-6429-2022.Snowfall and snow accumulation during the MOSAiC winter and spring seasons
Cryosphere. 2022-06-17. Vol. 16, num. 6, p. 2373-2402. DOI : 10.5194/tc-16-2373-2022.Idealized Study of a Static Electrical Field on Charged Saltating Snow Particles
Frontiers In Earth Science. 2022-06-15. Vol. 10, p. 880466. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2022.880466.Climate Change Impact Assessment for Future Wind and Solar Energy Installations in India
Frontiers In Energy Research. 2022-05-11. Vol. 10, p. 859321. DOI : 10.3389/fenrg.2022.859321.Wind-Topo: Downscaling near-surface wind fields to high-resolution topography in highly complex terrain with deep learning
Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society. 2022-03-29. DOI : 10.1002/qj.4265.TopoCLIM: rapid topography-based downscaling of regional climate model output in complex terrain v1.1
Geoscientific Model Development. 2022-03-02. Vol. 15, num. 4, p. 1753-1768. DOI : 10.5194/gmd-15-1753-2022.Future water temperature of rivers in Switzerland under climate change investigated with physics-based models
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 2022-02-24. Vol. 26, num. 4, p. 1063-1087. DOI : 10.5194/hess-26-1063-2022.Convection of water vapour in snowpacks
Journal Of Fluid Mechanics. 2022-01-19. Vol. 934, p. A38. DOI : 10.1017/ijm.2021.1146.Modeling Snow Saltation: The Effect of Grain Size and Interparticle Cohesion
Journal Of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. 2022-01-16. Vol. 127, p. e2021JD035260. DOI : 10.1029/2021JD035260.Optimized market value of alpine solar photovoltaic installations
Renewable Energy. 2022-01-12. Vol. 186, p. 878-888. DOI : 10.1016/j.renene.2022.01.016.Digitalization in decarbonizing electricity systems – Phenomena, regional aspects, stakeholders, use cases, challenges and policy options
Energy. 2022. Vol. 262, Part B, p. 125521. DOI : 10.1016/j.energy.2022.125521.Impact of turbulence on aeolian particle entrainment: results from wind-tunnel experiments
Atmospheric Chemistry And Physics. 2022-07-22. Vol. 22, num. 14, p. 9525-9535. DOI : 10.5194/acp-22-9525-2022.Conference Papers
2024
Influence of sun cups on surface albedo of wet Alpine snowpack
2024-03-25. EGU23, the 25th EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria and Online, 23-28 April, 2023. DOI : 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-14338.2023
What drives electricity tariffs in Switzerland? Two-stage statistical and geospatial analysis of structural differences across 1913 municipalities
2023-08-02. IEEE ISGT Europe 2023, Grenoble, France, October 23-26, 2023. DOI : 10.1109/ISGTEUROPE56780.2023.10407610.Wind Tunnel Characterization of a Delta-Wing UAV for – Model-Based Navigation
2023. Aerospace Europe Conference 2023 – 10ᵀᴴ EUCASS – 9ᵀᴴ CEAS, Lausanne, July 9-13, 2023. DOI : 10.13009/EUCASS2023-585.2022
SWEET-EDGE: Enabling Decentralized renewable Generation in the Alps
2022-01-28. Energy Research Talks , Disentis/Mustér, January 26-28, 2022. p. 36-38.Reviews
2023
A Mini-Review of Current Activities and Future Trends in Agrivoltaics
Energies. 2023-04-01. Vol. 16, num. 7, p. 3009. DOI : 10.3390/en16073009.Theses
2024
Turbulence and Heat exchange in the Near-Surface Boundary Layer over Patchy Snow
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024.Good enough: Intermediate complexity atmospheric models improve the representation of processes affecting seasonal snow
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024.2023
Snow transport in extreme environments: from small to large scale modeling
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023.Assessing sublimation during snow transport and sublimation effects on the isotopic composition of water vapor
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023.Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Snow on Central Arctic Sea Ice and its Implications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023.2022
Addressing impact of climate change on wind and solar energy infrastructures: the case of India
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022.Reports
2023
Maximum Wind Energy Production (MaxWEP): Maximizing Winter Production of Energy by Exploiting Terrain Potential
2023-03-31
Seasonal asymmetries and long-term trends in atmospheric and ionospheric temperatures in polar regions and their dependence on solar activity (SATS)
2023