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Meltwater discharge from mountainous catchments

Mountain streams can constitute a significant risk to subjacent settlement areas due to flooding and debris flow. Last summer, a new automatic runoff gage has been installed in the river Albertibach above Davos.

CCAP: Climate Change Adaptation Plan in Peru

Climate change is severely affecting the water resources in Peru’s High Andean Plateau. Focusing on water resources, disaster prevention and food security, CCAP attempts to identify the most suitable adjustment measures.

EBISCO – Energy budget in snow covered forests

In this project we investigate the radiation balance inside snow-covered subalpine forests. A novel instrument was developed to capture the spatio-temporal variability of radiation below the canopy.

Climate change and hydropower production

In this interdisciplinary project research teams from WSL (Mountain Hydrology and Torrents), Univ. Bern (Hydrology), ETH Zürich (Atmosphere and Climate, VAW Glaciology, Centre for Energy Policy and Economics) and Univ. Zürich (Physical Geography) investigate the effect of a changing climate on the Swiss Hydropower production.

SWE Verification Alpine3D

Alpine3D is a snowcover model that allows simulating the spatial distribution of snow in complex alpine terrain. This project deals with the verification of snow water equivalent estimates of Alpine3D by means of field measurements.

CCES-BigLink

BigLink is a unique multidisciplinary research project investigating processes that drive soil and ecosystem development on the forefield of a retreating glacier. Our contributions aim at assessing the past, present and future hydrological and thermal conditions of the glacier forefield.

Dynamic of Snow Cover’s Spatial Distribution over Alpine Topography

The project addresses the description of the dynamic of snow cover’s spatial distribution over Alpine topography at scales of 1m, 10m, 100m & 1km – 100km during accumulation and ablation.

How much snow is lost to evaporation?

How much snow evaporates and is returned to the atmosphere in the form of water vapour? Field measurements, numerical modelling and wind tunnel experiments provide new discoveries.