Dr. Rebecca Mott-Grünewald

Function

Scientific staff member

Snow and Atmosphere

Snow Hydrology

Contact

mott(at)slfto make life hard for spam bots.ch

+41 81 417 02 93+41 81 417 02 93

WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF
Flüelastrasse 11
7260 Davos Dorf

Site

Davos Da B 2 14

FURTHER INFORMATION

Projects

Dynamics of the rock slope instability "Spitze Stei"

The rock slope instability "Spitze Stei" constitutes a risk for the touristic infrastructure around lake Öschinensee and the village Kandersteg. Our project task will investigate the mechanisms which led to the slope destabilisation and analyse scenarios for slope failures.

CCAMM II: Cascading Processes

The CCAMM cluster "Cascading Processes"develops knowledge and models that can be used to anticipate future cascading events. At "Spitze Stei", Kandersteg BE, we study the cascading processes: rock slope instability, debris flow, rock/snow avalanches and lake outburst floods.

Climate and snow input at different spatial and temporal scales

Our project aims to collaborate with various proposed CAMM II projects within the clusters "Cascading processes' and "Early warning systems", providing meteorological, snow cover, ground temperature and snow melt data at different temporal and spatial scales.

Snow-atmosphere interactions

The main objective of this study is to improve high-resolution seasonal snow cover predictions for large river basins in the Alps. Key to these improvements are the coupling of physically based models for both atmospheric and snow cover processes to better resolve processes that act at the snow - atmosphere interface.

CCAMM Task 1.0: Downscaling Meorological forcings.

The WSL program Climate Change Impacts on Alpine Mass Movements (CCAMM) comprises projects covering a range of topics in natural hazards. Most investigations use models and thus require climate forcing data. The aim of this task is to provide meteorological forcings at the slope scale and in high temporal resolution.

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Publications WSL

Scientific publication article peer reviewed

Haugeneder, M.; Lehning, M.; Reynolds, D.; Jonas, T.; Mott, R., 2023: A novel method to quantify near-surface boundary-layer dynamics at ultra-high spatio-temporal resolution. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 186: 177-197. doi: 10.1007/s10546-022-00752-3

Kruyt, B.; Mott, R.; Fiddes, J.; Gerber, F.; Sharma, V.; Reynolds, D., 2022: A downscaling intercomparison study: the representation of slope- and ridge-scale processes in models of different complexity. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10: 789332 (22 pp.). doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.789332

Arnoux, M.; Brunner, P.; Schaefli, B.; Mott, R.; Cochand, F.; Hunkeler, D., 2021: Low-flow behavior of alpine catchments with varying quaternary cover under current and future climatic conditions. Journal of Hydrology, 592: 125591 (15 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125591

Mott, R.; Stiperski, I.; Nicholson, L., 2020: Spatio-temporal flow variations driving heat exchange processes at a mountain glacier. Cryosphere, 14, 12: 4699-4718. doi: 10.5194/tc-14-4699-2020

Gerber, F.; Mott, R.; Lehning, M., 2019: The importance of near-surface winter precipitation processes in complex alpine terrain. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 20, 2: 177-196. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-18-0055.1

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Further scientific publications

Lehning, M.; Mott, R., 2016: Bodennahe atmosphärische Prozesse und ihre Wirkung auf die hochalpine Schneedecke. Promet: Meteorologische Fortbildung, 98: 59-67.

Lehning, M.; Grünewald, T.; Marty, C.; Mott, R.; Stähli, M., 2012: Kleinräumige Schneeverteilung und Einfluss der Topographie. In: Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt WSL (eds), 2012: Alpine Schnee- und Wasserressourcen gestern, heute, morgen. Forum für Wissen 2012, Davos, November 23, 2012. 13-18.

Mott, R.; Schirmer, M.; Grünewald, T.; Lehning, M., 2009: Understanding snow transport processes shaping the mountain snow-cover. In: Schweizer, J.; Van Herwijnen, A. (eds), 2009: International snow science workshop proceedings 2009. International snow science workshop, ISSW 2009, Davos, Switzerland, September 27 - October 2, 2009. 141-145.

Mitterer, C.; Mott, R.; Schweizer, J., 2009: Observations and analysis of two wet-snow avalanche cycles. In: Schweizer, J.; Van Herwijnen, A. (eds), 2009: International snow science workshop proceedings 2009. International snow science workshop, ISSW 2009, Davos, Switzerland, September 27 - October 2, 2009. 262-266.

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