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Influence of sediment settling velocity on mechanistic soil erosion modeling

David Andrew Barry, Marc Parlange

We report on a series of soil erosion experiments performed on the 2-m x 6-m EPFL erosion flume. Total sediment concentrations and the concentrations of seven size fractions (1000 mm) were measured during 1 ...

American Geophysical Union2008

Stream Temperature Response to Three Riparian Vegetation Scenarios by Use of a Distributed Temperature Validated Model

Martin Vetterli, Marc Parlange, Aurèle Parriaux, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Guillermo Barrenetxea Kobas

Elevated in-stream temperature has led to a surge in the occurrence of parasitic intrusion proliferative kidney disease and has resulted in fish kills throughout Switzerland's waterways. Data from distributed temperature sensing (DTS) in-stream measurement ...

2010

Field study on drainage densities and rescaled width functions in a high‐altitude alpine catchment

Marc Parlange, Andrea Rinaldo, Raphaël Mutzner

This paper addresses the effect of accurately mapping spatially heterogeneous drainage densities in high-altitude alpine basins on Rescaled Width Functions (RWFs), used in some applications as a minimalist model of the hydrologic response. The channel netw ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

A scale-dependent Lagrangian dynamic model for large eddy simulation of complex turbulent flows

Marc Parlange

A scale-dependent dynamic subgrid model based on Lagrangian time averaging is proposed and tested in large eddy simulations sLESd of high-Reynolds number boundary layer flows over homogeneous and heterogeneous rough surfaces. The model is based on the Lagr ...

2005

Hydrologic response of an alpine watershed: Application of a meteorological wireless sensor network to understand streamflow generation

Martin Vetterli, Marc Parlange, Guillermo Barrenetxea Kobas, François Ingelrest, Marc Diebold, Daniel Nadeau, Simone Padoan

A field measurement campaign was conducted from June to October 2009 in a 20 km2 catchment of the Swiss Alps with a wireless network of 12 weather stations and river discharge monitoring. The objective was to investigate the spatial variability of meteorol ...

American Geophysical Union2011

Momentum balance of katabatic flow on steep slopes covered with short vegetation

Marc Parlange, Gabriel George Katul, Eric Richard Pardyjak, Holly Jayne Oldroyd

Katabatic flows over alpine mountainous terrain differ from their forested or bare slope counterparts due to the presence of well-ventilated, short vegetation. The impact of a grass canopy and larger-scale pressure perturbations on the one-dimensional mean ...

American Geophysical Union2014

Flow during the evening transition over steep Alpine slopes

Marc Parlange, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Eric Richard Pardyjak, Chad Higgins, Daniel Nadeau

A field campaign, the Slope Experiment near La Fouly (SELF-2010), was conducted to monitor the evening transition of slope flows on clear-sky days from July to September 2010 in a narrow valley of the Swiss Alps. A steep west-facing slope with inclinations ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Buoyant Turbulent Kinetic Energy Production in Steep-Slope Katabatic Flow

Marc Parlange, Eric Richard Pardyjak, Chad Higgins, Holly Jayne Oldroyd

We develop several critical concepts that should be considered when interpreting, modelling and designing future experiments for flows over sloping terrain. Vertical buoyancy fluxes in katabatic flows can be positive and a source of turbulent kinetic energ ...

Springer Verlag2016

Adapting tilt corrections and the governing flow equations for steep, fully three-dimensional, mountainous terrain

Marc Parlange, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Eric Richard Pardyjak, Holly Jayne Oldroyd

In recent studies of atmospheric turbulent surface exchange in complex terrain, questions arise concerning velocity-sensor tilt corrections and the governing flow equations for coordinate systems aligned with steep slopes. The standard planar-fit method, a ...

2016

Thermal diffusivity of seasonal snow determined from temperature profiles

Marc Parlange, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Chad Higgins, Holly Jayne Oldroyd

Thermal diffusivity of snow is an important thermodynamic property associated with key hydrological phenomena such as snow melt and heat and water vapor exchange with the atmosphere. Direct determination of snow thermal diffusivity requires coupled point m ...

Elsevier2013

Distributed fiber-optic temperature sensing for hydrologic systems

Luc Thévenaz, Marc Parlange, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Nicolaas Cornelis van de Giesen

Instruments for distributed fiber-optic measurement of temperature are now available with temperature resolution of 0.01°C and spatial resolution of 1 m with temporal resolution of fractions of a minute along standard fiber-optic cables used for communicat ...

2006

Spatial Characteristics of Roughness Sublayer Mean Flow and Turbulence Over a Realistic Urban Surface

Marc Parlange, Jiannong Fang, Marco Giovanni Giometto

Single-point measurements from towers in cities cannot properly quantify the impact of all terms in the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) budget and are often not representative of horizontally-averaged quantities over the entire urban domain. A series of lar ...

Springer2016

Limitation of the transport capacity approach in sediment transport modeling

David Andrew Barry, Marc Parlange

In a recent paper by Polyakov and Nearing (2003) it was shown experimentally that the sediment transport capacity in a rill is not unique for a given soil type, slope, and flow rate. Indeed, they found that the transport capacity was dependent on whether s ...

American Geophysical Union2007

Could electrical conductivity replace water level in rating curves for alpine streams?

Marc Parlange, Steven Vincent Weijs, Raphaël Mutzner

Streamflow time series are important for inference and understanding of the hydrological processes in alpine watersheds. Because streamflow is expensive to continuously measure directly, it is usually derived from measured water levels, using a rating curv ...

American Geophysical Union2013

Analytical approximation for the recession of a sloping aquifer

David Andrew Barry, Marc Parlange

An approximation is obtained for the recession of a sloping aquifer. The analytical approximation can provide a useful tool to analyze data and obtain physical properties of the aquifer. In contrast to the case of a horizontal aquifer, when plotting the ti ...

American Geophysical Union2014

Coherent structures and the k(-1) spectral behaviour

Marc Parlange, Valentin Simeonov, Holly Jayne Oldroyd, Marc Calaf Bracons

l Here we present unique evidence of a k(-1) scaling behaviour in the atmospheric boundary layer and its connection to large scale coherent structures within the boundary layer. Wind lidar measurements were conducted above a lake under cold atmospheric con ...

Amer Inst Physics2013

Modeling turbulent flow over fractal trees with renormalized numerical simulation

Marc Parlange

High-Reynolds number flow over tree-like fractals is considered, with emphasis on the drag forces produced. Fractal objects display large scale-disparity and complexity while being amenable to a simple and standardized description. Hence, they offer an ele ...

2007

Modelling Small-Scale Drifting Snow with a Lagrangian Stochastic Model Based on Large-Eddy Simulations

Michael Lehning, Marc Parlange, Marc Diebold

Observations of drifting snow on small scales have shown that, in spite of nearly steady winds, the snow mass flux can strongly fluctuate in time and space. Most drifting snow models, however, are not able to describe drifting snow accurately over short ti ...

Springer Verlag2014

Carbon monoxide as a tracer of gas transport in snow and other natural porous media

Marc Parlange, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Marc Calaf Bracons, Nicolaas Cornelis van de Giesen

The movement of air in natural porous media is complex and challenging to measure. Yet gas transport has important implications, for instance, for the evolution of the seasonal snow cover and for water vapor transport in soil. A novel in situ multi-sensor ...

American Geophysical Union2012

Modeling Flow around Bluff Bodies and Predicting Urban Dispersion Using Large Eddy Simulation

Marc Parlange

Modeling air pollutant transport and dispersion in urban environments is especially challenging due to complex ground topography. In this study, we describe a large eddy simulation (LES) tool including a new dynamic subgrid closure and boundary treatment t ...

2006