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Detecting mass wasting of Retrogressive Thaw Slumps in spaceborne elevation models using deep learning

Climate change has led to stronger warming in the Arctic, causing higher ground temperatures and extensive permafrost thaw. Retrogressive Thaw Slumps (RTSs) represent one of the most rapid and considerable geomorphological changes in permafrost regions, oc ...

2025

network-based constraint to evaluate climate sensitivity

Athanasios Nenes, Lucile Anna Ricard

The 2015 Paris agreement was established to limit Greenhouse gas (GHG) global warming below 1.5°C above preindustrial era values. Knowledge of climate sensitivity to GHG levels is central for formulating effective climate policies, yet its exact value is s ...

Nature Research2024

Hydrological trends and the evolution of catchment research in the Alptal valley, central Switzerland

Jana Freiin von Freyberg, Ilja van Meerveld

When the observation of small headwater catchments in the pre-Alpine Alptal valley (central Switzerland) started in the late 1960s, the researchers were mainly interested in questions related to floods and forest management. Investigations of geomorphologi ...

2021

Beyond the patch: on landscape-explicit metapopulation dynamics

Jonathan Giezendanner

Climate change threatens biodiversity and species distribution all over the world at unprecedented rates. Human induced changes to landscape structure and habitat are redefining the relation between species and their environment. Understanding, characteriz ...

EPFL2020

Changes in Climatology, Snow Cover, and Ground Temperatures at High Alpine Locations

Michael Lehning

Knowledge about changes in ground temperatures under a changing climate is important for many environmental, economic, and infrastructure applications and can be estimated by transient numerical simulations. However, a full annual cycle of precipitation da ...

2020

Statistical and physical characterization of rainfall-driven overland flow morphologies

Mohsen Cheraghi

Environmental transport processes are highly coupled with the shape of landscapes. Modern catchment analysis with high-resolution data and huge computational powers demand more detailed within-cell metrics for surface evolution modeling. This dissertation ...

EPFL2019

Thermal Comfort Maps to estimate the impact of urban greening on the outdoor human comfort

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Jérôme Henri Kämpf

Outdoor human comfort is an important factor in the evaluation of the liveability of a city as well as for promoting people’s health and well-being. In hot arid climates in particular, urban planning and design can considerably impact the day-to-day therma ...

2018

Sustainable Land Use in Mountain Regions Under Global Change: Synthesis Across Scales and Disciplines

Alexandre Buttler, François Gillet, Thomas Spiegelberger, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey

Mountain regions provide essential ecosystem goods and services (EGS) for both mountain dwellers and people living outside these areas. Global change endangers the capacity of mountain ecosystems to provide key services. The Mountland project focused on th ...

Resilience Alliance2013

Prediction of the spatial evolution and effects of control measures for the unfolding Haiti cholera outbreak

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Melanie Blokesch, Lorenzo Mari, Lorenzo Righetto

Here we propose spatially explicit predictions of the residual progression of the current Haiti cholera outbreak accounting for the dynamics of susceptible and infected individuals within different local human communities, and for the redistribution among ...

American Geophysical Union2011