Inverse alpine catchments

Modelling Evapotranspiration and the Surface Energy Budget in Alpine Catchments

Driving Factors for Torrential Mass-Movements Occurrence in the Western Alps

To understand the behavior of torrential processes in the alpine environment, the conditions mainly responsible for the occurrence of these phenomena have to be identified and distinguished as predisposing and triggering factors. In this regard, this study is aimed to understanding which factors lead to the occurrence of a given torrential processes in alpine catchments in the Western Alps, whe...

Flood triggering in Switzerland: the role of daily to monthly preceding precipitation

Determining the role of different precipitation periods for peak discharge generation is crucial for both projecting future changes in flood probability and for shortand medium-range flood forecasting. In this study, catchmentaveraged daily precipitation time series are analyzed prior to annual peak discharge events (floods) in Switzerland. The high number of floods considered – more than 4000 ...

Source waters and flow paths in an alpine catchment, Colorado Front Range, United States

[1] Source waters and flow paths of streamflow draining high-elevation catchments of the Colorado Rocky Mountains were determined using isotopic and geochemical tracers during the 1996 snowmelt runoff season at two subcatchments of the Green Lakes Valley, Colorado Front Range. A two-component hydrograph separation using dO indicates that new water dominated (82 ± 6%) streamflow at the 8-ha Mart...

Assimilating scatterometer soil moisture data into conceptual hydrologic models at the regional scale

This paper examines the potential of scatterometer data from ERS satellites for improving hydrological simulations in both gauged and ungauged catchments. We compare the soil moisture dynamics simulated by a semidistributed hydrologic model in 320 Austrian catchments with the soil moisture dynamics inferred from the satellite data. The most apparent differences occur in the Alpine areas. Assimi...