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Nowcasting of High-Intensity Rainfall for Urban Applications in the Netherlands

Radar rainfall nowcasting has mostly been applied to relatively large (often rural) domains (e.g., river basins), although rainfall nowcasting in small urban areas is expected to be more challenging. Here, we selected 80 events with high rainfall intensiti ...

Amer Meteorological Soc2024

Monitoring and prediction in Early Warning Systems (EWS) for rapid mass movements

Marc Schleiss, Dani Or, Alexis Berne, Alessio Ferrari

Rapid mass movements (RMM) pose a substantial risk to people and infrastructure. Reliable and cost-efficient measures have to be taken to reduce this risk. One of these measures includes establishing and advancing the State of Practice in the application o ...

Copernicus Publications2015

Stochastic simulation of intermittent rainfall using the concept of “dry drift”

Marc Schleiss, Alexis Berne, Sabine Chamoun

A stochastic rainfall simulator based on the concept of “dry drift” is proposed. It is characterized by a new and nonstationary representation of rainfall in which the average rain rate (in log-space) depends on the distance to the closest surrounding dry ...

American Geophysical Union2014

Nonstationarity in Intermittent Rainfall: The “Dry Drift"

Marc Schleiss, Alexis Berne, Sabine Chamoun

A particular aspect of the nonstationary nature of intermittent rainfall is investigated. It manifests itself in the fact that the average rain rate varies with the distance to the surrounding dry areas. The authors call this fundamental link between the r ...

2014

Quantification and Modeling of Wet-Antenna Attenuation for Commercial Microwave Links

Marc Schleiss, Alexis Berne

Data from a new experimental setup deployed in Dübendorf (Switzerland) are used to quantify and model the magnitude and dynamics of the wet-antenna attenuation (WAA) affecting a 1.85-km commercial microwave link at 38 GHz. The results show that the WAA exh ...

2013

Assessing the potential of using telecommunication microwave links in urban drainage modelling

Marc Schleiss

The ability to predict the runoff response of an urban catchment to rainfall is crucial for managing drainage systems effectively and controlling discharges from urban areas. In this paper we assess the potential of commercial microwave links (MWL) to capt ...

IWA Publishing2013

Cytomegalovirus evolution in congenitally infected twins

Marc Schleiss

Elsevier Sci Ltd2012

Variability of the Rain Drop Size Distribution : Stochastic Simulation and Application to Telecommunication Microwave Links

Marc Schleiss

Precipitation is an important component of the Earth' water cycle and needs to be carefully monitored. Its large variability over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales must be taken into account. For example, hydrological models require accurate rain ...

EPFL2012

Scaling analysis of the variability of the rain drop size distribution at small scale

Marc Schleiss, Alexis Berne, Joël Jaffrain

Like precipitation, the raindrop size distribution (DSD) is strongly variable in space and time. Understanding this variability is important for quantifying and minimizing some of the uncertainties in radar measurements and their interpretation in terms of ...

Elsevier2012

Stochastic simulation of intermittent DSD fields in time

Marc Schleiss, Alexis Berne, Joël Jaffrain

A method for the stochastic simulation of (rain)drop size distributions (DSDs) in space and time using geostatistics is presented. At each pixel, the raindrop size distribution is described by a Gamma distribution with two or three stochastic parameters. T ...

American Meteorological Society2012

Statistical analysis of rainfall intermittency at small spatial and temporal scales

Marc Schleiss, Alexis Berne, Joël Jaffrain

Rainfall intermittency is analyzed and quantified at small spatial and temporal scales using 2 years of radar and disdrometer data collected in Switzerland. Analytical models are fitted and used to describe the intermittency for spatial scales between 0 an ...

American Geophysical Union2011

Statistical analysis of rainfall intermittency at small scales

Marc Schleiss, Alexis Berne

2010

Stochastic simulation of intermittent DSD fields in time

Marc Schleiss, Alexis Berne

A method for the stochastic simulation of (rain)drop size distributions (DSDs) in space and time using geostatistics is presented. At each pixel, the raindrop size distribution is described by a Gamma distribution with two or three stochastic parameters. T ...

2010

Identification of dry and rainy periods using telecommunication microwave links

Marc Schleiss, Alexis Berne

2010

Identification of dry and rainy periods using telecommunication microwave links

Marc Schleiss, Alexis Berne

Microwave links are widely used for wireless data exchange, particularly between base stations of mobile phone networks. Because of the range of frequencies used for data transmission, the link signal is attenuated when rainfall occurs along the link path. ...

2010

Geostatistical simulation of 2D fields of raindrop size distributions at the meso-gamma scale

Marc Schleiss, Alexis Berne

The large variability of the drop size distribution (DSD) in space and time must be taken into account to improve remote sensing of precipitation. The ability to simulate a large number of 2D fields of DSD sharing the same statistical properties provides a ...

American Geophysical Union2009