Publications by Raphaël Mutzner

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

Marc Parlange, Raphaël Mutzner, Andrea Rinaldo

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

Hydrological Processes in a High Alpine Watershed

Raphaël Mutzner

Alpine hydrology is particularly challenging due to the complexity of mountainous terrain and the spatial and temporal variability of meteorological parameters such as precipitation, temperature and evaporation. Yet improving our understanding of hydrologi ...

EPFL2015

Controls on the diurnal streamflow cycles in two subbasins of an alpine headwater catchment

Marc Parlange, Marc Calaf Bracons, Raphaël Mutzner, Holly Jayne Oldroyd, Steven Vincent Weijs

In high-altitude alpine catchments, diurnal streamflow cycles are typically dominated by snowmelt or ice melt. Evapotranspiration-induced diurnal streamflow cycles are less observed in these catchments but might happen simultaneously. During a field campai ...

American Geophysical Union2015

Threshold modeling of extreme spatial rainfall

Anthony Christopher Davison, Raphaël Mutzner, Emeric Rolland Georges Thibaud

We propose an approach to spatial modeling of extreme rainfall, based on max-stable processes fitted using partial duration series and a censored threshold likelihood function. The resulting models are coherent with classical extreme-value theory and allow ...

American Geophysical Union2013

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

Marc Parlange, Raphaël Mutzner, Steven Vincent Weijs

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

Geomorphic signatures on brutsaert base flow recession analysis

Marc Parlange, Raphaël Mutzner, Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Nevena Tomasic, Serena Ceola, Ludovico Nicotina, Steven Vincent Weijs

This paper addresses the signatures of catchment geomorphology on base flow recession curves. Its relevance relates to the implied predictability of base flow features, which are central to catchment-scale transport processes and to ecohydrological functio ...

American Geophysical Union2013