Publications by Alain Tommy Foehn

Estimation spatiale des précipitations et assimilation de données de débit pour la prévision hydrologique en milieu alpin

Giovanni De Cesare, Bettina Schaefli, Anton Schleiss, Javier García Hernández, Alain Tommy Foehn, Andrea Rinaldo

L’étude présentée propose des solutions à certains défis rencontrés dans le cadre du système de prévision et de gestion des crues MINERVE du Canton du Valais, opérationnel depuis 2013. Le premier axe de recherche est dédié à l’interpolation spatiale des pr ...

2020

Application of an Ensemble Kalman filter to a semi-distributed hydrological flood forecasting system in alpine catchments

Giovanni De Cesare, Javier García Hernández, Alain Tommy Foehn, Anne Schwob

One of the key success factor for hydrological forecasts is the establishment of initial conditions that represent well the conditions of the simulated basin at the beginning of the forecast. Real-time Data Assimilation (DA) has been shown to allow improvi ...

2019

Radar-rain gauge merging and discharge data assimilation for flood forecasting in Alpine catchments

Alain Tommy Foehn

Floods are responsible for one third of the economic losses induced by natural hazards throughout the world. To better protect the population and infrastructures, flood forecasting systems make us of weather forecasts to foresee floods several days in adva ...

EPFL2019

Spatial interpolation of precipitation from multiple rain gauge networks and weather radar data for operational applications in Alpine catchments

Giovanni De Cesare, Bettina Schaefli, Javier García Hernández, Alain Tommy Foehn

Increasing meteorological data availability and quality implies an adaptation of the interpolation methods for data combination. In this paper, we propose a new method to efficiently combine weather radar data with data from two heated rain gauge networks ...

2018

Amélioration du calage du modèle hydrologique du bassin de la grande-eau en suisse avec des produits spatialisés de précipitation, température et couverture de neige

Giovanni De Cesare, Javier García Hernández, Alain Tommy Foehn

2018

Los desafíos de la modelización hidrológica y la previsión de crecidas en tiempo real en alta montaña

Anton Schleiss, Javier García Hernández, Alain Tommy Foehn

Flood forecasting systems are today recognized as a key element in natural hazard mitigation. The objective is to exploit the available observed and forecasted meteorological information to foresee river discharges up to several days in advance, using a hy ...

2016

El sistema operacional MINERVE para la previsión de crecidas en el Cantón de Valais, Suiza

Javier García Hernández, Alain Tommy Foehn

In recent decades, the watershed of the Rhône River, upstream of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, has suffered three major floods that have caused damages for over 500 million dollars. This led to the third correction of the Rhône River, which aims to improve f ...

2016