Publications by Holly Jayne Oldroyd

Modeling Macroroughness Contribution to Fish Habitat Suitability Curves

Paolo Perona, Holly Jayne Oldroyd, Amin Niayifar

Improved water management strategies necessitate a solid understanding of environmental impacts associated with various flow release policies. Habitat suitability models use hydrodynamic simulations to generate weighted usable area curves, which are useful ...

American Geophysical Union2018

Adapting tilt corrections and the governing flow equations for steep, fully three-dimensional, mountainous terrain

Marc Parlange, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Eric Richard Pardyjak, Holly Jayne Oldroyd

In recent studies of atmospheric turbulent surface exchange in complex terrain, questions arise concerning velocity-sensor tilt corrections and the governing flow equations for coordinate systems aligned with steep slopes. The standard planar-fit method, a ...

2016

Buoyant Turbulent Kinetic Energy Production in Steep-Slope Katabatic Flow

Marc Parlange, Chad Higgins, Eric Richard Pardyjak, Holly Jayne Oldroyd

We develop several critical concepts that should be considered when interpreting, modelling and designing future experiments for flows over sloping terrain. Vertical buoyancy fluxes in katabatic flows can be positive and a source of turbulent kinetic energ ...

Springer Verlag2016

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

Turbulent Transport in Complex, Alpine Environments

Holly Jayne Oldroyd

Turbulent exchanges between the atmosphere and the underlying surface transport heat, moisture, momentum and pollutants, and thus understanding them is crucial to water resource management, meteorological predictions, climate modeling, wind energy producti ...

EPFL2015

Momentum balance of katabatic flow on steep slopes covered with short vegetation

Marc Parlange, Eric Richard Pardyjak, Holly Jayne Oldroyd, Gabriel George Katul

Katabatic flows over alpine mountainous terrain differ from their forested or bare slope counterparts due to the presence of well-ventilated, short vegetation. The impact of a grass canopy and larger-scale pressure perturbations on the one-dimensional mean ...

American Geophysical Union2014

Coherent structures and the k(-1) spectral behaviour

Valentin Simeonov, Marc Parlange, Marc Calaf Bracons, Holly Jayne Oldroyd

l Here we present unique evidence of a k(-1) scaling behaviour in the atmospheric boundary layer and its connection to large scale coherent structures within the boundary layer. Wind lidar measurements were conducted above a lake under cold atmospheric con ...

Amer Inst Physics2013

Thermal diffusivity of seasonal snow determined from temperature profiles

Marc Parlange, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Chad Higgins, Holly Jayne Oldroyd

Thermal diffusivity of snow is an important thermodynamic property associated with key hydrological phenomena such as snow melt and heat and water vapor exchange with the atmosphere. Direct determination of snow thermal diffusivity requires coupled point m ...

Elsevier2013