Publications by Juliette Ferial Blanchet

Reliable Averages and Risky Extremes – Analysis of spatiotemporal variability in solar irradiance and persistent cloud cover patterns over Switzerland

Michael Lehning, Juliette Ferial Blanchet, Albertus Christiaan Kruyt, Annelen Kahl

With the perspective of Switzerland’s phase-out from nuclear energy, solar energy potential may take an important role for the country’s future in renewable energy. Based on 12 years of satellite-derived, spatially distributed data of daily average cloud f ...

Elsevier2016

From pointwise testing to a regional vision: An integrated statistical approach to detect nonstationarity in extreme daily rainfall. Application to the Sahelian region

Juliette Ferial Blanchet

Global warming is expected to intensify the hydrologic cycle. Documenting whether significant changes in the extreme precipitation regimes have already happened is consequently one of the challenging topics in climatic research. The high natural variabilit ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Long-term changes in annual maximum snow depth and snowfall in Switzerland based on extreme value statistics

Juliette Ferial Blanchet

Mountain snow cover is an important source of water and essential for winter tourism in Alpine countries. However, large amounts of snow can lead to destructive avalanches, floods, traffic interruptions or even the collapse of buildings. We use annual maxi ...

2012

Extreme rainfall in West Africa: A regional modeling

Adnan Ali, Juliette Ferial Blanchet

In a world of increasing exposure of populations to natural hazards, the mapping of extreme rainfall remains a key subject of study. Such maps are required for both flood risk management and civil engineering structure design, the challenge being to take i ...

Amer Geophysical Union2012

Statistical modelling of ground temperature in mountain permafrost

Anthony Christopher Davison, Juliette Ferial Blanchet

Permafrost consists of soil and rocks that remain at 0 degrees C or below for at least two consecutive years. In mountains, permafrost ground ice acts like cement, stabilizing rock walls. Its degradation, following climate warming, may lead to slope instab ...

2012

Spatial modelling of extreme snow depth

Anthony Christopher Davison, Juliette Ferial Blanchet

The spatial modelling of extreme snow is important for adequate risk management in Alpine and high altitude countries. A natural approach to such modelling is through the theory of max-stable processes, an infinite-dimensional extension of multivariate ext ...

2011