Publications by Seyed Mahmood Hamze Ziabari

Formulation of stress intensity factor under pure bending condition in multilayer pavements using numerical study and model tree approach

The tensile deformation of top-down cracks significantly influences pavement delamination. Accurately formulating the stress intensity factor (SIF) is crucial for assessing the stress/strain near crack tips. In the present study, a robust data mining metho ...

Wiley2024

Quantifying urban climate response to large-scale forcing modified by local boundary layer effects

Michael Lehning, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Seyed Mahmood Hamze Ziabari

Over the past two decades, the joint manifestation of global warming and rapid urbanization has significantly increased the occurrence of heatwaves and the formation of urban heat islands in temperate cities. Consequently, this synergy has amplified the fr ...

2024

Unraveling submesoscale processes associated with meso- and basin-scale gyres in Lake Geneva

Seyed Mahmood Hamze Ziabari

In large lakes, basin-scale gyres and submesoscale eddies, i.e., rotating coherent water masses, play a key role in spreading biochemical materials and energy throughout the basin, thereby significantly impacting water quality. Due to their transient and s ...

EPFL2023

The role of submesoscale filaments in restratification of the surface mixed layer and dissolved oxygen variability in large Lake Geneva: field evidence complemented by Lagrangian particle-tracking

Ulrich Lemmin, David Andrew Barry, Rafael Sebastian Reiss, Mehrshad Foroughan, Seyed Mahmood Hamze Ziabari

Theoretical studies on oceans and large lakes have shown that submesoscale instabilities in frontal zones tend to reduce horizontal density gradients and enhance vertical density gradients, thereby re-stratifying the Surface Mixed Layer (SML). Submesoscale ...

2023

Chimney‐Like Intense Pelagic Upwelling in the Center of Basin‐Scale Cyclonic Gyres in Large Lake Geneva

Ulrich Lemmin, David Andrew Barry, Rafael Sebastian Reiss, Mehrshad Foroughan, Seyed Mahmood Hamze Ziabari

Basin-scale quasi-geostrophic gyres are common features of large lakes subject to Coriolis force. Cyclonic gyres are often characterized by dome-shaped thermoclines that form due to pelagic upwelling that takes place in their center. At present, the dynami ...

2023

Detecting submesoscale cold filaments in a basin-scale gyre in large, deep Lake Geneva (Switzerland/France)

Ulrich Lemmin, David Andrew Barry, Amir Mehdi Razmi, Seyed Mahmood Hamze Ziabari

Submesoscale filaments are a well-documented feature of oceanic flow fields. Based on the analysis of high-resolution 3D numerical simulations, field observations and remote sensing imagery, this study, carried out in Lake Geneva, Western Europe's largest ...

2022

A Persistent Submesoscale Frontal Slick: A Novel Marker of the Mesoscale Flow Field in a Large Lake (Lake Geneva)

Ulrich Lemmin, David Andrew Barry, Mehrshad Foroughan, Seyed Mahmood Hamze Ziabari

Submesoscale fronts often become visible when the accumulation of biosurfactants in the water surface microlayer causes smooth surfaces, called frontal slicks, to develop. Based on in situ and remotely-sensed data, a frontal slick was documented for the fi ...

2022

Monitoring Mesoscale to Submesoscale Processes in Large Lakes with Sentinel-1 SAR Imagery: The Case of Lake Geneva

Ulrich Lemmin, David Andrew Barry, Mehrshad Foroughan, Seyed Mahmood Hamze Ziabari

As in oceans, large-scale coherent circulations such as gyres and eddies are ubiquitous features in large lakes that are subject to the Coriolis force. They play a crucial role in the horizontal and vertical distribution of biological, chemical and physica ...

2022

Basin-scale gyres and mesoscale eddies in large lakes: A novel procedure for their detection and characterization, assessed in Lake Geneva

Ulrich Lemmin, David Andrew Barry, Mehrshad Foroughan, Frédéric Charles Soulignac, Seyed Mahmood Hamze Ziabari

In large lakes subject to the Coriolis force, basin-scale gyres and mesoscale eddies, i.e. rotating coherent water masses, play a key role in spreading biochemical materials and energy throughout the lake. In order to assess the spatial and temporal extent ...

2022

Rapid changes in river plume dynamics caused by advected wind-driven coastal upwelling as observed in Lake Geneva

Ulrich Lemmin, David Andrew Barry, Htet Kyi Wynn, Benjamin Daniel Graf, Frédéric Charles Soulignac, Seyed Mahmood Hamze Ziabari

Based on field investigations carried out in Lake Geneva during summer stratification in 2019, this study documents, for the first time, the rapid change of negatively buoyant river inflow dynamics caused by the passing of a coastal upwelling. Under calm c ...

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography2021