Publications by Sebastiano Piccolroaz

Impacts of climate change on Swiss alluvial aquifers - A quantitative forecast focused on natural and artificial groundwater recharge by surface water infiltration

Carl Love Mikael Råman Vinnå, Sebastiano Piccolroaz

The sensitivity of future groundwater recharge and temperature development was investigated for three alluvial aquifers in the urban agglomeration of the city of Basel, Switzerland. For selected climate projections groundwater recharge and the associated t ...

ELSEVIER2022

Seasonality modulates wind-driven mixing pathways in a large lake

Alfred Johny Wüest, Bieito Fernandez Castro, Oscar Rodrigo Sepúlveda Steiner, Hugo Nicolás Ulloa Sánchez, Sebastiano Piccolroaz

Turbulent mixing controls the vertical transfer of heat, gases and nutrients in stratified water bodies, shaping their response to environmental forcing. Nevertheless, due to technical limitations, the redistribution of wind-derived energy fuelling turbule ...

SPRINGERNATURE2021

A multi-site, year-round turbulence microstructure atlas for the deep perialpine Lake Garda

Bieito Fernandez Castro, Marco Toffolon, Sebastiano Piccolroaz

A multi-site, year-round dataset comprising a total of 606 high-resolution turbulence microstructure profiles of shear and temperature gradient in the upper 100 m depth is made available for Lake Garda (Italy). Concurrent meteorological data were measured ...

2021

Warming of lowland Polish lakes under future climate change scenarios and consequences for ice cover and mixing dynamics

Sebastiano Piccolroaz

Study region: The study region comprises 25 lowland Polish lakes in the northern part of the country. The studied lakes provide domestic, industrial and agricultural water supply, and are major attractions for tourism, thus playing a significant role in th ...

2021

Moored observations of turbulent mixing events in deep Lake Garda, Italy

Marco Toffolon, Sebastiano Piccolroaz

Deep water circulation and mixing processes are responsible for the transport of matter, nutrients and pollutants in deep lakes. Nevertheless, detailed continuous observations are rarely available. To overcome some of these deficiencies and with the aim of ...

2021

Changing nutrient cycling in Lake Baikal, the world's oldest lake

Sebastiano Piccolroaz

Lake Baikal, lying in a rift zone in southeastern Siberia, is the world's oldest, deepest, and most voluminous lake that began to form over 30 million years ago. Cited as the "most outstanding example of a freshwater ecosystem" and designated a World Herit ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Prediction of river water temperature: a comparison between a new family of hybrid models and statistical approaches

Aurélien Gallice, Marco Toffolon, Elisa Calamita, Sebastiano Piccolroaz

River water temperature is a key physical variable controlling several chemical, biological and ecological processes. Its reliable prediction is a main issue in many environmental applications, which however is hampered by data scarcity, when using data-de ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Prediction of surface temperature in lakes with different morphology using air temperature

Alfred Johny Wüest, Marco Toffolon, Martin Schmid, Sebastiano Piccolroaz

Temperature of the surface layer of temperate lakes is reconstructed by means of a simplified model on the basis of air temperature alone. The comparison between calculated and observed data shows a remarkable agreement (Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency indices a ...

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography2014

Crossing the Boundaries of Physical Limnology

Damien Bouffard, Marco Toffolon, Sebastiano Piccolroaz

Scientists who study the physics of inland and coastal water bodies met in Trento, Italy in July for the 17th in a series of workshops that seek to expand cooperation with researchers in related fields. The workshops aim to facilitate the dialogue among ph ...

2014