Tuesday, 14 July 2015

+1 | Contributing sources to baseflow in pre-alpine headwaters using spatial snapshot sampling...


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This research project could not have been performed without the support of many people who helped in the field and the laboratory -a great thank you to all of them.

Especially we thank Ilaria Clemenzi, Nans Addor, Georgie Bennett, Ellen Cerwinka, Daniel Furrer, Inge Juszak, Seraina Kauer, Käthi Liechti, Bernardo Maestrini, Andri Moll, Isabelle Nanz, Paribesh Pradhan, Silvan Ragettli, Maarten Smoorenburg, Maria Staudinger, Karl Steiner, Marc Vis, Annagreth Schuler, Werni Ruhstaller and the AUA Laboratory at EAWAG for chemical analyses.

We also thank Manfred Stähli (WSL), the Oberallmeindkorporation Schwyz (OAK), the Department of Environment of the Canton of Schwyz and the municipality Alpthal for the good cooperation. The constructive comments of the editor and three anonymous reviewers helped to improve the manuscript.

Sunday, 3 May 2015

Storage and flow of water in soil

Check this real interesting hydrolectures from Allan Rodhe: Lecture and demonstration of education material (Department of Earth Sciences Uppsala University)



Storage and flow of water in soil


Springtime, flood time ...

Like every spring the groundwater reservoirs are filled and higher up patches of snow (extra storage) which is melting away. The saturated areas are nicely colored brown.
click picture to see live stream
While there are potential risk in the mountainous areas the wet state plus this weekends high precipitation causing so far only in the west flooding...

From BAFU for updates click picture





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