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Mountain Hydrology and Torrents

Dr. Manfred Stähli

The Research Unit investigates hydrologic processes in mountainous catchments and related processes resulting in floods, erosion, slope instabilities and sediment transport. Further, it examines impacts and needs with regard to protective measures. A particular focus of the unit is on snow hydrology. Process studies on the scale of channels and catchments also form the basis for the development of simulation models and of hazard assessment procedures and for the design of countermeasures. Damage and damaging processes due to frequent and extreme events are assessed as prerequisites for the risk-based and sustainable management of natural hazards.

Principal stakeholders: scientific community, federal and local agencies and professional engineers in Switzerland and abroad.

News

• 3  to 7 May 2010: Several members of the research unit have participated at the EGU-Annual meeting in Vienna. --> all poster presentations (20 MB)
  
• 25 Sept 2010: Public event in the frame of the 125-year jubilee of WSL, Brunni, Alpthal, central Switzerland. (Information in German)
  

Subunits

• Runoff Generation and Dynamics
  Dr. Manfred Stähli a.i.
  
• Hydrological Extreme Events
  Dr. Massimiliano Zappa
  
• Mountain Torrents, Erosion and Landslides
  Dr. Alexandre Badoux
  
• Snow Hydrology
  Dr. Tobias Jonas