Alpine Region
Precipitation observation using microwave backhaul links in the alpine and pre alpine region of Southern Germany
... Abstract. Measuring rain rates over complex terrain is af- flicted with large uncertainties, because rain gauges are influ- enced by orography and weather radars are mostly not able to look into mountain valleys. We ...
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Evaluation of political control instruments for the Swiss alpine region
... the alpine region, limits to increase the agricultural production arise not only from technologies or labour but also from the pastures’ availability which may be limited in certain ...
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Integrated hydrometeorological, snow and frozen-ground observations in the alpine region of the Heihe River Basin, China
... the alpine region are headwaters to sustain downstream ...Process-based alpine hydrological models, ...the alpine re- gion, due to the difficulties of access and technological bar- riers, has ...
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Prediction of minimum temperatures in an alpine region by linear and non-linear post-processing of meteorological models
... In the context of NWPs, it is useful to analyse which vari- ables can be considered most responsible for the systematic error in the raw output. Indeed, these are the only sources of error that can be reduced by ...
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Present-day surface deformation of the Alpine region inferred from geodetic techniques
... the Alpine mountain chain and its ...the Alpine area that provides an integral picture of the ongoing deformation pro- cesses in the entire ...entire Alpine mountain ...the Alpine ...
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Assessing solar radiation components over the alpine region Advanced modeling techniques for environmental and technological applications.
... the alpine region by adding to the algorithm image georeferencing, snow-cover detection, identification of clouds above snow and cor- rection of terrain ...
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Assessing Post Conflict Challenges and Opportunities of the Animal Agriculture System in the Alpine Region of Uvira District in Sud Kivu Province, D R Congo
... During the post-harvest period, maize is manually ground at home in a mortar or in a mill at Marungu. Maize, cowpea and bush beans are kept in bags in the house. Irish potatoes are kept by exposing them under a rack in ...
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Experts’ Perceptions of the Effects of Forest Biomass Harvesting on Sustainability in the Alpine Region
... Background and Purpose: In the EU political agenda, the use of forest biomass for energy has grown rapidly and significantly, in order to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions and reduce the energy dependence on fossil fuels ...
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Spatial assessment of multiple ecosystem services in an Alpine region
... Ecosystem Services (ESs) are the goods and services supplied by ecosystems. In order to fully understand their contribution to human wellbeing, there is a need to identify them, assess their supply, recognise areas where ...
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Spatial Multi-Criteria Decision Process to Define Maintenance Priorities of Forest Road Network: an Application in the Italian Alpine Region
... The present study combines GIS tools and AHP techniques to rank the maintenance priorities in a for- est road network. In particular, the proposed method- ology integrates the evaluation of the risk of erosion from road ...
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Hydro-climatic shifts in the Alpine region under a changing climate: trends, drivers detection and scale issues
... increased by topographic uplift [112]. Despite its simplicity, the Linear Scaling exercise revealed how downscaling methods used in climate change impact assessment studies may not be able to counterbalance the ...
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Dual-polarization C-band weather radar algorithms for rain rate estimation and hydrometeor classification in an alpine region
... In addition to the horizontal reflectivity ( Z H ) , especially the specific differen- tial phase ( K DP ) and the differential reflectivity ( Z DR ) are applied in rain rate algorithms [r] ...
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Optimization Design of Heater for GIS Circuit Breaker in Alpine Region Based on Thermal and Flow Field Coupling Simulation
... Simulation Results The GIS circuit breaker is required to work in the environment of -40°C, the pressure of 0.7MPa, calculated according to empirical formula the total heater power shoul[r] ...
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Agriculture de montagne dans la région alpine de la Communauté. II. France = Mountain agriculture in the Alpine region of the Community. II. France. Internal information on agriculture 105, May 1973. VI/1184/73-F
... Si les Vosges, le Massif Central, le Jura et la Corse sont bien des montagnes, elles le sont de façon incomplète par rapport aux Pyrénées et surtout aux Alpes : elles ne possèdent pas d'[r] ...
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Hydropeaking in Alpine rivers: an ecosystem services approach
... and Alpine region and it will be an important resource to reach the EU 2020 objectives, already contributing for half of the renewable energy produced (Zervos et ...
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Alpine Archery Owner s Manual
... Place the buss loop back onto the post and un-press the bow. Now draw the bow again, rechecking the timing. Repeat these steps on either end of the bow until the cams time. The bows are always timed prior to leaving the ...
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Is leg compression beneficial for alpine skiers?
... while alpine skiing may vary considerably [2,24], ranging from 20-200 Hz during high-speed turns on hard snow ...of alpine skiers while in the downhill tuck position, as well as the eventual underlying ...
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Transient thermal effects in Alpine permafrost
... Because of its temperature range, the acceleration of sub- surface temperature changes through multi-lateral warming, and the virtual decoupling from the geothermal heat flux, bedrock permafrost in steep high mountain ...
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Suspended sediment concentration in Alpine glacial meltwaters
... Suspended sediment concentrations have been collected from the Gornera region of Switzerland by using a Manning automatic liquid sampler (figure 4.5). The sampler comprises a number of bottles initially filled ...
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Alpine Tourism in Tropical Africa and Sustainable Development?
... Kenya region are fewer than commonly calculated, mainly because of the low occurrence of ...Uganda: alpine tourism does not reduce regional income disparities and largely fails to promote sustainable ...of ...
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