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L.D. van der Valk

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Measuring rainfall using microwave links

The influence of temporal sampling

Terrestrial microwave links are increasingly being used to estimate path-averaged precipitation by determining the attenuation caused by rainfall along the link path, mostly with commercial microwave links from cellular telecommunication networks. However, the temporal resolution ...

The representation of snow processes in most large-scale hydrological and climate models is known to introduce considerable uncertainty into the predictions and projections of water availability. During the critical snowmelt period, the main challenge in snow modeling is that ...

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Chaos in the Canopy

Understanding the Uses of Fiber Optics in the Forest

This thesis explores the application of Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) technology to observe temperature gradients and turbulent eddies within and above a forest vegetation layer. Atmospheric temperature gradients tie directly to heat transfer, a primary mode of which are ...