Ragettli, Silvan

ETH Zürich
Silvan Ragettli
Institut f. Umweltingenieurwiss.
HIL D 22.1
Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 15
8093 Zuerich

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Academic Background

• B.Sc. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 2007; Environmental Engineering
• M.Sc. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 2010; Environmental Engineering
• Thesis: Modelling the runoff regime of the Aconcagua River Basin using a distributed hydrological model: simulations of glacier and snow melt contributions to streamflow (ETH Zurich, 2010)

Personal Research Interests

Studying the response of glacierized mountainous areas to climate change: effect of climate change on the presence of glaciers and freshwater availability in the Swiss Alps, the Central Andes of Chile and the Himalaya

Publications

• Ragettli, S. and Pellicciotti, F. (2012). Calibration of a physically-based, fully distributed hydrological model in a glacierized basin: on the use of knowledge from glacio-meteorological processes to constrain model parameters, Water Resources Research, Vol. 48, W03509, doi:10.1029/2011WR010559

Presentations

• Hydrological models and data scarcity: on the quest for a model structure appropriate for modeling water availability under the present and future climate (AGU, San Francisco 2011); S. Ragettli, G. Cortes, F. Pellicciotti, J.P. McPhee
• Can we use detailed glaciological knowledge to improve simulations of long term hydrological response of glacierised catchments? A case study in the dry Andes of Chile (SHF, Lyon 2011); S. Ragettli, F. Pellicciotti, J. Helbing, P. Burlando
• Modeling the runoff regime of the glacierised upper Aconcagua River Basin using a physically-based distributed hydrological model: the value of short term glaciological observations (AGU, San Francisco 2011); S. Ragettli, F. Pellicciotti, D. Molnar, S. Rimkus, J. Helbing, F. Escobar, P. Burlando