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Volcanic Ash Particles Hold Clues to Their History and Effects

September 22, 2017
Volcanic Ash Particles Hold Clues to Their History and Effects
Ash plume from the Lascar volcano, Chile, October 2015. (Credit: Guy Brasseur)

Volcanic Ash as an Active Agent in the Earth System (VA3): Combining Models and Experiments; Hamburg, Germany, 12–13 September 2016 Volcanic ash is a spectacular companion of volcanic activity that carries valuable information about the subsurface processes. It also poses a range of severe hazards to public health, infrastructure, aviation, and agriculture, and it plays a significant role in bioge ...[Read More]

How can we use meteorological models to improve building energy simulations?

September 7, 2017
How can we use meteorological models to improve building energy simulations?
Aerial view of EPFL campus, Lausanne, Switzerland. Copyright to Mediacom EPFL / Alain Herzog.

Climate change is calling for various and multiple approaches in the adaptation of cities and mitigation of the coming changes. Because buildings (residential and commercial) are responsible of about 40% of energy consumption, it is necessary to build more energy efficient ones, to decrease their contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. But what is the relation with the atmosphere. It is two fold ...[Read More]