B. Zünd's scientific contributions

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Article
In 1985 the Mauvoisin reservoir was totally emptied for the first time after 29 years in operation. During the investigation for a new intake for the Mauvoisin II high head power plant project the lake was drawn down once more in 1995. On this occasion bathymetric surveys were made and the turbine water was measured for sediment concentration depen...

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... The sedimentation of storage reservoirs and balanc ing basins can lead to capacity loss, which is a current concern in operational management (Schleiss et al. 1996;Morris and Fan 1998). In Switzerland, on average 0.2 % of the annual storage capacity is lost with continuing sedimentation (Schleiss et al. 2010). ...