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Marc Parlange - Professor

EPFL - ENAC - EFLUM
Bātiment GR, Station 2
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland

Office: GR A0 412
Phone: +41 21 693 63 91
E-Mail: Marc Parlange


Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering. Cornell University. 1990
M.S., Agricultural Engineering. Cornell University. 1987
B.S., Applied Mathematics. Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. 1984


Research Interests
  • Hydrology and fluid mechanics in the environment: Land-atmosphere interaction
  • Evaporation
  • Precipitation
  • Atmospheric boundary layer
  • Turbulence
  • Lidar
  • Transport in porous media

Publications
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Editorial Activities
Editor in Chief, Water Resources Research


Edited Books
  • Parlange, M.B. and J.W. Hopmans, 1999, Vadose Zone Hydrology: Cutting across disciplines, Oxford University Press, New York, pp.451.
  • Miller, C.T., M.B. Parlange, and M. Hassanizadeh, 2003, 25 years of Advances in Water Resources, Elsevier Press, Amsterdam, pp.548.

Editorials
  • Parlange, M.B., B. Berkowitz, A. Porporato, T. Torgersen, S.W. Tyler, 2005, Editorial: Future of Water Resources Research, 41(1): W01001, 10.1029/2004WR003899
  • Miller, C.T., M.B. Parlange, S.M. Hassanizadeh, 2002, Special 25th anniversary issue of Advances in Water Resources, 25(2): 127.
  • Kiely, G., M. Parlange, J. Albertson, 1999, Water resources and climate change processes - Preface, Advances in Water Resources, 239: 101-103.

Current Postdoctoral Advising and research areas
  • Marc-Olivier Boldi, 'Spatial statistics'
  • Chad Higgins, 'Land-atmosphere interaction'
  • Hendrik Huwald, 'Snow-atmosphere interaction'
  • Vincent Luyet, 'Environmental monitoring'
  • Simone Padoan, 'Extreme values modelling'

Current PhD Students and research areas
  • Marcelo Chamecki, 'Renormalized numerical simulation'; co-advised with Charles Meneveau
  • Martin Froidevaux,'A temperature and water vapor Raman lidar for observations of land-atmosphere interactions'
  • Marc Calaf Bracons
  • Nikki Vercauteren
  • Daniel Nadeau, 'Land-atmosphere interactions over complex terrain'

Former Postdoctoral Advising
  • Markus Folegatti, 1992, Professor, University Sao Paolo, Brazil
  • Chia-Ren Chu, 1992-1993, Professor, Civil Eng., National Central University, Taiwan
  • Fabrizio Ungaro, 1995-1996, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Florence, Italy
  • Wusi Yue, 2003- (Topic: Large Eddy Simulation development for canopy flows) Co-advised C. Meneveau
  • Yu-Heng Tseng, 2003-2004 (Topic: Large Eddy Simulation development for urban flows) Co-advised C. Meneveau
  • Ben Rogers, 2005 (Topic: Large Eddy Simulation over complex terrain)
  • Ilja Tromp-van Meerveld, 2004-2006 (Topic: Rainfall induced soil erosion at the plot scale), Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Former PhD Students (year of graduation, present position, thesis title)
  • Gabriel Katul, 1993, Professor, School of the Environment, Duke University,
    Coupled processes near the land-atmosphere interface
  • William Eichinger, 1995, Professor, Civil and Environmental Eng., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa,
    Pacific Ocean - Atmosphere feedbacks
  • John Albertson, 1996, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University,
    Large eddy simulation of land-atmosphere interaction
  • Jozsef Szilagyi, 1997, Associate Professor, College of Agriculture, University of Nebraska,
    A semi-distributed watershed model
  • Tony Cahill, 1998, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Eng., Texas A&M University,
    Hydrology at the land-atmosphere interface
  • Fernando Porte-Agel, 1999, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Eng., University of Minnesota,
    Subgrid-scale modeling for the atmospheric boundary layer: Experiments and Simulations. Co-advised with Charles Meneveau
  • Markus Pahlow, 2002, Lecturer, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany,
    Atmospheric boundary layer dynamics and optical technologies to obtain extinction profiles from elastic lidar
  • Jan Kleissl, 2004, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California
    Field experimental study of the Smagorinsky model and application to large eddy simulation. Co-advised with Charles Meneveau
  • Elie Bou-Zeid, 2005, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University,
    A lagrangian scale dependent dynamic subgrid-scale model
  • Mariana Adam, 2005,Research Associate, Howard University/NASA,
    Atmospheric extinction profiles from lidar
  • Vijayant Kumar, 2007, Wind resource scientist, Fremantle Energy, Texas,
    Land-atmosphere exchange from remote sensing and large eddy simulation; Co-advised with Charles Meneveau

Former M.S. Students (year of graduation, thesis title)


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