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Alfred Wüest is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as oceanography, environmental chemistry, ecology, atmospheric science, and nature and landscape conservation.

Their work covers multiple scientific topics including aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, marine and coastal ecosystems, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, fish ecology and management studies, hydrology and watershed management studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, as well as geological formations and processes.

Wüest's recent publications include:

  • Meteolakes: An operational online three-dimensional forecasting platform for lake hydrodynamics, 2020, Water Research
  • Hypolimnetic oxygen depletion rates in deep lakes: Effects of trophic state and organic matter accumulation, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Data assimilation of in situ and satellite remote sensing data to 3D hydrodynamic lake models: a case study using Delft3D-FLOW v4.03 and OpenDA v2.4, 2020, Geoscientific model development
  • An automated calibration framework and open source tools for 3D lake hydrodynamic models, 2020, Environmental Modelling & Software
  • LéXPLORE: A floating laboratory on Lake Geneva offering unique lake research opportunities, 2021, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, among them:

  • Damien Bouffard
  • Hugo N. Ulloa
  • Bieito Fernández Castro
  • Oscar Sepúlveda Steiner
  • Beat Müller

Publications by Alfred Wüest often appear in several specialized venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Water Resources Research
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Aquatic Sciences
  • Limnology and Oceanography

Best Publications

  • Fate of rising methane bubbles in stratified waters: How much methane reaches the atmosphere?

    Daniel Frank Mcginnis;J. Greinert;Y. Artemov;S. E. Beaubien

  • SMALL-SCALE HYDRODYNAMICS IN LAKES

    Alfred Wüest;Andreas Lorke

  • Disrupting biogeochemical cycles - Consequences of damming

    Gabriela Friedl;Alfred Wüest

  • Mixing Mechanisms in Lakes

    D. M. Imboden;A. Wüest

  • Bubble Plume Modeling for Lake Restoration

    Alfred Wüest;Norman H. Brooks;Dieter M. Imboden

  • Hypolimnetic Oxygen Depletion in Eutrophic Lakes

    Beat Müller;Lee D. Bryant;Lee D. Bryant;Andreas Matzinger;Alfred Wüest;Alfred Wüest;Alfred Wüest

  • Spatial Heterogeneity of Methane Ebullition in a Large Tropical Reservoir

    Tonya DelSontro;Manuel J. Kunz;Tim Kempter;Alfred Wüest

  • Application of k-ϵ turbulence models to enclosed basins: The role of internal seiches

    Gerrit-Hein Goudsmit;Hans Burchard;Frank Peeters;Alfred Wüest

  • Benthic boundary mixing and resuspension induced by internal seiches

    M. Gloor;A. Wuest;M. Münnich

  • Breathing sediments: The control of diffusive transport across the sediment-water interface by periodic boundary-layer turbulence

    Andreas Lorke;Beat Müller;Martin Maerki;Alfred Wüest

  • Weak mixing in Lake Kivu: New insights indicate increasing risk of uncontrolled gas eruption

    Martin Schmid;Michel Halbwachs;Bernhard Wehrli;Alfred Wüest

  • CO2 exchange between air and water in an Arctic Alaskan and midlatitude Swiss lake: Importance of convective mixing

    Werner Eugster;George Kling;Tobias Jonas;Joseph P. McFadden

  • Eutrophication of ancient Lake Ohrid: Global warming amplifies detrimental effects of increased nutrient inputs

    Andreas Matzinger;Martin Schmid;Elizabeta Veljanoska-Sarafiloska;Suzana Patceva

  • Turbulent kinetic energy balance as a tool for estimating vertical diffusivity in wind‐forced stratified waters

    Alfred Wüest;Gabriel Piepke;David C. Van Senden

  • Observations of the second vertical mode of the internal seiche in an alpine lake

    M. MÜnnich;A. WÜest;D. M. Imboden

  • Prediction of surface temperature in lakes with different morphology using air temperature

    Marco Toffolon;Sebastiano Piccolroaz;Bruno Majone;Anna-Maria Soja

  • Effects of climate change on deepwater oxygen and winter mixing in a deep lake (Lake Geneva): Comparing observational findings and modeling

    Robert Schwefel;Adrien Gaudard;Alfred Johny Wüest;Alfred Johny Wüest;Damien Bouffard

  • Is Lake Prespa jeopardizing the ecosystem of ancient Lake Ohrid

    A. Matzinger;M. Jordanoski;E. Veljanoska-Sarafiloska;M. Sturm

  • Modeling the effect of water diversion on the temperature of mountain streams

    Werner Meier;Cyrill Bonjour;Alfred Wüest;Peter Reichert

  • Boundary versus internal diapycnal mixing in stratified natural waters

    Gerrit-Hein Goudsmit;Frank Peeters;Manuel Gloor;Alfred Wüest

  • Interaction between a bubble plume and the near field in a stratified lake

    Daniel Frank Mcginnis;A. Lorke;A. Wüest;A. Stöckli

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Schmid
Martin Schmid Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Beat Müller
Beat Müller University of Basel
Andreas Lorke
Andreas Lorke University of Koblenz and Landau
Daniel Frank Mcginnis
Daniel Frank Mcginnis University of Geneva
Flavio S. Anselmetti
Flavio S. Anselmetti University of Bern
Michael Sturm
Michael Sturm Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Frank Peeters
Frank Peeters University of Konstanz
John C. Little
John C. Little Virginia Tech
Manuel Gloor
Manuel Gloor University of Leeds

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