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Water can be vitrified if it is cooled at high rates, which makes it possible to outrun crystallization in so-called no man’s land, a range of deeply supercooled temperatures where water crystallizes rapidly. Here, we study the reverse process in pure wate ...
2024Wind, Hail, and Climate Extremes: Modelling and Attribution Studies for Environmental Data
Ophélia Mireille Anna Miralles
This thesis presents work at the junction of statistics and climate science. We first provide methodology for use by climate scientists when performing fast event attribution using extreme value theory, and then describe two interdisciplinary projects in c ...
EPFL2023Use of lidar aerosol extinction and backscatter coefficients to estimate cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) concentrations in the southeast Atlantic
Accurately capturing cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) concentrations is key to understanding the aerosol-cloud interactions that continue to feature the highest uncertainty amongst numerous climate forcings. In situ CCN observations are sparse, and most non ...
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH2023Passive and Deterministic Droplet Microfluidics for Single Object Encapsulation and Pairing
The single-cell study, which dissects cell-cell heterogeneity from bulk populations, is of growing attention and importance in biological studies and clinical practices. At the core of the single-cell analysis is the efficient cell isolation and constructi ...
EPFL2023Wind-Topo: Downscaling near-surface wind fields to high-resolution topography in highly complex terrain with deep learning
Michael Lehning, Jérôme François Sylvain Dujardin
Predicting wind flow in highly complex terrain like the Alps is a challenge for all models. When physical processes need to be resolved in a spatially explicit manner, grids with high horizontal resolution of a few hundred meters are often required and dra ...
WILEY2022Considering snow depositions and transport mechanisms in meteorological analysis of predicting snow loads on buildings
Michael Lehning, Borui Zhang, Qingwen Zhang
The meteorological conditions determine snow evolutions on and around buildings. Those climatic impacts have been independently considered in the current design codes of buildings, namely the wind pressure and the snow load. But snow load estimates are onl ...
ELSEVIER2022Present and Future of Rainfall in Antarctica
Alexis Berne, Etienne Gabriel Henri Vignon
While most precipitation in Antarctica falls as snow, little is known about liquid precipitation, although it can have ecological and climatic impacts. This study combines meteorological reports at 10 stations with the ERA5 reanalysis to provide a climatol ...
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION2021A Characterisation of Alpine Mesocyclone Occurrence
Alexis Berne, Marco Gabella, Monika Feldmann, Urs Martin Germann
This work presents a characterisation of mesocyclone occurrence and frequency in the Alpine region, as observed from the Swiss operational radar network; 5 years of radar data are processed with a thunderstorm detection and tracking algorithm and subsequen ...
2021In-Situ Observations Of Aerosol Hygroscopicity And Cloud Droplet Formation In Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, During Fall 2019 And Spring 2020
Athanasios Nenes, Ghislain Gilles Jean-Michel Motos, Paraskevi Georgakaki, Jörg Wieder
The Arctic region suffers an extreme vulnerability to climate change, with an increase in surface air temperatures that have reached twice the global rate during several decades (McBean et al., 2005). The role of clouds, and in particular low-levels clouds ...
2021On the drivers of droplet variability in Alpine mixed-phase clouds
Athanasios Nenes, Alexis Berne, Paraskevi Georgakaki, Maxime Hervo, Jörg Wieder
Droplet formation provides a direct microphysical link between aerosols and clouds (liquid or mixed-phase), and its adequate description poses a major challenge for any atmospheric model. Observations are critical for evaluating and constraining the proces ...
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