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Pollen holographic images and light-induced fluorescence measurements at the species level

The data collection presented here consists of holographic images and light-induced fluorescence measurements of pollen grains performed with the SwisensPoleno Jupiter, an instrument for real-time bioaerosol monitoring. This pollen collection, sampled dire ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Kriging‐variance‐based multi‐member ensembles of radar–rain‐gauge precipitation estimates: Application in Switzerland

Alexis Berne

Radar–rain‐gauge rainfall combination methods have been used extensively as meteorological applications. Such combinations are often achieved through geostatistical processes (kriging). In this work we use as a platform the system “CombiPrecip”, which is o ...

Wiley2025

What can radars tell us about snowfall microphysics? Insights from a Markov chain Monte-Carlo approach

Alexis Berne, Anne-Claire Marie Billault--Roux

Multi-frequency and Doppler spectral radars are valuable tools for retrieving information on the microphysics of precipitation, particularly snowfall. However, estimating microphysical properties from radar measurements is an ill-posed problem, i.e., diffe ...

American Meteorological Society2025

Observation of the Orientation of Snow Hydrometeors at Sheltered and Unsheltered Sites

Alexis Berne, Jacopo Grazioli

Knowledge about orientation of falling snow is still poorly documented with field measurements despite its importance, for example, in the interpretation of remote sensing data. This study investigates the orientation of snow hydrometeors using data from a ...

2025

Unraveling ice multiplication in winter orographic clouds via in-situ observations, remote sensing and modeling

Athanasios Nenes, Alexis Berne, Satoshi Takahama, Georgia Sotiropoulou, Paraskevi Georgakaki, Romanos Foskinis, Kunfeng Gao, Anne-Claire Marie Billault--Roux

Recent years have shown that secondary ice production (SIP) is ubiquitous, affecting all clouds from polar to tropical regions. SIP is not described well in models and may explain biases in warm mixed-phase cloud ice content and structure. Through modeling ...

Nature Portfolio2024

A 7-year record of vertical profiles of radar measurements and precipitation estimates at Dumont d'Urville, Adélie Land, East Antarctica

Alexis Berne, Jacopo Grazioli

Studying precipitation falling over Antarctica is crucial as snowfall represents the main water input term for the polar cap. However, precipitation observations still remain scarce-and, more particularly, in the atmospheric column-due to numerous experime ...

2024

Biological and dust aerosols as sources of ice-nucleating particles in the eastern Mediterranean: Source apportionment, atmospheric processing and parameterization

Athanasios Nenes, Alexis Berne, Paraskevi Georgakaki, Romanos Foskinis, Kunfeng Gao, Anne-Claire Marie Billault--Roux

Aerosol-cloud interactions in mixed-phase clouds (MPCs) are one of the most uncertain drivers of the hydrological cycle and climate change. A synergy of in situ, remote-sensing and modelling experiments were used to determine the source of ice-nucleating p ...

Copernicus Publications2024

Data and scripts for "Unraveling secondary ice production in winter orographic clouds through a synergy of in-situ observations, remote sensing and modeling"

Athanasios Nenes, Alexis Berne, Satoshi Takahama, Georgia Sotiropoulou, Paraskevi Georgakaki, Romanos Foskinis, Kunfeng Gao, Anne-Claire Marie Billault--Roux

This repository contains field observations and processed data from the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model simulations and the Cloud Resolving Model Radar Simulator (CR-SIM), alongside scripts designed to reproduce the figures presented in the pa ...

Zenodo2024

Real-time pollen identification using holographic imaging and fluorescence measurements

Alexis Berne

Over the past few years, a diverse range of automatic real-time instruments has been developed to respond to the needs of end users in terms of information about atmospheric bioaerosols. One of them, the SwisensPoleno Jupiter, is an airflow cytometer used ...

Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh2024

The Extraordinary March 2022 East Antarctica "Heat" Wave. Part II: Impacts on the Antarctic Ice Sheet

Alexis Berne

Between 15 and 19 March 2022, East Antarctica experienced an exceptional heat wave with widespread 30 degrees-40 degrees C temperature anomalies across the ice sheet. In Part I, we assessed the meteorological drivers that generated an intense atmospheric r ...

Amer Meteorological Soc2024