Publications by Violaine Florette Piton

Identifying and quantifying unexpected deep zooplankton diel vertical migration in a large deep lake

David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Htet Kyi Wynn, Rafael Sebastian Reiss, Valentin Kindschi, Violaine Florette Piton

Diel Vertical Migration (DVM), a widespread zooplankton behavior in freshwater and marine systems, affects ecological interactions and biogeochemical cycles. In lakes, DVM has mainly been studied in the upper 50 m of the water column. However, based on aco ...

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography2025

From Particles to Flocs: Revealing Where Flocculation Occurs in the Nearfield of a Negatively-Buoyant River Plume in a Large Lake (Lake Geneva)

David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Htet Kyi Wynn, Valentin Kindschi, Violaine Florette Piton

The dynamics of sediments entering lakes in river plumes is virtually unknown. This field study provides unprecedented evidence of the initiation and evolution of suspended sediment flocculation in the nearfield of the negatively-buoyant Rh & ocirc;ne Rive ...

Amer Geophysical Union2024

Tracing Unconfined Nearfield Spreading of a River Plume Interflow in a Large Lake (Lake Geneva): Hydrodynamics, Suspended Particulate Matter, and Associated Fluxes

David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Htet Kyi Wynn, Frédéric Charles Soulignac, Benjamin Daniel Graf, Violaine Florette Piton

River inflows have a major influence on lake water quality due to their input of sediments, nutrients and contaminants. After leaving the river channel, river waters form a plume and interact with ambient lake waters. Strong hydrodynamic changes take place ...

2022

Variability of the Red River Plume in the Gulf of Tonkin as Revealed by Numerical Modeling and Clustering Analysis

Violaine Florette Piton

We study the daily to interannual variability of the Red River plume in the Gulf of Tonkin from numerical simulations at high resolution over 6 years (2011-2016). Compared with observational data, the model results show good performance. To identify the pl ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2021