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Work
I am now working as a post-doc in the Atmospheric Sciences division of the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, USA.
Research topics
- Ice clouds (also known as cirrus) and their overall impact on the climate, either locally or globally.
- Correlations between the ice crystal properties (size, shape, orientation and so on), the ice water content and the cloud radiative impact.
- Retrieval of these properties through remote sensing observations, esp. polarized.
- Using results from these studies, provide General Circulation Models and Mesoscale simulations of climate evolution with somewhat more accurate models for cirrus clouds.
Thesis
I've been working 3 years as a PhD student in the Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique at the Ecole Polytechnique, in Palaiseau, France. The topic of my thesis was the Study of microphysical properties of ice clouds from polarized observations. The PDF is available on-line here. Careful : it's in french.
Recent papers
- Classification of particle shapes from lidar depolarization ratio in convective ice clouds compared to in situ observations during CRYSTAL-FACE. Noel V., D. Winker, M. McGill and P. Lawson. accepted in J. Geophys. Rev. 2004.
- Study of Planar Ice Crystals Orientations in Ice Clouds from scanning polarization lidar observations. Noel V., K. Sassen. accepted in J. of Applied Meteorology 2004.
- Study of Ice Crystal Orientation in Cirrus Clouds Based on Satellite Polarized Radiance Measurements. Noel, V. and H. Chepfer, J. Atmos. Sci. 2004. doi:10.1175/1520-0469(2004)061<2073:SOICOI>2.0.CO;2
- Analysis of ice clouds lidar measurements at multiple incidence angles. Noel V., G. Roy, L. Bissonnette, H. Chepfer and P. H. Flamant, GRL 2002. doi:10.1029/2002GL014828
- Classification of particle shape ratios in cirrus clouds based on the lidar depolarization ratio. V. Noel, H. Chepfer, G. Ledanois, A. Delaval and P. H. Flamant, Applied Optics, 2002.
- Computation of a single-scattering matrix for nonspherical particles randomly or horizontally oriented in space. V. Noel, H. Chepfer, G. Ledanois and P. H. Flamant, Applied Optics 2001.
Other stuff
In my free time, I enjoy moving around. I am a sucker for nice electronic gadgets, especially when there's an apple on them. I want one of these (of course, with a little more RAM than the default).
I use linux as an operating system, with the gnome desktop environment. I enjoy triaging bugs. Committing stuff makes me feel good, too.