About

I am now working in the Intro group at the Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique (CNRS) in Palaiseau, France. My research topics include:

  • Ice clouds (some of them known as cirrus) and their overall impact on the climate, either locally or globally, including UTLS clouds and PSCs.
  • How they relate to water vapor distribution in the UTLS and near the TTL.
  • Correlations between the ice crystal properties (size, shape, orientation and so on), the water content and the cloud radiative impact and lifetime.
  • 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.

I can be contacted at vincent dot noel at lmd.polytechnique.fr.

Papers

Last paper : A global view of horizontally-oriented crystals in ice clouds from CALIPSO - V. Noel and H. Chepfer, J. Geophys. Res., in press.

All publications should be here, or on the HAL open access archive.

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