Ongoing Research

Antarctic precipitation

Atmospheric WAter Cycle over Antarctica – AWACA project

Radar deployed at Princess Elizabeth station, Antarctica

Precipitation microphysics

Example of good quality images of individual snowfall particles, classified according to Praz et al 2017. Images collected with a Multi-Angle Snowflake Camera (MASC)

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Convective precipitation

Supercell thunderstorm as observed from Locarno-Monti (copyright Luca Panziera)

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Quantitative precipitation estimation

GOES-16 True Color Image with (overlayed) GPM-DPR precipitation estimates

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Automatic monitoring

From outdoor measurement (1.), through data analysis (2.) until the final product, pollen maps and predictions (3.)

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