Alexandra Weiss

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Alexandra Weiss

Biography

  • 2009-now: Research scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, UK, working field: aircraft data analysis of atmospheric measurements
  • 2006-2009: Research scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, UK, working field: boundary layer meteorology with focus on air-sea-ice interaction processes
  • 2002 – 2005: Research scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology (50%), Hamburg, Germany, working field: studies on the basis of ground based remote sensing aerosols, cloud and precipitation
  • 2002 –2005: Research scientist at University of Hamburg, Department of Meteorology (50%), Germany, working field: studies of atmospheric turbulence in the maritime boundary layer
  • 1997 – 2002: PhD-student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zürich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Research, working field: boundary layer meteorology in highly complex terrain and EM-wave propagation through random media.
  • Thesis: Weiss, A. I., 2002: Determination of stratification and turbulence of the atmospheric surface layer over various types of terrain by optical scintillometry, Dissertation ETH Zürich.
  • 1997-2002: Research scientist at the Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, working filed: wave propagation through random media, refraction, correction of highly precise geodetic measurements.
  • 1997-1997: Research scientist at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics GKSS-National Research Centre, Geesthacht, working field: in situ micro-physical cloud measurements.
  • 1995-1997: Research assistant and Diploma-student at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics GKSS- National Research Centre, Geesthacht, Germany. Diploma working field: Remote sensing of clouds
  • 1989-1997: Student of Diplom Meteorology with Meteorology, Physics and Geophysics at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Research interests

Boundary-layer meteorology:

  • observational and theoretical studies of the atmospheric boundary layer in Antarctica and Arctic
  • air-sea-ice interaction processes
  • energy and water cycle in the atmospheric boundary layer
  • boundary layer over non homogenous and complex terrain
  • maritime boundary layer
  • wave propagation through turbulent media
  • representation of boundary layer parameters in numerical models
  • airborne and ground based observations of the turbulent boundary layer

Cloud and precipitation physics:

  • observations and theoretical studies of water cycle parameters
  • analyse of water cycle parameters by Radar, Lidar and aircraft in situ observations
  • representation of clouds and precipitation in numerical models

Collaborations

per-reviewed publications:

 

  • T. A. Jordan, C. Robinson, T. Reed,  R. Toomey, N. Jelev, J. Waters, N. Fenny, A. I. Weiss, M. Lowe, 2024: Successful deployment of a large UAV for multi-disciplinary science from Rothera Research Station Antarctica; 2024 season overview and lessons learned, submitted to Antarctic Science.
  • Riviere; J. Delanoë; J. D Doyle; J. Methven; C. Barrell; M. Fearon; S. Gray; A. Johnson; O. Jourdan; T. Lachlan-Cope; I. Renfrew; R. D Torn; A. Volonté; A. Weiss; Meryl Wimmer et al., , 2024: The THINICE field campaign: Interactions between Arctic cyclones, tropopause polar vortices, clouds and sea ice in summer’, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 105, No. 12, DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0143.1.
  • Pühl, M., Roiger, A., Fiehn, A., Gorchov Negron, A. M., Kort, E. A., Schwietzke, S., Pisso, I., Foulds, A., Lee, J., France, J. L., Jones, A. E., Lowry, D., Fisher, R. E., Huang, L., Shaw, J., Bateson, P., Andrews, S., Young, S., Dominutti, P., Lachlan-Cope, T., Weiss, A., and Allen, G, 2024.: Aircraft-based mass balance estimate of methane emissions from offshore gas facilities in the Southern North Sea, Atmos. Chem. Phys.https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-1005-2024.
  • Elvidge, A.D., I. Renfrew, J. M. Edwards, I. M. Brooks, P. Srivastava, and A. I. Weiss, 2022: Improved simulation of the polar atmospheric boundary layer by accounting for aerodynamic roughness in the parameterisation of surface scalar exchange over sea ice, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, in press, DOI: 10.1029/2022MS003305.
  • Meijers, A., M. P. Meredith, E. F. Shuckburgh, E. C. Kent, D. R. Munday, Y. L. Firing, B. King, T. J. Smyth, M. J. Leng, A.J. G. Nurser, H. T. Hewitt, E. P. Abrahamsen, A. Weiss, M. Yang, T. G. Bell, J. A. Brearley, E. J.D. Boland, D. C. Jones, S. A. Josey, R. P. Owen, J. P. Grist, A. T. Blaker, Stavroula B., M. J. Yelland, C. Pimm, S. Zhou, J. Harle, R. C., 2022: Finale: Impact of the ORCHESTRA/ENCORE programmes on Southern Ocean heat and carbon understanding, Philosophical Transactions A, DOI:  10.1098/rsta.2022.0070.
  • Renfrew, I. A., Huang, J., Semper, ., Barrell, C., Terpstra, A., Pickart, R. S., Våge, K., Elvidge, A. D., Spengler, T., Strehl, A., Weiss, A.,. 2022: Coupled atmosphere‐ocean observations of a cold air outbreak and its impact on the Iceland Sea. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 10.1002/qj.4418.
  • Wilde, Shona E., Dominutti, Pamela A., Andrews, Stephen J., Bauguitte, Stephane J.-B., Burton, Ralph R., Colfescu, Ioana, France, James , Hopkins, James R., Jones, Anna E. , Lachlan-Cope, Thomas Lee, James D., Lewis, Alastair C., Mobbs, Stephen, Weiss, Alexandra, Young, Stuart, Purvis, Ruth M., 2021: Speciation of VOC emissions related to offshore North Sea oil and gas production. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21. 22 pp. 10.5194/acp-21-3741-2021
  • France, James, Bateson, Prudence, Dominutti, Pamela, Allen, Grant, Andrews, Stephen, Bauguitte, Stephane, Coleman, Max, Lachlan-Cope, Tom , Fisher, Rebecca, Huang, Langwen, Jones, Anna E., Lee, James, Lowry, David, Pitt, Joseph, Purvis, Ruth, Pyle, John, Shaw, Jacob, Warwick, Nicola, Weiss, Alexandra, Wilde, Shona, Witherstone, Jonathan, Young, Stuart, 2021: Facility level measurement of offshore oil and gas installations from a medium-sized airborne platform: method development for quantification and source identification of methane emissions. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 14. 18 pp. 10.5194/amt-14-71-2021
  • Renfrew, I. A., Barrell, C., Elvidge, A. D., Brooke, J. K., Duscha, C., King, J.C., Kristiansen, J., Lachlan-Cope, T. , Moore, G. W. K., Pickart, R. S., Reuder, J., Sandu, I., Sergeev, D., Terpstra, A., Våge, K., Weiss, A., 2021: An evaluation of surface meteorology and fluxes over the Iceland and Greenland Seas in ERA5 reanalysis: The impact of sea ice distribution. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 147. 691-712. 10.1002/qj.3941
  • Renfrew, I. A., Pickart, R. S., Våge, K., Moore, G. W. K., Bracegirdle, Thomas J., Elvidge, A. D., Jeansson, E., Lachlan-Cope, Thomas, McRaven, L.T., Papritz, L., Reuder, J., Sodemann, H., Terpstra, A., Waterman, S., Valdimarsson, H., Weiss, Alexandra,  et al., 2019:  The Iceland Greenland Seas Project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0217.1
  • Elvidge, A. D., Renfrew, I. A., Weiss, A. I., Brooks, I. M., Lachlan-Cope, T. A., King, J. C.. (2016) Observations of surface momentum exchange over the marginal-ice-zone and recommendations for its parametrisation. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16. 1545-1563. 10.5194/acp-16-1545-2016
  • Nygård, T. T. Vihma, G. Birnbaum, J. Hartmann, J. King, T. Lachlan-Cope, R. Ladkin, C. Lüpkes, A. Weiss, 2015: Validation of eight atmospheric reanalyses in the Antarctic 3 Peninsula region, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (QJRM), Vol 142, Issue 695.
  • Weiss, A.I., J. King, T. Lachlan Cope, R. Ladkin, 2012: Albedo of the ice-covered Weddell and Bellingshausen Seas, The Cryosphere, 6, 479-491, 2012, www.the-cryosphere.net/6/479/2012/doi:10.5194/tc-6-479-2012
  • Weiss, A. I., J. King, T. Lachlan Cope, R. Ladkin, 2011: On the effective aerodynamic and scalar roughness length of Weddell Sea ice’ by in J. Geophy. Res., Vol. 116, D19119, 9 PP., doi:10.1029/2011JD015949
  • King, J.C., T.A. Lachlan-Cope, R.S. Ladkin, A. Weiss, 2008: Airborne Measurements in the Stable Boundary Layer over the Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, Vol. 127:413–428 DOI 10.1007/s10546-008-9271-4.
  • Rotach, M., M. Andretta, P. Calanca, A. Weigel, and A. Weiss, 2008: Boundary layer characteristics and turbulent exchange mechanisms in highly complex terrain, Acta Geophysica, Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 194-219 DOI: 10.2478/s11600-007-0043-1.
  • Hennemuth, B., A. Weiss, J. Bosenberg, D. Jacob, H. Linne, G. Peters, S. Pfeifer, 2008: Quality assessment of water cycle parameters in REMO by radar-lidar synergy, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 8, pp. 287–308.
  • Weiss, A., J. Kuss, G. Peters, B. Schneider, 2007: Evaluating transfer velocity-wind speed relationship using a long-term series of direct eddy correlation CO2 flux measurements. Journal of Marine Systems, Volume 66, Issue 1-4, pp. 130-139.
  • Rotach, W., P. Calanca, G. Graziani, J. Gurz, D. Steyn, R. Vogt, M. Andretta, A. Christen, S. Cieslik, R. Connolly, S. DeWekker, S. Galmarini, E. Kadygrov, V. Kadygrov, E. Miller, B. Neiniger, M. Rucker, E. VanGorsel, H. Weber, A. Weiss, M. Zappa, 2004: Turbulence structure and exchange processes in an Alpine Valley: The Riviera Project, Bulletin of the AMS, 1367-1385.
  • Weiss, A., M. Hennes, M. Rotach, 2001: Derivation of refractive index and temperature gradients form optical scintillometry for the correction of atmospheric induced problems in highly precise geodetic measurements, Surveys in Geophysics, Vol. 22, No. 5-6, Kluwer Academic Press, Netherlands.
  • Weiss, A. 2002: Determination of stratification and turbulence of the atmospheric surface layer over various types of terrain by optical scintillometry, Mitteilungen IGP ETH Zürich, Nr. 75, ISSS 0252-9335 ISBN 3-906467-36-8.

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

2024

Rivière, Gwendal, Delanoë, Julien, Doyle, James D., Methven, John, Barrell, Chris, Fearon, Matthew, Gray, Suzanne, Johnson, Aaron, Jourdan, Olivier, Lachlan-Cope, Thomas ORCIDORCID record for Thomas Lachlan-Cope, Renfrew, Ian, Torn, Ryan D., Volonté, Ambrogio, Weiss, Alexandra, Wimmer, Meryl, Aubry, Clemantyne, Baudoux, Antoine, Bazile, Eric, Beeden, Daniel, Bennett, Miriam, Biernat, Kevin, Bitz, Cecilia M., Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, Edward, Bounissou, Sophie, Bray, Matthew, Burg, Tomer, Burzdak, Joseph, Businger, Steven, Capute, Peyton, Caudoux, Christophe, Cavallo, Steven, Cossalter, Laure, Cozzolino, Capucine, Croad, Hannah, Douet, Vincent, Elvidge, Andrew, Finocchio, Peter, Gourbeyre, Christophe, Harvey, Ben, Huet, Kevin, Hutchinson, Todd, Ladkin, Russ, Marshland, Kai, Martinez-Alvarado, Oscar, Mioche, Guillaume, Pantillon, Florian, Paquette, Cameron, Parsons, David B., Persson, Ola, Raillard, Lea, Raut, Jean-Christophe, Seity, Yann, Trules, Jérémie, Vignon, Etienne, Wang, Xuguang. (2024) The THINICE field campaign: Interactions between Arctic cyclones, tropopause polar vortices, clouds and sea ice in summer. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105 (). 25 pp. 10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0143.1

2023

Meijers, Andrew J.S. ORCIDORCID record for Andrew J.S. Meijers, Meredith, Michael P. ORCIDORCID record for Michael P. Meredith, Shuckburgh, Emily F., Kent, Elizabeth C. ORCIDORCID record for Elizabeth C. Kent, Munday, David R. ORCIDORCID record for David R. Munday, Firing, Yvonne L. ORCIDORCID record for Yvonne L. Firing, King, Brian ORCIDORCID record for Brian King, Smyth, Timothy J., Leng, Melanie J. ORCIDORCID record for Melanie J. Leng, Nurser, A.J. George, Hewitt, Helene T., Abrahamsen, E. Povl ORCIDORCID record for E. Povl Abrahamsen, Weiss, Alexandra, Yang, Mingxi, Bell, Thomas G., Brearley, J. Alexander ORCIDORCID record for J. Alexander Brearley, Boland, Emma J.D. ORCIDORCID record for Emma J.D. Boland, Jones, Daniel C. ORCIDORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Josey, Simon A. ORCIDORCID record for Simon A. Josey, Owen, Robyn P., Grist, Jeremy P. ORCIDORCID record for Jeremy P. Grist, Blaker, Adam T. ORCIDORCID record for Adam T. Blaker, Biri, Stavroula ORCIDORCID record for Stavroula Biri, Yelland, Margaret J. ORCIDORCID record for Margaret J. Yelland, Pimm, Ciara, Zhou, Shenjie ORCIDORCID record for Shenjie Zhou, Harle, James, Cornes, Richard C. ORCIDORCID record for Richard C. Cornes. (2023) Finale: Impact of the ORCHESTRA/ENCORE programmes on Southern Ocean heat and carbon understanding. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 381 (). 25 pp. 10.1098/rsta.2022.0070

Elvidge, A.D., Renfrew, I.A., Edwards, J.M., Brooks, I.M., Srivastava, P., Weiss, A.I.. (2023) Improved Simulation of the Polar Atmospheric Boundary Layer by Accounting for Aerodynamic Roughness in the Parameterization of Surface Scalar Exchange Over Sea Ice. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15 (). 20 pp. 10.1029/2022MS003305

Renfrew, Ian A., Huang, Jie, Semper, Stefanie, Barrell, Christopher, Terpstra, Annick, Pickart, Robert S., Våge, Kjetil, Elvidge, Andrew D., Spengler, Thomas, Strehl, Anna‐Marie, Weiss, Alexandra. (2023) Coupled atmosphere‐ocean observations of a cold air outbreak and its impact on the Iceland Sea. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 149 (). 22 pp. 10.1002/qj.4418

2021

Wilde, Shona E., Dominutti, Pamela A., Andrews, Stephen J., Bauguitte, Stephane J.-B., Burton, Ralph R., Colfescu, Ioana, France, James ORCIDORCID record for James France, Hopkins, James R., Jones, Anna E. ORCIDORCID record for Anna E. Jones, Lachlan-Cope, Thomas ORCIDORCID record for Thomas Lachlan-Cope, Lee, James D., Lewis, Alastair C., Mobbs, Stephen, Weiss, Alexandra, Young, Stuart, Purvis, Ruth M.. (2021) Speciation of VOC emissions related to offshore North Sea oil and gas production. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21 (). 22 pp. 10.5194/acp-21-3741-2021

France, James ORCIDORCID record for James France, Bateson, Prudence, Dominutti, Pamela, Allen, Grant, Andrews, Stephen, Bauguitte, Stephane, Coleman, Max, Lachlan-Cope, Tom ORCIDORCID record for Tom Lachlan-Cope, Fisher, Rebecca, Huang, Langwen, Jones, Anna E. ORCIDORCID record for Anna E. Jones, Lee, James, Lowry, David, Pitt, Joseph, Purvis, Ruth, Pyle, John, Shaw, Jacob, Warwick, Nicola, Weiss, Alexandra, Wilde, Shona, Witherstone, Jonathan, Young, Stuart. (2021) Facility level measurement of offshore oil and gas installations from a medium-sized airborne platform: method development for quantification and source identification of methane emissions. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 14 (). 18 pp. 10.5194/amt-14-71-2021

Renfrew, I. A., Barrell, C., Elvidge, A. D., Brooke, J. K., Duscha, C., King, J.C. ORCIDORCID record for J.C. King, Kristiansen, J., Lachlan-Cope, T. ORCIDORCID record for T. Lachlan-Cope, Moore, G. W. K., Pickart, R. S., Reuder, J., Sandu, I., Sergeev, D., Terpstra, A., Våge, K., Weiss, A.. (2021) An evaluation of surface meteorology and fluxes over the Iceland and Greenland Seas in ERA5 reanalysis: The impact of sea ice distribution. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 147 (). pp. 10.1002/qj.3941

2019

Renfrew, I. A., Pickart, R. S., Våge, K., Moore, G. W. K., Bracegirdle, Thomas J. ORCIDORCID record for Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Elvidge, A. D., Jeansson, E., Lachlan-Cope, Thomas ORCIDORCID record for Thomas Lachlan-Cope, McRaven, L.T., Papritz, L., Reuder, J., Sodemann, H., Terpstra, A., Waterman, S., Valdimarsson, H., Weiss, Alexandra, Almansi, M. ORCIDORCID record for M. Almansi, Bahr, F., Brakstad, A., Barrell, C., Brooke, J. K., Brooks, B.J., Brooks, I. M., Brooks, M. E., Bruvik, E. M., Duscha, C., Fer, I., Golid, H. M., Hallerstig, M., Hessevik, I., Huang, J., Houghton, L., Jónsson, S., Jonassen, M., Jackson, K., Kvalsund, K., Kolstad, E. W., Konstali, K., Kristiansen, J., Ladkin, Russell, Lin, P., Macrander, A., Mitchell, A., Olafsson, H., Pacini, A., Payne, C., Palmason, B., Pérez-Hernández, M. D., Peterson, A. K., Petersen, G. N., Pisareva, M. N., Pope, James O. ORCIDORCID record for James O. Pope, Seidl, A., Semper, S., Sergeev, D., Skjelsvik, S., Søiland, H., Smith, D., Spall, M. A., Spengler, T., Touzeau, A., Tupper, G., Weng, Y., Williams, K. D., Yang, X., Zhou, S.. (2019) The Iceland Greenland Seas Project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100 (). pp. 10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0217.1

2016

Elvidge, A. D., Renfrew, I. A., Weiss, A. I., Brooks, I. M., Lachlan-Cope, T. A. ORCIDORCID record for T. A. Lachlan-Cope, King, J. C. ORCIDORCID record for J. C. King. (2016) Observations of surface momentum exchange over the marginal-ice-zone and recommendations for its parametrisation. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16 (). pp. 10.5194/acp-16-1545-2016

Nygard, Tiina, Vihma, Timo, Birnbaum, Gerit, Hartmann, Jorg, King, John ORCIDORCID record for John King, Lachlan-Cope, Tom ORCIDORCID record for Tom Lachlan-Cope, Ladkin, Russell, Lupkes, Christof, Weiss, Alexandra. (2016) Validation of eight atmospheric reanalyses in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 142 (). pp. 10.1002/qj.2691

2012

Weiss, Alexandra, King, John ORCIDORCID record for John King, Lachlan-Cope, Thomas ORCIDORCID record for Thomas Lachlan-Cope, Ladkin, Russell. (2012) Albedo of the ice covered Weddell and Bellingshausen Seas. The Cryosphere, 6 (). pp. 10.5194/tc-6-479-2012

2011

Weiss, Alexandra I., King, John ORCIDORCID record for John King, Lachlan-Cope, Tom ORCIDORCID record for Tom Lachlan-Cope, Ladkin, Russ. (2011) On the effective aerodynamic and scalar roughness length of Weddell Sea ice. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116 (). 9 pp. 10.1029/2011JD015949

2008

Rotach, Mathias W., Andretta, Marco, Calanca, Pierluigi, Weigel, Andreas P., Weiss, Alexandra. (2008) Boundary layer characteristics and turbulent exchange mechanisms in highly complex terrain. Acta Geophysica, 56 (). pp. 10.2478/s11600-007-0043-1

King, J.C. ORCIDORCID record for J.C. King, Lachlan-Cope, T.A. ORCIDORCID record for T.A. Lachlan-Cope, Ladkin, R.S., Weiss, A.. (2008) Airborne measurements in a stable boundary layer over the Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 127 (). pp. doi:10.1007/s10546-008-9271-4