Alexandra Weiss
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Alexandra Weiss
Atmospheric Scientist
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
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 ORCID 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, (). pp. 10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0143.1 (In Press)
2023
Meijers, Andrew J.S. ORCID record for Andrew J.S. Meijers, Meredith, Michael P. ORCID record for Michael P. Meredith, Shuckburgh, Emily F., Kent, Elizabeth C. ORCID record for Elizabeth C. Kent, Munday, David R. ORCID record for David R. Munday, Firing, Yvonne L. ORCID record for Yvonne L. Firing, King, Brian ORCID record for Brian King, Smyth, Timothy J., Leng, Melanie J. ORCID record for Melanie J. Leng, Nurser, A.J. George, Hewitt, Helene T., Abrahamsen, E. Povl ORCID record for E. Povl Abrahamsen, Weiss, Alexandra, Yang, Mingxi, Bell, Thomas G., Brearley, J. Alexander ORCID record for J. Alexander Brearley, Boland, Emma J.D. ORCID record for Emma J.D. Boland, Jones, Daniel C. ORCID record for Daniel C. Jones, Josey, Simon A. ORCID record for Simon A. Josey, Owen, Robyn P., Grist, Jeremy P. ORCID record for Jeremy P. Grist, Blaker, Adam T. ORCID record for Adam T. Blaker, Biri, Stavroula ORCID record for Stavroula Biri, Yelland, Margaret J. ORCID record for Margaret J. Yelland, Pimm, Ciara, Zhou, Shenjie ORCID record for Shenjie Zhou, Harle, James, Cornes, Richard C. ORCID 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 ORCID record for James France, Hopkins, James R., Jones, Anna E. ORCID record for Anna E. Jones, Lachlan-Cope, Thomas ORCID 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 ORCID record for James France, Bateson, Prudence, Dominutti, Pamela, Allen, Grant, Andrews, Stephen, Bauguitte, Stephane, Coleman, Max, Lachlan-Cope, Tom ORCID record for Tom Lachlan-Cope, Fisher, Rebecca, Huang, Langwen, Jones, Anna E. ORCID 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. ORCID record for J.C. King, Kristiansen, J., Lachlan-Cope, T. ORCID 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. ORCID record for Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Elvidge, A. D., Jeansson, E., Lachlan-Cope, Thomas ORCID record for Thomas Lachlan-Cope, McRaven, L.T., Papritz, L., Reuder, J., Sodemann, H., Terpstra, A., Waterman, S., Valdimarsson, H., Weiss, Alexandra, Almansi, M. ORCID 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. ORCID 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. ORCID record for T. A. Lachlan-Cope, King, J. C. ORCID 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 ORCID record for John King, Lachlan-Cope, Tom ORCID 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 ORCID record for John King, Lachlan-Cope, Thomas ORCID 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 ORCID record for John King, Lachlan-Cope, Tom ORCID 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. ORCID record for J.C. King, Lachlan-Cope, T.A. ORCID 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
- PRESCIENT
- Arctic Summer-time Cyclones
- SURFEIT
- North Sea Methane
- Joint Airborne Study of the Peninsula Region (JASPER)
- Iceland Greenland seas Project
- ORCHESTRA
- Airborne measurements in a stable boundary layer over the Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica
2019
Scientists to study methane emissions in North Sea
News 23 April, 2019
2010
An International Feel to Antarctic Research
News 16 February, 2010