{"id":480,"date":"2022-04-07T10:56:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T08:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/atmos\/?page_id=480"},"modified":"2025-11-05T16:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:30:26","slug":"romain-pilon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/atmos\/people\/romain-pilon\/","title":{"rendered":"Romain Pilon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Contact: romain.pilon@unil.ch<\/a>
Office 4408, G\u00e9opolis Building<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Github: https:\/\/github.com\/romainpilon<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Romain Pilon is interested in various aspects of tropical meteorology. His work concentrates on deep convection and extreme events, such as tropical cyclones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During his Ph.D., he worked on developing and evaluating parameterizations related to transport and scavenging in convective and stratiform processes (using radionuclides), thereby advancing climate modeling capabilities. Specifically, he created a theoretical framework to further study the vertical distribution of Saharan dust, gaining valuable insights into the Saharan air layer and the effects of convective clouds and precipitation on dust distribution.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In his research, Romain has addressed fundamental science questions, such as the effects of model resolution on simulated convective clouds or tropical cyclones. For example, he worked on providing a perspective on the parameterizations of convection within the Madden\u2013Julian oscillation (MJO) framework and how it affects the MJO’s propagation. He also studied the future changes of Atlantic tropical cyclones, what leads to these changes, and their impacts on the sea states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Category-4 tropical-cyclone-like vortice simulated by Meteo France’s ARPEGE-Climat<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Now he has extended his interests to the connections between tropical and extratropical dynamics in the South Pacific. Specifically, he focuses on long cloud bands extending from the tropics to the mid-latitudes, which can result in floods across Polynesian islands (photo: Polyn\u00e9sie 1\u00e8re<\/em>). He is working on understanding the large-scale processes leading to those systems, as well on their sub-seasonal predictability. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Publications<\/span><\/strong>
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The Link Between Rossby Wave Breaking And Tropical-Extratropical Cloud Bands Over The South Pacific<\/strong>. Romain Pilon<\/strong>, A. J. De Vries, D. Domeisen. In review<\/em>, doi:10.22541\/essoar.173724291.14555960\/v1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extreme weather in the Southern Hemisphere in early 2022<\/strong>. Andries J. De Vries; W. Wicker; G. Fragkoulidis; I. Rudeva; P. Yadav; E. Russo; J. W. Casselman; P. Rivoire; R. Pilon<\/strong>; H. Afargan-Gerstman; S. S. Nangombe; N. C. G. Hart; D. Domeisen. BAMS<\/em>, doi: 10.1175\/BAMS-D-23-0141.1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Safeguarding European space sovereignty – Recommendations for Operational Climate Services<\/strong>. Christine Nam, Romain Pilon<\/strong>, Laurens M. Bouwer (2025) Space Policy<\/em>, doi.org\/10.1016\/j.spacepol.2025.101689<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

cloudbandPy 1.0: an automated algorithm for the detection of tropical-extratropical cloud bands<\/strong>. Romain Pilon<\/strong> and Daniela Domeisen (2024) Geoscientific Model Development<\/em>, doi.org\/10.5194\/gmd-17-2247-2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Control of the dust vertical distribution in the Saharan air layer by convection and scavenging.
<\/strong>Habib Senghor, Romain Pilon<\/strong>, Binta Diallo, Jer\u00f3nimo Escribano, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Hourdin, Jean-Yves Grandpeix, Olivier Boucher, Moussa Gueye, Amadou Thierno Gaye and \u00c9ric Machu (2024)
Journal of Atmospheric Science Research
<\/em>doi.org\/10.30564\/jasr.v7i1.6009<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Projected future changes in tropical cyclone-related wave climate in the North Atlantic.
<\/strong>Ali Belmadani, Alice Dalphinet, Fabrice Chauvin, Romain Pilon<\/strong> and P. Palany (2021).
Climate Dynamics<\/em>
doi:10.1007\/s00382-021-05664-5<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Future changes in Atlantic hurricanes with the rotated-stretched ARPEGE-Climat model at very high resolution.
<\/strong>Fabrice Chauvin, Romain Pilon<\/strong>, Ali Belmadani and P. Palany (2019).
Climate Dynamics<\/em>
doi: 10.1007\/s00382-019-05040-4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roles of deep and shallow convection and microphysics in the MJO simulated by the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS).
Romain Pilon<\/strong>, Chidong Zhang and Jimy Dudhia (2016).
J. Geophys. Res. Atmos.
<\/em>doi.org\/10.1002\/2015JD024697<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Representation of transport and scavenging of trace particles in the Emanuel moist convection scheme.
Romain Pilon<\/strong>, Jean-Yves Grandpeix and Philippe Heinrich (2015).
Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc.<\/em>
doi.org\/10.1002\/qj.2431<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simulation of 210<\/sup>Pb and 7<\/sup>Be scavenging in the tropics by the LMDz general circulation model.
<\/strong>Philippe Heinrich and Romain Pilon<\/strong> (2013).
Atmospheric Research<\/em>
doi.org\/10.1016\/j.atmosres.2013.07.004<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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