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Michaël Sicard is a researcher affiliated with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Spain. Their work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Immunology and Allergy.

The main topics addressed in their research involve Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Air Quality and Health Impacts, and Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization.

Key recent papers by Michaël Sicard include:

  • Impact of the 2021 La Palma volcanic eruption on air quality: Insights from a multidisciplinary approach (2023, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Overview: On the transport and transformation of pollutants in the outflow of major population centres - observational data from the EMeRGe European intensive operational period in summer 2017 (2022, Atmospheric chemistry and physics)
  • The need for Pan-European automatic pollen and fungal spore monitoring: A stakeholder workshop position paper (2021, Clinical and Translational Allergy)
  • A Comparative Analysis of Aerosol Optical Coefficients and Their Associated Errors Retrieved from Pure-Rotational and Vibro-Rotational Raman Lidar Signals (2021, Sensors)
  • Calculation of the Overlap Function and Associated Error of an Elastic Lidar or a Ceilometer: Cross-Comparison with a Cooperative Overlap-Corrected System (2020, Sensors)

Michaël Sicard collaborates frequently with a group of coauthors, including Alejandro Rodríguez-Gómez, Adolfo Comerón, Constantino Muñoz-Porcar, Cristina Gil-Díaz, and Carmen Córdoba-Jabonero.

Their publications appear most often in the following venues:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Remote Sensing
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • EPJ Web of Conferences
  • Sensors

Best Publications

  • Systematic lidar observations of Saharan dust over Europe in the frame of EARLINET (2000-2002)

    A. Papayannis;V. Amiridis;L. Mona;G. Tsaknakis

  • A long Saharan dust event over the western Mediterranean: Lidar, Sun photometer observations, and regional dust modeling

    C. Pérez;S. Nickovic;S. Nickovic;J. M. Baldasano;M. Sicard

  • Mixed-Layer Depth Determination in the Barcelona Coastal Area From Regular Lidar Measurements: Methods, Results and Limitations

    M. Sicard;C. Pérez;F. Rocadenbosch;J. M. Baldasano

  • Summertime re-circulations of air pollutants over the north-eastern Iberian coast observed from systematic EARLINET lidar measurements in Barcelona

    Carlos Pérez;Michaël Sicard;Oriol Jorba;Adolfo Comerón

  • Lidar-Radiometer Inversion Code (LIRIC) for the retrieval of vertical aerosol properties from combined lidar/radiometer data: development and distribution in EARLINET

    Anatoli Chaikovsky;Oleg Dubovik;Brent Holben;Andrey Bril

  • Overview of the Chemistry-Aerosol Mediterranean Experiment/Aerosol Direct Radiative Forcing on the Mediterranean Climate (ChArMEx/ADRIMED) summer 2013 campaign

    Marc Mallet;François Dulac;Paola Formenti;Pierre Nabat

  • The unprecedented 2017–2018 stratospheric smoke event: decay phase and aerosol properties observed with the EARLINET

    Holger Baars;Albert Ansmann;Kevin Ohneiser;Moritz Haarig

  • Dust aerosol radiative effects during summer 2012 simulated with a coupled regional aerosol–atmosphere–ocean model over the Mediterranean

    Pierre Nabat;S Somot;Marc Mallet;M Michou

  • Four-dimensional distribution of the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic cloud over Europe observed by EARLINET

    G. Pappalardo;L. Mona;G. D'Amico;U. Wandinger

  • Measurements and modelling of atmospheric pollution over the Paris area: an overview of the ESQUIF Project

    Laurent Menut;Laurent Menut;R. Vautard;Cyrille Flamant;C. Abonnel

  • Stratospheric AOD after the 2011 eruption of Nabro volcano measured by lidars over the Northern Hemisphere

    Patricia Sawamura;Jean-Paul Vernier;J.-E. Barnes;Timothy A. Berkoff

  • Lidar with SiPM: Some capabilities and limitations in real environment

    Ravil Agishev;Adolfo Comerón;Jordi Bach;Alejandro Rodriguez

  • Estimation of mineral dust long-wave radiative forcing: sensitivity study to particle properties and application to real cases in the region of Barcelona

    M. Sicard;M. Sicard;S. Bertolín;M. Mallet;P. Dubuisson

  • Seasonal variability of aerosol optical properties observed by means of a Raman lidar at an EARLINET site over Northeastern Spain

    M. Sicard;F. Rocadenbosch;M. N. M. Reba;A. Comerón

  • A methodology for investigating dust model performance using synergistic EARLINET/AERONET dust concentration retrievals

    I. Binietoglou;S. Basart;L. Alados-Arboledas;V. Amiridis

  • Current Research in Lidar Technology Used for the Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols

    Adolfo Comerón;Constantino Muñoz-Porcar;Francesc Rocadenbosch;Alejandro Rodríguez-Gómez

  • EARLINET instrument intercomparison campaigns: overview on strategy and results

    Ulla Wandinger;Volker Freudenthaler;Holger Baars;Aldo Amodeo

  • Extreme, wintertime Saharan dust intrusion in the Iberian Peninsula: Lidar monitoring and evaluation of dust forecast models during the February 2017 event

    Alfonso J. Fernández;Michäel Sicard;Maria J. Costa;Juan L. Guerrero-Rascado

  • A High-Accuracy Multiwavelength Radiometer for In Situ Measurements in the Thermal Infrared. Part I: Characterization of the Instrument

    Michel Legrand;Christophe Pietras;Gérard Brogniez;Martial Haeffelin

  • An automatic observation-based aerosol typing method for EARLINET

    Nikolaos Papagiannopoulos;Lucia Mona;Aldo Amodeo;Giuseppe D'Amico

  • Characterization of aerosol spatial distribution and optical properties over the Indian Ocean from airborne LIDAR and radiometry during INDOEX'99

    Jacques Pelon;Cyrille Flamant;Patrick Chazette;J.-F. Leon

  • Ground/space, passive/active remote sensing observations coupled with particle dispersion modelling to understand the inter-continental transport of wildfire smoke plumes

    M. Sicard;M.J. Granados-Muñoz;L. Alados-Arboledas;R. Barragán

Frequent Co-Authors

Lucas Alados-Arboledas
Lucas Alados-Arboledas University of Granada
Gelsomina Pappalardo
Gelsomina Pappalardo National Research Council (CNR)
Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado
Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado University of Granada
Ina Mattis
Ina Mattis German Meteorological Service
José María Baldasano
José María Baldasano Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Lucia Mona
Lucia Mona National Research Council (CNR)
Ulla Wandinger
Ulla Wandinger Leibniz Association
Albert Ansmann
Albert Ansmann Leibniz Association
Dimitris Balis
Dimitris Balis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Vassilis Amiridis
Vassilis Amiridis National Observatory of Athens

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