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Pascal Rannou is affiliated with the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne in France. Their research is concentrated within the broad field of Physics and Astronomy, with a specific focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Additional subfields of study encompass Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology.

Their scholarly contributions emphasize topics such as Astro and Planetary Science, Planetary Science and Exploration, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies, and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds.

Pascal Rannou has published extensively in a number of scientific journals, with frequent publication venues including:

  • The Planetary Science Journal
  • Icarus
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
  • Space Science Reviews

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Optical constants of Pluto aerosol analogues from UV to near-IR" (2021), published in Icarus
  • "Moonraker: Enceladus Multiple Flyby Mission" (2022), published in The Planetary Science Journal
  • "Number of independent measurements required to obtain reliable mean scattering properties of irregular particles having a small size parameter, using microwave analogy measurements" (2021), published in Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
  • "Distribution and intensity of water ice signature in South Xanadu and Tui Regio" (2021), published in Icarus
  • "Analysis of four solar occultations by Titan's atmosphere with the infrared channel of the VIMS instrument: Haze, CH4, CH3D, and CO vertical profiles" (2022), published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Frequent collaborators in Pascal Rannou's research include:

  • S. Rodríguez
  • Daniel Toledo
  • Maélie Coutelier
  • S. Lebonnois
  • Sandrine Vinatier

Best Publications

  • Origin and role of water ice clouds in the Martian water cycle as inferred from a general circulation model

    Franck Montmessin;Francois Forget;Pascal Rannou;Michel Cabane

  • The Latitudinal Distribution of Clouds on Titan

    Pascal Rannou;Pascal Rannou;Franck Montmessin;Franck Montmessin;F. Hourdin;F. Hourdin;Sébastien Lebonnois;Sébastien Lebonnois

  • SPICAV on Venus Express: Three spectrometers to study the global structure and composition of the Venus atmosphere

    Jean-Loup Bertaux;D. Nevejans;O. Korablev;Eric Villard

  • Seasonal Variations of Titan's Atmospheric Composition

    Sebastien Lebonnois;Sebastien Lebonnois;Dominique Toublanc;Frederic Hourdin;Pascal Rannou

  • Evidence for a Polar Ethane Cloud on Titan

    C.A. Griffith;P. Penteado;Pascal Rannou;R. Brown

  • SPICAM on Mars Express: Observing modes and overview of UV spectrometer data and scientific results

    Jean-Loup Bertaux;Jean-Loup Bertaux;Oleg Korablev;Séverine Perrier;Séverine Perrier;Eric Quémerais;Eric Quémerais

  • Evidence for the exposure of water ice on Titan's surface.

    Caitlin A. Griffith;Tobias Owen;Thomas R. Geballe;John Rayner

  • Physical properties of the organic aerosols and clouds on Titan

    C.P McKay;A Coustenis;R.E Samuelson;M.T Lemmon

  • Subvisible CO2 ice clouds detected in the mesosphere of Mars

    Franck Montmessin;Jean-Loup Bertaux;Eric Quémerais;Oleg Korablev

  • A coupled dynamics-microphysics model of Titan's atmosphere

    P. Rannou;F. Hourdin;C.P. McKay;D. Luz

  • A wind origin for Titan's haze structure

    P. Rannou;F. Hourdin;C. P. McKay

  • Titan global climate model: A new 3-dimensional version of the IPSL Titan GCM

    Sébastien Lebonnois;Jérémie Burgalat;Pascal Rannou;Pascal Rannou;Benjamin Charnay

  • Titan's Geometric Albedo: Role of the Fractal Structure of the Aerosols

    P. Rannou;M. Cabane;E. Chassefiere;R. Botet

  • New insights into Martian dust distribution and water-ice cloud microphysics

    Franck Montmessin;Pascal Rannou;Michel Cabane

  • Fractal aggregates in Titan's atmosphere

    M. Cabane;P. Rannou;E. Chassefière;G. Israel

  • Stellar Occultations at UV Wavelengths by the SPICAM Instrument: Retrieval and Analysis of Martian Haze Profiles

    Franck Montmessin;Eric Quémerais;Jean-Loup Bertaux;Oleg Korablev

  • Applications of a new set of methane line parameters to the modeling of Titan’s spectrum in the 1.58 μm window

    Catherine de Bergh;Régis Courtin;Bruno Bézard;Athéna Coustenis

  • Titan's surface and atmosphere from Cassini/VIMS data with updated methane opacity

    M. Hirtzig;B. Bézard;E. Lellouch;A. Coustenis

  • A new interpretation of scattered light measurements at Titan's limb

    Pascal Rannou;Michel Cabane;Robert Botet;Eric Chassefière

  • Titan's stratospheric composition driven by condensation and dynamics

    Frédéric Hourdin;Sébastien Lebonnois;David Luz;Pascal Rannou

  • TandEM: Titan and Enceladus mission

    Athena Coustenis;Sushil K. Atreya;T. Balint;R.H. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Sébastien Lebonnois
Sébastien Lebonnois Sorbonne University
Sebastien Rodriguez
Sebastien Rodriguez Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Jason W. Barnes
Jason W. Barnes University of Idaho
Franck Montmessin
Franck Montmessin University of Paris-Saclay
S. Le Mouélic
S. Le Mouélic University of Nantes
Frédéric Hourdin
Frédéric Hourdin Université Paris Cité
Jean-Pierre Pommereau
Jean-Pierre Pommereau Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Christopher P. McKay
Christopher P. McKay Ames Research Center
Ralph D. Lorenz
Ralph D. Lorenz Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
P. Drossart
P. Drossart Université Paris Cité

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