Florian PANTILLON

Chargé de recherche CNRS

Chargé de recherche CNRS

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CV / functions

Research experience

Since 2019 CNRS Researcher, Laboratoire d’Aérologie, Université de Toulouse

2015-2019 Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
DFG Transregional Collaborative Research Center « Waves to Weather »; supervisors Peter Knippertz and Ulrich Corsmeier

2013-2015 Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
ERC project « Desert Storms »; supervisor Peter Knippertz

09/2015 Severo Ochoa mobility grant, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

2012-2013 Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratoire d’Aérologie
FP7 project « DRIHM »; supervisors Jean-Pierre Chaboureau and Evelyne Richard

Education

2022 HDR (Habilitation) in Meteorology, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier
Thesis: Dynamics, modelling and predictability of midlatitude cyclones and windstorms

2009-2012 PhD in Atmospheric Sciences, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier
Thesis: Extratropical transition of hurricanes in the North Atlantic and impact on the predictability of extreme events in the Mediterranean
Supervisors: Jean-Pierre Chaboureau, Christine Lac and Patrick Mascart

2011 ATUPS mobility grant, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

2005-2007 MSc in Astrophysics, Université de Genève
Thesis: Angular momentum transport by internal gravity waves in massive stars
Supervisors: Suzanne Talon and Corinne Charbonnel

2006-2007 CREPUQ mobility grant, Université de Montréal

2002-2005 BSc in Physics, Université de Genève

2004-2005 Erasmus mobility grant, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Research

My research is dedicated to the dynamics and predictability of windstorms in the mid latitudes. I focus on different scales from the local formation of wind gusts to the interaction of cyclones with the global atmospheric circulation. I mainly use models for numerical weather prediction and combine high-resolution simulations with probabilistic forecasts.

Publications

Preprints

Pujol, K., Baggio, R., Lambert, D., Muzy, J.-F., Filippi, J.-B., Pantillon, F., 2025. Improving prediction of heavy rainfall in the Mediterranean with Neural Networks using both observation and Numerical Weather Prediction data. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.24216
Baggio, R., Pujol, K., Pantillon, F., Lambert, D., Filippi, J.-B., Muzy, J.-F., 2025. Local wind speed forecasting at short time horizons relying on both Numerical Weather Prediction and observations from surrounding station. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.18797
Escobar, J., Wautelet, P., Pianezze, J., Pantillon, F., Dauhut, T., Barthe, C., and Chaboureau, J.-P.: Porting the Meso-NH atmospheric model on different GPU architectures for the next generation of supercomputers (version MESONH-v55-OpenACC), EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-2879, 2024.
Flaounas, E., Dafis, S., Davolio, S., Faranda, D., Ferrarin, C., Hartmuth, K., Hochman, A., Koutroulis, A., Khodayar, S., Miglietta, M. M., Pantillon, F., Patlakas, P., Sprenger, M., and Thurnherr, I.: Dynamics, predictability, impacts, and climate change considerations of the catastrophic Mediterranean Storm Daniel (2023), EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-2809, 2024.

Papers

Papers in astrophysics

Mathis, S., Talon, S., Pantillon, F., & Zahn, J.-P. (2008). Angular Momentum Transport in the Sun’s Radiative Zone by Gravito-Inertial Waves. Solar Physics, 251(1–2), 101–118. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-008-9157-0
Pantillon, F., Talon, S., & Charbonnel, C. (2007). Angular momentum transport by internal gravity waves. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 474(1), 155–163. http://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20078078

Other papers

Rivière, G, Raillard, L, Delanoë, J, Bounissou, S, Caudoux, C, Cossalter, L, Huet, K, Cozzolino, C, Jourdan, O, Gourbeyre, C, Aubry, C, Bazile, E, Seity, Y, Douet, V, Trules, J, Doyle, J D, Pantillon, F, Wimmer, M. Thinice : campagne de mesure aéroportée dédiée à l’étude des dépressions arctiques et des interactions avec les nuages et la banquise. La Météorologie, 119, 4-5, 2022. https://doi.org/10.37053/lameteorologie-2022-0074
Pantillon, F. Vorhersage von Zyklonen. In Bertelmann, M., Sprenger, M.A. (Eds.), 2020. Außertropische Zyklonen, Promet. Deutscher Wetterdienst, Fachinformationsstelle und Deutsche Meteorologische Bibliothek, Offenbach/M.
Pantillon, F, Chaboureau, J-P, Richard, E. L’imprévisible Nadine ou comment l’arrivée d’un ouragan en Méditerranée n’a tenu qu’à un fil. La Météorologie, 2016, 95, p. 25-29 http://doi.org/10.4267/2042/61614

Datasets

Pantillon, F., Davolio, S., Avolio, E., Carrió, D. S., Dafis, S., Miglietta, M. M., Pytharoulis, I., Ricard, D., & Sanchez, C. (2024). Model intercomparison of medicane Ianos using ten mesoscale numerical frameworks [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13342189
Lfarh, W., Pantillon, F., & Chaboureau, J.-P. (2024). High-resolution simulations of Mediterranean windstorm Adrian with the Meso-NH atmospheric model [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10940358
Hansen, A., Pantillon, F. (2019). Large-eddy simulation during the Wind and Storms Experiment (WASTEX). Repository KITopen. https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000096627
Wieser, A., Adler, B., Pantillon, F. (2019). Doppler lidar measurements from the Wind and Storms Experiment (WASTEX). Repository KITopen. https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000096609

Projects

Ongoing projects

2025-2028 (coordinator LAERO) ANR-DFG « DICHOTOMI » – Dry Intrusion and Cloud Head winds On Top Of Marine Interfaces https://nawdic.aeris-data.fr/

2024-2026 (coordinator WP3) ESA « MEDICANES » – Earth Observations as a cornerstone to the understanding and prediction of tropical-like cyclone risk in the Mediterranean https://medicanes.isac.cnr.it/

2022-2026 (participant) ANR PRC « SAPHIR » – Sensor Augmented Weather Prediction at High Resolution https://saphir.universita.corsica/

2022-2025 (PI) ANR JCJC « WINDGUST » – Understanding processes leading to surface gusts by modeling windstorms at very high resolution https://www.aero.obs-mip.fr/projet-windgust/

Previous projects

2021-2024 (PI) Région Occitanie & Météo-France « PREVIMED » – Systematic identification to limitations in the predictability of Mediterranean cyclones and their impact on territories

2020-2024 (coordinator WG1) COST Action « MEDCYCLONES » – European network for Mediterranean cyclones in weather and climate https://medcyclones.eu/

2022-2023 (PI) GENCI/CINES « Grand Challenge Adastra GPU » – Giga-LES of windstorms with Meso-NH

2017-2022 (participant) ANR PRC « DIP-NAWDEX » – Diabatic processes during the North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream impact EXperiment https://www.lmd.ens.fr/DIPNAWDEX/

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