I have joined BAS as Cloud Physicist/Modeller (post-doctoral research assistant) in september 2014. I have done my PhD thesis (dec. 2013) in Planetary Science (Mars’ ice cloud microphysics) at LATMOS laboratory in France (Paris/Guyancourt).
My main research focuses on Antarctic cloud microphysics and modelling.
I am interested in both theory and applied theory. I am working with the Polar version of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to assess the ability of its various microphysical schemes to model the liquid, and ice phases in clouds. I am working with flight cloud data from BAS Twin Otter instrumented aircraft to compare with the modelling and constrain the microphysics. Improving the parameterizations of Ice Nuclei – with the help of in-situ measurements – is also an important aspect of this work.
I am also working a bit on the easterly (gap) winds over the Antarctic Peninsula.
More generally, I am familiar with and interested in cloud formation/microphysics in various planetary atmospheres (e.g Mars). I am currently collaborating to a project aiming at implementing CO2 ice clouds microphysics into a Mars atmospheric model (LATMOS, France, Guyancourt).
Research articles
[5] An assessment of the impact of local processes on dust lifting in martian climate models
Mulholland, David P.; Spiga, Aymeric; Listowski, Constantino; Read, Peter L.,
Icarus, Volume 252, p. 212-227 (2015), 10.1016/j.icarus.2015.01.017
[4] Modeling the microphysics of CO2 ice clouds within wave-induced cold pockets in the Martian mesosphere
Listowski, C. , Määttänen, A., Spiga, I., Montmessin, F., and Lefèvre, F.,
Icarus, 237, p.239-261 (2014), doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.04.022
[3] Near-pure vapor condensation in the martian atmosphere: CO2 ice crystal growth
Listowski, C. , Määttänen, A., Riipinen, I., Montmessin, F., and Lefèvre, F.
J.Geophys. Res. Planets, 118 (2013), 2153-2171, doi:10.1002/jgre.20149.
[2]. A complete climatology of the aerosol vertical distribution on Mars from MEx/SPICAM
UV solar occultations
Määttänen A., Listowski C., Montmessin F., Maltagliati L., Reberac A., Joly L., Bertaux J.-L.
Icarus, 223, 2 (2013) 892-941
[1]. An aerodynamic roughness length map derived from extended martian rock abundance
data
Hébrard E., Listowski C., Coll P., Marticorena B., Bergametti G., Määttänen A., Montmessin
F., Forget F. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117 (2012) E04008
Magazine articles
Diving into Planetary atmospheres
Constantino Listowski & George Ford, Popular Astronomy Magazine, p.28-29, March-April 2015
This project conducted flights within clouds taking detailed measurements of the physical properties of the cloud – size spectrums and phase (whether the particles are ice or liquid) – as well as taking ground based measurements of the aerosols which will act as nuclei for the cloud particles.
