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Staff and PhD’s Meteorology and Air Quality (MAQ)
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Michiel van der Molen Surface exchange of Carbon and other trace gases
Wouter Peters Carbon budget studies, Carbon Tracker Europe
Bert van Hove Urban meteorology and Air quality
Jordi Vila Boundary-layer dynamics and chemistry, land-atmosphere interactions
Gert-Jan Steeneveld Stable boundary layers, Fog, Urban Meteorology and meso-scale modelling
Leo Kroon Atmospheric dynamics, Tropical meteorology
Wilco Hazeleger (affiliated with KNMI) Climate dynamics, Oceanography
Maarten Krol Global transport studies, Remote sensing
Weather and Climate Dynamics
Atmospheric Composition and Air Quality
Urban Meteorology and Air Quality
Boundary-Layer Meteorology and Land-Atmosphere Interactions
Bert Heusinkveld Biometeorology
Arnold Moene Atmospheric turbulence and land-atmosphere interactions
Reinder Ronda Urban climate and land-atmosphere interactions
Natalie Theeuwes Modeling the urban climate
Marina Sterk Arctic stable boundary layers
Michal Kleczek Gravity waves in the stable boundary layer
Anneke van de Boer Exchange processes over heterogeneous land surfaces
Miranda Braam Scintillometry, turbulence observations
Joel Schröter Wind and momentum transport in the convective boundary layer
Danielle van Dinther Scintillometry, wind and visibility at airports
Ivar van der Velde Global carbon cycle
Denica Bozhinova Modelling the atmospheric transport of 14C
Marie Combe Modeling CO2 exchange of crops
Eduardo Barbaro Boundary-layers, aerosols, chemistry
Wim van den Berg (affiliated with MeteoConsult) Atmospheric dynamics, Weather forecasting
Kees van den Dries Modelling support, ICT
Scientific Staff
Chairs
PhD Students
PhD daily supervision
PhD Meteorology (promotor Bert Holtslag)
PhD Air Quality & Atmospheric Chemistry (promotor Maarten Krol)
Support Staff
external PhD’s
Ingrid van der Laan-Luijkx CO2 data assimilatie
Caroline Wiltink Secretary
Mieke Berndes Financial support, Project Controller
Jisk Attema eScience, Big data support
Folkert Boersma Retrieval and interpretation of NO2, HCHO, and ozone from space
Anne-Lena Deppenmeier Climate Variability in the Tropical Atlantic
Folmer Krikken Forecast quality and economic value of near-term Arctic climate predictions
PhD Climate Dynamics (promotor Wilco Hazeleger)
Willem Verstraeten Satellite observed tropospheric O3 and NO2
Oscar Hartogensis Surface layer turbulence, Scintillometry
Bert Holtslag Meteorology , climate and land-atmosphere interactions
Ingrid Super City-scale carbon budget
Marly Luijten-van Geel Evaluating isoprene emissions and chemistry
Assumed knowledge from
Meteorology and Climate
Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality
Thesis subject examples see handouts
www.maq.wur.nl > education
Internship opportunities
Environmental institutes: RIVM, DCMR, DGMR, Gou-dappel-Coffeng, TNO and abroad Climate, weather institutes: KNMI, ECMWF
Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality Thesis Supervisors: Maarten Krol, Wouter Peters, Michiel van der Molen
Figure 3 (below): CO emissions from Russian fires on 28 July 2010. The colour indicates the log (CO emission) in kg/box. The total emissions on this day are estimated at 310 Mg CO. Research of the ALANIS project.
Contact
[email protected] Tel. 0317-482937
Figure 2. The mean CO2 flux over 2007 estimated with the data assimilation system Carbon-Tracker Europe. Red colours indicate that a region is a source of CO2 to the atmos-phere.
Figure 1. Location of major CO2 measuring stations overlain on a coarse ecosystem type map. Different ecosystems cause different signals of 13C and 14C to the atmosphere.
Research lines Understand and explain the atmospheric life times
of tracers as CH4, CO2, SF6, OH using global transport models (TM5) and data-assimilation
systems (CarbonTracker).
Understand and predict vegetation-atmosphere interactions in a changing world: stomatal conduct-ance and increasing CO2, ozone, NH3 deposition
Measure and model the concentration and trends in anthropogenic pollution : PM10, PM2.5, Black Carbon, NOx
Explain the diurnal and seasonal cycles of CO2 in the atmosphere, distinguish the contribution of nat-ural and man-made processes, using
13C and
14C
isotopes, boundary layer models and crop models
Meteorology and Air Quality For more information visit www.maq.wur.nl
Meteorology and Air Quality
Weather and Climate Dynamics
Thesis supervisors: Leo Kroon and Wilco Hazeleger
For more information visit www.maq.wur.nl
Contact
[email protected], Tel. 0317-482604
Tropical Storm Manou is bearing down on the east coast of Madagascar in this MODIS image from the Terra satellite on May 7, 2003.
Assumed knowledge from
Meteorology and Climate Atmospheric Modelling
Atmospheric Practical Atmospheric Dynamics
Thesis subject examples
Tracking tropical cyclones in the EC-Earth model
The influence of El Niño on circulation in the tropics
The structure and behaviour of cyclones in a future cli-mate
Structure of the Africa Easterly Jet and the West-African monsoon
Midlatitude cyclone structure and global change
Interannual variability of the Asian Summer Monsoon
Saharan dust detection using METEOSAT data
A detailed study of convection over Africa using satellite imagery
Internship opportunities
Universities and research institutes in the Netherlands and abroad. Engineering and consultancy firms. Weather services: KNMI, Meteo Consult, Météo France, ZAMG (Austria), BMRC(Australia), DWD (Germany).
Ice skating on frozen lakes and canals needs cold spells of winter weather. In future climate these cold spells may be-come more rare due to changes in atmos-pheric circulations due to global warming.
Palmer Drought Severity Index. From 1980 red and orange areas are drier and blue and green areas are wetter than average. Before 1940 these values were reversed (IPCC, FAR, 2007).
Children in Kolkata, India, play in the streets submerged by the monsoon rains. Global warm-ing may change monsoon intensities which will affect billions of people in tropical regions.
Assumed knowledge from
Boundary Layer Processes Meteorology and Climate
Atmospheric Modelling Air Quality
Field Training Land-Atmosphere Interactions
Meteorology and Air Quality
Thesis subject examples
Evaluation and improvement of atmospheric models for the urban environment.
Understanding and scaling the urban breeze from an academic perspective.
Data analysis of measurements from the Rotterdam Ur-ban Measurement Program (RUMP): Field stations; air-craft data; bike observations, scintillometry, tramway and Randstadrail data.
Linking air quality and the urban heat island effect via observational data analysis.
How to define the urban heat island effect?
Modelling the efficiency of urban parks and lakes in im-proving human thermal comfort.
Quantifying human thermal comfort in the Netherlands using hobby meteorological observations.
Internship opportunities
Other universities, weather centers, e.g. KNMI, Meteo Consult, consultancy agencies, and research institutes, e.g. TNO, Deltares, RIVM.
Urban Meteorology and Air Quality Thesis Supervisors: Bert Holtslag, Jordi Vila, Gert-Jan Steeneveld, Reinder Ronda, Bert van Hove, Bert Heusinkveld
Contact
[email protected], Tel. 0317-483839
Typical scales relevant in study-ing urban mete-orology, i.e. the mesoscale, the local scale, and the street level.
Spatial distributi-on of urban heat island effect in Rotterdam, as obtained from nocturnal bike traverses. The city center is hot!
Spatial distribution of the modelled (WRF) screen level temperature in the Randstad area at 20:00 UTC (22h00 LT) on 6 August 2009. The cities of The Hague, Rotter-dam, Zoetermeer, Dor-drecht pop up, and cre-ate an urban warm plume downwind.
Black smoke influences urban human health, depending on the meteorologi-cal conditions.
For more information visit www.maq.wur.nl
Assumed knowledge from
Atmosphere-Vegetation-Soil Interactions Boundary-layer processes Atmospheric dynamics Field training Land-Atmosphere interactions
Boundary Layer and Land-Surface Interactions
Thesis supervisors: Oscar Hartogensis, Bert Holtslag, Arnold Moene, Gert-Jan Steeneveld and Jordi Vilà
Atmospheric boundary layer over a rural area
Turbulence measurements by aircraft platforms and at the surface
Turbulence modelling by Large-eddy simulation
Thesis subject examples
How do the boundary layer dynamics interact with large-scale weather phenomena (sea breeze, coastal fronts, storms,...)?
Do we understand the interaction of atmospheric turbulence under clear or cloudy conditions over
heterogeneous land surface conditions?
Research methodology and activity
Designing and performing numerical experiments
with a hierarchy of different models (conceptual, turbulent, mesoscale,...)
Participating in field campaigns and analysing the
measurements
Atmospheric boundary layer over an urban area
Meteorology and Air Quality For more information visit www.maq.wur.nl
Internship opportunities
Universities and research institutes in the Netherlands and abroad. Engineering and consultancy firms. Wea-ther services: KNMI, Meteo Consult, Météo France.
Contact
[email protected], Tel. 0317-485065