KNMI, Hans Beekhuis, Personal

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Hans Beekhuis can be reached on KNMI:

Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut
Instrumentele Afdeling / Instruments & Development
A: Wilhelminalaan 10 3732 GK De Bilt
P: Postbus 201, NL 3730 AE De Bilt
T: +31 30 2206430
F: +31 30 2210407
E: Hans.Beekhuis@knmi.nl

Position

Mr. Hans Beekhuis is working within the R&D department of KNMI. He is technical expert on operational remote sensing systems, with an focus on weather radar and lightning detection. He was, as project leader, responsible for the new digitalization of the KNMI radar sensors, and the redesign and implementation of the radar and production chain, starting operations in 2007. His radar career started in 1992 with the development and operational implementation of a stochastic clutter detection system for the KNMI weather radars.
When Iwan Holleman started the Opera III program management, Hans took over his position as OPERA delegate for the Netherlands in 2007.

Awards

In 2004 Hans got assigned together with Iwan Holleman the 19th Vaisala Award from the WMO for an outstanding research paper on Instruments and Methods of Observation titled: "analysis and correction of dual prf velocity data" published in JAOT, april 2003"
The World Meteorological Organization is the specialized agency of the United Nations for meteorology, operational hydrology and related geophysical sciences.
You may want to read the KNMI press announce for the Vaisala Award or the Vaisala Press Announce !

Career Highlights:

Opera Delegate and Project leader for the opera Project WP2.1 on the use of HFD5 formatted radarfiles.
Project leader and technical expert for the DRUP project concerning a "MID-LIFE" Radar Upgrade.
Software design and development of applications for the KNMI sensor interface SIAM.
Project leader for the Implementation of an upgraded lightning detection system.
Functional analysis and specification for the radar distribution software CRIS.
Analog summation amplifiers to correct the temperature profile of the Cabauw meteorological tower.
Development of an implementation of a stochastical clutter detection system for the KNMI weather radars including development and replacement of the signal processor.
Functional design and software development of the automated calibration procedures for KNMI sensors.
Development of an infrared hygrometer.
Redesign of the KNMI rain gauge.