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Our OMI NO2 retrievals make headlines in De Telegraaf
(posted 9 August 2010)
Our retrievals of tropospheric nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument featured in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf during August 2010's Russian fires. Our OMI NO2 satellite measurements are freely available through www.temis.nl. Click on the picture below for the full article (in Dutch) or click this link or the KNMI press release to read more.
M.Sc-student Geert Vinken in TU/e Cursor
(posted 4 June 2010)
My M.Sc-student Geert Vinken reports on his research in the this week's TU/e Cursor. Click on the picture below for the full article (in Dutch) or click on this link.
VIDI proposal 'Attributing sources of the tropospheric ozone from space' selected
(posted 24 November 2009)
My proposal titled 'Attributing sources of the tropospheric ozone from space' has been selected for funding by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Click on the picture below for NWO's press release or this link to see the press release by KNMI (in Dutch).
Aerosol boomerang paper in top-5 downloads at JGR
(posted 17 November 2009)
The recently published paper 'An aerosol boomerang: Rapid around-the-world transport of smoke from the December 2006 Australian forest fires observed from space' by my Ph.D.-student Ruud J. Dirksen (KNMI/TU Eindhoven) ranks #4 in the 'Top Weekly Downloads' of the Journal of Geophysical Research papers. Click on the picture below or this link to download it.
CINDI campaign in Radio 1 Journaal
(posted 19 June 2009)
The start of the 2009 Cabauw Intercomparison of Nitrogen Dioxide measuring Instruments (CINDI) featured in the Dutch Radio 1 broadcast on 18 June 2009. In the broadcast, you can hear short interviews (in Dutch) with Folkert Boersma and Tim Vlemmix (KNMI), and Katrijn Clemer (BIRA) and Paul Johnston (NIWA). Click on the picture below or this link to listen to the broadcast.
To learn more about measuring air pollution during the June-July 2009 CINDI campaign, visit the CINDI site.
Dutch OMI NO2 observations in Wall Street Journal!
(posted 25 September 2008)
Our retrievals of tropospheric nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument featured in the Wall Street Journal during the 2008 Olympic Games. The Wall Street Journal hosts an archive of air pollution information over China, showing a so-called air pollution index based on local ground measurements, and our Dutch OMI NO2 (DOMINO) satellite measurements that are freely available through www.temis.nl.
The above figure shows an excerpt from the WSJ archive for 6 August 2008. To visit the archive and learn more about air pollution during the 2008 Olympics, visit The Wall Street Journal.
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