Department:	Climate Research & Seismology - Global Climate Division
Function:	Head of Division
Address:	P.O. Box 201, 3730 AE De Bilt, The Netherlands
Telephone:	+31 30 2206718
Telefax:	+31 30 2202570
Email:
Web:	www.knmi.nl/~hazelege

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Wilco Hazeleger leads the Global Climate Division of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) and he has a chair in Climate Dynamics at Wageningen University. He studied meteorology at Wageningen University (NL) and Reading University (UK). He received his PhD in 1999 in physical oceanography from Utrecht University, after which he went to Columbia University in New York (USA) to conduct research on decadal climate variability. Since 2002 he works at KNMI on climate dynamics, development of climate and sea level scenario's and development of global earth system models. His climate and sea level scenario work is directed toward climate adaptation issues. He initiated and leads the EC-Earth project, a European consortium of around 20 research institutes, high-end computing centres and universities that develops a state-of-the-art earth system model based on numerical weather prediction model of ECMWF. He serves on a number of international and national science committees. He is involved in a large number of national and European climate science projects.

Expertise: Climate Dynamics, Climate Modelling, Climate Change and Adaption

Papers describing the EC-Earth V2.2 model appeared in Climate Dynamics in the EC-Earth special issue Link.

Using ECMWFs model instruments a new state-of-the-art earth system model is being developed for climate research and developing climate scenario's. The model consists of ocean/atmosphere/ice/land/chemistry modules. This a joint project between KNMI and different member states of ECMWF. EC-Earth will contribute to coordinated model experiments, CMIP5, and contribute to the next IPCC assessment. More information on the EC-EARTH WIKI page.

In the EU FP7 SPECS seasonal to decadal predictions are made with EC-Earth. In EU FP7 COMBINE feed backs in earth system models are explored, with emphasis on their impact on decadal predictability. In EU FP7 IS-ENES and IS-ENES2 the results from earth system models, such as EC-Earth, will be disseminated to the climate impact community. In EU FP7 ECLISE the model data and sea level scenarios will be made available to a wider community. In EU EMBRACE we will reduce climate model biases.

GEOTRACES focusses on the spreading of North Atlantic Deep Water, its variability and consequences for the carbon cycle. INATEX focuses on the respons of the atmosphere to changes in the Indian Ocean. In 2010 we will start the EC-Image project, where integrated assessment models (IMAGE) will be coupled to EC-Earth to study feed backs between emissions, land use and climate. In another project, QUASI, we will study Arctic amplification processes. In BRIDGING THE GAP, we will study how uncertainties in climate projections are used in climate adaptation policies.

The Knowledge for Climate program started in 2009. In the Global Climate Division, EC-Earth and RACMO will be used for developing new steering paramters for regional climate change scenario's in the Future Weather project. New projects will focus on uncertainties in climate projections.

- Special professor Climate Dynamics at Wageningen University (inaugural address was entitled Verhalen van Weer in de Toekomst ;pdf)
- Member Executive Board European Climate Research Alliance
- Member scientific advisory committee ECMWF
- Coordinator of Climate Knowledge Facility in the Climate Changes Knowledge Program on adaptation to climate change (until 2010)
- Member executive board and core theme leader decadal predictions of EU FP7 THOR
- Co-chair of Atlantic Implementation Panel of WCRP CLIVAR (climate variability and predictability, until 2008)
- Member of scientific steering group SCOR/IGBP IMBER (marine biogeochemistry and ecosystems research, until 2009)
- Member of Global Change Committee of KNAW (Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences)
- Chair Climate Variability Committee of NWO (Dutch national science foundation)
- Editor interactive Open Access EGU Journal Geoscientific Model Development

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