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• Atmospheric chemistry modeling and air pollution; development of the tropospheric chemistry in the TM5 model.
• Coupling and integrating atmospheric chemistry modules into the global meteorological model at ECMWF.

I am currently involved in several projects:

• Further development of coupled IFS-TM5 system, providing daily forecasts of the atmospheric composition on a routine basis, making use of data-assimilation of CO and O3. Look here for today's TM5 forecast.
• Integrating TM5 chemistry modules into the ECMWF Integrated Forecast System (IFS) to enhance the system performance.
• Evaluation of the MACC products:
  • The production and editing of a series of validation reports on forecasts with the MACC global system, which is devoted to its users.
  • The evaluation of hindcastsof atmospheric composition with the TM5-IFS coupled system, during the 2010 intense fires near Moscow.

• Coupling TM5 to the ECMWF Integrated Forecast System (IFS), to the setup a daily forecast system for atmospheric composition, as is described here.
• Describing and benchmarking the gas-phase chemistry scheme of TM5.
• Evaluation of the GEMS and MACC products:
  • The harmonization of the validation activities for the many different MACC G-RG products, and before the many different GEMS products (reactive gases, greenhouse gases, aerosols, regional air quality)
  • Comparison of tropospheric nitrogen dioxide (NO2) measured by the OMI satellite instrument to the modeled NO2 from the regional air quality models above Europe and the global chemistry models (TM5, MOZART), see also here.

Vincent studied Applied Physics at the Delft University of Technology from 1997 to 2002. His master's thesis, finished in September 2002, concerned the modeling of turbulent buoyant flows in the atmosphere, using Reynolds averaging models. This was done in the group of prof. Hanjalic.

After that he started as a Junior Scientist (Assistent in Opleiding) in the group of prof.dr. L.P.H. de Goey at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Eindhoven University of Technology. The Ph.D. project concerned the application of a new turbulence model (using Large Eddy Simulations) to the modeling of engine flows. This method allows to evaluate turbulent flows on a much finer scale than the standard Reynolds Averaged models. This is important for the chemical part of the problem: the combustion process and soot production. In September 2007 Vincent defended his thesis 'on the application of Large Eddy Simulations in engine-related problems' in Eindhoven.

Directly afterwards, in September 2007, Vincent Huijnen started as a researcher at KNMI, working on atmospheric chemistry modeling in the GEMS project. For this research, the chemical tracer model 'TM5' is used and developed further.

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