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Albert Klein Tank
Name - Dr. A.M.G. Klein Tank
Affiliation - Royal Netherlands
Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
Division - Climate
Services Division
Postal address - P.O. Box 201
3730 AE De Bilt
The Netherlands
Phone - +31 (0)30 2206 872
Fax - +31 (0)30 2210 407
Email - Albert
Klein Tank
Current
activities
Research
projects -
Memberships -
- Co-ordinating Lead Author
IPCC WGI Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC-AR5)
- Co-ordinator of EURO4M (EU-FP7 project)
- Co-chair of the
CCL/CLIVAR/JCOMM Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI)
- Member of the GCOS Atmospheric Observation Panel for Climate (AOPC)
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Swiss Centre for Climate Systems Modeling (C2SM)
- President of the Dutch Society for the Advancement of Meteorology (NVBM)
Recent
publications
Peer-reviewed journals -
- Roth, M., T.A. Buishand, G. Jongbloed, A.M.G. Klein Tank, and J.H. van Zanten, 2012: A regional peaks-over-threshold model in a nonstationary climate, Water Resour. Res., 48, W11533, doi:10.1029/2012WR012214 full text
- Besselaar, E.J.M. van den, A.M.G. Klein Tank, T.A. Buishand, 2012: Trends in European precipitation extremes over 19512010. Int. J. Climatol., doi:10.1002/joc.3619 full text
- Stepek, A., I.L. Wijnant, G. van der Schrier, E.J.M. van den Besselaar, and A.M.G. Klein Tank, 2012: Severe wind gust thresholds for Meteoalarm derived from uniform return periods in ECA&D. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 1969-1981, doi:10.5194/nhess-12-1969-2012 full text
- Thorne, Peter W., Kate M. Willett, Rob J. Allan, Stephan Bojinski, John R. Christy, Nigel Fox, Simon Gilbert, Ian Jolliffe, John J. Kennedy, Elizabeth Kent, Albert Klein Tank, Jay Lawrimore, David E. Parker, Nick Rayner, Adrian Simmons, Lianchun Song, Peter A. Stott, and Blair Trewin, 2011: Guiding the Creation of A Comprehensive Surface Temperature Resource for Twenty-First-Century Climate Science. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 92, ES40-ES47, doi:10.1175/2011BAMS3124.1 full text
- Zhang, X., L. Alexander, G.C. Hegerl, P. Jones, A. Klein Tank, T.C. Peterson, B. Trewin, F.W. Zwiers, 2011: Indices for monitoring changes in extremes based on daily temperature and precipitation data. WIREs Clim Change, doi:10.1002/wcc.147. full text
- Besselaar, E.J.M. van den, M.R. Haylock, G. van der Schrier, A.M.G. Klein Tank, 2011: A European daily high-resolution observational gridded data set of sea level pressure. J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2010JD015468. full text
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Other -
- Kluck, J., M. Glasbergen and A. Klein Tank, 2011: Innovations Flooding. Sewer system journal ("Riolering"), Volume 17, 12-13 (in Dutch).
- Klein Tank, A.M.G., 2010: High Resolution Observations for Climate Change Monitoring of Extremes. Triennial Scientific Report 2007-2009, KNMI Research, 28-33. full text
- Klein Tank, A.M.G., P.D. Jones, T.C. Peterson, 2010: Climate data policy. White paper for discussion at the international workshop: "Creating surface temperature datasets to meet 21st Century challenges", Exeter, UK, 7th-9th September 2010. full text
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Awards
Background
Education -
- 2004: PhD Utrecht University
- 1983-1989: Physical Geography, Utrecht University
- 1977-1983: Marianum VWO School, Groenlo
Work experience -
- 2006-now: Senior Scientist, KNMI, De Bilt
- 2004-2006: Head
Climate Analysis Division, KNMI, De Bilt
- 2002-2004: Scientific coordinator WMO, Geneva, Switzerland
- 1995-2004: Climatologist, KNMI, De Bilt
- 1991-1995: Scientist, NRP project Climate Scenarios, KNMI, De
Bilt
- 1990-1991: Staff member Advisory Council for Research on
Spatial Planning, Nature and the Environment (RMNO), Rijswijk
- 1989-1990: Research-assistent Utrecht University
- 1989: Trainee Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs, Richland,
Washington, USA
- 1986-1988: Student-assistent Physical Geography, Utrecht
University
Last
update: 17 May 2013