KNMI homepage Albert Klein Tank

Name - Dr. A.M.G. Klein Tank
Affiliation - Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
Department - Climate Research and Seismology
Division - Climate Services Division
Location - De Bilt, the Netherlands
Phone - +31 (0)30 2206 872
Fax - +31 (0)30 2210 407
Email - Albert Klein Tank

Current activities

Research projects -
• EURO4M (EU-FP7 project) European reanalysis and observations for monitoring
• ECCONET (EU-FP7 project) Effects of climate change on the inland waterway networks
  
• ECA&D (EUMETNET project) European Climate Assessment & Dataset
• Climate scenarios for the Netherlands (KNMI project)
  


Memberships -
• Coordinating 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 Met Office Hadley Centre Science Review Group
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Swiss Centre for Climate Systems Modeling (C2SM)

Recent publications

Peer-reviewed journals -
• 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

2006 -
• International Journal of Climatology Award for 2005, Royal Meteorological Society, UK

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: 20 January 2012