Research & development

Research & development at KNMI is mission-driven. The scientific activities are divided over four R&D departments

Departments

Publications

Beter bijtijds buien monitoren - Het vernieuwde realtimeneerslagproduct van het KNMI
Nauwkeurige, tijdige en gedetailleerde neerslaginformatie is essentieel voor het waterbeheer en v...
Aart Overeem, Hidde Leijnse, Mats Veldhuizen, Bastiaan Anker, Tim Vlemmix, Rik Noorlandt, Tim den Dulk, Jouke Jacobi, Ben Lankamp met illustraties van Frédérik Ruys (KNMI) | Meteorologica | 2025 | 34
Potential of mm‐Wave Doppler‐Polarimetric Profiler Observations for Quality Assessment of Hydrometeor Classification Schemes
Dual-polarization weather radars have improved the accuracy of precipitation estimates. However, ...
L. Bogerd, H. Leijnse, A. Overeem, C. M. H. Unal, R. Uijlenhoet, S. van der Veen | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | 2025 | 130
Treatment of Key Aerosol and Cloud Processes in Earth System Models – Recommendations from the FORCeS Project
Uncertainty in estimations of the net contribution of anthropogenic aerosol particles and particu...
I Riipinen, S Talvinen, T. van Noije, AML Ekman et al. | Tellus B | 2025 | submitted
Evapotranspiration at Cabauw
Droughts in the Netherlands have been exacerbated by climate change, urging better scientific und...
E.I.F. (Cisco) de Bruijn, Jessica M.I. Strickland | 2025
Analysis of the hypocenter for the Warffum 2025-05-18 earthquake
The Warffum event on 2025-05-18T20:57:23.7 with a local magnitude of 2.1 was detected by the KNMI...
Elmer Ruigrok and Jesper Spetzler | --2025 | pp
On the movement of atmospheric blocking systems and the associated temperature responses
The quasi-stationary behaviour of atmospheric blocking is studied using a Lagrangian framework th...
Jonna van Mourik, Hylke de Vries, Michiel Baatsen | Weather and Climate Dynamics | 2025 | 6
Regional drivers and characteristics of multi-year droughts
Multi-year droughts (MYDs) are severe natural hazards that have become more common due to climate...
Jonna van Mourik, Denise Ruijsch, Karin van der Wiel, Wilco Hazeleger, Niko Wanders | Weather and Climate Extremes | 2025 | 48
Cement and brick factories contribute elevated levels of NO2 pollution in Nepal: Evidence of high-resolution view from space
An upsurge in the pollution level in areas with a high concentration of brick and cement factorie...
Gyawali, M., Lamsal, L. N., Neupane, S., Gyawali, B., Bhattarai, K., Fisher, B, Krotkov, N., van Geffen, J., Eskes, H., Sharma, S., Brunt, C. and Aryal, R. | Atmospheric Environment X | 2025 | 26
Global retrieval of TROPOMI tropospheric HCHO and NO2 columns with improved consistency based on updated Peking University OMI NO2 algorithm,
The TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI), aboard the Sentinel-5 Precursor (S5P) satellite...
Zhang, Y., Yu, H., De Smedt, I., Lin, J., Theys, N., Van Roozendael, M., Pinardi, G., Compernolle, S., Ni, R., Ren, F., Wang, S., Chen, L., Van Geffen, J., Liu, M., Cede, A., Merlaud, A., Friedrich, M., Richter, A., Piters, A., Kumar, V., Sinha, V., Wagner, T., Choi, Y., Takashima, H., Kanaya, Y., Irie, H., Spurr, R., Sun, W., and Fabris, L. | Atmos. Meas. Tech. | 2025 | 18
Verification of the Vaisala LT31 Transmissometer
The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) is updating its visibility standard which r...
Jessica M. I. Strickland and Hannelore I. Bloemink | --2025 | pp

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