New evaporation instrument installed at Cabauw
This summer a lysimeter is installed at the measurement site in Cabauw. With this recently developed lysimeter it is possible to have a completely independent way of observing evaporation at…
Ruisdael Observatory participates in ATMO-ACCESS
In November 2020, the European Commission released the evaluations and funding decisions of the applications to the INFRAIA-03-2020 call. The national Ruisdael Observatory for atmospheric research participates in ATMO-ACCESS, a…
Flights measurement campaign
Photo Stephan de Roode Last week, the WUR aircraft finished flights for the Ruisdael 'light' measurement campaign. For the first flight, the Sky Arrow PH-WUR left from Hilversum airport and…
Fifty Years of Atmospheric Boundary-Layer Research at Cabauw Serving Weather, Air Quality and Climate
Fred C. Bosveld, Peter Baas, Anton C. M. Beljaars, Albert A. M. Holtslag, Jordi Vilà -Guerau de Arellano & Bas J. H. van de Wiel Boundary-Layer Meteorology (2020) An overview is…
Ruisdael Measurement Campaign 2020; Land-Atmosphere Interaction
In the period between August 24 and September 13 a first small Ruisdael measurement campaign will take place focussing on land-atmosphere interaction. The first thoughts at the end of 2019…
The greens and whites of the Amazonia system are talking face-to-face
Similar to the temperate climate of the Ruisdael Observatory, key ecosystems such as the Amazonia rainforest-cloud system are facing disruptions due to the seasonal changes triggered by climate modifications. In…
Special Issue “Remote Sensing of Cloud and Aerosol Effects on Solar Radiation”
Clouds and aerosols constitute the main modulators of solar radiation in the atmosphere through scattering and absorption processes. Since the first assessment of the impact of clouds and aerosols on…
Ruisdael mobile cloud profiler platform
Last week, the new 94 GHz FMCW Doppler Cloud Radar is delivered and installed at The Green Village on TU Delft Campus. This compact, mobile cloud radar is set to…
Bridging the gap between atmospheric physics and biology
Bridging the gap between atmospheric physics and biology in studies of the small spatiotemporal land-atmosphere interactions With a fresh approach and strategy, the CloudRoots field experiment was designed to obtain…
Finding a hair in the swimming pool
Finding a hair in the swimming pool: The signal of changed fossil emissions in the atmosphere Three leading scientists of the Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) community have written an…