Knowledge leaders KNMI, TNO, SRON and TU Delft, together with a broad array of involved parties, bundle their expertise in the Clear Air Centre of Excellence. Clear Air partners work…
Arnoud Apituley, Marijn de Haij, Steven Knoop, José Dias Neto, Wouter Knap, Pepijn Veefkind, Diego Alves Gouveia, Christine Unal The Netherlands had its sunniest March on record with on average…
Between 13 and 30 September of 2021 the RITA-2021 intensive measurement campaign took place at and around the Cabauw observatory. The acronym RITA-2021 stands for “Ruisdael Land-Atmosphere Interactions Intensive Trace-gas…
The Ruisdael Observatory is closely linked to two European Research Infrastructures on monitoring of air quality (ACTRIS) and greenhouse gases (ICOS). In response to the EC Green Deal H2020 call…
De lente van 2020 was uitzonderlijk zonnig. De link met een schonere lucht als gevolg van de lockdown door corona werd al snel gemaakt. Onterecht, blijkt uit onderzoek van onder…
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…
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…
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 in studies of the small spatiotemporal land-atmosphere interactions With a fresh approach and strategy, the CloudRoots field experiment was designed to obtain…
Het voorjaar van 2020 kent zeer veel dagen met uitzonderlijk blauwe luchten. De 'blauwste dag' was 22 maart, gevolgd door 31 maart. De geringe aanwezigheid van vliegtuigstrepen en minder luchtvervuiling…