Zonnige lente kwam niet door lockdown
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…
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…
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…
Uitzonderlijk blauwe voorjaarsluchten
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…
Sea-breezes enhance stability in the atmosphere
By applying a strict filtering to 10-year observations and mesoscale model results at the Cabauw site, we find the challenges in reproducing the main characteristics of the sea breeze due…
Implementation aerosol-cloud infrastructure in Lutjewad
In the last few months, there are a lot of developments regarding the new aerosol measurement infrastructure in Lutjewad. The plan is to build an inlet system that can sample…
Forest emits CO2 during heatwave
Research of University of Twente shows the importance of long-term monitoring in understanding the impact of climate change on eco-systems. Measurements since 2006 in a forest with Douglas firs at…