Celebrating 50 years of Cabauw data
Today, September 29th, 2023 we are celebrating 50 years Cabauw. At this air quality measurement site international teams of scientists collect data for weather forecasting. Throughout the past 50 years…
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Ruisdael Science Day 2023
Today, Thursday September 28th, the Ruisdael community is gathering at Cabauw, the air quality measurement site in the Netherlands. During this annual gathering scientists working within the framework of the…
Powering up Ruisdael wind measurements
By dr. Louise Nuijens In the past few months over summer, TU Delft and KNMI have been bundling efforts towards making extensive wind measurements at Cabauw with as many as…
Credit: Raymond Sluiter
New European research network for improving weather and climate models
On 25 April 2023, the EU-commission established ACTRIS as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) for atmospheric research. Seventeen European countries, including the Netherlands, are now working together to study…
ICOS Science Conference
From 13-16 September 2022 the fifth ICOS Science Conference will be organised in Utrecht and online around the world. The overall, overarching theme of the conference is Tracking progress to…
The Saharan Dust plume over the Netherlands on 16 March 2022
Arnoud Apituley, Marijn de Haij, Steven Knoop, José Dias Neto, Wouter Knap, Pepijn Veefkind, Diego Alves Gouveia, Christine Unal Information in Dutch can be found here. The Netherlands had its…
The RITA-2021 campaign
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…
Calibration Campaign
An international ACTRIS calibration campaign for cloud radars is taking place at Cabauw meteorological site during the full month of October 2021. Two cloud radars (dual-frequency and single frequency), which…
Measurement campaign at Ruisdael Observatory
Currently, a measurement campaign is carried out at the Ruisdael Observatory. The campaign takes place at the measurement site in Cabauw and still runs until the 21st of May 2021.…
Scanning Doppler wind lidar installed at Cabauw
On Tuesday April 6th 2021, the Windcube 200S scanning Doppler wind lidar (Leosphere/Vaisala) has been installed at the Remote Sensing Site of the Cabauw station. This instrument will provide detailed…