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…
Cabauw
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…
New scanning Doppler wind lidar for Cabauw installed at KNMI, De Bilt
Last Wednesday, March 3rd 2021, the Windcube 200S scanning Doppler wind lidar (Leosphere/Vaisala) was installed at the test field of KNMI in De Bilt. The instrument is part of the…
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…
New cloud radars in Ruisdael Observatory
Recently, three state of the art cloud radars have been delivered and installed at the Ruisdael Observatory measurement sites in Cabauw and Lutjewad. With the installation of the cloud radars…
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…