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…
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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…
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…
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…