Lutjewad: Coastal Precision in a Shifting Atmosphere
Strategic atmospheric infrastructure at the edge of land and sea At the northern edge of the Netherlands, where the mainland meets the Wadden Sea, lies the Lutjewad measurement station -…
Campaigns
Helicopter-based measurements underway in CAINA campaign
One of the key components of the CAINA campaign has begun at the northern measurement site in Lutjewad: airborne cloud observations using the ACTOS platform, operated by Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric…
CAINA campaign investigates how nitrogen pollution affects cloud formation
Over the past weeks, a major international measurement campaign has been unfolding across two key atmospheric research sites in the Netherlands: Cabauw and Lutjewad. The initiative, known as CAINA (Cloud-Aerosol…
CINDI-3 intercomparison campaign
Advancing Our Understanding of Air Pollution through CINDI-3From 21 May until 25 June 2024, the third Cabauw INtercomparison of UV-Vis DOAS Instruments (CINDI-3) campaign took place in Cabauw, the Netherlands.…
Aerial shot of Rotterdam skyline with Erasmus bridge at twilight as seen from the Euromast tower, The Netherlands
Measurement campaign maps GHG emissions and air pollution in Rotterdam
In the period from August 22 to September 9, a Ruisdael campaign will take place to measure urban emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollution in the Rotterdam area. The…
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.…
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…
Ruisdael Measurement Campaign 2020; Land-Atmosphere Interaction
In the period between August 24 and September 13 a first small Ruisdael measurement campaign will take place focussing on land-atmosphere interaction. The first thoughts at the end of 2019…