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Evaluation and improvement of the ice growth model based on ice thickness observations obtained by crowdsourcing.
Ice skating is one of the favorite Dutch leisure activities when it is freezing outside. However, ice skating is only fun if it safe, and therefore meteorologists are asked to forecast the ice thickness during frost episodes. In t ...
Supervisor: Gert-Jan Steeneveld (Gert-Jan.Steeneveld@wur.nl)
Department: Meteorology and Air Quality Group

Radiative cooling over flat and complex terrain: a forgotten term?
The atmospheric boundary layer undergoes a clear diurnal cycle. During daytime solar radiation heats the surface, and the warm land surface triggers thermals to develop, i.e. a convective boundary layer is created. During the day ...
Supervisor: Gert-Jan Steeneveld (Gert-Jan.Steeneveld@wur.nl)
Department: Meteorology and Air Quality Group

Sources and sinks in vegetation canopies: key to the understanding of covariances of passive and reactive compounds
Vegetation cover strongly modifies the interaction between the land surface and the atmosphere: radiative and aerodynamic properties of plants are different from those of bare soil and plants also provide a unique pathway for wate ...
Supervisor: dr. Arnold Moene
Department: Meteorology and Air Quality Group

Does the variation of the surface temperature have an effect on dust-devils and other coherent structures in the convective boundary layer?
Under strongly unstable conditions violent but interesting flow structures develop in the atmospheric surface layer: dust-devils, micro-fronts and other coherent structures. A field study in which the Meteorology and Air Quality ...
Supervisor: Arnold Moene and Oscar Hartogensis
Department: Meteorology and Air Quality Group

Estimating the area averaged urban heat flux with scintillometry: Rotterdam and Bonn
Multi-year data sets of scintillometer observations over the cities of Rotterdam and Bonn are available. Processing these into representative area-average heat fluxes is a challenge, but very worthwhile as reliable estimates o ...
Supervisor: Oscar Hartogensis(Oscar.Hartogensis@wur.nl)
Department: Meteorology and Air Quality Group

Describing and understanding the response of the carbon and water cycles of a forest to external forcing
Background The Loobos flux tower has one of the longest periods of records worldwide, 20+ years. The data contain much information about the ecosystem’s response of the carbon cycle, water use to (the timing) of drought, heat/col ...
Supervisor: Michiel van der Molen, Bart Kruijt
Department: Meteorology and Air Quality Group

Is the 2m temperature the best measure for climate change?
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The continuously increasing CO2 concentration in the Earth’s atmosphere has led to a globally warmer climate. However sev ...
Supervisor: Gert-Jan Steeneveld (Gert-Jan.Steeneveld@wur.nl)

Department: Meteorology and Air Quality Group

What is the role of the interaction between the atmosphere and the surface temperature on the collapse and revival of turbulence in the stable boundary layer?
The main characteristic of the stable boundary layer is that buoyancy suppresses turbulence. The delicate balance between turbulence production by shear and turbulence destruction by buoyancy determines the regime of turbulence ...
Supervisor: Arnold Moene (this work may be performed in conjunction with dr. Bas van de Wiel of Eindhoven University of Technology and/or Judith Donda).
Department: Meteorology and Air Quality Group

Turbulent dispersion under stable conditions
The ultimate goal would be to study turbulent dispersion in transitional stable boundary layer, including the night-to-day transition (e.g. according to the third GABLS intercomparison case (see www.atmo.ttu.edu/basu/GABLS3/). T ...
Supervisor: Arnold Moene
Department: Meteorology and Air Quality Group

Scintillation Technique to estimate heat, water-vapour and momentum
Scintillation is the effect of trembling air above a hot road caused by refraction (bending) of light as it interacts with turbulent eddies that transport heat and water vapor. Scintillometers are instruments consisting of a tra ...
Supervisor: dr. ir. Oscar Hartogensis
Department: Meteorology and Air Quality Group

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