Highlights

Crowdsourced wind observations can be an invaluable data resource for meteorological studies

Can citizen scientists help KNMI to improve forecasts and warnings for extreme wind events? The ...

02 September 2021 - News

Calibration of seasonal precipitation forecasts in Java (Indonesia) using bias-corrected precipitation and climate indices

Seasonal rainfall forecasts help farmers make informed planning decisions about their livelihoods...

03 August 2021 - News

Insights about extreme precipitation in Limburg from crowdsourced data

Weather observations are the cornerstone of climatological and meteorological services. Crowdsour...

23 July 2021 - News

Global changes in extreme events attributed to changes in mean climate and climate variability

Extreme weather events are projected to change due to climate change, the risks to societies are ...

04 January 2021 - News

A review of state-of-the-art machine learning methods for improving probabilistic weather forecasts

KNMI scientists, Dr Maurice Schmeits and Dr Kirien Whan, have contributed to a review of the late...

27 November 2020 - News

Climate State Dependence of Arctic Precipitation Variability

Arctic precipitation is projected to increase more rapidly than the global mean in warming climat...

29 April 2020 - News

Strong increase in year-to-year variation in Arctic precipitation

Recent research by climatologists from KNMI, UG, WUR and TU Delft shows that, on average, more pr...

31 March 2020 - News

Citizen Science Wind Observations in The Netherlands

Early career researchers from KNMI (RDKW and the DataLab), WUR, TU Delft and UU met at KNMI last ...

10 February 2020 - News

Estimating wind gusts during severe wind conditions

Extreme windstorms are the most important natural hazards affecting Europe. Losses are not primar...

15 November 2019 - News

Statistical Post-Processing workshop - TU Delft 2019

Researchers from KNMI, TU Delft, WUR, VU, and UU came together on Thursday 7 November at the Delf...

13 November 2019 - News

Validation of Stratification-Driven Phytoplankton Biomass and Nutrient Concentrations in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean as Simulated by EC-Earth

The physical and biochemistry model EC-Earth-NEMO-PISCES is validated against physical and biolog...

23 October 2019 - News

Do cold winters have an Arctic cause?

Climate change leads to a warming Arctic and the decline of sea ice in the winter. The decrease i...

12 August 2019 - News

A comparative verification of raw and bias-corrected ECMWF seasonal ensemble precipitation reforecasts in Java (Indonesia)

Seasonal forecasts of precipitation are becoming an increasingly important element in decision ma...

17 July 2019 - News

30th EGOWS meeting

The 30th annual meeting of the European Working Group on Operational meteorological Workstations ...

06 June 2019 - News

New research explores the meteorological sensitivity of a highly-renewable European power system

The introduction of significant amounts of variable renewable energy (wind and solar) into the po...

21 May 2019 - News

Global air pollution modelling: uncertainties due to chemistry modelling

Air pollution has important consequences on human health, while atmospheric composition aspects a...

30 April 2019 - News

R&D Weather and Climate Models at EGU

R&D Weather and Climate Models was well represented last week at The European Geophysical Union's...

15 April 2019 - News

Large ensemble climate and hydrology simulations for studies of extreme events

Extreme hydrological events such as droughts and floods can have devastating effects on people an...

04 March 2019 - News

Probability for an Elfstedentocht is now 1 in 12 years

Every winter the Netherlands hopes there will be another Elfstedentocht (Eleven Cities Tour). Sci...

07 February 2019 - News

The role of atmospheric rivers in compound events along the Dutch coast

The combination of two extreme events, like heavy local precipitation and high surge levels, can ...

25 January 2019 - News

New Hor2020 project RECEIPT will explore global climate impacts on Europe

Recently the new Hor2020 project RECEIPT, coordinated by Bart van den Hurk and Jitske Burgers (KN...

16 January 2019 - News

DOWA (Dutch Offshore Wind Atlas) project granted

Ine Wijnant (RDWD) has succesfully led the proposal DOWA, now funded, in which ECN, KNMI and part...

04 July 2017 - News

Karin van der Wiel receives AGU Award

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has given Karin van der Wiel the prestigious James R. Holton...

01 July 2017 - News