Research & development

Research & development at KNMI is mission-driven. The scientific activities are divided over four R&D departments

Departments

  1. An evaluation of sub-daily precipitation simulations from a new high-resolution regional atmospheric reanalysis ALADIN

    This transboundary study evaluates the ability of the new high-resolution atmospheric reanalysis ...

    Vojtěch Bližňák, Petr Zacharov, Robert Kvak, Aart Overeem | Atmospheric Research | 2026 | 327
  2. How close are opportunistic rainfall observations to providing societal benefit?

    tigation of water-related hazards as well as sustainable water resource management is conditioned...

    Jonas Olsson, Laura Horváth-Varga, Remco van de Beek, Maximilian Graf, Aart Overeem, Magdalena Szaton, Vojtěch Bareš, Nejc Bezak, Christian Chwala, Carlo De Michele, Martin Fencl, Jochen Seidel, Andrijana Todorović | Journal of Hydrometeorology | 2025 | 26
  3. Zonkrachtverwachting, zonkrachtwijzer en de dagelijkse dosis vitamine-D

    In lente en zomer is de zonkrachtverwachting een terugkerend onderdeel van de weersverwachting. A...

    Jos van Geffen, Michiel van Weele, Jos de Laat, Arjan van Dijk | Meteorologica | 2025 | 34
  4. The Dutch real-time gauge-adjusted radar precipitation product

    The Dutch real-time gauge-adjusted radar quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) product prov...

    Aart Overeem, Hidde Leijnse, Mats Veldhuizen, Bastiaan Anker | Earth Syst. Sci. Data, | 2025 | 17
  5. Weak influence of anthropogenic emissions on aerosol, cloud, and rain in the wet season of the Amazon rainforest

    Anthropogenic emissions have been shown to affect new particle formation, aerosol concentrations,...

    X Wang, KS Carslaw, DP Grosvenor, H Gordon | Atm. Chem. Phys. | 2025 | 25
  6. Acceptance tests of the KNMI wind vane with new encoder disk

    The current supplier of the encoder disk (Euchner PWE) of the KNMI wind vane stopped making them ...

    Andrew Stepek | --2025 | pp
  7. Beter bijtijds buien monitoren - Het vernieuwde realtimeneerslagproduct van het KNMI

    Nauwkeurige, tijdige en gedetailleerde neerslaginformatie is essentieel voor het waterbeheer en v...

    Aart Overeem, Hidde Leijnse, Mats Veldhuizen, Bastiaan Anker, Tim Vlemmix, Rik Noorlandt, Tim den Dulk, Jouke Jacobi, Ben Lankamp met illustraties van Frédérik Ruys (KNMI) | Meteorologica | 2025 | 34
  8. Potential of mm‐Wave Doppler‐Polarimetric Profiler Observations for Quality Assessment of Hydrometeor Classification Schemes

    Dual-polarization weather radars have improved the accuracy of precipitation estimates. However, ...

    L. Bogerd, H. Leijnse, A. Overeem, C. M. H. Unal, R. Uijlenhoet, S. van der Veen | Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres | 2025 | 130
  9. Treatment of Key Aerosol and Cloud Processes in Earth System Models – Recommendations from the FORCeS Project

    Uncertainty in estimations of the net contribution of anthropogenic aerosol particles and particu...

    I Riipinen, S Talvinen, T. van Noije, AML Ekman et al. | Tellus B | 2025 | submitted
  10. Evapotranspiration at Cabauw

    Droughts in the Netherlands have been exacerbated by climate change, urging better scientific und...

    E.I.F. (Cisco) de Bruijn, Jessica M.I. Strickland | 2025

About KNMI

The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)

Is the dutch national weather service. Primary tasks of KNMI are weather forecasting, and monitoring of weather, climate and seismic activity. KNMI is also the national research and information centre for meteorology, climate, air quality, and seismology.