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. Ground-based tropospheric ozone measurements: regional tropospheric ozone column trends from the TOAR-II/HEGIFTOM homogenized datasets

    Quantifying long-term free-tropospheric ozone trends is essential for understanding the impact of...

    Roeland Van Malderen, Zhou Zang, Kai-Lan Chang, Robin Björklund, Owen R. Cooper, Jane Liu, Eliane Maillard Barras, Corinne Vigouroux, Irina Petropavlovskikh, Thierry Leblanc, Valérie Thouret, Pawel Wolff, Peter Effertz, Audrey Gaudel, David W. Tarasick, Herman G. J. Smit, Anne M. Thompson, Ryan M. Stauffer, Debra E. Kollonige, Deniz Poyraz, Gérard Ancellet, Marie-Renée De Backer, Matthias M. Frey, James W. Hannigan, José L. Hernandez, Bryan J. Johnson, Nicholas Jones, Rigel Kivi, Emmanuel Mahieu, Isamu Morino, Glen McConville, Katrin Müller, Isao Murata, Justus Notholt, Ankie Piters, Maxime Prignon, Richard Querel, Vincenzo Rizi, Dan Smale, Wolfgang Steinbrecht, Kimberly Strong, and Ralf Sussmann | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2025 | 25
  3. Global ground-based tropospheric ozone measurements: reference data and individual site trends (2000–2022) from the TOAR-II/HEGIFTOM project

    Tropospheric ozone trends from models and satellites are found to diverge. Ground-based (GB) obse...

    Roeland Van Malderen, Anne M. Thompson, Debra E. Kollonige, Ryan M. Stauffer, Herman G. J. Smit, Eliane Maillard Barras, Corinne Vigouroux, Irina Petropavlovskikh, Thierry Leblanc, Valérie Thouret, Pawel Wolff, Peter Effertz, David W. Tarasick, Deniz Poyraz, Gérard Ancellet, Marie-Renée De Backer, Stéphanie Evan, Victoria Flood, Matthias M. Frey, James W. Hannigan, José L. Hernandez, Marco Iarlori, Bryan J. Johnson, Nicholas Jones, Rigel Kivi, Emmanuel Mahieu, Glen McConville, Katrin Müller, Tomoo Nagahama, Justus Notholt, Ankie Piters, Natalia Prats, Richard Querel, Dan Smale, Wolfgang Steinbrecht, Kimberly Strong, and Ralf Sussmann | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2025 | 25
  4. Tropical tropospheric ozone trends (1998 to 2023): new perspectives from SHADOZ, IAGOS and OMI/MLS observations

    Tropospheric ozone trends are important indicators of climate forcing and surface pollution, yet ...

    Anne M. Thompson, Ryan M. Stauffer, Debra E. Kollonige, Jerald R. Ziemke, Bryan J. Johnson, Gary A. Morris, Patrick Cullis, María Cazorla, Jorge Andres Diaz, Ankie Piters, Igor Nedeljkovic, Truus Warsodikromo, Francisco Raimundo Silva, E. Thomas Northam, Patrick Benjamin, Thumeka Mkololo, Tshidi Machinini, Christian Félix, Gonzague Romanens, Syprose Nyadida, Jérôme Brioude, Stéphanie Evan, Jean-Marc Metzger, Ambun Dindang, Yuzaimi B. Mahat, Mohan Kumar Sammathuria, Norazura Binti Zakaria, Ninong Komala, Shin-Ya Ogino, Nguyen Thi Quyen, Francis S. Mani, Miriama Vuiyasawa, David Nardini, Matthew Martinsen, Darryl T. Kuniyuki, Katrin Müller, Pawel Wolff, and Bastien Sauvage | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2025 | 25
  5. Leveraging the satellite-based climate data record CLARA-A3 to understand the climatic trend regimes relevant for solar energy applications over Europe

    Efficient transitioning to renewable energy requires a fundamental understanding of the past and ...

    A. Devasthale, S. Andersson, E. Engstrom, F. Kaspar, J. Trentmann, A. Duguay-Tetzlaff, J.F. Meirink, E. Kjellstrom, T. Landelius, M.A. Thomas, K.G. Karlsson | Earth System Dynamics | 2025 | 16
  6. A cross-band transformer on wavelets for pansharpening of satellite imagery

    Pansharpening is the task of fusing panchromatic and low-resolution multi-spectral data to obtain...

    N. Ntantis, J.S. Wijnands, J.F. Meirink, D. Dibenedetto | European Journal of Remote Sensing | 2025 | 58
  7. Analysis of ship emission effects on clouds over the southeastern Atlantic using geostationary satellite observations

    This study investigates the impact of ship emissions on clouds over a shipping corridor in the so...

    N. Benas, J.F. Meirink, R. Roebeling, M. Stengel | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2025 | 25
  8. Spatiotemporal evolution of broadband seismological networks in the Netherlands and the added value of the NARS-DICTUM array

    Passive seismic networks play critical roles in both seismicity monitoring and subsurface imaging...

    Stephen Akinremi, Islam Fadel, Arie van Wettum, Elmer Ruigrok, Christine Thomas, Mark van der Meijde | Annals of Geophysics | 2025 | 68
  9. Natural and induced seismicity

    Natural seismicity in the Netherlands is mainly associated with large faults in the south of the ...

    Bernard Dost, Elmer Ruigrok, Jesper Spetzler, Pauline Kruiver | 2025
  10. The damaging 1932 Uden Earthquake in the Netherlands – revision of cross-border macroseismic data and its impact on source parameters

    A re-assessment of the macroseismic intensity data was conducted for the second-largest instrumen...

    Bernard Dost, Ben Neefs, Koen van Noten, Elmer Ruigrok | Journal of Seismology | 2025 | 29

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.