Research & development

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

Departments

  1. Formally combining different lines of evidence in extreme-event attribution

    Event attribution methods are increasingly routinely used to assess the role of climate change in...

    Friederike EL Otto, Clair Barnes, Sjoukje Philip, Sarah Kew, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Robert Vautard | Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography | 2024 | 10
  2. An attribution study of very intense rainfall events in Eastern Northeast Brazil

    Severe floods and landslides in Eastern Northeast Brazil in May 2022 led to severe impacts with h...

    Francisco das Chagas Vasconcelos Junior, Mariam Zachariah, Thiago Luiz do Vale Silva, Edvânia Pereira dos Santos, Caio AS Coelho, Lincoln M Alves, Eduardo Sávio Passos Rodrigues Martins, Alexandre C Köberle, Roop Singh, Maja Vahlberg, Victor Marchezini, Dorothy Heinrich, Lisa Thalheimer, Emmanuel Raju, Gerbrand Koren, Sjoukje Y Philip, Sarah F Kew, Rémy Bonnet, Sihan Li, Wenchang Yang, Jingru Sun, Gabriel Vecchi, Friederike EL Otto | Weather and Climate Extremes | 2024 | 45
  3. Challenges in the attribution of river flood events

    Advances in the field of extreme event attribution allow to estimate how anthropogenic global war...

    Paolo Scussolini, Linh Nhat Luu, Sjoukje Philip, Wouter R Berghuijs, Dirk Eilander, Jeroen CJH Aerts, Sarah F Kew, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Willem HJ Toonen, Jan Volkholz, Dim Coumou | WIREs Climate Change | 2024 | 15
  4. Detecting the human fingerprint in the summer 2022 western–central European soil drought

    In the 2022 summer, western–central Europe and several other regions in the northern extratropics...

    Dominik L. Schumacher, Mariam Zachariah, Friederike Otto, Clair Barnes, Sjoukje Philip, Sarah Kew, Maja Vahlberg, Roop Singh, Dorothy Heinrich, Julie Arrighi, Maarten van Aalst, Mathias Hauser, Martin Hirschi, Verena Bessenbacher, Lukas Gudmundsson, Hiroko K. Beaudoing, Matthew Rodell, Sihan Li, Wenchang Yang, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Luke J. Harrington, Flavio Lehner, Gianpaolo Balsamo, and Sonia I. Seneviratne | Earth System Dynamics | 2024 | 15
  5. Could an extremely cold central European winter such as 1963 happen again despite climate change?

    Central European winters have warmed markedly since the mid-20th century. Yet cold winters are st...

    Sebastian Sippel, Clair Barnes, Camille Cadiou, Erich Fischer, Sarah Kew, Marlene Kretschmer, Sjoukje Philip, Theodore G Shepherd, Jitendra Singh, Robert Vautard, Pascal Yiou | EGUsphere | 2024 | 5
  6. Seismische dreiging voor de Nederlandse Cariben

    De Nederlandse Cariben liggen in een gebied waar regelmatig aardbevingen plaatsvinden. Dit komt d...

    P. Kruiver, E. de Zeeuw-van Dalfsen | --2024 | pp
  7. A data-driven impact-based analysis stemming from first responders reports to predict wind damage to urban trees

    Transitioning from weather forecasts and warnings to impact-based forecast and warning services r...

    Irene Garcia-Marti, Jouke H. S. de Baar, Jan Willem Noteboom, Rob Sluijter, Gerard van der Schrier | Frontiers in Climate | 2024 | 6
  8. Antarctic Ozone Hole [in ”State of the Climate in 2023”]

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    A.T.J. de Laat | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | 2024
  9. Western Europe's extreme July 2019 heatwave in a warmer world

    Summertime heatwaves are extreme events with a large societal impact. Intensity, duration and spa...

    Hylke de Vries, Geert Lenderink, Erik van Meijgaard, Bert van Ulft, Wim de Rooy | Environ. Res.: Climate | 2024 | 3
  10. The Cycle 46 Configuration of the HARMONIE-AROME Forecast Model

    The aim of this technical note is to describe the Cycle 46 reference configuration of the HARMONI...

    Emily Gleeson, Ekaterina Kurzeneva, Wim de Rooy, Laura Rontu, Daniel Martín Pérez, Colm Clancy, Karl-Ivar Ivarsson , Bjørg Jenny Engdahl, Sander Tijm, Kristian Pagh Nielsen, Metodija Shapkalijevski, Panu Maalampi, Peter Ukkonen , Yurii Batrak , Marvin Kähnert, Tosca Kettler , Sophie Marie Elies van den Brekel , Michael Robin Adriaens , Natalie Theeuwes , Bolli Pálmason, Thomas Rieutord, James Fannon , Eoin Whelan , Samuel Viana , Mariken Homleid , Geoffrey Bessardon , Jeanette Onvlee , Patrick Samuelsson , Daniel Santos-Muñoz , Ole Nikolai Vignes, Roel Stappers | Meteorology | 2024 | 3

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.