Research & development

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

Departments

  1. De staat van ons klimaat 2025

    De staat van het klimaat in 2025.  Nederlands weer in tijden van klimaatverandering.

    Peter Siegmund et al. | --2026 | pp46
  2. Reply to the reviews of Homogenization 2.0v3

    This document presents the authors’ response to the reviewers’ comments on the concept report Hom...

    Cees de Valk, Theo Brandsma | 2026
  3. Influence of global climate modes on wildfire occurrence in the contiguous United States under recent and future climates

    Predictable modes of climate variability, such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), have a...

    Theodore R. Keeping, Theodore G. Shepherd, I. Colin Prentice, Karin van der Wiel, and Sandy P. Harrison | Climate Dynamics | 2026 | 64
  4. Homogenization of daily temperature data of the five principal stations in the Netherlands - version 2.0

    This report presents version 2.0 of the homogenization of records of daily minimum temperature TN...

    Cees de Valk, Theo Brandsma | --2026 | pp103
  5. Graupel and increased turbulence observed near small-scale intermittent lightning discharges at the top of intense thunderstorms

    Sparkles are defined as intermittent, small-scale lightning discharges near the top of thundersto...

    R van Loon, JD Assink, O Scholten, BM Hare, H Leijnse, AJ van Delden | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) | 2026
  6. Evidence for virtual source-receiver refractions in cross correlations of infrasonic ambient noise

    Seasonal variability in source activity and atmospheric temperature were retrieved from 11 years ...

    LG Evers, JD Assink, JT Fricke | Geophysical Research Letters | 2026 | 53
  7. An inter-comparison of inverse models for estimating European CH4 emissions

    Atmospheric inversions are widely used to evaluate and improve inventories of methane (CH4) emis-...

    Eleftherios Ioannidis, Antoon Meesters, Michael Steiner, Dominik Brunner, Friedemann Reum, Isabelle Pison, Antoine Berchet, Rona Thompson, Espen Sollum, Frank-Thomas Koch, Christoph Gerbig, Fenjuan Wang, Shamil Maksyutov, Aki Tsuruta, Maria Tenkanen, Tuula Aalto, Guillaume Monteil, Hong Lin, Ge Ren, Marko Scholze, and Sander Houweling | ESSD | 2026 | 18
  8. An efficient transformer-based aerosol retrieval algorithm for the polarization crossfire (PCF) satellite senor suite: development and validation

    Multi-angle polarimetric (MAP) satellite observations provide information on aerosol optical and ...

    Haoran Gu , Zhengqiang Li , Yan Ma , Luo Zhang , Cheng Chen , Gerrit de Leeuw , Zihan Zhang , Cheng Fan , Li Li , Zhenwei Qiu , Zhenhai Liu , Jin Hong , Qian Yao , Zhe Ji | Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer | 2026 | 351
  9. Tropical cyclone intensification and extratropical transition under alternate climate conditions: a case study of Hurricane Ophelia (2017)

    Post-tropical cyclones can have substantial impacts on regions unaccustomed to such powerful stor...

    Marjolein Ribberink, Hylke de Vries, Nadia Bloemendaal, Michiel Baatsen, Erik van Meijgaard | Weather and Climate Dynamics | 2026 | 7
  10. Assessment of synthetic tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic Basin

    Tropical cyclones (TCs) pose significant risks due to their associated hazards, including powerfu...

    David Romero, Christian M Appendini, Kerry Emanuel, Chia-Ying Lee, Kees Nederhoff, Nadia Bloemendaal, Pablo Ruiz-Salcines, Jonathan Vigh, Christian Domínguez | Atmospheric Research | 2026 | 327

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.