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. Multi-model assessment of direct radiative forcing from reconstructed dust changes since the pre-industrial era

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    OW Haugvaldstad, M Schulz, T Storelvmo, DM Leung, A Gupta, AC Jones, LA Regayre, K Kawai, H Matsui, M Gonçalves Ageitos, C Pérez García-Pando, T van Noije, VA Karydis, AP Tsimpidi, K Klingmueller, Y Balkanski, R Checa-Garcia and J Kok | Geophys. Res. Lett. | 2025
  3. Implementation of Primary and Secondary Ice Production in EC-Earth3-AerChem: Global Impacts and Insights

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    M Costa-Surós, M Gonçalves Ageitos, M Chatziparaschos, P Georgakaki, MA Thomas, G Montané Pintó, S Myriokefalitakis, T van Noije, P Le Sager, M Kanakidou, A Nenes, and C Pérez García-Pando | Geophys. Mod. Dev. | 2025
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Analysis of the hypocenter for the Warffum 2025-05-18 earthquake

    The Warffum event on 2025-05-18T20:57:23.7 with a local magnitude of 2.1 was detected by the KNMI...

    Elmer Ruigrok and Jesper Spetzler | --2025 | pp
  10. On the movement of atmospheric blocking systems and the associated temperature responses

    The quasi-stationary behaviour of atmospheric blocking is studied using a Lagrangian framework th...

    Jonna van Mourik, Hylke de Vries, Michiel Baatsen | Weather and Climate Dynamics | 2025 | 6

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.