Master projects supervised by Aarnout van Delden IMAU home

Present master projects

83. 2023: Martin Okánik: General circulation and atmospheric composition of exoplanets as simulated in an idealized model (daily supervisor: Hella Garny (DLR, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Wessling-Oberpaffenhofen, Germany)) (second corrector: Michiel Baatsen)

82. 2023: Joao Correia de Paiva Cruz: 3D normal mode functions : developing a physical filter for equatorial atmospheric motions (daily supervisor: C. da Camara (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) & J.M. Castanheira (universidade de Aveiro)) ) (second corrector: Huib de Swart)

Past master projects

81. 2022: Ruoke Meng: Interpreting machine learning fog forecasts and understanding the forecast errors (presentation on 26 July 2022) (daily supervisors: Maurice Schmeits, Kirien Whan and Jan Barkmeijer (KNMI)) (second corrector: Michiel Baatsen)

80. 2022: Mieka Driessen: The influence of the sea-land boundary on the spatial differences in precipitation trends in the Netherlands (presentation on 6 July 2022) (second corrector: Michiel Baatsen)

79. 2022: Sarah Warnau: Atmospheric boundary layer model to investigate the potential of water cycle restoration in arid regions (presentation on 18 June 2022) (daily supervisor: Jolanda Theeuwen and Bert Hamelers (Wetsus, Leeuwarden)) (second corrector: Michiel Baatsen)

78. 2022: Marta Brotons: Climate Scenarios for the BES islands (presentation on 18 May 2022) (daily supervisor: Rein Haarsma (KNMI)) (second corrector: Michiel Baatsen)

77. 2022: Luisa Gensch (Exchange with University of Hamburg): Tropical Belt Width Trends during the Spring Transition in the Northern Hemisphere (End of project on 31 January 2022)

76. 2021: Sander Keulers: Analysis of the hydrological cycle in the Sahel region (presentation on 11 November 2021) (daily supervisor: Rein Haarsma (KNMI) and Dim Coumou (VU Amsterdam)) (second corrector: Michiel Baatsen)

75. 2021: Teun Zoer: Wind farm power production reduction by the wake effect in the Harmonie Forecast Model (presentation on 29 July 2021)(daily supervisor: Natalie Theeuwes(KNMI) (second corrector: Michiel Baatsen)

74. 2021: Niek van Andel: Quality Control Development for near real-time Rain Gauge Networks for Operational Rainfall Monitoring (presentation on 30 June 2021) (daily supervisor: Aart Overeem (KNMI) (second corrector: Carleen Tijm-Reijmer)

73. 2021: Giovanni Negro: Turbulence induced by prescribed horizontal heterogeneous water vapour concentrations in a nocturnal boundary layer (presentation on 2 February 2021) (daily supervisor: Stephan de Roode (Delft University) (second corrector: Willem Jan van de Berg)

72. 2020: Wessel Boosman: Baroclinic Energy Conversion as Driver for Rossby Wave Breaking (presentation on 30 June 2020)(second corrector: Michiel Baatsen)

71. 2020: Irene Kruse: Characterizing Cold Pool Interactions Over Land (presentation on 30 June 2020) (daily supervisor: Jan Olaf Mirko Harter (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)(second corrector: Willem Jan van de Berg)

70. 2020: Tosca Kettler: Improving fog forecasting in Harmonie-Arome (presentation on 30 June 2020)(daily supervisor: Sander Tijm (KNMI))(second corrector: Michiel van den Broeke)

69. 2020: Jasper de Jong: Intensification of Tropical Cyclones by Gradient Wind Adjustment due to Diabatic Heating (second corrector: Michiel Baatsen)

68. 2019: Angelo Bohan: Stratospheric warming analysis using the PV-theta view (presentation on 22 August 2019) (co-supervision with: Michiel van Weele (KNMI)) (second corrector: Michiel van den Broeke)

67. 2019: Bram v't Veen: Current issues with modelling convective storms in the operational weather model "HARMONIE" (presentation on 22 August 2019) (daily supervisor: Sander Tijm (KNMI)) (second corrector: Carleen Tijm-Reijmer)

66. 2019: Steven Albertsma: Validation of ADM-Aeolus wind data with aircraft-derived wind data (presentation on 22 July 2019) (daily supervisor: Gert-Jan Marseille (KNMI)) (second corrector: Willem Jan van de Berg)

65. 2019: Mario Cordova: Drought in North South America: causes, spatial and temporal variability (presentation on 28 June 2019) (second corrector: Willem Jan van de Berg) link

64. 2019: Eirini Tsartsali: Impact of western boundary currents on mid-latitude climate and variability. (presentation on 17 January 2019) (daily supervisor: Rein Haarsma (KNMI)) (second corrector: Huib de Swart)

63. 2019: Wouter Mol: The role of exchange of heat, water and momentum at the sea surface in radiative-convective equilibrium. (presentation on 20 December 2018) (daily supervisor: Chiel van Heerwaarden (Wageningen)) (second corrector: Michiel van den Broeke)

62. 2019: Barend Odijk: The role of planetary wave "drag" in shaping the zonal mean atmospheric general circulation. (presentation on 26 June 2018) (second corrector: Michiel van den Broeke)

61. 2018: Dimitrios Kapetanakis: Extra-tropical transitions of tropical cyclones (presentation on 2 October 2018) (daily supervisor: Rein Haarsma (KNMI)) (second corrector: Willem Jan van de Berg)

60. 2018: Laurens Stoop: A study of extreme weather and high impacts in compound energy production and energy shortage. (presentation on 3 July 2018) (daily supervisor: Karin van der Wiel (KNMI)) (second corrector: Michiel van den Broeke)

59. 2018: Wim van Caspel: The concept of planetary wave drag. (presentation on 3 July 2018) (second corrector: Michiel van den Broeke)

58. 2018: Bob Ammerlaan: Isentropic meridional mass transport by baroclinic waves and the annular mode. (presentation on 3 July 2018) (second corrector: Carleen Tijm-Reijmer)

57. 2018: Ioannis Christofidis: Relation of meridional circulation of mass and the northern annular mnode (presentation on 8 March 2018) (second corrector: Michiel van den Broeke)

56. 2017: Sem Vijverberg: Evaporation-precipitation coupling in a global climate model (EC-Earth).(presentation on 2 August 2017) (co-supervised with Frank Selten (KNMI)) (second corrector: Willem Jan van den Berg)

55. 2017: Casper Kalkhoven: Detecting and forecasting large hail in The Netherlands. (presentation on 3 July 2017) (co-supervised with Sander Tijm(KNMI)) (second corrector: Carleen Tijm-Reijmer)

54. 2017: Nicolai Proksch: Lightning detection using infrasound.(presentation on 16 January 2017) (co-supervised with Hiddel Leijnse and Jelle Assink (KNMI)) (second corrector: Willem Jan van den Berg)

53. 2017: Jeroen van Gorp: Improvement of the KHS-spout index and indicators for supercell tornadoes in Harmonie. (presentation on 28 June 2016) (co-supervised with Rob Groenland and Sander Tijm (KNMI)) (second corrector: Willem Jan van den Berg)

52. 2016: Christiaan van Dalum: Evaluation of cloud representation of the high-resolution mesoscale model HARMONIE using Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) observations.(presentation on 25 October 2016) (co-supervised with Hylke de Vries, Pier Siebesma and Wim de Rooy (KNMI)) (second corrector: Carleen Tijm-Reijmer)

51. 2016: Patrick van den Hoek: The value of aircraft data in investigating the cause of a severe storm.(presentation on 20 June 2016) (co-supervised with Siebren de Haan (KNMI)) (second corrector: Carleen Tijm-Reijmer)

50. 2016: Sebastian Scher: Influence of highly resolved SST-fields on the jetstream.(presentation on 12 April 2016) (co-supervised with Rein Haarsma, Hilke de Vries (KNMI) and Sybren Drijfhout) (second corrector: Michiel van den Broeke) pdf

49. 2015: Erik Marthinsen: Including aerosol effects for improved visibility forecasts in Harmonie (presentation on 20 August 2015) (co-supervised with Sander Tijm (KNMI)) (second corrector: Carleen Tijm-Reijmer)

48. 2015: Lars Tijssen: Tornado outbreaks in Europe (presentation on 20 August 2015) (co-supervised with Pieter Groenemeijer (ESSL, Wessling, Germany) (second corrector: Carleen Tijm-Reijmer)

47. 2015: Remko Klaver: The zonal mean diabatic circulation in ERA-Interim 1979 - 2014 (presentation on 23 June 2015) (second corrector: Michiel van den Broeke)

46. 2015: Marco Weijenborg: Extreme south foehn in Switserland: its relation to forced large-scale vertical motion (presentation on 24 June 2015) (second corrector: Michiel van den Broeke)

45. 2015: Teresa Macarico Morins: The Influence of the Overworld and the Middleworld on Annular Modes (presentation on 13 May 2015) (second corrector: Henk Dijkstra)

44. 2015: Lotte de Vos: Intercomparison of the systems SAFIR/FLITS and KLDN on their ability to detect cloud-to-cloud and cloud to ground lightning discharges (presentation on 22 April 2015) (co-supervised with Maurice Schmeits and Hidde Leijnse (KNMI)) (second corrector: Willem Jan van den Berg)

43. 2014: Michiel Baatsen: Dynamics of hurricane transition in the late 21st century (co-supervised with Rein Haarsma (KNMI)). (presentation on June 2014). Thesis: pdf (This thesis was the winner of the best master thesis award of the department of physics, in the academic year 2013-2014). A follow up paper: pdf

42. 2014: Anthi Chrysantou: Quantification of the urban heat island effect on the rise of the European temperature (presentation on 25 September 2013) (second corrector: Carleen Tijm-Reijmer) (co-supervised with Gerard van der Schrier (KNMI))

41. 2013: Sebastiaan Crezee: Objective climatology of polar lows: structure and forcing mechanisms (co-supervised with Thomas Spengler, University of Bergen, Norway) (presentation on 29 August 2013) (second corrector: Carleen Tijm-Reijmer)

40. 2013: Tessa Haverkamp: Wet/dry classification for microwave link rainfall estimation (co-supervision with Hidde Leijnse and Aart Overeem (KNMI)) (presentation on 27 June 2013) (second corrector: Carleen Tijm-Reijmer) pdf

39. 2012: Werner de Groot: The wandering plants of the ocean (presentation on 16 August 2012) (second corrector: Geert-Jan Roelofs)

38. 2012: Hilke Lentink: Extreme Foehn in Switzerland: a climatology and the relation to large scale flow (presentation on 3 July 2012) (First supervisor: Michiel van den Broeke)

37. 2012: Fabien Chatterjee: The Evolution of the mean meridional circulation during the life-cycle of a midlatitude cyclone (presentation on 12 January 2012, 16:15, Room 123BBL) (second corrector: Michiel van den Broeke)

36. 2012: Valentijn van Gastel: Investigating MSG-SEVERI data as an additional predictor source in the KNMI probabilistic (severe) thunderstorm forecasting system (co-supervised with Maurice Schmeits and Rob Roebeling, KNMI)

35. 2012: Laura van der Blij: Lightning vs. tropical depression intensification and development of tropical cyclones (co-supervised with Stephen Businger, University of Hawaii) (second corrector: Willem Jan van de Berg)

34. 2012: Dick Abma: Direct numerical simulation of evaporative cooling at the cloud lateral boundary (co-supervised with Juan Pedro Mellado and Thijs Heus, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg) (second corrector: Anna von der Heydt)

33. 2011: Marten Blaauw: The dynamic role of the cross-frontal circulation (co-supervised with Wim Verkley, KNMI) (second corrector: Carleen Tijm-Reijmer)

32. 2011: Rosmarie de Wit: What processes are responsible for the establishment of the subtropical and the stratospheric jet? A model study. (second corrector: Willem Jan van de Berg)

31. 2011: Michou Baart de la Faille: Shallow convection parameterization in Harmonie (co-supervised with Wim de Rooy and Sander Tijm, KNMI) (second corrector: Willem Jan van de Berg)

30. 2011: Chris Weijenborg: Blocking of the storm tracks by breaking Rossby waves (co-supervised with Hylke de Vries and Rein Haarsma, KNMI) pdf

29. 2010: Hans de Leeuw: HARMONIE: the outflow problem (co-supervised with Sander Tijm, KNMI)

28. 2010: Arjan van Beelen: Lightning in an unorganized multicell convective system in TELEX (co-supervised with Mike Biggerstaff, University of Oklahoma)

27. 2009: Armand van Wijck: Lightning activity and -initiation in the stratiform region of 3 June, 2004 mesoscale convective system in Telex (co-supervised with Mike Biggerstaff, University of Oklahoma)

26. 2008: Niels Zweers: Radiative and radiative-dynamical adjustment of the atmospheric circulation in two different long-wave absorptivity scenarios

25. 2006 Wouter de Geus: The Arctic polar night vortex. (pdf) (article) (pdf) (correction)

24. 2005 Johnny Willemsen: Frontogenesis during the first hours of developing baroclinic waves

23. 2005 Liliana Velea: The sensitivity to horizontal resolution in regional climate model REGCM3 applied on Romanian territory (Research project performed at the Romanian Weather Service, Bucharest)

22. 2005 Marijn de Haij: Evaluation of a new trigger function for cumulus convection (co-supervised with Pier Siebesma, KNMI)

21. 2005 Pieter Groenemeijer: Sounding derived parameters associated with severe convective storms in The Netherlands. pdf

20. 2004 Sander Jonkers: Evaluation study of the Kain-Fritsch convection scheme (co-supervised with Pier Siebesma,KNMI)

19. 2004 Jeroen van Zomeren: Vertically integrated moisture flux convergence as a predictor of thunderstorms. pdf

18. 2004 Jeroen Derksen: The dynamics of fronts encountering a cold film of air

17. 2003 Caspar Buitendijk: Hamiltonian shallow water equations on a sphere (co-supervised with Wim Verkley, Onno Bokhove and T.W. Ruijgrok)

16. 2002 Alwin Haklander: Thunderstorm predictors and their forecast skill for the Netherlands. pdf

15. 2000 Wouter Verbraak: Simulation of sea breeze over Sidney Bay with a mesoscale model (Research project performed at the University of New South Wales, Australia)

14. 1999 Bas Henzing: The cloud activity function (positioning and quantifying the frontal activity)

13. 1999 Pieter Luijendijk: Cut-off lows (case studies and simulation)

12. 1998 Roel Neggers: Mirrored frontogenesis and vortex stretching in cut-off low formation. pdf

11. 1998 Marco van den Berge: Downslope windstorms

10. 1997 Edwin Buscher: Onweersbuien in West Europa

9. 1996 Menno van der Haven: Mesoschaal convectieve systemen

8. 1995 Koen Manders: Jetstreaks onder de loep in een pe-model

7. 1994 Rob Groenland: De rol van ongebalanceerde gebieden in de vorming van convergentie- en divergentielijnen

6. 1994 Patrick Ipskamp: Statistiek van jet streaks uit oplossing van de balansvergelijking

5. 1992 John Kambeel: De polaire upper level jetstreak

4. 1992 Daan Vogelezang: De groei van tropische cyclonen door diabatische verwarming

3. 1991 Michiel van den Broeke: Observatie en simulatie van katabatische afstroming aan de westrand van de Groenlandseijskap (co-supervised with Hans Oerlemans)

2. 1990 Jan de Wolde: CISK en de groei van tropische cyclonen

1. 1990 Alfons Witsiers: Analysis of sea breeze during the month of May 1989