Meteorology and Air Quality Group
The Meteorology and Air Quality Group studies the atmosphere in all its beauty and variety of phenomena and its relevance for weather, climate and air quality. In particular we deal with the atmosphere above land and how it relates to life and the environment.
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Weather Station De Veenkampen
Weather station De Veenkampen is located to the west of Wageningen, The Netherlands and is a fully automated weather station.
Read moreOur Education
As a university group we are responsible for the education in subjects of Meteorology and Air Quality at the BSc and MSc level and the training of PhD candidates. Students are guided in the basics of Weather and Climate, Forecasting, Turbulence and Dispersion, Boundary-Layer Meteorology and Chemistry, Atmospheric Dynamics, Desertification and Land use, and many other subjects.
Our research
The Meteorology and Air Quality department (MAQ) aims to contribute to the further understanding of atmospheric processes and their relevance for weather, air quality and climate. We do research on a variety of topics and horizontal scales.
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Latest publications
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Unexpected slowdown of US pollutant emission reduction in the past decade
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 (2018)20. - ISSN 0027-8424 - p. 5099 - 5104.
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Risks for infection of strawberry plants with an aerosolized inoculum of Xanthomonas fragariae
European Journal of Plant Pathology (2018). - ISSN 0929-1873 - 12 p.
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Tropical Montane Cloud Forests in the Orinoco River basin
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 260-261 (2018). - ISSN 0168-1923 - p. 17 - 30.