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is constantly on call day and night. KNMI's role in supplying information during emergencies is included in municipal and provincial disaster management plans. Civil services, fire departments and the police can be provided with weather and other relevant information directly by the meteorologist on duty, through dedicated telephone connections.
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into the atmosphere, it is of utmost importance to quickly determine where the atmospheric plume of toxic material is being transported by the prevailing winds and other meteorological factors. At such times, KNMI activates a special calamity service. For this purpose, a group of seven meteorologists
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in Britain the same year, Ballot was disenchanted with the non-scientific weather reports found in European newspapers at the time. Like the Met Office, the KNMI also pioneered daily weather predictions, which he called by a new combination "weervoorspelling" (weather prognostication).
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contained in the CALM model are practically identical to that of the PUFF model. However, the meteorological input can only be supplied manually in CALM. The user provides both observed and predicted values for wind velocity at the 10 meter height level, the
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was appointed as the first Director. The year before Professor Ballot had moved the Utrecht University Observatory to the decommissioned fort at Sonnenborgh. It was only later, in 1897, that the headquarters of the KNMI moved to the Koelenberg estate in
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and the mixing height. After the model calculations have been performed, a map is created and displayed with the derived trajectories of the pollution plume and an indication of how and where the cloud will
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in 1986. A few years later, in 1994, a dedicated dispersion experiment called ETEX (European Tracer EXperiment) was carried out, which also provided useful data for further testing of PUFF.
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The primary tasks of KNMI are weather forecasting, monitoring of climate changes and monitoring seismic activity. KNMI is also the national research and information centre for
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The "Royal Meteorological Observatory" originally had two divisions, the land branch under Dr. Frederik Wilhelm Christiaan Krecke and the marine branch under navy Lt.
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on European scales. The model was originally tested by using measurements of the dispersion of radioactivity caused by the accident in the nuclear power plant of
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CALM - CALM is a CALamity Model designed for the calculation of air pollution dispersion on small spatial scales, within the Netherlands. The
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KNMI has available two atmospheric dispersion models for use by their calamity service:
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data in support of operational weather forecasting and other applications of such data.
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Workbook of atmospheric dispersion estimates: an introduction to dispersion modeling
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on 21 January 1854 under the title "Royal Meteorological Observatory". Professor
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KNMI's applied research also encompasses the development and operational use of
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Explanations and sailing directions to accompany the Wind and current charts
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Research aimed at improving the quality, usefulness and accessibility of
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to help awareness of the danger of storms, the first named storm was
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Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
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Seismological research as well as monitoring of seismic activity (
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processes, clouds and radiation; the chemical composition of the
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NERI, the National Environmental Research Institute of Denmark
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Maury, Matthew Fontaine (1858). "Account of Lt. Van Gough".
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Organisations based in the Netherlands with royal patronage
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UK Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling Liaison Committee
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Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiene
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Applied research at KNMI is focused on three areas:
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KNMI (institute)
Dutch

De Bilt
De Bilt
Steven van Weyenberg
Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management
www.knmi.nl
Dutch
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weather forecasting
De Bilt
province
Utrecht
climate
climate change
seismology

C. H. D. Buys Ballot
King William III
C. H. D. Buys Ballot
De Bilt
Marin H. Jansen
Robert FitzRoy
Meteorological Office
meteorological
oceanographical
atmospheric boundary layer
atmosphere
earthquakes

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