| About Gert-Jan On the evening of 25th June 1978, during the final of the World Championship football, Argentina-Holland (unfortunately lost by the Dutch team, I hope it is not my fault :P), I was born in the beautiful city of Delft, The Netherlands. I spent my youth in Nootdorp (a small village near Delft) at the farm of my parents, which was a beautiful place to grow up with all the animals and always sufficient space. Always possible to do nice things and to feel free! I spent a nice the at my undergraduate school College Het Loo in Voorburg, a place with a nice history as well. I liked the courses in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Economy. In 1997 I changed to Wageningen to study Soil, Water and Atmosphere, in the center of The Netherlands. It is a small (and therfore very nice) city. It is situated between the ice-pushed ridges the Veluwe and the Utrechtse Heuvelrug, and the river Rhine. Therefore there is a ????huge variarity of landscapes very close by: Forest, heather, flatland, river banks... At this moment I work as a PhD student at the department of Meteorology and Air Quality of Wageningen University. My subject is Understanding and Prediction of Stable Boundary layers over Land. That sounds difficult, and yes it is... The main goal is to explain the unsatifying use of enhanced mixing in numerical weather forecast models and climate models during nighttime. This has a major impact on prediction of fog occurence, near surface freezing, surface temperatures under low wind conditions. My hobbies: going to the movies, cycling, travelling (mainly visiting places with nice historical buildings, see the index page for links), spending time with my housemates, meteorology, reading books, music (70s, 80s, rock). |
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| My stellingen (in Dutch) - Alles is uiteindelijk dubbelzinniger dan je denkt - Slapen lokt ... - Deskundigen weten eigenlijk helemaal niks |
| Fog event above Wageningen (courtesy Eeeyline) |
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