Alexander van Eijk
In a military context, situational awareness, i.e., an understanding of how well you can see and how well you can be seen, is crucial. Turbulence degrades image quality and absorption by aerosols reduces contrast, which reduces the maximum distance at which you can see.
Professorship chair
Atmosphere Dynamics Coastal Zone (École Centrale de Nantes).
Research area
The research focuses on a small-scale description of atmospheric flow processes, with emphasis on turbulence. For this, we use a series of numerical (weather prediction) tools from coarse to high resolution. This framework is used to model the dispersion of aerosols, in particular those generated at the sea surface, in the lower atmosphere while taking into account the features of the heterogeneous terrain (land-sea transition, orography, etc.). It is our ambition to understand the necessary and sufficient detail of this numerical modeling to optimize computational requirements and the physical footprint that can be handled.
Within TNO, this work is predominantly embedded within DSS but it also relates to other TNO areas: turbulence degrades the quality of (laser) communication systems, and aerosols are important to climate and air quality
Top publications
- W. Bruch, J. Piazzola, H. Branger, A.M.J. van Eijk, C. Luneau, D. Bourras and G. Tedeschi (2021). Sea spray generation dependence on wind and wave combination: a laboratory study. Boundary Layer Meteorol.
- Tedeschi, G., A.M.J. van Eijk, J. P. Piazzola and J.T Kusmierczyk-Michulec (2017). Influence of the surf zone on marine aerosol concentration in coastal area. Boundary-Layer Meteorol., 163:327–350, doi:10.1007/s10546-016-0229-7
- Calmet, I, P.G. Mestayer, A.M.J. van Eijk and O. Herlédant (2017). A coastal bay summer breeze study. Part 2: High-resolution numerical simulation of sea-breeze local influences. Boundary-Layer Meteorol. 167:27-51, doi: 10.1007/s/10546-017-0319-1
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