Alexander van Eijk

Alexander van Eijk

Functie:
Principal Scientist at TNO and professor at Ecole Centrale de Nantes on Atmospheric dynamics of coastal zone
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

Den Haag - Oude Waalsdorperweg

Oude Waalsdorperweg 63
NL-2597 AK The Hague

Postal address

P.O. Box 96864
NL-2509 JG The Hague