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Peter Builtjes
LOTOS-EUROS research/development team
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  • Function: Senior scientist Environmental Quality team
  • Affiliation: TNO
    Expertise: Climate, Air Quality and Sustainability
    Section: Large scale Air Quality and Climate
  • Visiting address: Princetonplein 6, 3584 CB Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • Room: 2.037
  • Tel: +31 888 66 20 17 (direct)
    Tel: +31 888 66 20 81 (secretary)
    Fax: +31 888 66 20 44
  • E-mail: peter.builtjes(+ @tno.nl)
  • Mail address: P.O.Box 80015, 3508 TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
Research Interests:
  • Atmospheric chemisty/air quality
  • Chemical transport modelling
  • Climate change and air quality interactions
  • Data assimilation of atmospheric chemistry
  • Model evaluation
  • Use of satellite data concerning air quality
  • Atmospheric boundary layer windtunnel
Current Research Activities:
Applied research on chemical transport modelling on a regional scale. Coordination of projects funded by the EU (most recently Air4EU) and by the German UBA, on particulate matter and deposition (PAREST-UBA, MAPESI-UBA). Activities to come to a proper, internationally accepted model evaluation framework for chemical transport models. Research into the influence of meteorology on chemical transport modelling, including the interaction between climate change and air quality
Projects: PAREST-UBA, MAPESI-UBA, ENERGEO, KvK, Air4EU
Publications:
In press
Albert, M.F.M.A., Schaap, M., de Leeuw, G., Builtjes, P.J.H., Progress in the determination of the sea spray source function using satellite data Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, in press, 2010.

Reviewed
R.M.A. Timmermans , A.J. Segers, P.J.H. Builtjes, R. Vautard, R. Siddans, H. Elbern, S.A.T. Tjemkes, M. Schaap, The Added Value of a Proposed Satellite Imager for Ground Level Particulate Matter Analyses and Forecasts, IEEE-JSTARS (Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, pp. 271-283, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2009.2034613, 2009. pdf

R.M.A. Timmermans , M. Schaap, H. Elbern, R. Siddans, S.A.T. Tjemkes, R. Vautard, P.J.H. Builtjes, An Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) for Aerosol Optical Depth from satellites, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 26, 2673-2682, 2009. pdf

Barbu, A.L., Segers, A.J., Schaap, M., Heemink, A.W., Builtjes, P.J.H., A multi-component data assimilation experiment directed to sulphur dioxide and sulphate over Europe, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 43, Pages 1622-1631, 2009. pdf

Vautard, R., Schaap, M., Bergström, R., Bessagnet, B., Brandt, J., Builtjes, P.J.H., Christensen, J.H., Cuvelier, C., Foltescu, V., Graff, A., Kerschbaumer, A., Krol, M., Roberts, P., Rouïl, L., Stern, R., Tarrason, L., Thunis, P., Vignati, E., Wind, P., Skill and uncertainty of a regional air quality model ensemble, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 43, Pages 4822-4832, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.09.083, 2009. pdf

Denby, B., Schaap, M., Segers, A., Builtjes, P., Horalek,J., Comparison of two data assimilation methods for assessing PM10 exceedances on the European scale, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 42, Pages 7122–7134, 2008. pdf

R. Stern, P. Builtjes, M. Schaap, R. Timmermans , R.Vautard, A. Hodzic, M. Memmesheimer, H. Feldmann, E. Renner, R. Wolke, A. Kerschbaumer, A model inter-comparison study focussing on episodes with elevated PM10 concentrations, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 42, Issue 19, June 2008, Pages 4567–4588, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.01.068, 2008. pdf

M. Schaap, F. Sauter, R.M.A. Timmermans, M. Roemer, G. Velders, J. Beck and P.J.H. Builtjes, The LOTOS-EUROS model: description, validation and latest developments, Int. J. Environment and Pollution, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp.270–290, 2008. pdf

M. Schaap, R.M.A. Timmermans , R.B.A. Koelemeijer, G. de Leeuw, P.J.H. Builtjes, Evaluation of MODIS aerosol optical thickness over Europe using sun photometer observations, Atmos. Environ., 42, 2187–2197, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.11.044, 2008. pdf

M. van Loon, R. Vautard, M. Schaap, R. Bergström, B. Bessagnet, J. Brandt, P.J.H. Builtjes, J. H. Christensen, K. Cuvelier, A. Graf, J.E. Jonson, M. Krol, J. Langner, P. Roberts, L. Rouil, R. Stern, L. Tarrasón, P. Thunis, E. Vignati, L. White, P. Wind , Evaluation of long-term ozone simulations from seven regional air quality models and their ensemble average, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 41, Issue 10, Pages 2083–097, 2007. pdf

P. Thunis, L. Rouil, C. Cuvelier, R. Stern, A. Kerschbaumer, B. Bessagnet, M. Schaap, P. Builtjes, L. Tarrason, J. Douros, N. Moussiopoulos, G. Pirovano and M. Bedogni, Analysis of model responses to emission-reduction scenarios within the CityDelta project, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 41, Pages 208–220, 2007. pdf

C. Cuvelier, P. Thunis, R. Vautard, M. Amann, B. Bessagnet, M. Bedogni, R. Berkowicz, J. Brandt, F. Brocheton, P. Builtjes, A. Coppalle, B. Denby, G. Douros, A. Graf, O. Hellmuth, C. Honoré, A. Hodzic, J. Jonson, A. Kerschbaumer, F. de Leeuw, E. Minguzzi, N. Moussiopoulos, C. Pertot, G. Pirovano, L. Rouil, M. Schaap, R. Stern, L. Tarrason, E. Vignati, M. Volta, L. White, P. Wind, A. Zuber, CityDelta: A model intercomparison study to explore the impact of emission reductions in European cities in 2010, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 41, Pages 189–207, 2007. pdf

R. Vautard, M. van Loon, M. Schaap, R. Bergströ, B. Bessagnet, J. Brandt, P.J.H. Builtjes, J. H. Christensen, K. Cuvelier, A. Graf, J.E. Jonson, M. Krol, J. Langner, P. Roberts, L. Rouil, R. Stern1, L. Tarrasón, P. Thunis, E. Vignati, L. White, P. Wind, Is regional air quality model diversity representative of uncertainty for ozone simulation?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L24818,doi:10.1029/2006GL027610, 2006. pdf

Vautard, R., Builtjes, P. H. J., Thunis, P., Cuvelier, K., Bedogni, M., Bessagnet, B., Honoré, C., Moussiopoulos, N., Pirovano G., Schaap, M., Stern, R., Tarrason, L., Van Loon, M., Evaluation and intercomparison of Ozone and PM10 simulations by several chemistry-transport models over 4 european cities within the City-Delta project, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 41, Pages 173–188, 2007. pdf

Dosio, A, Vila-Guerau de Arellano, J., Holtslag, A.A.M., Builtjes P.J.H., Relating Eulerian and Lagrangian statistics for turbulent dispersion in the convective atmospheric boundary layer , J.of Atm. Sciences 62 ( 4), 1175, 2005.

Schaap, M., G. Spindler, M. Schulz, K. Acker, W. Maenhaut, A. Berner, W. Wieprecht, N. Streit, K. Mueller, E. Brüggemann, J-P. Putaud, H. Puxbaum, U. Baltensperger, H. M. ten Brink, Artefacts in the sampling of nitrate studied in the “INTERCOMP” campaigns of EUROTRAC-AEROSOL, Atmos. Environ., Volume 48, Pages 6487–6496, 2004. pdf

Schaap, M., H.A.C. Denier Van Der Gon, F.J. Dentener, A.J.H. Visschedijk, M. Van Loon, H.M. Ten Brink, J-P Putaud, B. Guillaume, C. Liousse and P.J.H. Builtjes, Anthropogenic Black Carbon and Fine Aerosol Distribution over Europe, J. Geophys. Res., Volume 109, D18201, doi:10.1029/2003JD004330, 2004.

Schaap, M., van Loon, M., ten Brink, H.M., Dentener, F.D., Builtjes, P.J.H., Secondary inorganic aerosol simulations for Europe with special attention to nitrate, Atmos. Phys. Chem, Volume 4, Pages 857–874, 2004. pdf

Tuinder, O.N.E., de Winter-Sorkina, R., Builtjes P.J.H., Retrieval methods of effective could cover from the GOME intsrument: An intercomparison ,Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 4(1) pp 255-273, 2004.

Dosio, A, Vila-Guerau de Arellano, J., Holtslag, A.A.M. , Builtjes P.J.H., Dispersion of a passive tracer in buoyancy- and shear-driven boundary layers, Journal of Applied Meteorology. 42 ( 8) pp1116-1130, 2003.

Tuinder, O.N.E., de Winter-Sorkina, R., Builtjes P.J.H., Impact of satellite-derived effective cloud fraction on calculated actinic fkux, photodissociation rates abd OH-production ,J.of Geophys. Res 107, D19, 4364, 2002.

Aardenne, J.A. van, Builtjes P.J.H., Hordijk, L, Kroeze, C, Pulles, M.P.J. , Using wind-direction –dependent differenves between model calculations and field measurements as indicator for the inaccuray of emission inventories,Atm.Env. 36, 1195-1204, 2002.

Robles González, C., Schaap, M., de Leeuw, G., Builtjes, P. J. H., van Loon, M., Spatial variation of aerosol properties over Europe derived from satellite observations and comparison with model calculations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., Volume 3, Pages 521–533, 2003. pdf

M. Schaap, M. van Loon, A. Visschedijk, F.J. Dentener, P.J.H. Builtjes, Modelling PM2.5 concentrations over Europe: the role of agriculture, Landbauforschung Völkenrode, Special Issue 235, Pages 49–55, 2002.