Climate & Earth
Climate & Earth
"Climate & Earth" focuses on the impact of human activities on soil-land-atmosphere interactions.
The Climate & Earth research unit investigates fundamental processes in geomorphology and atmospheric science and their social and ecological impact, using advanced methods such as erosion and climate modelling, remote sensing, photogrammetry, sediment tracking and data science.
Team
The Climate & Earth team is led by Professors Frankl and Van Weverberg. Together, they manage a professional and closely collaborating team of researchers, PhD students and staff, each with their own expertise.
In the spotlight
Disdrometer
The "Climate & Earth" team's The "Climate & Earth" team's disdrometer and rain gauge at ILVO, Merelbeke measures various rainfall properties, shown in the daily updated graphs below. The data supports the team's essential research on splash erosion in agricultural fields, calibration of novel remote sensing techniques to measure rainfall intensity, and on developing models for improved predictions of extreme precipitation across weather and climate time scales.
The data supports the team's essential research on splash erosion in agricultural fields and on developing models for improved predictions of extreme precipitation across weather and climate time scales.
Contact Kwinten Van Weverberg.
Academic
output
The Climate & Earth research unit produces numerous publications in major scientific journals and delivers several PhDs every year.
Furthermore, the team collaborates on several national and international projects that are highly regarded in academia.