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Jelmar GerritsenMSc Aerospace Engineering
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I'm hugely thankful to the people at SRON Space Research Organisation Netherlands who helped me get here - in particular my supervisors Tobias Arie de Jong and J.D. (Bram) Maasakkers.
Now on to the next challenge π
Jelmar GerritsenMSc Aerospace Engineering
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To visualize the large number of generated plots (~5000), I wrote a simple interactive tool. Being able to quickly jump between and cross-compare results is in my opinion a big benefit and makes it way easier to find interesting patterns and formulate hypotheses.
Some of my findings:
-π₯ Extreme fires like the 2020 California and 2019β2020 Australia wildfires were underestimated across all inventories
- β Australia, Europe, and Boreal Asia showed two fire seasons (a smaller one in spring and a main one in summer); while South America and South Africa experienced extended fire seasons
- π The bottom-up GFED5 inventory performed best overall, while the top-down FINN2.5 often overestimated emissionsβlikely affected by how both handle small fires
For my full results, you can read my report on my page or just shoot me a message π©
I'm also happy to say I'm staying on as a thesis student at SRON! I'll be focusing on methane plume observations from space π°οΈ
