Peter Kuipers Munneke
Polar scientist
About me
I am a scientist in the field of glaciology and polar meteorology at the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU), part of Utrecht University, The Netherlands. I'm active on Mastodon.
Featured paper: NAO and Greenland firn
The large-scale weather pattern over the North Atlantic is variable, and it impacts Greenland surface mass balance, and firn mass. We find that a more positive phase of NAO (i.e., more zonal flow) since 2012 has slowed down the loss of firn over most of the ice sheet.
Blue ice in Antarctica
Using a spectral unmixing technique, we map daily fractions of blue-ice area over Antarctica for the 22-year period since 2000, using the full available MODIS archive. This FABIAN product is published in Remote Sensing of Environment.
Kitchen converter
In Swedish cookbooks, almost all necessary bulk ingredients
are given in a volume (ml) rather than weight (g). This is
very convenient since you do not need a kitchen balance, only
a set of widely available plastic scoops in various sizes. To
be able to use this method in Dutch or English
cookbooks, I compiled a short conversion table:
100 g potato starch = 215 ml
100 g flour = 215 ml
100 g butter = 375 ml
100 g cocoa = 190 ml
100 g cornstarch (maizena) = 215 ml
100 g raisins = 150 ml
100 g sugar = 125 ml
100 g salt = 100 ml