Bintanja, Prof. Richard
Richard Bintanja is a Professor of Climate and Environmental Change. He studied Meteorology at Utrecht University. He obtained his PhD for his research into the Antarctic climate (The Antarctic Ice Sheet and Climate) and subsequently worked at the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU) as a postdoc.
Bintanja has been working as a climate researcher at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) since 2007. His research interests include the climates of both polar region, and he has used advanced climate models to quantify and understand future changes in the polar climate. Bintanja's work started with meteorological and glaciological observations during several expeditions to the polar regions, including Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, and Svalbard, among others.
Bintanja has been Professor of Climate and Environmental Change at the UG Faculty of Science and Engineering since 2017. He is also the lead editor of the scientific journal Meteorologica.
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2025
van
der Most, L., van der Wiel, K., Benders, R. M.
J., Gerbens-Leenes, P. W., &
Bintanja, R. (2025). Impacts of future changes in
climate variability on Europe’s renewable electricity
systems. Environmental Research:
Climate, 4(2), Article 025007. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/add613
Skyllas,
N., Verhoeven, M., Loonen, M. J. J. E.,
& Bintanja, R. (2025). Simulating and Analysing
Seabird Flyways: An Approach Combining Least-Cost Path Modelling
and Machine learning. Global Ecology and
Biogeography, 34(2), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70016
Tsakali,
N., Kolbe, M., Bintanja, R., &
Skyllas, N. (2025). The time of emergence of Arctic
warming, wetting and sea ice melting. Scientific
Reports, 15(1), Article 12626. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-96607-1
Kolbe,
M., Bintanja, R., van der Linden, E.
C., & Cordero, R. R. (2025). Vertical
structure and surface impact of atmospheric rivers reaching
antarctic sea ice and land. Atmospheric
research, 315, Article 107841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2024.107841
2024
van
der Most, L., van der Wiel, K., Benders, R. M.
J., Gerbens-Leenes, P. W., &
Bintanja, R. (2024). Temporally compounding energy
droughts in European electricity systems with hydropower.
Nature Energy, 9, 1474-1484. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-024-01640-5
2023
Skyllas,
N., Loonen, M. J. J. E., & Bintanja,
R. (2023). Arctic tern flyways and the changing
Atlantic Ocean wind patterns. Climate Change
Ecology, 6, Article 100076. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecochg.2023.100076
Kolbe,
M., Sonnemans, J. P. J., Bintanja, R., van der
Linden, E. C., van der Wiel, K., Whan, K., & Benedict, I.
(2023). Impact of Atmospheric Rivers on Future Poleward
Moisture Transport and Arctic Climate in EC-Earth2.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres,
128(18), Article e2023JD038926. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD038926
Bintanja,
R., Grand Graversen, R., & Kolbe, M.
(2023). Regional polar warming linked to poleward moisture
transport variability. Environmental
Research, 2(4), Article 041003. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/acee9e
Kolbe,
M., Bintanja, R., & van der Linden, E. C.
(2023). Seasonal and regional contrasts of future trends in
interannual arctic climate variability. Climate
dynamics, 61(7-8), 3673-3706. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06766-y
Cordero,
R. R., Feron, S., Damiani, A., Llanillo, P. J.,
Carrasco, J., Khan, A. L., Bintanja, R., Ouyang, Z.,
& Casassa, G. (2023). Signature of the
stratosphere-Troposphere coupling on recent record-breaking
Antarctic sea-ice anomalies.
Cryosphere, 17(11), 4995-5006. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4995-2023
Muntjewerf,
L., Bintanja, R., Reerink, T., & Van Der Wiel, K.
(2023). The KNMI Large Ensemble Time Slice
(KNMI-LENTIS). Geoscientific Model
Development, 16(15), 4581-4597. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-4581-2023
2022
van
der Most, L., van der Wiel, K., Benders, R. M.
J., Gerbens-Leenes, P. W., Kerkmans, P.,
& Bintanja, R. (2022). Extreme events in the
European renewable power system: Validation of a modeling framework
to estimate renewable electricity production and demand from
meteorological data. Renewable and Sustainable
Energy Reviews, 170, Article 112987. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2022.112987
Zhang,
T., van der Wiel, K., Wei, T., Screen, J., Yue, X., Zheng, B.,
Selten, F., Bintanja, R., Anderson, W., Blackport, R.,
Glomsrød, S., Liu, Y., Cui, X., & Yang, X. (2022).
Increased wheat price spikes and larger economic inequality
with 2°C global warming. One
Earth, 5(8), 907-916. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.07.004
Dou,
T. F., Pan, S. F., Bintanja, R., & Xiao, C.
(2022). More Frequent, Intense, and Extensive Rainfall Events
in a Strongly Warming Arctic. Earths
future, 10(10), Article ARTN e2021EF002378. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002378
2021
van
der Wiel, K., & Bintanja, R. (2021).
Contribution of climatic changes in mean and variability to
monthly temperature and precipitation extremes.
Communications Earth and Environment,
2(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00077-4
2020
Bogerd,
L., van der Linden, E. C., Krikken, F., & Bintanja,
R. (2020). Climate State Dependence of Arctic
Precipitation Variability. Journal of geophysical
research-Atmospheres, 125(8), Article
e2019JD031772. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD031772
van
der Wiel, K., Selten, F. M., Bintanja, R., Blackport,
R., & Screen, J. A. (2020). Ensemble climate-impact
modelling: Extreme impacts from moderate meteorological
conditions. Environmental Research
Letters, 15(3), Article 034050. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab7668
Selten,
F. M., Bintanja, R., Vautard, R., & van den Hurk ,
B. J. J. M. (2020). Future continental summer warming
constrained by the present-day seasonal cycle of surface
hydrology. Scientific Reports,
10(1), Article 4721. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61721-9
Bintanja,
R., van der Wiel, K., van der Linden, E. C., Reusen, J.,
Bogerd, L., Krikken, F., & Selten, F. M. (2020). Strong
future increases in Arctic precipitation variability linked to
poleward moisture transport. Science
Advances, 6(7), Article eaax6869. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax6869
2019
Reusen,
J., van der Linden, E., & Bintanja, R. (2019).
Differences between Arctic Interannual and Decadal
Variability across Climate States. Journal of
Climate, 32(18), 6035-6050. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0672.1
Blackport,
R., Screen, J. A., van der Wiel, K., & Bintanja,
R. (2019). Minimal influence of reduced Arctic sea ice
on coincident cold winters in mid-latitudes.
Nature climate change, 9(9),
697–704. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0551-4
Dekker,
E., Bintanja, R., & Severijns, C. (2019).
Nudging the Arctic Ocean to Quantify Sea Ice
Feedbacks. Journal of climate,
32(8), 2381-2395. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0321.1
van
der Linden, E. C., Le Bars, D., Bintanja, R., &
Hazeleger, W. (2019). Oceanic heat transport into the Arctic
under high and low CO2 forcing. Climate
dynamics, 53(7-8), 4763–4780. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04824-y
Skyllas,
N., Bintanja, R., Buma, A., BRUSSAARD,
CPD., Gröger, M., Hieronymus, J., & van de Poll,
W. (2019). Validation of Stratification-Driven
Phytoplankton Biomass and Nutrient Concentrations in the Northeast
Atlantic Ocean as Simulated by EC-Earth.
Geosciences, 9(10), Article 450. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences9100450
2018
Bintanja,
R. (2018). Attributing the increase in Arctic
rainfall to atmospheric warming.
Rasmijn,
L. M., van der Schrier , G., Bintanja, R., Barkmeijer,
J., Sterl, A., & Hazeleger, W. (2018). Future equivalent
of 2010 Russian heatwave intensified by weakening soil moisture
constraints. Nature climate change,
8, 381-385. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0114-0
Bintanja,
R. (2018). Het Arctische gebied: een donkere
toekomst? Meteorologica,
27(1), 28-30.
Bintanja,
R., Katsman, C. A., & Selten, F. M. (2018).
Increased Arctic Precipitation Slows Down Sea Ice Melt and
Surface Warming. Oceanography,
31(2), 118-125. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2018.204
Bintanja,
R. (2018). The impact of Arctic warming on increased
rainfall. Scientific Reports,
8, Article 16001. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34450-3
2017
van
der Linden, E. C., Bintanja, R., & Hazeleger, W.
(2017). Arctic decadal variability in a warming world.
Journal of geophysical research-Atmospheres,
122(11), 5677-5696. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD026058
Helsen,
M. M., van de Wal, R. S. W., Reerink, T. J., Bintanja,
R., Madsen, M. S., Yang, S., Li, Q., & Zhang, Q. (2017).
On the importance of the albedo parameterization for the mass
balance of the Greenland ice sheet in EC-Earth.
Cryosphere, 11(4), 1949-1965. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1949-2017
Stap,
L. B., de Wal, R. S. W. V., de Boer, B., Bintanja, R.,
& Lourens, L. J. (2017). The influence of ice sheets on
temperature during the past 38 million years inferred from a
one-dimensional ice sheet-climate model. Climate
of the Past, 13(9), 1243-1257. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1243-2017
Andry,
O., Bintanja, R., & Hazeleger, W. (2017).
Time-dependent variations in the arctic's surface albedo
feedback and the link to seasonality in sea ice.
Journal of Climate, 30(1), 393-410.
https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0849.1
Bintanja,
R., & Andry, O. (2017). Towards a rain-dominated
Arctic. Nature climate change,
7, 263-267. https://doi.org/10.1038/NCLIMATE3240
Bintanja,
R. (2017). Towards a rain-dominated
Arctic. Poster session presented at European
Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017, Vienna, Austria.
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