Geesje Rotgers's scientific contributions

Publications (4)

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We present a simple, superior method for estimating the upstream to downstream differences in nitrate and chlorine in a well studied catchment in the Netherlands, using data from the Water Board in Vechtstromen, from 1985 to 2018, in answer to a paper by Kaandorp et al. (2021). Agricultural sites are mostly downstream; nevertheless, less nitrate, a...
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In dit document leggen ondergetekenden een aantal vragen voor aan de Raad van State (RvS) die betrekking hebben op uitspraken gedaan door dit college omtrent het stikstofbeleid. Deze vragen richten zich specifiek op het verstaan van het programma AERIUS(OPS), het gebruik van kritische depositiewaarden, het gebruik van het voorzorgbeginsel en het ve...
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The RIVM responded to our paper“Criticizing AERIUS/OPS model performance”. We rebut those critiques below. In brief: RIVM agrees that OPS performs poorly in the short term, but believes it performs well over long periods. Yet they failed to address our demonstration on how averaging over these longer terms can cause spurious “good results.” That i...
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We investigate the AERIUS/OPS model predictive skill. It has none compared to a simple “mean” model. Skill is the demonstrated superiority of one model over another, given specific verification mea- sures. OPS does not have skill compared to a simple “mean” model, which beats OPS using some measures. Further, the verification measures used are them...

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... After we published on Research Gate the article "Criticizing AERIUS/OPS model performance" [1], RIVM submitted a critique, or reaction, to our paper on their site. [4]. ...