Wouter Mol

Wouter Mol is an External Employee in the Department of Meteorology and Air Quality at Wageningen University. He completed his PhD in 2024 under the supervision of Prof. Vilà-Guerau de Arellano and Prof. van Heerwaarden, focusing on mechanisms of solar irradiance variability under broken clouds. His research integrates atmospheric physics, remote sensing, and climate dynamics, with a focus on cloud-surface interactions and radiative processes.

Key research interests include solar irradiance variability, cloud physics, and boundary layer meteorology. He has contributed to major datasets on solar irradiance climatology and participated in field experiments like CloudRoots-Amazon22, linking cloud dynamics to photosynthesis in tropical ecosystems.

His work has been published in journals such as Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics and Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, with datasets archived on Zenodo. Mol has provided expert commentary on weather phenomena such as extreme hailstones and volcanic eruptions, demonstrating engagement with public outreach and interdisciplinary collaboration.