Dr. Dominique Crommelynck

Currently Dr. Dominique Crommelynck is the honorary head of the Department of the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMIB). Earlier he was promoted to “Licencié en Sciences”(1959) and “Docteur en Sciences”(1969) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where he was Assistant to Professor P.Kipfer from 1959 to 1964.
Dr. Crommelynck joined the RMIB in 1965 with the responsibility of determining the terms of the Earth Radiation Budget (ERB). With the objective to measure the Solar Constant (TSI ), he has been the Principal Investigator on the SOVA experiment on EURECA, as well as his Differential Absolute Radiometers (Solcon , Diarad) on a series of shuttle flights. He is Co-Investigator for the flight of Diarad on VIRGO/SOHO.

Dr. Crommelynck collaborated with the Langley Research Center in the framing of their ERB missions. He managed with ESA to initiate the flight of a Geostationnary ERB instrument developed in consortium with GB,I,B and launched with MSG1 in August 2002 .The RMIB will make the GERB fluxes available, in quasi real time, to all interested scientific institutions.

Being retired, Dominique collaborates with LASP as Co-I on SORCE. He hopes that NASA and NASDA will help to put the Earth into a calorimeter and he will turn his interest to understanding the behavior of atmospheric electricity, for which he has developed a true electric field meter.