Nitrogen deposition on nature

Known criticisms of this statistic

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• The Adviescollege Meten en Berekenen Stikstof (commissie-Hordijk) judged the national measuring-and-modelling system fit for purpose for the national picture this chart shows, but found AERIUS 'not fit for purpose' for permit decisions: at the hectare scale used in permitting, the uncertainty of a project's calculated deposition is 'many times higher than the assessment threshold' — in the committee's words, 'science cannot deliver here what policy asks'.

  — Adviescollege Meten en Berekenen Stikstof (commissie-Hordijk), 2020 · Adviescollege Meten en Berekenen Stikstof: Meer meten, robuuster rekenen (eindrapport)

• The same committee found the OPS model's calculations grow more uncertain at regional and national scale, judged the national measurement network 'minimal', and recommended combining multiple models into an ensemble and expanding measurements to make the outcomes more robust.

  — Adviescollege Meten en Berekenen Stikstof (commissie-Hordijk), 2020 · Adviescollege Meten en Berekenen Stikstof: Meer meten, robuuster rekenen (eindrapport)

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