It is with great sadness that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has learnt of the sudden death of Dr. Arie Kattenberg on 19 May 2014 at the age of 65.
Arie Kattenberg worked for the Technical Support Unit of the IPCC-WGI Second Assessment Report, he has been secretary of the IPCC coordination group of the Netherlands, and he has participated in several IPCC sessions. At the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) he has worked as Senior Policy Advisor Climate, as Head International Relations, and as a climate scientist. He retired in 2013, but he was still very active in the climate field. It was at a workshop on data rescue in Indonesia where he suddenly deceased.
We remember Arie Kattenberg as a really nice and competent colleague.