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Laura Riuttanen: Ilmastotekoja ei synny ilman osaavia tekijöitä Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö on nimennyt vuoden 2024 sivistyksen teemavuodeksi. Teema on tarpeen, sillä nykyinen elämänmenomme ei ole kestävällä pohjalla. Luonnonvarojen ylikulutus ja liiallinen rahan tavoittelu on sivistymätöntä. Sivistykseen kuuluu toisista ihmisistä, muista lajeista ja yhteisestä kodistamme maapallosta huolehtiminen. Tähän tarvitaan sydän, kädet ja pää.  Jokainen meistä joutuu […]

The first Climate Expert Specialisation Programme has started. During the next two years, we will educate 42 experts coming from different fields of society. We met for the first time last week (20.-22.3.2024) in Hyytiälä Forestry Station to get to know each other as well as climate science topics. The first 60-credits programme will be

Tampere University and the Finnish Meteorological Institute participate in EU funded PAREMPI-project together with VTT, Dekati, IEM from Czech Republic and BOSMAL from Poland. In the project the researchers will measure real-world aerosol emissions from heavy-duty diesel vehicles in winter conditions around Finland. The aim is to measure the exhaust emissions of diesel trucks but

The University of Eastern Finland, the Finnish Meteorological Institute and the University of Helsinki participated in a study where the capability of Earth System Models (ESMs) to simulate the impact of biogenic aerosols on cloud properties was analyzed. We used two long-term observational datasets from boreal and tropical forests, together with satellite data, to evaluate

In May–June 2019, smoke plumes from wildfires in Canada were advected all the way (across North America and the North Atlantic) to Europe. Scientists from the Finnish Meteorological Institute analyzed the aerosol mass concentrations over North America and Europe, and found that less than one-tenth of the emitted mass survived the transport over the Atlantic

In September 2023, global temperatures reached to a record-breaking 0.93°C above the 1991-2020 average, surpassing the previous September record by a staggering 0.5°C. Published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, scientists from the Finnish Meteorological Institute found that this anomaly was extremely rare event in climate models, occurring in about once in a hundred simulations. Therefore, climate change and internal climate variability

University of Helsinki and Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center (ACCC) will have an honor to host professor Ottmar Edenhofer, Director and Chief Economist of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Chair, The European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change on January 17th, 2024 in Tiedekulma, Helsinki at 17.00-19.00. Mr. Ottmar Edenhofer, will give

Vuoden viimeinen Ilmastoneutraalit ja -kestävät kaupungit -seminaari järjestettiin 14.12.2023. teemanaan kestävä liikkuminen tulevaisuuden kaupungeissa. Seminaarin järjestivät Ilmatieteen laitos ja Helsingin yliopiston kaupunkitutkimusinstituutti Urbaria osana ilmakehän ja ilmaston lippulaivaohjelmaa (Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center, ACCC). Seminaarin avasi Helsingin yliopiston kaupunkitutkimusinstituutin johtaja ja kaupunkimaantieteen professori Mari Vaattovaara. Tämän jälkeen kuultiin Ilmatieteen laitoksen erikoistutkija Timo Sukuvaaran, Suomen ympäristökeskuksen

Due to several requests, we have extended the deadline for the abstract submission for the 14th International Conference on Air Quality, held in Helsinki, Finland from May 13 to 17, 2024. The new deadline for the abstract submissions is on 14 January 2024. The conference in 2024 is organized jointly by the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth

The Research Council of Finland has granted continued funding to four competence clusters that are part of the Finnish Flagship Programme. The Research Council’s funding for the Flagships comes to 42 million euros in 2025–2028. The continued funding was decided in connection with the mid-term review, which assessed the progress of the Flagships selected in