Finnish Meteorological Institute
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GOMOS, OMI and OSIRIS data have been used in the of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ozone assessment 2014. GOMOS data separately and as a part of the Harmonized dataset of ozone profiles (HARMOZ). Congratulations GOMOS Team!
Iolanda Ialongo got the Living Planet Fellowship for two years funded by ESA. This is the first time ESA granted the fellowships. Congrats Iolanda!
Monika et al. published a paper in Nature Communications! It's about electrons and mesospheric ozone, with speculation about possible regional climate effects. Available here!
ESA (European Space Agency) granted a 3-year funding for the MesosphEO (Exploitation of the Mesosphere) project. Way to go!
The first observations from SO2 plume from Iceland were received on Monday in Sodankylä. You can check the observations from here. Let's see how the situation will evolve!
Iolanda starts working as an expert in an Ecuadorian cooperation project. The project starts this week with a study tour at FMI, including a seminar-series. Iolanda's topic is solar UV radiation and satellite data applications.
A whole afternoon seminar was organized at FMI to celebrate the ten years of OMI observations. Go OMI!
Antti (Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory) and Pekka are working on the SIC model during 30 Jun-4 Jul.
Pekka's SECTIC (Sun-Earth Connection Through Ion Chemistry) proposal was granted a 4-year funding by the Academy of Finland. Great!
Antti (Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory) and Pekka are working on the SIC model during 30 Jun-4 Jul.
Pekka's SECTIC (Sun-Earth Connection Through Ion Chemistry) proposal was granted a 4-year funding by the Academy of Finland. Great!
Dr. Dieter Peters from Leibniz-Institut für Atmosphärenphysik, Kühlungsborn visited IKA 2-13 June and worked with Viktoria and Pekka on gravity waves and ion chemistry modelling, respectively.
Our new Pandora instrument was recently mounted on the roof of FMI building. It was a sunny day, so it was possible to start measuring. Pandora is a direct sun spectrometer measuring atmospheric ozone, NO2, SO2 and other chemical species. For more information, click here. Our group will take care of the instrument's maintenance and the data analysis.
PhD student Carsten Baumann from DLR, Germany, visited Pekka Verronen in early April. Carsten and Pekka worked on meteor smoke and ion chemistry and also on SIC model.
The Academy of Finland chooses every month a distinguished researcher to tell about her/his scientific work, backgrounds and everyday life as a scientific researcer to the public. This month Annika was chosen. Good job Annika! Link to the article is here (in Finnish).
He is going to code the existing OMI-SIRO-SO2 -retrieval with Matlab. Also estimation of the height of sulfatedioxide clouds originating from volcanic eruptions is a part of his work.
New OMI tropospheric NO2 average dataset for air quality monitoring in Northern Europe is now published. For more information click here.
Janne Hakkarainen defended his dissertation On state and parameter estimation in chaotic systems on 29th November 2013 at the Lappeenranta University of Technology. Professor Peter Jan van Leeuwen, University of Reading, UK, was the opponent and Professor Heikki Haario, Lappeenranta University of Technology, the custos. Congratulations Janne!
Antti (Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory) and Pekka worked on SIC development and EISCAT/NO-related paper.
PhD candidate Marianne Daae from Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway visited us 28.-29.5.2013. She is working with radiometer measurements and utilization of SIC model in precipitation research. The visit was hosted by Pekka.
Prof. John Plane from University of Leeds visited FMI to talk about ion chemistry and the SIC model with Pekka, Annika, Monika.
PhD student Mona Esmaeilimahani from Tohoku University, Japan visited us 15.-19.4.2013. She is working with atmospheric remote sensing and GOMOS SMILES collaboration. The visit was hosted by Johanna and Erkki.
Dr. Prof. Yasuko Kasai from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan visited us 15.-16.4.2013. He is working with atmospheric remote sensing and GOMOS SMILES collaboration. The visit was hosted by Johanna and Erkki.
Dr. Cristen Adams from University of Saskachewan, Canada visited us 6.-22.3.2013. She is working with long time-series, OSIRIS, SAGE II and GOMOS data. The visit was hosted by Johanna and Viktoria.
Esa Turunen from Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory visited us. We worked on CHAMOS-related science topics and made plans for future collaboration. Always good to see you, Esa!
Dr. Cristen Adams from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, visited us. She was working with intercomparison of OSIRIS, GOMOS and MLS data.
Dr. Nikolai M. Gavrilov (Saint-Petersburg State University, Department of Atmospheric Physics) was visiting FMI during September 2012. The main focus of his work is gravity waves and turbulence.
Craig Rodger from the University of Otago visited our group 13.8-17.8. Craig, Pekka and Monika were working on electron precipitation and mesospheric hydroxyl. It was nice having you here Craig!
Jukka Kujanpää was nominated as the representative of Finland in EUMETSAT's STG Science Working Group.
The award is given to one European young scientist once a year. Annika will receive her award in the EMS & ECAC meeting in Poland in September. Congratulations Annika!
Our group has 3 trainees for this summer. They will start working in late spring/early summer. We all hope you'll enjoy the work environment here. Welcome to FMI!
Brigitte will visit our group 7.5-18.5. She's a Ph. D. student in the University of Bern and her research is concentrated on the atmospheric water vapor measurements. Welcome Brigitte!
Annika was selected to become a fellow of the Academy of Finland. The academy funds her research project "Climate and solar particle forcing". Congratulations Annika!
After spending 3.5 years at British Antarctic Survey, Annika returns to Finnish Meteorological Institute and rejoins the FMI's CHAMOS team. Welcome back!
Monika is the latest addition to the FMI's CHAMOS team. She joins us from the Helsinki University of Technology and will be working on mesospheric effects of electron precipitation. Her work is funded by the Academy of Finland (SPOC). Welcome!
Academy of Finland funds Pekka's research project "Significance of Energetic Electron Precipitation to Odd Hydrogen, Ozone, and Climate" (SPOC). In addition to Pekka's 4-year Academy Research Fellow position, the funding covers one Ph.D. student or postdoc. Unbelievable!
