The Doctoral Programme of Atmospheric Sciences (ATM-DP) organises the doctoral education of the divisions and research groups involved in ATM-MP, and thus provides a straightforward opportunity for you to continue with postgraduate studies.
All the units teaching in the Programme belong to the Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center (ACCC). The Center is a multidisciplinary team of the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR) at the University of Helsinki, the Department of Applied Physics at the University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio), the Department of Physics at Tampere University, and the Finnish Meteorological Institute. The main objective of ACCC is to address two of the most urgent global Grand Challenges: climate change and deteriorating air quality.
The Dynamic Meteorology group studies a wide range of topics all of which are related to better understanding the Earth's weather and climate. Currently our research focuses on 3 key aims:
In our research we utilize observations, reanalysis data sets, and numerical models of the atmosphere and climate system. Please see “Research” for more about our on-going research.
Atmospheric deep convection means thermally direct circulations that result from the action of gravity upon an unstable vertical distribution of mass. Deep convection is the cause of practically all precipitation in the tropics and most of the warm season precipitation in midlatitudes. Despite significant research, our basic understanding of what controls deep convection is still incomplete. This means that representing deep convection in numerical models (from weather prediction models to climate models) is difficult and such models often fail to accurately simulate the occurrence and characteristics of deep convection. Our group is currently analysing observations of deep convection in the tropics to better understand the mechanisms that control deep convection.
The Dynamic Meteorology group studies a wide range of topics all of which are related to better understanding the Earth's weather and climate. Currently our research focuses on 3 key aims:
In our research we utilize observations, reanalysis data sets, and numerical models of the atmosphere and climate system. Please see “Research” for more about our on-going research.
Earth System Modeling group develops and applies large scale models ranging from global aerosol or vegetation models to fully coupled Earth System Models (ESM). The main tools of the group are two ESMs. University of Helsinki has been actively using and developing MPI-ESM already since 2005. Recently, the group has joined both Nordic collaboration with the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM) and European collaboration with the EC-Earth model. The group is strongly linked to other research groups in the Center Of Excellence,and national collaboration with e.g. Finnish Meteorological Institute is established by several joint projects as well as frequent common meetings and seminars on ESM topics.
The group develops the ESMs in various aspects, e.g. regarding aerosol microphysics, aerosol optics, new particle formation, methane emissions from peatlands. The research carried out with the ESMs addresses questions on e.g. anthropogenic climate change, climate effects of biofuels, biospheric responses to a changing climate and land use, and Earth System Feedbacks.
Read more about the Earth System Modeling project.