The extent of the Master's thesis is 30 credits (ECTS) and it aims to demonstrate your:
You will need to agree upon the topic of your thesis in consultation with a professor of the programme. The topic is usually related to research problems of one of the research groups within the Programme; commonly the group is part of the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR).
Below is a list of recent MSc theses of the degree programme. You can find them in the University of Helsinki's
| Meteorology | Lindfors, Mimosa: | Assessing Carbon Balances in Sodankylä with Ecosystem Model and Remote Sensing | Supervisors: Tea Thum, Tiina Markkanen |
| Aerosol Physics | Whiffen, Aslak: | Ion properties of artificially and naturally charged aerosols in a DMPS setup | Supervisors: Juha Kangasluoma |
| Aerosol Physics | Mustonen, Linnea: | Measuring Arctic Ice-Nucleating Particle Concentrations from Preserved Filters | Supervisors: Zoé Brasseur, Ana Álvarez Piedehierro |
| Biosphere-Atmosphere Cycles | Croos, Shalini: | A Longitudinal Study of CO₂ Fluxes in Helsinki 2006 to 2023 | |
| Biosphere-Atmosphere Cycles | Vaittinen, Aarni: | New particle formation and precursor vapours at an Arctic site: Ny-Ålesund | Supervisors: Mikko Sipilä, Nina Sarnela, Lauriane Quéléver |
| Meteorology | Orttenvuori, Suvi: | Evaluating snow dynamics in JSBACH land surface model and Crocus snowpack model at a northern peatland | Supervisor: Tuula Aalto |
| Meteorology | Rantala, Oskari: | Atmospheric conditions favoring derecho formation and the frequency of these conditions in Finland | Supervisors: Marja Bister, Jouni Räisänen |
| Meteorology | Putkinen, Kalle: | Sademäärän riippuvuus tuulen suunnasta pääkaupunkiseudulla | |
| Meteorology | Rauhamäki, Pinja: | Medium and extended range wind power forecast using the ECMWF 100-meter wind data in Finland | Supervisors: Alexey Karpechko, Anders Lindfors |
| Meteorology | Sulkava, Henri: | Effect of peatland restoration on methane and carbon dioxide balance in Europe | Supervisors: Tiina Markkanen, Tuula Aalto |
| Meteorology | Zhang, Xinyi: | Assessment of High-Resolution Simulation in Reproducing Surface Wind over Alps | Supervisor: Lauri Tuppi |
Turunen, Tarja: Quantifying environmental thresholds for increased Norway spruce mortality in Finland. Supervisor: Samuli Junttila
Maalampi, Panu: Studying the effect of a new aerosol option on HARMONIE-AROME sea fog forecasts. Supervisors: Laura Rontu, Victoria Sinclair, Ekaterina Kurzeneva
Kiema, Sarai: Kansalaisten Netatmo-kesäsadehavaintojen laatuanalyysi. Supervisors: Kaisa Ylinen, Jouni Räisänen, Marja Bister
Kaltiainen, Aino: The effect of large-scale circulation pattern variability in the northern Atlantic-European region on the boundary layer characteristics in Helsinki, Finland. Supervisor: Sasu Karttunen
Lohtander, Aleksi: Changes in diurnal temperature range in Finland between 1961–1990 and 1991–2020. Supervisor: Jouni Räisänen
Pekkala, Minttu: Comparison of Surface Albedo and Top of Atmosphere Albedo in the Arctic. Supervisors: Aku Riihelä, Petteri Uotila
Forsbacka, Amy: Analyzing Volatile Organic Compounds from the Baltic Sea using Vocus PTR-TOF-MS. Supervisors: Mikael Ehn, Roseline Thakur, Maija Peltola, Yuanyuan Luo
Leskinen, Juha: Effect of forest management on carbon and energy budgets on mineral soil, in pine forests in Finland. Supervisors: Leif Backman, Tiina Markkanen
van den Broek, Daan: Proximity Sounding Analysis of Supercell Environments in Finland. Supervisors: Jenni Rauhala, Marja Bister
Djupsjöbacka, Jemina: Oribatid mite and testate amoeba communities as environmental and carbon flux proxies on two subarctic peatlands. Supervisor:Minna Väliranta
Li, Delun: Decades of Light-Absorbing Aerosol Particles: Analysis of Equivalent Black Carbon Concentrations in Joensuu. Supervisors: Tuukka Petäjä, Ari Virkkula
Toropainen, Antti: Lorenz energy cycle of a baroclinic wave simulation. Supervisor: Victoria Sinclair
Vinkvist, Netta: Influence of temperature on gas-phase oxidation of cyclohexene and limonene. Supervisors: Matti Rissanen, Mikael Ehn, Theo Kurten
Yu, Ping: Validation of XCO2 retrieval in high latitudes from OCO-2 version 10 product using ground-based TCCON measurements: Hannakaisa Lindqvist, Dmitri Moisseev
Landon, Kaisa: Suomen lumivyöryennusteiden tila ja tulevaisuus osana eurooppalaista lumivyöryvaroituspalvelua (EAWS). Supervisors: Jouni Räisänen, Alberto Blanco Sequeiros
Huynh, Vinh Loc: Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) in Solid-State Weather Radars. Supervisors: Dmitri Moisseev, Juha Salmivaara
Tahvonen, Sara: Impact of warming sea surface temperature on anticyclonic Rossby wave breaking during Northern Hemisphere winter and summer. Supervisor: Victoria Sinclair
Lindroos, Hanna: Maaperän jään mallinnus routajäristysten ennakoinnissa. Supervisors: Ekaterina Ezhova, Jarkko Okkonen
Salminen, Jenna: Pilvet eksoplaneettojen kaasukehässä: vaikutukset elinkelpoisuuteen ja transmissiospektriin. Supervisors: Mikko Tuomi, Jouni Räisänen
Hu, Yiling: Reproducing Large-Eddy Simulation of Pollutant Concentration Using Machine Learning. Supervisors: Martha Zaidan, Leena Järvi
Widenius, Jyrki: Description and characterization of a novel Coughing Head Aerosol Generator. Supervisors: Topi Rönkkö, Paavo Heikkilä
Bengs, Anna: Resolving oxygenated organic molecules in a boreal forest using a MION-Orbitrap mass spectrometer. Supervisors: Runlong Vai, Juha Kangasluoma
Aerosol Physics:
Kemppainen, Deniz: Observations of atmospheric iodic acid over the one-year-long MOSAiC expedition in the central Arctic
Zhang, Jiangyi: Ozone formation sensitivity indicated by highly oxygenated organic molecules
Feng, Weihang: On-road emission inventory and its potential impact on secondary pollutant in China
Tu, Jingyi: Determining emitted particle number size distributions in Helsinki from ambient measurements
Holm, Sebastian: Manipulating the charger ion distribution towards fixed properties
Geophysics of the Hydrosphere:
Murakami, Margaret: Water Mass Transformations Within Prydz Bay Coastal Polynyas from Clustered Drifters
Haapaniemi, Veera: Aallokko-meri -mallikytkennän vaikutukset meren pintakerroksen dynamiikkaan Itämerellä
Korhonen, Vesa Aarne: Modelling heat transfer in permafrost with COMSOL
Karvo, Sara: Using acoustic current measurements in zooplankton research in the Baltic Sea
Berg, Hanna: Alueelliset muutokset Itämeren jääpeitteessä
Atmospheric Chemistry and Analysis:
Franzon, Lauri: Formation of ROR dimers from Peroxy Radical Recombination Reactions
Kuusisto, Minttu: Haihtuvien orgaanisten yhdisteiden mittaaminen vedestä – uudentyyppisen maaperäilmaisimen karakterisointi
Meteorology:
Cornér, Joona: Optimising an inverse modelling system for local peatland methane emissions
Koskentausta, Juho: The impact of Arctic sea ice loss on Eurasian winter surface air temperatures
Köhler, Daniel: Impact of model parameter optimisation on the properties of ensemble forecasts
Koivula, Kalle-Matti: Utilisation of drones in wind measurements: an analysis of wind data gathered with a drone-bound ultrasonic anemometer
Suikkari, Riikka: Lumensyvyyden muutos osana ilmastonmuutosta ERA5-Land-aineistossa
Hamberg, Sanna: Voimakkaiden tuulien suunta- ja vuodenaikajakaumat Suomessa 2010-luvulla
Rimo, Eetu: Convective wind gust cases in Finland during summer season
Mom, Bernd: Kinematic properties of mesoscale convective systems over the equatorial Pacific
Juurikkala, Kasper: Modeling ice nucleation in cirrus clouds: parameterization intercomparison using UCLALES-SALSA
Soininen, Jesse: Estimating urban carbon uptake using carbonyl sulfide fluxes as a tracer
Hyvärinen, Sara: Methane emissions on the northern high latitude wetlands during spring soil thawing season
Karvonen, Anni: Variability in carbon dioxide and heat fluxes in Minneapolis determined using land surface modelling