People

Heikki Järvinen is a professor and docent in meteorology. His research focuses on developing ensemble prediction and algorithmic parameter estimation techniques. A complete list of Heikki Järvinen's publications is here

Dr. Jouni Räisänen is a University lecturer and docent in meteorology. His research focuses on anthropogenic climate change,  interannual climate variability and the combined effects of these two on the evolution of climate that we observe in the real world. His research is mainly based on analysis of global and regional climate model simulations and reanalysis data sets. A complete list of Jouni Räisänen's publications is here

Ph.D. Marja Bister is a University lecturer and docent in meteorology. Her research focuses on the fundamental aspects of atmospheric deep convection.  She is also interested in the physics of  tropical cyclones, particularly their intensity dependence on  environmental factors whether associated with climate or shorter timescale variations. A complete list of Marja Bister's publications is here.

Dr Victoria Sinclair (PhD) is an University lecturer and docent in meteorology. Her research primarily focuses on the dynamics of extra-tropical cyclones and how these weather systems will change in the future. Other topics of interest include heat waves, low-level jets, poleward moisture transport and transport of pollution and aerosol particles. In her research she uses numerical weather prediction models - OpenIFS and WRF - as well as reanalysis data sets and FLEXPART, a Lagrangian Dispersion model. A complete list of Victoria Sinclair's publications is here

Clément Bouvier (PhD.) is a postdoctoral researcher. His research focuses on feature selection, data augmentation and active learning algorithms for Machine Learning. He combines these different methods to allow fast and stable processing of huge quantity of data. A partial list of Clément Bouvier's publication is available here. A complete list can be found in his ORCID.

Madeleine Ekblom (MSc, MSc (tech.)) is a doctoral student in meteorology. Her research focuses on parameter estimation in ensemble forecasting systems using algorithmic approaches. She uses both idealised models, such as Lorenz'95, and realistic models, OpenIFS, in her research. A complete list of Madeleine Ekblom's publications is here

Lauri Tuppi (M.Sc.) is a doctoral student in meteorology. His research focuses on developing and testing algorithmic tuning methods for closure parameters of numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. In his research he uses OpenIFS NWP model, OpenEPS ensemble prediction workflow manager, as well as the Ensemble Prediction and Parameter Estimation System (EPPES) and Differential Evolution (DE) tuning algorithms. A complete list of Lauri Tuppi's publications is here

Joona Hautala (M.Sc.) is a doctoral student in meteorology. He uses the global aerosol-climate model ECHAM-HAM to investigate the effects of supervolcanic eruptions on tropical superstorms. A complete list of Joona Hautala's publications is here

Irina Statnaia (MSc) is a doctoral student in meteorology who works on understanding the sources of predictability at the sub-seasonal timescale. Her research focuses on the dynamics of stratosphere-troposphere coupling and tropical-extratropical teleconnections. In her research she uses atmospheric observations, reanalysis datasets and the numerical weather prediction models (ECMWF IFS, OpenIFS). A complete list of Irina Statnaia's publications is here.

Angel N. Trastoy (M.Sc.) is a doctoral student in atmospheric sciences, and works on data assimilation of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data. A complete list of Ángel Navarro Trastoy's publications is here.

Johannes Mikkola (MSc) is a doctoral student in meteorology. His research focuses on transport of aerosol from the boundary layer to the free-troposphere in mountainous regions. He studies which factors control the mountain venting using numerical weather prediction and aerosol transport models (WRF, FLEXPART, WRF-CHIMERE). A complete list of Johannes Mikkola's publications is here.

Maksym Vasiuta (MSc) is a doctoral student in meteorology. His research focuses on calculating weather model-based Earth Radiation Pressure acting on Earth orbiting satellites. In his research ​he mainly uses OpenIFS NWP model and a dataset of ECMWF initial states, POD (Precise Orbit Determination) solver from the Technical University of Graz (TUG), Austria. A complete list of Maksym Vasiuta's publication is here.

Sanam Motlaghzadeh (MSc) is a doctoral student in atmospheric sciences. She works on the orbit determination of gravity satellites and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data. A complete list of Sanam Motlaghzadeh's publications is found here.

Joona Cornér (BSc) is a master's student in meteorology. He works as a research assistant in the Finnish Academy project STORMS which aims to identify and quantify measures related to extratropical cyclone intensity, variability and impacts in Europe. In the project he acts as the meteorological counterpart to the postdoc, performing analysis on extratropical cyclones using ERA5 reanalysis data.

Daniel Köhler (BSc) is a doctoral student in meteorology. Their research focuses midlatitude cyclones and how they are affected by changes to sea surface temperature and sea ice concentration in the Artic and Antarctic. The studies are conducted by using the global weather prediction model OpenIFS.

Juniper Tyree (MSc, MEng) is a doctoral student in atmospheric sciences. Their research is focused on developing and comparing data compression methods for weather and climate simulation data as part of the ESiWACE3 project. Juniper uses their background in computer science, data analysis and machine learning in Python, and scientific Rust to combine HPC with accessible data analysis in Jupyter and datasets from models such as ICON, EC-Earth, and OpenIFS. A partial list of Juniper Tyree's publication is available here. A complete list can be found on their ORCiD.