Urban meteorology news (latest year)

• 6 March 2025: Our paper on using COS to derive urban photosynthesis is finally out: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-025-00958-5
• 5 March 2025: Project update! COOLGREEN project (Kaupunkiluonto tiiviin kaupunkirakenteen ilmastosopeutumisen keinona) funded by the Research Collaboration Research funding will start in April 2025
• 4 March 2025: New person Veera Bilaletdin has started to work in our group with the recently funded GHUGS project. Welcome!
• 10 February 2025: Our collaborative paper on comparing the model performance of different land surface models in simulating urban photosynthesis and vegetation has been published: https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/725/2025/
• 3 December 2024: Our group member Jesse Soininen was awarded by the Master thesis Helsinki prize for his thesis Estimating urban carbon uptake using carbonyl sulfide fluxes as a tracer. Congratulations!
• 28 November 2024: Our paper on developing floating car data based framework to estimate traffic emissions is now available online: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad984d
• 26 October 2024: Our paper on Mapping CO2 traffic emissions within local climate zones in Helsinki was published: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212095524003687
• 29 June 2024: Our paper on LES air quality simulations in Malmö with comparisons to portable AQ instrumentation is now online in Environmental Pollution: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749124011898?via%3Dihub
• 14 June 2024: Our research project GHUGS on improving our understanding on urban vegetation and soil GHG emissions (2024-2028) was funded by the Research Council of Finland 
• 23 May 2024:Recent work where our group was involved on social injustice of cooling services provided by urban nature was publihsed in Nature Cities: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-024-00077-x#citeas  
• 22 May 2024: Our group leader L. Järvi was interviewed for Helsingin Sanomat on clear air turbulence: https://www.hs.fi/tiede/art-2000010444607.html.
• 15 Mat 2024: Our work on cooling potential of urban street trees was referred in a news story by YLE, https://yle.fi/a/74-20088045
• 9 April 2024: Our group leader L. Järvi will have presentation "Vulnerability of urban areas to climate change" at the ACCC impact week 2024.

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