Urban meteorology news (latest year)

• 4 June 2025: New paper "How urban green infrastructure contributes to carbon neutrality" from CO-CARBON project is now out: https://journal-buildingscities.org/articles/10.5334/bc.586
• 3 June 2025: Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation has granted €1.2 million for a consortium "Emerging chemical pathways in future urban air quality" where our group leader is co-PI
• 18 May 2025: Our urban tree measurements in Helsinki gained visibility in national newspaper Iltasanomat
• 5 May 2025: Two new papers from our group now out: Intercomparison of biogenic CO2 flux models in four urban parks in the city of Zurich in Biogeosciences and Assessing the implications of EU Nature Restoration Law targets from carbon sequestration and biodiversity perspectives in a high-green urban environment in Npj Urban Sustainability
• 22 April 2025: Our past group member Sasu Karttunen succesfully defended his PhD thesis “Modelling and measuring transport processes within urban surface layer at high spatio-temporal resolutions”. Congratulations for the great achievement!
• 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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