The University of Helsinki (UH) and Salla Municipality invited HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco to visit the Station for Measuring Ecosystem and Atmosphere Relations (SMEAR I) in Värriö, Finland. The aim of the visit was to introduce the SMEAR-1 station and to discuss, how to best promote the SMEAR measurement concept for the comprehensive … Continue reading Prince Albert II visit to SMEAR Värriö

The Sergej Zilitinkevich Memorial Award Nomination Committee is pleased to announce that the 2023 Award is awarded to two candidates:Professor Christine Susan Betham Grimmond, Dept. Meteorology, School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences (SMPCS), University of Reading, Reading RG6 6ETAnd:Professor Emeritus, Larry Mahrt, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State, University, Corvallis, Oregon. Senior … Continue reading Sue Grimmond and Larry Mahrt receive the Zilitinkevich Memorial Award 2023

The Young Scientist School (YSS) URSA MAJOR 2023 will introduce a young generation of researchers to special topics in urban societal, environmental, and computational sciences. The focus is set on digital communications, massive environmental monitoring, and integrated urban system modeling to support sustainable development pathways in smart cities. Participants will learn about the current state-of-the-art, … Continue reading YSS School URSA MAJOR 2023: Socio-environmental interactions in sustainable smart cities

The new Memorandum of Understanding was signed with the University of Latvia. The MoU is a bilateral document to encourage the development of the PEEX program in Pan-Eurasia and China regions.

Word Meteorological Organization (WMO) and Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center (ACCC) in collaboration with the local host Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), University of Helsinki organized a “Towards Global Earth Observatory workshop” on 8 – 10 May 2023 at the Stations Measuring Ecosystem and Atmosphere Relations (SMEAR) II station in Hyytiälä, Finland … Continue reading Toward Global Observatory workshop

This year, the European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly took place during 23-28 April 2023 in a hybrid mode (https://www.egu23.eu). The EGU-2023 attended onsite (in Vienna, Austria) more than 15450 persons and online about 3380 joined online from more than 100 countries. In total, about 16360 oral and poster presentations were given, including 57% as … Continue reading PEEX community contribution to EGU2023

The new Memorandum of Understanding was signed with the Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine. The MoU is a bilateral document to encourage the development of the PEEX program in Pan-Eurasia and China regions. 

A new three year project titled “Climate University for Virtual Exchanges (CLUVEX)” has got a funding decision from the Erasmus+ Programme (ERASMUS+), The project aim is to bridge students from European and the Neighbourhood East universities and to engage them with climate competences e.g. ideas of adaptation and mitigation to climate change and the green … Continue reading CLUVEX got funding

The first online service developed in the ATMO-ACCESS (Sustainable Access to Atmospheric Research Facilities) project has been launched. The Homeless data portal is set up to serve scientists producing atmospheric measurements resulting from research campaigns and trans-national access activities that are normally not included in any other data management system and activity. Making data accessible … Continue reading Homeless data portal – first online service developed in ATMO-ACCESS

On 17 March 2023, the research seminar on “Modern Problems of Hydrometeorology and Geoecology“ with round table discussions took place in a hybrid mode (Almaty, the Republic of Kazakhstan). The event was hosted by the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU), Faculty of Geography and Nature Management, Department of Meteorology and Hydrology. Participants (both onsite and … Continue reading Modern Problems of Hydrometeorology and Geoecology – International Roundtable

EnvSys organizing committee invites you to submit a paper to EnvSys 2023: 1st International Workshop on Advances in environmental sensing systems for smart cities https://blogs.helsinki.fi/envsys-2023/. This workshop aims to publish new research on the use of sensors and Internet technologies for environmental monitoring for smart cities. The scope of the workshop also includes emerging communication … Continue reading 1st International Workshop on Advances in environmental sensing systems for smart cities

The training school is an introductory course focusing on the variables and measurement techniques relevant to ACTRIS. It will take place online during 8-15 May 2023. ACTRIS is a pan-European research infrastructure producing high-quality data and information on short-lived atmospheric constituents (aerosols, clouds and reactive trace gases) and on the processes leading to the variability … Continue reading ACTRIS online training course on Atmospheric observations of aerosols, clouds and reactive trace gases

Intensive summer school on biosphere-atmosphere modelling will be held on 5-16 Jun 2023 in Lahti, Finland. Are you interested to learn how to create a biosphere-atmosphere model and/or tired of running existing models without a detailed understanding what is going on inside the code? In this summer course you will create your own one-dimensional chemistry … Continue reading Summer School on biosphere-atmosphere modelling

Zilitinkevich special issue paper "Aerosols, Clusters, Greenhouse Gases, Trace Gases and Boundary-Layer Dynamics: on Feedbacks and Interactions” is published and can be found at:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-022-00769-8

The new Memorandum of Understanding was signed with the Yerevan State University, Armenia. The MoU is a bilateral document to encourage the development of the PEEX program in Pan-Eurasia and China regions.