Hosting the Climate-KIC Journey

This summer was the second time that INAR co-hosted the Climate-KIC Journey summer school together with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and with two Climate-KIC coaches 13.7.-7.8.2020. Our Journey had 38 brave participants, who still joined the course even though the plans were changed and the course was held online due to … Continue reading Hosting the Climate-KIC Journey

‘Multilevel Local, Nation- and Regionwide Education and Training in Climate Services, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation / ClimEd’

Summary of the Erasmus+ Project Regional Priority: Modernisation of curriculum by developing new and innovative courses and methodologies in the Subject areas as defined (Environment). Duration: 15.11.2020 – 14.11.2023 Target groups: (1) Academic institutions: faculty, students (master and doctoral students) (2) Hydrometeorological institutions in Ukraine: managers and personnel (3) Political and economic public bodies (4) … Continue reading ‘Multilevel Local, Nation- and Regionwide Education and Training in Climate Services, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation / ClimEd’

ESOF2020- a Science Forum amid Covid Time

It was unexpected to find myself attending an in-person conference amid the Covid-19 outbreak. The European Science Open Forum 2020 hybrid conference took place in Trieste, Italy, on 2-6 September 2020. Following a pre-conference covid19 test in Italy and a second test upon arrival at Helsinki airport, both negative, here are my lessons learnt from … Continue reading ESOF2020- a Science Forum amid Covid Time

Investigation of heat waves indices applicability for the territory of Ukraine – summary of research

Authors: Ivan Kostyrko (contact email: vanfildin(a)gmail.com) and Olga Shevchenko (contact email: olga.s.meteo(a)gmail.com) Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (TSNUK), Kyiv, Ukraine During the last decades, the number of heatwaves (HWs) has increased worldwide. Therefore, it is very important to determine the duration, intensity, and other HW characteristics, in particular under climate change condition. In this study, several … Continue reading Investigation of heat waves indices applicability for the territory of Ukraine – summary of research

Anthropogenic impacts on urban atmosphere: observations and modelling

Author: Assoc. Prod. Aaed Mkhanna, Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia Contact: aaedmohanna(a)hotmail.com RSHU to students. The Russian State Hydrometeorological University (RSHU) as the University, provides a complex scientific knowledge to students that allow them to understand importance and danger of pollution in cities, and in particular, to study atmospheric transport, dispersion, deposition and chemical … Continue reading Anthropogenic impacts on urban atmosphere: observations and modelling

Extensive aircraft campaign across the Russian Arctic: overcoming pandemic 2020

Authors: Mikhail Arshinov and Boris Belan V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (IAO SB RAS; see end of article for full affiliations). V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics is now undertaking an extensive research aircraft campaign aimed to document chemical composition of the air shed above the Russian Arctic … Continue reading Extensive aircraft campaign across the Russian Arctic: overcoming pandemic 2020

iCUPE Datasets for Polar Regions

The Horizon-2020 iCUPE (Integrative and Comprehensive Understanding on Polar Environments; https://www.atm.helsinki.fi/icupe) project is at its final stage. The project (coordinated by Prof. Tuukka Petaja, University of Helsinki, Finland) has focus on improving the understanding of pollution sources and sinks, environmental and anthropogenic changes and elements of the polar areas. The iCUPE research work carried out … Continue reading iCUPE Datasets for Polar Regions

Strengthen PEEX Modelling Platform research and development through HPC-Europa3 Transnational Access Programme

The HPC-Europa3 Transnational Access Programme and its Scientific Users Selection Panel has approved and provided grants (which include financial support for up to 2 month visits to the University of Helsinki/ Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (UHEL-INAR) and access to the CSC super-computing infrastructure, resources, storage) for 2020-2021 to several successful PEEX community … Continue reading Strengthen PEEX Modelling Platform research and development through HPC-Europa3 Transnational Access Programme

Smart and Sustainable Cities international conference

From July 8 to 10, 2020, the Smart and Sustainable Cities international conference  (SSC-2020) in advanced technologies for sustainable development of urban green infrastructure was held on the base of the Smart Urban Nature Lab (www.sunlab.rudn.ru) of RUDN University. Due to specific circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was held online. However, this did … Continue reading Smart and Sustainable Cities international conference

The Web Application for the Environmental Education

by Dr. Vladimir Chukin (MeteoLab LLC, Russia) Modern climate changes lead to the need for society to adapt to them in agriculture, construction, transportation, as well as in many other sectors of the economy. It is today's youth that will implement these changes together in the near future. Therefore, it is now necessary to conduct … Continue reading The Web Application for the Environmental Education

Spatial data exchange in communities and research networks, research and development potential

Author: E. Panidi, Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics, Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact: panidi(a)ya.ru, e.panidi(a)spbu.ru Geospatial data exchange is one of the pillars of contemporary geospatial industry, science and education. Any industrial or research collaboration in the geospatial domain, assumes a number of ways for the shared usage … Continue reading Spatial data exchange in communities and research networks, research and development potential

SMEAR II celebrates its 25th Anniversary

The Station Measuring Ecosystem Atmosphere Relations (SMEAR II) celebrated its 25th anniversary event on August 20th 2020 in Hyytiälä, Finland. Due to COVID19  the program was live streamed at Hyytiälä research station. In addition to seminar and walking tour to SMEAR II site, the program included the release of art piece IÄI by the artist … Continue reading SMEAR II celebrates its 25th Anniversary

ICOS Science Conference 2020

ICOS Science Conference 2020 concluded sucessfully! For the first time the 3-day conference was organised entirely virtually – we created a special conference platform to facilitate networking and interaction between the speakers, poster presenters, vendors and participants. With 1040 registered participants from all around the world, and over 200 oral and poster presentations from leading … Continue reading ICOS Science Conference 2020

Academician Markku Kulmala awarded the Louise and Göran Ehrnrooth Foundation’s Recognition Award

Academy Professor, Academician Markku Kulmala was awarded the Louise and Göran Ehrnrooth Foundation's new Recognition Award Academician Markku Kulmala was granted the Award of Recognition prize of 40,000 euros for his pioneering work, which has attracted international recognition and appreciation in the research field of atmospheric composition and climate change. Academician Markku Kulmala was the … Continue reading Academician Markku Kulmala awarded the Louise and Göran Ehrnrooth Foundation’s Recognition Award

PEEX research collaboration – SRCES RAS and UHEL-INAR – virtual meeting

The PEEX virtual meeting on research collaboration took place on 17 June 2020 (St.Petersburg / Helsinki) with 19 researchers from the Scientific Research Center for Ecological Safety (SRCES) and the University of Helsinki- INAR (UHEL-INAR, Finland), whom jointly attended the meeting.SRCES colleagues delivered a series of presentations on main research task and activities of the … Continue reading PEEX research collaboration – SRCES RAS and UHEL-INAR – virtual meeting