Research Unit on Biosphere Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions

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Research Unit on Biosphere Aerosol Cloud
Climate Interactions

• Finland Prof. Markku Kulmala, Prof. Pertti Hari,
  Prof. Ari Laaksonen, Prof. Yrjö Viisanen, Prof.
  Marja-Liisa Riekkola, Doc. Kari Lehtinen, Doc.
  Hanna Vehkamäki, Doc. Yllar Rannik, Doc. Kari
  Hartonen, Doc. Tuulia Hyötyläinen, Doc. Heli
  Siren, Doc. Veli-Matti Kerminen, Dr. Risto
  Hillamo, Dr. Tuomo Pakkanen, Dr. Jorma
  Joutsensaari
• Norway Prof. Oystein Hov, Prof. Frode Stordal,
  Prof. Ivar Isaksen, Dr. Gunnar Myhre, Dr Michael
  Kahnert, Dr. Josef Pacyna
• Sweden Prof. Hans-Christen Hansson, Doc. Johan
  Ström, Doc. Robert Jansson, Doc. Christer
  Johansson, Prof. Henning Rodhe, Doc. Douglas
  Nilsson, Prof. Kevin Noone, Prof. Bengt
  Martinsson, Doc. Erik Swietlicki
• Denmark Prof. Sören Larsen, Prof. Sara Pryor,
  Doc. Merete Bilde, Dr. Rebecka Barthelmie, Dr.
  Jakob Man, Dr. Niels Morten Nielsen

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Sites of the research
University of Helsinki (UHEL), Department of
Physical Sciences University of Helsinki (UHEL),
Department of Forest Ecology University of
Helsinki (UHEL), Department of Chemistry Universit
y of Kuopio (UKU), Department of Applied
Physics Finnish Meteorological Institute
(FMI) Norwegian Institute of Air Research
(NILU) University of Oslo, Department of
Geophysics University of Stockholm, Institute of
Applied Environmental Research (ITMI) University
of Stockholm, Department of Meteorology University
of Lund, Department of Nuclear Physics Risö
National Laboratory University of Copenhagen.
Department of Chemistry
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Focus / Research Aims

• the effect of secondary biogenic aerosols on
  global aerosol load
• aerosol-cloud-climate interaction
• the relationships between the atmosphere and
  different ecosystems, particularly Boreal Forest

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BACCI activities due to NCoE

• 3 Workshops
• (More than 10 publications/month)
• (4 dissertations)
• iLEAPS
• part of EU Network of Excellence (ACCENT)
• knowledge transfer, visits
• new modelling activities
• data exchange
• common field campaigns

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BACCI activities due to NCoE

• BACCI and CBACCI web pages
• visiting professors
• visiting senior scientists
• visiting post docs
• visiting students
• short visits
• planning new activities, projects, joint
  publications
• VISITORS MAINLY OUTSIDE OF BACCI GROUPS

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Approach

• experimental
• laboratory
• field (continuous and campaigns)
• development of novel instrumental techniques
• theoretical
• basic theories
• simulations
• model development

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Primary sources
Secondary sources
WP 5. Nucleation, Theories and Experiments
WP 4. Chemistry and Thermodynamics of organic
aerosols
WP 7. Emission of particles in Europe
WP 6. Formation and growth of atmospheric aerosols
WP 3. Atmospheric aerosol precursor chemistry
WP 2. Aerosol source emission and deposition
fluxes
WP 8. Parameterisation of aerosol formation
for large scale models
WP 1. Fluxes of biogenic precursor compounds
WP 10. Atmospheric gas-aerosol- cloud interactions
Global/ Regional Change
Global/ Regional Change
WP 9. Modelling of regional and
global distribution of aerosols and
their contribution to radiative forcing
and regional pollution
? Climate/Health effects ?
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• FUTURE ACTIVITY
• iLEAPSIntegrated Land Ecosystem Atmosphere
  Processes Study
• Addressing the following key questions
• How do interacting physical, chemical, and
  biological processes transport and transform
  energy and materials through the land-atmosphere
  system?
• What are the implications for the dynamics of the
  Earth System?
• How did the terrestrial ecosystem-atmosphere
  system function under pre-industrial conditions,
  and how are current and past human activities
  influencing it (and vice versa)?
• To what extent does the vegetation optimise its
  physical and chemical environment on various
  temporal and spatial scales?

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Graduate School/CBACCI

• The Graduate School consists of two Nordic
  Centres of Excellence
• Nordic Centre for Studies of Ecosystem Carbon
  Exchange and its Interactions with the Climate
  System
• BACCI

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CBACCI

• Report our activities and experience by the end
  of the graduate school and twice in between
• Invite pedagogic experts (2-3) to review our
  graduate school
• Organises courses and seminars for less
  experienced supervisors on how to supervise, in
  particularly considering supervision within
  international networks
• Organise post doc education
• Improve and expand our International and
  multinational supervising
• Include Baltic and Western Russian contributions
• Organise workshops, seminars with a broader
  perspective than previously within NAD