Timo Vesala

Professor, Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, University of Helsinki

Timo Vesala has been Professor of Meteorology since 2001. He acted as Academy professor in 2015-2019.

Vesala’s main research fields are micrometeorology, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, biogeochemical cycles – especially carbon and water cycles – in forests, wetlands, lakes and rivers, greenhouse and other trace gases and in general mass and heat transport and phase transitions in various atmospheric and ecophysiological systems. His expertise ranges from cell, plant, ecosystem and regional to global scales.

He is a member of National Climate Panel 2020-2023. He has run a film club with Dr. Eija Juurola since 2009, and has prepared a popular talk “From Vertigo to Blue velvet – Connotations between movies and climate change”. His main actual projects are “Atmospheric Mathematics” by University of Helsinki, “RINGO - Readiness of ICOS for Necessities of integrated Global Observations» by EU H2020, “VERIFY- Observation-based system for monitoring and verification of greenhouse gases” by EU H2020 and “SMARTLAND - Environmental sensing of ecosystem services for developing climate smart landscape framework to improve food security in East Africa” by Academy of Finland.

See https://wiki.helsinki.fi/display/micrometeorology/Micrometeorology

Timo Vesala can be contacted at timo.vesala@helsinki.fi