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Antti Arola is affiliated with the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a substantial body of work in atmospheric science and global and planetary change.

The scientist's research fields include atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, air quality and health impacts, solar radiation and photovoltaics, and air quality monitoring and forecasting.

Antti Arola has contributed publications to multiple scientific journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Atmosphere

Their recent papers encompass a range of topics related to aerosols and atmospheric measurements. Notable publications include:

  • "Merging regional and global aerosol optical depth records from major available satellite products," 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Constraining the Twomey effect from satellite observations: issues and perspectives," 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Significance of the organic aerosol driven climate feedback in the boreal area," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Joint retrieval of the aerosol fine mode fraction and optical depth using MODIS spectral reflectance over northern and eastern China: Artificial neural network method," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Influence of cloud, fog, and high relative humidity during pollution transport events in South Korea: Aerosol properties and PM2.5 variability," 2020, Atmospheric Environment

Throughout their career, Antti Arola has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Antti Lipponen
  • Pekka Kolmonen
  • Harri Kokkola
  • Larisa Sogacheva
  • Gerrit de Leeuw

The breadth of these collaborations and the variety of research topics indicate involvement in multi-disciplinary studies related to atmospheric measurements and their climatic and environmental implications.

Best Publications

  • Tropospheric emissions: Monitoring of pollution (TEMPO)

    P. Zoogman;X. Liu;R.M. Suleiman;W.F. Pennington

  • McClear: a new model estimating downwelling solar radiation at ground level in clear-sky conditions

    Mireille Lefèvre;Armel Oumbe;Armel Oumbe;Philippe Blanc;Bella Espinar

  • The Ozone Monitoring Instrument: overview of 14 years in space

    Pieternel F. Levelt;Joanna Joiner;Johanna Tamminen;J. Pepijn Veefkind

  • Inferring absorbing organic carbon content from AERONET data

    A. Arola;G. Schuster;G. Myhre;S. Kazadzis

  • Comparison of CALIOP level 2 aerosol subtypes to aerosol types derived from AERONET inversion data

    T. Mielonen;A. Arola;M. Komppula;J. Kukkonen

  • Merging regional and global aerosol optical depth records from major available satellite products

    Larisa Sogacheva;Thomas Popp;Andrew M. Sayer;Andrew M. Sayer;Oleg Dubovik

  • Fog‐ and cloud‐induced aerosol modification observed by the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET)

    T. F. Eck;T. F. Eck;B. N. Holben;J. S. Reid;D. M. Giles

  • Impacts of brown carbon from biomass burning on surface UV and ozone photochemistry in the Amazon Basin

    Jungbin Mok;Nickolay A. Krotkov;Antti Arola;Omar Torres

  • Surface ultraviolet irradiance from OMI

    A. Tanskanen;N.A. Krotkov;J.R. Herman;A. Arola

  • Remote sensing of soot carbon – Part 1: Distinguishing different absorbing aerosol species

    G. L. Schuster;O. Dubovik;A. Arola

  • Constraining the Twomey effect from satellite observations: issues and perspectives

    Johannes Quaas;Antti Arola;Brian Cairns;Matthew Christensen

  • Improving the McClear model estimating the downwelling solar radiation at ground level in cloud-free conditions – McClear‑v3

    Benoit Gschwind;Lucien Wald;Philippe Blanc;Mireille Lefèvre

  • Significance of the organic aerosol driven climate feedback in the boreal area

    Taina Yli-Juuti;Tero Mielonen;Liine Heikkinen;Antti Arola

  • Technical Note: One year of Raman-lidar measurements in Gual Pahari EUCAARI site close to New Delhi in India – Seasonal characteristics of the aerosol vertical structure

    M. Komppula;T. Mielonen;A. Arola;K. Korhonen

  • Assessment of TOMS UV bias due to absorbing aerosols

    Antti Arola;Stelios Kazadzis;Nickolay Krotkov;Nickolay Krotkov;Alkis Bais

  • A method for reconstruction of past UV radiation based on radiative transfer modeling: Applied to four stations in northern Europe

    Anders Lindfors;Jussi Kaurola;Antti Arola;Tapani Koskela

  • SALSA2.0: The sectional aerosol module of the aerosol–chemistry–climate model ECHAM6.3.0-HAM2.3-MOZ1.0

    Harri Kokkola;Thomas Kühn;Thomas Kühn;Anton Laakso;Anton Laakso;Tommi Bergman

  • Joint retrieval of the aerosol fine mode fraction and optical depth using MODIS spectral reflectance over northern and eastern China: Artificial neural network method

    Xingfeng Chen;Xingfeng Chen;Gerrit de Leeuw;Gerrit de Leeuw;Antti Arola;Shumin Liu

  • A new approach to correct for absorbing aerosols in OMI UV

    A. Arola;S. Kazadzis;A. Lindfors;A. Lindfors;N. Krotkov

  • Ozone and ultraviolet radiation

    Aapo Tanskanen;Amy Stevermer;Signe Bech Andersen

  • Ozone Monitoring Instrument spectral UV irradiance products: comparison with ground based measurements at an urban environment

    S. Kazadzis;S. Kazadzis;A. Bais;A. Arola;N. Krotkov

  • Evaluation of the sectional aerosol microphysics module SALSA implementation in ECHAM5-HAM aerosol-climate model

    T. Bergman;T. Bergman;V.-M. Kerminen;V.-M. Kerminen;H. Korhonen;K. J. Lehtinen;K. J. Lehtinen

  • McClear: a new model estimating downwelling solar

    M. Lefèvre;A. Oumbe;P. Blanc;B. Espinar

Frequent Co-Authors

Kari E. J. Lehtinen
Kari E. J. Lehtinen University of Eastern Finland
Nickolay A. Krotkov
Nickolay A. Krotkov Goddard Space Flight Center
Larisa Sogacheva
Larisa Sogacheva Finnish Meteorological Institute
Thomas F. Eck
Thomas F. Eck Goddard Space Flight Center
Ari Laaksonen
Ari Laaksonen Finnish Meteorological Institute
Gerrit de Leeuw
Gerrit de Leeuw Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Mika Komppula
Mika Komppula Finnish Meteorological Institute
Stelios Kazadzis
Stelios Kazadzis Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, World Radiation Center
Alkiviadis F. Bais
Alkiviadis F. Bais Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Lucien Wald
Lucien Wald Mines ParisTech

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