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Overview

Heikki Tuomenvirta is affiliated with the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Finland, where the primary research focus lies within Environmental Science. Their work spans several related subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Water Science and Technology, and Plant Science.

The main research topics addressed by Tuomenvirta include Climate variability and models, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and Coastal and Marine Dynamics.

Tuomenvirta has a number of recent publications that contribute to these areas of study. Key papers include:

  • Climate change projections for Finland during the 21st century (2024), published in Boreal Environment Research Journal Archive
  • Nature-based solutions efficiency evaluation against natural hazards: Modelling methods, advantages and limitations (2021), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • An overview of monitoring methods for assessing the performance of nature-based solutions against natural hazards (2021), published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • Context matters: Co-creating nature-based solutions in rural living labs (2023), published in Land Use Policy
  • Recurrence of heavy precipitation, dry spells and deep snow cover in Finland based on observations (2024), published in Helda (University of Helsinki)

Collaborations are an important aspect of Tuomenvirta's work. Frequent coauthors include Prashant Kumar, Jeetendra Sahani, Slobodan B. Mickovski, Francesco Pilla, and Kirsti Jylhä, showing a network of interdisciplinary cooperation within environmental and climate sciences.

Publications by Tuomenvirta often appear in venues such as Helda (University of Helsinki), Boreal Environment Research Journal Archive, The Science of The Total Environment, Earth-Science Reviews, and Land Use Policy. This distribution reflects an engagement with both national and international scholarly communities focusing on environmental research.

Best Publications

  • Observed climate variability and change

    Chris K. Folland;Thomas R. Karl;M. Jim Salinger

  • Homogeneity adjustments of in situ atmospheric climate data: a review

    Thomas C. Peterson;David R. Easterling;Thomas R. Karl;Pavel Groisman

  • Indices for daily temperature and precipitation extremes in Europe analyzed for the period 1901–2000

    Anders Moberg;Philip D. Jones;David Lister;Alexander Walther

  • Climate change projections for Finland during the 21st century

    Kirsti Jylhä;Heikki Tuomenvirta;Kimmo Ruosteenoja

  • Trends of storms in NW Europe derived from an updated pressure data set

    Hans Alexandersson;Heikki Tuomenvirta;Torben Schmith;Knut Iden

  • Progress in the study of climatic extremes in northern and central Europe

    R. Heino;R. Brazdil;E. Forland;H. Tuomenvirta

  • Long-term variations of the storm climate over NW Europe

    H Alexandersson;T Schmith;K Iden;H Tuomenvirta

  • Future climate in world regions: an intercomparison of model-based projections for the new IPCC emissions scenarios

    Kimmo Ruosteenoja;Timothy R. Carter;Kirsti Jylhä;Heikki Tuomenvirta

  • Nature-based solutions efficiency evaluation against natural hazards : Modelling methods, advantages and limitations

    Prashant Kumar;Sisay E. Debele;Jeetendra Sahani;Nidhi Rawat

  • Trends in the average temperature in Finland, 1847–2013

    S. Mikkonen;M. Laine;H. M. Mäkelä;H. Gregow

  • Daily Mean Sea Level Pressure Reconstructions for the European–North Atlantic Region for the Period 1850–2003

    T. J. Ansell;P. D. Jones;R. J. Allan;D. Lister

  • An overview of monitoring methods for assessing the performance of nature-based solutions against natural hazards

    Prashant Kumar;Prashant Kumar;Sisay E. Debele;Jeetendra Sahani;Nidhi Rawat

  • The use of a climate-type classification for assessing climate change effects in Europe from an ensemble of nine regional climate models

    M. de Castro;C. Gallardo;K. Jylha;H. Tuomenvirta

  • Climate change and electricity consumption—Witnessing increasing or decreasing use and costs?

    Karoliina Pilli-Sihvola;Piia Aatola;Markku Ollikainen;Heikki Tuomenvirta

  • Potential forest fire danger over Northern Eurasia: Changes during the 20th century

    Pavel Ya. Groisman;Boris G. Sherstyukov;Vyacheslav N. Razuvaev;Richard W. Knight

  • Changes in frost, snow and Baltic sea ice by the end of the twenty-first century based on climate model projections for Europe

    Kirsti Jylhä;Stefan Fronzek;Heikki Tuomenvirta;Timothy R. Carter

  • Annual and seasonal mean temperatures in Finland during the last 160 years based on gridded temperature data

    Hanna Tietäväinen;Heikki Tuomenvirta;Ari Venäläinen

  • Impact of climate change on soil frost under snow cover in a forested landscape

    Ari Venäläinen;Heikki Tuomenvirta;Martti Heikinheimo;Seppo Kellomäki

  • Multicentennial megadrought in northern Europe coincided with a global El Niño–Southern Oscillation drought pattern during the Medieval Climate Anomaly

    Samuli Helama;Jouko Meriläinen;Heikki Tuomenvirta

  • Trends in Nordic and Arctic Temperature Extremes and Ranges

    Heikki Tuomenvirta;Hans Alexandersson;Achim Drebs;Povl Frich

Frequent Co-Authors

Ari Venäläinen
Ari Venäläinen Finnish Meteorological Institute
Samuli Helama
Samuli Helama Natural Resources Institute Finland
Jouni Räisänen
Jouni Räisänen University of Helsinki
Massimo Menenti
Massimo Menenti Delft University of Technology
Pertti Hari
Pertti Hari University of Helsinki
Prashant Kumar
Prashant Kumar University of Surrey
Anders Moberg
Anders Moberg Stockholm University
Ari Laaksonen
Ari Laaksonen Finnish Meteorological Institute
Silas Michaelides
Silas Michaelides Cyprus University of Technology
Philip Jones
Philip Jones University of East Anglia

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