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Overview

Kari E. J. Lehtinen is affiliated with the University of Eastern Finland in Finland. Their research focuses primarily on atmospheric and environmental sciences, particularly within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

The subfields of study that Kari Lehtinen has contributed to include:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics

The main research topics covered in their work are:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies

Kari Lehtinen has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Boreal Environment Research Journal Archive
  • Journal of Aerosol Science
  • Geoscientific model development

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Kari Lehtinen are:

  • Formation and growth of fresh atmospheric aerosols: eight years of aerosol size distribution data from SMEAR II, Hyytiälä, Finland (2024), Boreal Environment Research Journal Archive
  • Formation and growth of sub-3-nm aerosol particles in experimental chambers (2020), Nature Protocols
  • The fingerprint of the summer 2018 drought in Europe on ground-based atmospheric CO2 measurements (2020), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Determination of the collision rate coefficient between charged iodic acid clusters and iodic acid using the appearance time method (2020), Aerosol Science and Technology
  • Lidar depolarization ratio of atmospheric pollen at multiple wavelengths (2021), Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Frequent collaborators in Kari Lehtinen's research include:

  • Markku Kulmala
  • Mika Komppula
  • Veli-Matti Kerminen
  • Ari Leskinen
  • Tuukka Petäjä

Best Publications

  • Direct observations of atmospheric aerosol nucleation.

    Markku Kulmala;Jenni Kontkanen;Heikki Junninen;Katrianne Lehtipalo

  • Formation and growth of fresh atmospheric aerosols: eight years of aerosol size distribution data from SMEAR II, Hyytiälä, Finland

    Miikka Dal Maso;Markku Kulmala;Ilona Riipinen;Robert Wagner

  • An improved parameterization for sulfuric acid-water nucleation rates for tropospheric and stratospheric conditions

    Hanna Tuula Katariina Vehkamäki;M Kulmala;I Napari;K E J Lehtinen

  • Measurement of the nucleation of atmospheric aerosol particles

    Markku Kulmala;Tuukka Petäjä;Tuomo Nieminen;Mikko Sipilä

  • Toward direct measurement of atmospheric nucleation.

    Markku Kulmala;Ilona Riipinen;Mikko Juhani Sipilä;Hanna E Manninen

  • Cluster activation theory as an explanation of the linear dependence between formation rate of 3nm particles and sulphuric acid concentration

    Markku Kulmala;K. E. J Lehtinen;A Laaksonen

  • Atmospheric sulphuric acid and aerosol formation: implications from atmospheric measurements for nucleation and early growth mechanisms

    S.-L. Sihto;M. Kulmala;V.-M. Kerminen;M. Dal Maso

  • A new feedback mechanism linking forests, aerosols, and climate

    M. Kulmala;T. Suni;K. E. J. Lehtinen;M. Dal Maso

  • General overview: European Integrated project on Aerosol Cloud Climate and Air Quality interactions (EUCAARI) - integrating aerosol research from nano to global scales

    M. Kulmala;A. Asmi;H. K. Lappalainen;H. K. Lappalainen;U. Baltensperger

  • A review of operational, regional-scale, chemical weather forecasting models in Europe

    J. Kukkonen;T. Olsson;T. Olsson;D. M. Schultz;D. M. Schultz;D. M. Schultz;A. Baklanov

  • Connections between atmospheric sulphuric acid and new particle formation during QUEST III–IV campaigns in Heidelberg and Hyytiälä

    I. Riipinen;S.-L. Sihto;M. Kulmala;Frank Arnold

  • Heterogeneous nucleation experiments bridging the scale from molecular ion clusters to nanoparticles.

    Paul M. Winkler;Gerhard Steiner;Aron Vrtala;Hanna Vehkamäki

  • Condensation and coagulation sinks and formation of nucleation mode particles in coastal and boreal forest boundary layers

    M. Dal Maso;M. Kulmala;K. E. J. Lehtinen;J. M. Mäkelä;J. M. Mäkelä

  • Estimating nucleation rates from apparent particle formation rates and vice versa: Revised formulation of the Kerminen–Kulmala equation

    Kari E.J. Lehtinen;Miikka Dal Maso;Markku Kulmala;Veli-Matti Kerminen

  • Initial steps of aerosol growth

    M. Kulmala;L. Laakso;K. E. J. Lehtinen;I. Riipinen

  • The role of VOC oxidation products in continental new particle formation

    A. Laaksonen;A. Laaksonen;M. Kulmala;C. D. O'Dowd;J. Joutsensaari

  • Nucleation and growth of new particles in Po Valley, Italy

    A. Hamed;J. Joutsensaari;S. Mikkonen;L. Sogacheva

  • On the growth of nucleation mode particles: source rates of condensable vapor in polluted and clean environments

    M. Kulmala;T. Petäjä;P. Mönkkönen;I. K. Koponen

  • Multicomponent aerosol dynamics model UHMA: model development and validation

    H. Korhonen;K. E. J. Lehtinen;M. Kulmala

  • A model for particle formation and growth in the atmosphere with molecular resolution in size

    K. E. J. Lehtinen;M. Kulmala

Frequent Co-Authors

Markku Kulmala
Markku Kulmala University of Helsinki
Ari Laaksonen
Ari Laaksonen Finnish Meteorological Institute
Jorma Jokiniemi
Jorma Jokiniemi University of Eastern Finland
Mika Komppula
Mika Komppula Finnish Meteorological Institute
Ilona Riipinen
Ilona Riipinen Stockholm University
Lauri Laakso
Lauri Laakso Finnish Meteorological Institute
Antti Arola
Antti Arola Finnish Meteorological Institute
Veli-Matti Kerminen
Veli-Matti Kerminen University of Helsinki
Tuukka Petäjä
Tuukka Petäjä University of Helsinki
Hanna Vehkamäki
Hanna Vehkamäki University of Helsinki

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