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Mikhail Sofiev is affiliated with the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant volume of work in related subfields such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis, atmospheric science, global and planetary change, immunology and allergy, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their research topics concentrate on atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, air quality and health impacts, allergic rhinitis and sensitization, climate change and health impacts, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, fire effects on ecosystems, and indoor air quality and microbial exposure.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mikhail Sofiev include:

  • Rostislav Kouznetsov
  • Risto Hänninen
  • Yuliia Palamarchuk
  • Jaakko Kukkonen
  • Ingrida Šaulienė

Their publications are often found in venues such as:

  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Aerobiologia
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Mikhail Sofiev has contributed to several recent papers addressing health and climate change issues. These include:

  • The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels, 2022, The Lancet
  • The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms, 2023, The Lancet
  • The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action, 2024, The Lancet
  • The 2024 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: unprecedented warming demands unprecedented action, 2024, The Lancet Public Health
  • The 2022 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: towards a climate resilient future, 2022, The Lancet Public Health

Best Publications

  • The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels

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  • The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms

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  • Aerosol analysis and forecast in the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Integrated Forecast System : Forward modeling

    J.-J. Morcrette;O. Boucher;L. Jones;D. Salmond

  • Cleaner fuels for ships provide public health benefits with climate tradeoffs

    Mikhail Sofiev;James J. Winebrake;Lasse Johansson;Edward W. Carr

  • Towards numerical forecasting of long-range air transport of birch pollen: theoretical considerations and a feasibility study.

    M. Sofiev;P. Siljamo;H. Ranta;A. Rantio-Lehtimäki

  • 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

  • Data assimilation in atmospheric chemistry models: current status and future prospects for coupled chemistry meteorology models

    M. Bocquet;M. Bocquet;H. Elbern;H. Eskes;M. Hirtl

  • Recommended terminology for aerobiological studies

    C. Galán;A. Ariatti;M. Bonini;B. Clot

  • A regional air quality forecasting system over Europe : the MACC-II daily ensemble production

    V. Marecal;V. H Peuch;Camilla Andersson;S. Andersson

  • A dispersion modelling system SILAM and its evaluation against ETEX data

    M. Sofiev;P. Siljamo;I. Valkama;Mikko Ilvonen

  • Chemical composition of aerosols during a major biomass burning episode over northern Europe in spring 2006: Experimental and modelling assessments

    Sanna Saarikoski;Markus Sillanpää;Mikhail Sofiev;Hilkka Timonen

  • The 2022 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: towards a climate resilient future

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  • An operational system for the assimilation of the satellite information on wild-land fires for the needs of air quality modelling and forecasting

    M. Sofiev;R. Vankevich;M. Lotjonen;M. Prank

  • Evaluation of the smoke-injection height from wild-land fires using remote-sensing data

    M. Sofiev;T. Ermakova;R. Vankevich

  • Ensemble dispersion forecasting—Part I: concept, approach and indicators

    S. Galmarini;R. Bianconi;W. Klug;T. Mikkelsen

  • A numerical model of birch pollen emission and dispersion in the atmosphere. Description of the emission module

    M. Sofiev;P. Siljamo;H. Ranta;T. Linkosalo

  • Variation of the group 5 grass pollen allergen content of airborne pollen in relation to geographic location and time in season.

    Jeroen Buters;Marje Prank;Mikhail Sofiev;Gudrun Pusch

  • Defining pollen exposure times for clinical trials of allergen immunotherapy for pollen-induced rhinoconjunctivitis - an EAACI position paper.

    O Pfaar;K Bastl;U Berger;J Buters

  • A regional‐to‐global model of emission and transport of sea salt particles in the atmosphere

    Mikhail Sofiev;Joana Soares;Marje Prank;Gerrit de Leeuw;Gerrit de Leeuw

  • Release of Bet v 1 from birch pollen from 5 European countries. Results from the HIALINE study

    Jeroen T.M. Buters;Michel Thibaudon;Matt Smith;Roy Kennedy

  • Comparison of OMI NO2 tropospheric columns with an ensemble of global and European regional air quality models

    V. Huijnen;H. J. Eskes;A. Poupkou;H. Elbern

  • An operational model for forecasting ragweed pollen release and dispersion in Europe.

    Marje Prank;Daniel S. Chapman;James M. Bullock;Jordina Belmonte

  • A multi-model study of impacts of climate change on surface ozone in Europe

    J. Langner;M. Engardt;A. Baklanov;J. H. Christensen

  • Construction of the SILAM Eulerian atmospheric dispersion model based on the advection algorithm of Michael Galperin

    M. Sofiev;J. Vira;R. Kouznetsov;M. Prank

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaakko Kukkonen
Jaakko Kukkonen Finnish Meteorological Institute
Ari Karppinen
Ari Karppinen Finnish Meteorological Institute
Carmen Galán
Carmen Galán University of Córdoba
Alexander Baklanov
Alexander Baklanov University of Copenhagen
Matt Smith
Matt Smith University of Worcester
Timo Lanki
Timo Lanki Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Kaarle Kupiainen
Kaarle Kupiainen Finnish Environment Institute
Jean Bousquet
Jean Bousquet University of Montpellier
Markku Kulmala
Markku Kulmala University of Helsinki
Arjo Segers
Arjo Segers Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research

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