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Sanna Saarikoski is affiliated with the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with significant contributions across fields such as engineering and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans various subfields including health, toxicology and mutagenesis, atmospheric science, automotive engineering, environmental engineering, and pollution.

The main topics addressed in Saarikoski's publications encompass air quality and health impacts, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, vehicle emissions and performance, air quality monitoring and forecasting, maritime transport emissions and efficiency, fire dynamics and safety research, and energy and environment impacts.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Saarikoski include Hilkka Timonen, Topi Rönkkö, Minna Aurela, Laura Salo, and Kimmo Teinilä.

Publication venues where Saarikoski has contributed multiple works include:

  • Atmospheric Environment
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Pollution

Recent papers by Saarikoski or featuring their contributions include:

  • Sources of black carbon at residential and traffic environments obtained by two source apportionment methods, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Variation of Absorption Ångström Exponent in Aerosols From Different Emission Sources, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Shipping Remains a Globally Significant Source of Anthropogenic PN Emissions Even after 2020 Sulfur Regulation, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • In-depth characterization of submicron particulate matter inter-annual variations at a street canyon site in northern Europe, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Chemical composition and mass size distribution of fine particulate matter emitted by a small masonry heater, 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)

Best Publications

  • The molecular identification of organic compounds in the atmosphere : state of the art and challenges

    Barbara Nozière;Markus Kalberer;Magda Claeys;James Allan

  • Organic aerosol components derived from 25 AMS data sets across Europe using a consistent ME-2 based source apportionment approach

    M. Crippa;F. Canonaco;V.A. Lanz;M. Äijälä

  • Sources of organic carbon in fine particulate matter in northern European urban air

    S Saarikoski;H Timonen;K Saarnio;M Aurela

  • Traffic is a major source of atmospheric nanocluster aerosol

    Topi Rönkkö;Heino Kuuluvainen;Panu Karjalainen;Jorma Keskinen

  • Chemical composition and mass closure of particulate matter at six urban sites in Europe

    Markus Sillanpää;Risto Hillamo;Sanna Saarikoski;Anna Frey

  • 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

  • Chemical composition and sources of fine and coarse aerosol particles in the Eastern Mediterranean

    E. Koulouri;S. Saarikoski;C. Theodosi;Z. Markaki

  • Characteristics and source apportionment of black carbon in the Helsinki metropolitan area, Finland

    Aku Helin;Jarkko V. Niemi;Aki Virkkula;Liisa Pirjola

  • Chemical composition, mass size distribution and source analysis of long-range transported wildfire smokes in Helsinki

    Markus Sillanpää;Sanna Saarikoski;Risto Hillamo;Arto Pennanen

  • Chemical composition of fine particles in fresh smoke plumes from boreal wild-land fires in Europe.

    Karri Saarnio;Minna Aurela;Hilkka Timonen;Sanna Saarikoski;Sanna Saarikoski

  • Chemical characterization of springtime submicrometer aerosol in Po Valley, Italy

    S. Saarikoski;S. Carbone;S. Decesari;L. Giulianelli

  • Long-range transport episodes of fine particles in southern Finland during 1999―2007

    Jarkko V. Niemi;Sanna Saarikoski;Minna Aurela;Heikki Tervahattu

  • Characteristics, sources and water-solubility of ambient submicron organic aerosol in springtime in Helsinki, Finland

    Hilkka Timonen;Hilkka Timonen;Samara Carbone;Minna Aurela;Karri Saarnio

  • Variation of Absorption Ångström Exponent in Aerosols From Different Emission Sources

    Aku Helin;Aki Virkkula;John Backman;Liisa Pirjola;Liisa Pirjola

  • Time-resolved characterization of primary particle emissions and secondary particle formation from a modern gasoline passenger car

    Panu Karjalainen;Hilkka Timonen;Erkka Saukko;Heino Kuuluvainen

  • Changes in background aerosol composition in Finland during polluted and clean periods studied by TEM/EDX individual particle analysis

    Jarkko Niemi;S Saarikoski;H Tervahattu;T Mäkelä

  • Impact of Biomass Combustion on Urban Fine Particulate Matter in Central and Northern Europe

    Sanna K. Saarikoski;Markus K. Sillanpää;Markus K. Sillanpää;Karri M. Saarnio;Risto E. Hillamo

  • Electrostatic precipitator collection efficiency and trace element emissions from co-combustion of biomass and recovered fuel in fluidized-bed combustion.

    Terttaliisa Lind;Jouni Hokkinen;Jorma K Jokiniemi;Sanna Saarikoski

  • Size distributions, sources and source areas of water-soluble organic carbon in urban background air

    H. Timonen;S. Saarikoski;O. Tolonen-Kivimäki;M. Aurela

  • Size-segregated mass distributions of aerosols over Eastern Mediterranean: seasonal variability and comparison with AERONET columnar size-distributions

    E. Gerasopoulos;E. Koulouri;N. Kalivitis;G. Kouvarakis

Frequent Co-Authors

Risto Hillamo
Risto Hillamo Finnish Meteorological Institute
Hilkka Timonen
Hilkka Timonen Finnish Meteorological Institute
Topi Rönkkö
Topi Rönkkö Tampere University
Minna Aurela
Minna Aurela Finnish Meteorological Institute
Kimmo Teinilä
Kimmo Teinilä Finnish Meteorological Institute
Liisa Pirjola
Liisa Pirjola Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Jorma Keskinen
Jorma Keskinen Tampere University
Markku Kulmala
Markku Kulmala University of Helsinki
Douglas R. Worsnop
Douglas R. Worsnop University of Helsinki
Mika Aurela
Mika Aurela Finnish Meteorological Institute

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