I’m a scientist studying interactions between ecosystems and atmosphere. My main tools are terrestrial biosphere models and I use them at site scale and at larger scales. I use observational data from e.g. CO2 flux towers to evaluate the model behaviour and develop them further. I also use remote sensing observations. My aim is to develop models, that will help to estimate what happens with the vegetation during changing climate.
In April 2020 I returned to Finland and at started working in project CarboCity, lead by Prof. Leena Järvi and Dr. Liisa Kulmala, where I was involved in modelling of vegetation within urban landscape. In September my own research project RESEMON, involving the QUINCY model and remote sensing, started.
I was for three years on a leave from my position in Finland and then I was working at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany. I worked in the group lead by Dr. Sönke Zaehle and we were developing a new terrestrial biosphere model, QUINCY. This model includes fully coupled carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycles.
My last work at the Finnish Meteorological Institute before my leave was connected to my own postdoctoral project. I was including process of sun-induced fluorescence to a global terrestrial model JSBACH. In other part of the project I was comparing two different soil carbon formulations within JSBACH and evaluating their outcomes in respect to atmospheric CO2 concentrations observed from site level and from satellites.
Before my own project I was helping to develop a regional scale modelling with JSBACH over Fenno-Scandinavia. My first post-doctoral stay I did at the LSCE in France, where I was working with the terrestrial biosphere model ORCHIDEE and its data assimilation system.
During my PhD I developed a canopy level model, that I was parameterizing using CO2 flux tower observations. The topic of my PhD was seasonality of boreal forests’ CO2 exchange. Towards the end of my PhD I was also working in implementing the Yasso soil carbon model to JSBACH. In the early years of my PhD I was involved in field work and got to know many of the flux tower sites around Finland.