CV Andrea Vajda

Title Research Scientist

Postal address Finnish Meteorological Institute, P.O Box 503 00101 Helsinki

Street address Finnish Meteorological Institute, Erik Palmenin aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki

Phone number +358 (0) 9 1929 4677

Fax +358 (0) 9 1929 4103

Fields of expertise

  • Climate-surface-vegetation interactions
  • Climate of Lapland
  • Forest fire risk assessment

University and other degrees

  • 2007 - PhD degree in Geography, University of Helsinki, Department of Geography
  • 1998 - MSc degree in Geography, University Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • 1997 - BSc degree in Geography, University Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

List of publications

Ari Venäläinen, Seppo Saku, Tiina Kilpeläinen, Kirsti Jylhä, Heikki Tuomenvirta, Andrea Vajda, Kimmo Ruosteenoja and Jouni Räisänen, 2007: Sään ääri-ilmiöistä Suomessa (Aspects about climate extremes in Finland); Finnish Meteorological Institute Reports, Helsinki, 2007/4, 81 p.

Andrea Vajda, 2007: Spatial variation of climate and the impact of human disturbances on clocal climate and forest recovery in northern Finland - Doctoral Dissertation; Finnish Meteorological Institute Contributions 64, 140 p.

Silander J. T.. Ollila M., Aaltonen J., Jylhä K., Koistinen J., Kilpeläinen T., Vajda A., Tuomenvirta H., Tiihonen T., Metsäranta N., Vakkilainen P., Karvonen T., 2007: Climate Change Impacts and adaptation in the hydrology of urban areas, Third International Conference on Climate and Water, Helsinki, Finland, 3-6 September 2007

Jylhä K., Kilpeläinen T., Venäläinen A., Saku S., Tuomenvirta H., Ruosteenoja K., Vajda A., 2007: Prolonged periods with little rain during summer in Finland-observations and future projections, In 5th Study Conference on Baltex, Saaremaa, Estonia, 4-8 June 2007

Andrea Vajda, 2007: Implementation of forest fire risk warning and prevention services for boreal conditions, In 2nd Helsinki Testbed Workshop, Helsinki, April 12, 2007

Raimo Sutinen, Pekka Hänninen, Andrea Vajda and Marja-Liisa Sutinen, 2007: Inter-annual variation in root-soil water content and temperature in Finnish Lapland, In International Symposium Soil Processes under Extreme Meteorological Conditions, Bayreuth, Germany, 25-28 February 2007

Andrea Vajda and Ari Venäläinen, 2006: Evaluation of the Finnish and Canadian forest fire danger forecasting system in the boreal forests environment (Finland), In EMS Annual Meeting Abstracts, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 4-8 September 2006

Andrea Vajda and Ari Venäläinen, 2006: The impact of climate change on forest fire risk in Scandinavia and Baltic region, In 5th International NCCR Climate Summer School Abstracts, Grindelwald, Switzerland, August 27-September 1 2006

Andrea Vajda, Ari Venäläinen, Pekka Hänninen and Raimo Sutinen, 2006: Effect of snow cover at the northern timberline: a case study in Finnish Lapland, Silva Fennica 40(2): 195-207

Achim Drebs, Andrea Vajda and Heikki Tuomenvirta, 2006: Air temperature gradient studies in Helsinki Metropolitan area during 2002-2006, In 6th International Conference on Urban Climate Abstracts, Göteborg, Sweden, June 2006

Philippe Le Sager, Christos Giannakopoulos, Andrea Vajda and Ari Venalainen, 2006: Estimating forest fire risk in North and South Europe: a comparative study using two different fire indices. In EGU General Assembly, Geophysical Research Abstracts, vol. 8, Vienna, 2-7 April 2006

Andrea Vajda, Ari Venäläinen and Kirsti Jylhä, 2006: Evaluation of forest fire risk in Finland, Second General ALARM Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, 5-10 February, 2006

Andrea Vajda and Ari Venäläinen, 2005: Feedback processes between climate, surface and vegetation at the northern climatological tree-line (Finnish Lapland), Boreal Environmental Research 10: 299-314

Jaako Helminen, Ari Venäläinen and Andrea Vajda, 2005: The occurrence of extreme precipitation values in Finland during summer (May-September), 4th Conference on Extreme Value Analysis, Gothenburg, Sweden

Tuomas Laurila, Mika Aurela, Andrea Vajda, Jukka Pumpanen, TeaThum, Juha Hatakka and Yrjö Viisanen, 2005: On the carbon balances of the Scots pine foresy site in Sodankylä, 3rd CarboEurope IP Integrated Project Meeting, Finland

Andrea Vajda and Ari Venäläinen, 2005: Effect of local climate on the reduced forest regeneration at the northern climatological tree-line (Finnish Lapland), In EGU General Assembly, Geophysical Research Abstracts, vol. 7, Vienna, 24-29 April 2005

Andrea Vajda, Ari Venäläinen, Heikki Tuomenvirta, Kirsti Jylhä, 2004: An estimate about the influence of climate change on heating energy demand in Hungary, Romania and Finland, Idõjárás, 108/2: 123-140

Andrea Vajda and Ari Venäläinen, 2004: The influence of local climate on the forest regeneration at the northern climatological tree-line (Finnish Lapland), In EMS Annual Meeting Abstracts, vol.1, Nice, France, 26-30 September 2004

Andrea Vajda, Ari Venäläinen, Pekka Hänninen and Raimo Sutinen, 2004: Spatial variability of snow cover and its implication for the forest regeneration at the northern climatological tree-line (Finnish Lapland), In Fourth Study Conference on BALTEX, Bornholm, Denmark, 2004, Edited by H.J. Isemer, International BALTEX Secretariat, Publication no. 29

Andrea Vajda and Ari Venäläinen, 2003: The influence of natural conditions on the spatial variation of climate in Lapland, Northern Finland, International Journal of Climatology, 23/9: 1011-1022

Andrea Vajda and Ari Venäläinen, 2003: Small-scale spatial variation of climate in Finnish Lapland; Finnish Meteorological Institute Reports, Helsinki, 2003/1, 34 p.

Andrea Vajda, Ari Venäläinen, Heikki Tuomenvirta, Kirsti Jylhä, 2001: The influence of climate change on heating energy in three European countries, In CLIC, Climate Change and Variability in Northern Europe, Climate Change Symposium, Turku, Finland, Edited by M. Lahti, L. Talve, S. Tuhkanen & J. Käyhkö

János Mika, Gábor Pándi, Andrea Vajda and Gábor Bálint, 2001: Behavior of rainfall patterns in Danube catchments under a hemispherical warming scenario; In EGS XXVI General Assembly, Nice, France

Iulian Holobâca, Adina-Eliza Croitoru and Claudia Andrea Vajda, 2001: Considerations on variations of pluviometric regime in the Transsylvanian Depression, Studia UBB, Geographia, XLVI, 2001/1, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (in Romanian)

Vajda Andrea, Mika János, Jankó-Szép István, Imecs Zoltán, Bálint Gábor, 2000: The dependence of climate-sensibility of the altitude, in the IIIrd. Conference on Forest and Climate Volume, Debrecen, Hungary, (in Hungarian)

Vajda Andrea, Mika János, Jankó-Szép István, Imecs Zoltán, Bálint Gábor, 2000: The dependence of precipitation trend of the altitude, In HUNGEO-2000, Piliscsaba, Hungary, (in Hungarian)