CV Kirsti Jylhä

Title Senior research scientist

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

Street address Erik Palmenin aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki, Finland

Phone number +358 (0) 9 1929 4125

Fax +358 (0) 9 1929 3503

Fields of expertise

  • Climate change: scenarios and impacts; climate change communication
  • Wet deposition of aerosols and gaseous pollutants; weather radar

University and other degrees

  • 1987: M.Sc. in meteorology, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • 1991: Ph.Lic. in meteorology, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • 2001: Ph.D. in meteorology, University of Helsinki, Finland; thesis: The scavenging of air pollutants by precipitation, and its estimation with the aid of weather radar

Previous professional appointments

  • 1981 – 1985: Finnish Meteorological Institute: weather service assistant, weather technician, meteorologist, scientist (18 months)
  • 1984 – 1998: Dep. of Meteorology, University of Helsinki: research assistant, radar meteorologist, scientist in 1984-1990; lecturer in 1991-1997; weather radar laboratory director (acting) in 1997-1998
  • 1998 – 2000: Finnish Meteorological Institute, Air Quality Research: senior research scientist
  • 2000 – 2010: Finnish Meteorological Institute: senior research scientist in climate change; head of Climate Research group in 2004-2007; head of Climate Research and Applications group in 2010

List of publications

Peer-reviewed publications (updated in March 2011)

Climate change: scenarios and impacts; climate change communication

Spangenberg, J., Carter, T., Fronzek, S., Jaeger, J., Jylhä, K., Kühn, I., Omann, I., Paul, A., Reginster, I., Rounsevell, M., Schweiger, O., Stocker, A., Sykes, M., Settele, J. Scenarios for investigating risks to biodiversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography, accepted.

Ylhäisi, J.S., Tietäväinen, H., Peltonen-Sainio, P., Venäläinen, A., Eklund, J., Räisänen, J., and Jylhä, K., 2010: Growing season precipitation in Finland under recent and projected climate, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 10, 1563-1574, doi:10.5194/nhess-10-1563-2010.

Jylhä, K., Tuomenvirta, H., Ruosteenoja, K., Niemi-Hugaerts, H., Keisu, K. and Karhu, J.A., 2010. Observed and projected future shifts of climatic zones in Europe, and their use to visualize climate change information. Weather, Climate, and Society. 2:2, 148-167.

Stickler, A., Grant, A.N., Ewen, T., Ross, T.F., Vose, R.S., Comeaux, J., Bessemoulin, P., Jylhä, K., Adam, W.K., Jeannet, P., Nagurny, A., Sterin, A.M., Allan, R., Compo, G.P., Griesser, T. and Brönnimann, S., 2010. The Comprehensive Historical Upper Air Network (CHUAN). Bull. Am. Met. Soc. 91:6, 741-751.

Venäläinen, A., Jylhä, K., Kilpeläinen, T., Saku, S., Tuomenvirta, H., Vajda, A., Ruosteenoja, K., 2009. Recurrence of heavy precipitation, dry spells and deep snow cover in Finland based on observations. Boreal Env. Res., 14: 166-172.

Kilpeläinen, T., Tuomenvirta, H. & Jylhä, K., 2008. Climatological characteristics of summer precipitation in Helsinki during the period 1951–2000. Boreal Env. Res. 13: 67-80.

Jylhä, K., Fronzek, S., Tuomenvirta, H., Carter, T.R. and Ruosteenoja, K., 2008. Changes in frost, snow and Baltic Sea ice by the end of the twenty-first century based on climate model projections for Europe. Clim. Change, 86, 441-462.

Räisänen, P., Järvenoja, S., Järvinen, H., Giorgetta, M., Roeckner, E., Jylhä, K., Ruosteenoja, K., 2007. Tests of Monte Carlo Independent Column Approximation in the ECHAM5 atmospheric GCM. J. Climate, 19, 4995-5011.

Ruosteenoja, K., Tuomenvirta, H. and, Jylhä K., 2007. GCM-based regional temperature and precipitation change estimates for Europe under four SRES scenarios applying a super-ensemble pattern-scaling method. Clim. Change, 81, Supplement 1, 193-208.

Castro, M., Gallardo, C., K. Jylhä and H. Tuomenvirta, 2007: The use of a climate-type classification for assessing climate change effects in Europe from an ensemble of regional climate models. Clim. Change, 81, Supplement 1, 329-341.

Beniston, M, D. B. Stephenson, O. B. Christensen, C. A.T. Ferro, C. Frei, S. Goyette, K. Halsnaes, T. Holt, K. Jylhä, B. Koffi, J. Palutikof, R. Schöll, T. Semmler, and K. Woth, 2007: Future extreme events in European climate: an exploration of regional climate model projections. Clim. Change, 81, Supplement 1, 71-95.

Jylhä K., H. Tuomenvirta and K. Ruosteenoja 2004: Climate change projections for Finland during the 21st century. Boreal Env. Res., 9, 127–152.

Venäläinen, A., Tammelin, B., Tuomenvirta, H., Jylhä, K., Koskela, J., Turunen, M.A., Vehviläinen, B., Forsius, J. and Järvinen, P., 2004: The influence of climate change on energy production & heating energy demand in Finland. Energy & Environment, 15, 93-109.

Vajda A., Venäläinen A., Tuomenvirta H. and Jylhä K. 2003. An estimate about the influence of climate change on heating energy demand in Hungary, Romania and Finland. Idojárás, 108, 123-140.

Rummukainen, M., J. Räisänen, D. Bjørge, J. H. Christensen, O. B. Christensen, T. Iversen, K. Jylhä, H. Ólafsson, and H. Tuomenvirta, 2003: Regional climate scenarios for use in Nordic water resources studies. Nordic Hydrology, 34, 399-412.

Wet deposition of aerosols and gaseous pollutants; weather radar

Sofiev, M., Peterson G., Krueger O., Schneider B., Hongisto M., Jylhä K., 2001: Model simulations of the atmospheric trace metals concentrations and depositions over the Baltic Sea. Atmos. Environ. 35, 1395-1409.

Jylhä, K. 2000: Assessing precipitation scavenging of air pollutants by using weather radar. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Part B, 25, 1085-1089
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Jylhä, K. 2000: Removal by snowfall of emissions from a coal-fired power station: Jylhä, K. 1999: Relationship between the scavenging coefficient for pollutants in precipitation and the radar reflectivity factor. Part II: Applications. J. Appl. Meteor., 38, 1435-1447.

Jylhä, K. 1999: Relationship between the scavenging coefficient for pollutants in precipitation and the radar reflectivity factor. Part I: Derivation. J. Appl. Meteor., 38, 1421-1434

Jylhä, K. 1995: Deposition around a coal-fired power station during a wintertime precipitation event. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 85, 2125-2130.

Jylhä, K. 1991: Empirical scavenging coefficients of radioactive substances released from Chernobyl. Atmos. Environ., 25A, 263-270.

Puhakka, T., K. Jylhä, P. Saarikivi, J. Koistinen, and J. Koivukoski, 1990: Meteorological factors influencing the radioactive deposition in Finland after the Chernobyl accident. J. Appl. Meteor., 29, 813-829.
 

 Other professional activities

  • Secretary of the National IPCC committee of Finland, 2002-2007
  • Secretary of the Geophysical Society of Finland, 1997-1998