CV Pekka Rossi

Title Research Scientist

E-mail pekka.rossi@fmi.fi

Postal address P.O.Box 503

Street address Erik Palménin Aukio 1, 00101, Helsinki

Phone number +358 9 1929 4108

Fax +358 9 1929 3146

Fields of expertise

  • Weather radar and lightning data based nowcasting and analysis, image processing, computer vision, applied mathematics

On-going scientific projects

  • Heavy Rainfall Processes, 2009-2012
  • Human and machine - Performance by human-oriented automation, In collaboration with Department of Automation and System technology' Aalto University School of Science and Technology, 2009-2011

University and other degrees

  • Master of Science, Master of Science Degree Programme of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology, 2009

Previous professional appointments

  • Research Assistant and Master's thesis worker, Department of Automation and Systems Technology, Helsinki University of Technology, 29.5.2006 – 31.12.2006 and 20.8.2007-15.5.2009

List of publications

Proceedings papers

Rossi P., Halmevaara K., Mäkelä A., Koistinen J. and Hasu V.: “Radar and lightning data based classification scheme for the severity of convective cells”, Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology, Sibiu, Romania, September 2010

Halmevaara K., Rossi P., Mäkelä A., Koistinen J. and Hasu V.:
“Supplementing convective objects with national emergency report data”, Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology, Sibiu, Romania, September 2010

Rossi P., Hasu V., Mäkelä A. and Saltikoff E.: “Analysis of Convective Cells and Lightning Using Tracking Methods”. Proceedings of World Meteorological Organization Symposium on Nowcasting and Very Short Range Forecasting, Whistler, B.C., Canada, August 2009

Rossi P. and Mäkelä A.: “A clustering-based tracking method for convective cell identification and analysis”, Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology, Helsinki, Finland, July 2008

Master’s thesis

Rossi Pekka: “Life Cycle Analysis of Convective Cells through Image Processing and Data Fusion”, Master’s thesis, Department of Automation and System Technology, Helsinki University of Technology, March 2009