CV Sylvain Joffre

Title Head of Unit, Research Professor

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

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

Phone number +358-(0) 9-1929 2250

Fax +358-(0) 9-1929 4103

Fields of expertise

  • Boundary layer dynamics
  • Air quality
  • Air-sea interactions
  • Atmospheric physico-chemistry
  • Numerical modeling and parametrisation
  • Assessment of information needs for environmental policy
  • Research management and policy

University and other degrees

  • 1991-1993: Consultant, European Environment Agency Task Force, DG-Env., European Commission, Brussels.
  • 1986: Visiting scientist (2,5 months), Risö National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark
  • 1983: Docent at the University of Helsinki, Department of Meteorology
  • 1982: Ph.D, University of Helsinki
  • 1972: Maitrise de Physique, University of Paris

List of publications

JOFFRE S.M., 1982. Assessment of the Separate Effects of Baroclinicity and Thermal Stability in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer over the Sea. Tellus 34(6), p. 567-578.

JOFFRE S.M., 1982. Momentum and Heat Transfers in the Surface Layer over a Frozen Sea. Boundary-Layer Meteor. 24(2), p. 211-229.

JOFFRE S.M., 1983. Determining the Form Drag Contribution to the Total Stress of the Atmospheric Flow over Ridged Sea Ice. J. Geophys. Res., 88(C7), p. 4524-4530.

JOFFRE S.M., 1984. Power laws and the Empirical Representation of Velocity and Directional Shear. J. Clim. Appl. Meteor. 23(8), p. 1196-1203.

JOFFRE S.M., 1985. Effects of Local Accelerations and Baroclinity on the Mean Structure of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer over the Sea. Boundary-Layer Meteor. 32(3), p. 237-255.

Gryning S-E., JOFFRE S.M. & J.C. Doran, 1987. The Öresund Experiment: Wind and Temperature Structure over a Land-Water-Land Area. Boundary-Layer Meteorol. 41, p. 309-318.

JOFFRE S.M. & T. Laurila, 1988. Standard Deviations of Wind Speed and Direction from Observation over a Smooth Surface. J. Appl. Meteorol., 27(5), p. 550-561.

JOFFRE S.M., 1988. Modelling the Dry Deposition Velocity of Highly Soluble Gases to the Sea Surface. Atmos. Environ., 22(6), p. 1137-1146.

Kitaigorodskii S.A. & S.M. JOFFRE, 1988. In Search of a Simple Scaling for the Height of the Stratified Atmospheric Boundary Layer. Tellus A, 40(5), p. 419-433.

Lindfors V., JOFFRE S.M. & J. Damski, 1993. Meteorological variability of the wet and dry deposition of sulphur and nitrogen compounds over the Baltic Sea. J. Water Air Soil Poll 66, p. 1-28.
JOFFRE S. et al., 1995. Air. In: Europe's Environment: The Dobris Assessment. Stanners D. & Ph. Bourdeau (Eds.). European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, CEC Publ., p. 27-56 (676 pp.).

JOFFRE S., 1995. Climate Change. In: Europe's Environment: The Dobris Assessment. Stanners D. & Ph. Bourdeau (Eds.). European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, CEC Publ., p. 513-522.
Karppinen A., JOFFRE S. & P. Vajaama, 1997. Boundary layer parametrization for Finnish regulatory dispersion models. Intern. J. Environ. & Poll. 8(3-6), p. 557-564.

Fisher B., Erbrink J., Finardi S., Jeannet Ph., JOFFRE S., Morselli M., Pechinger U., Seibert P. & D. Thomson, 1998. Harmonization of the Preprocessing of meteorological data for atmospheric dispersion models. COST 710 Final Report, CEC Publication EUR 18195, Luxembourg, 431 pp.

Seibert P., Beyrich F, Gryning S-E, JOFFRE S., Rasmussen A. & Ph. Tercier, 2000. Review and intercomparison of operational methods for the determination of the mixing height. Atmos. Environ. 34/7, p. 1001-1027.

JOFFRE S.M., Kangas M, Heikinheimo M. & Kitaigorodskii S.A, 2001. Variability of the stable and unstable atmospheric boundary layer height. Boundary-Layer Meteorol. 99(3), 429-450.

Karppinen A., S. M. JOFFRE, J. Kukkonen & P. Bremer, 2001. Evaluation of inversion strengths and mixing heights during extremely stable conditions. Intern. J. Environ. & Poll. 16 (1-6), 603-613.

Piringer M., C. S. B. Grimmond, S. M. JOFFRE, P. Mestayer, D. R. Middleton, M. W. Rotach, A. Baklanov, K. De Ridder, J. Ferreira, E. Guilloteau, A. Karppinen, A. Martilli, V. Masson and M. Tombrou, 2002. Investigating the Surface Energy Balance in Urban Areas - Recent Advances and Future Needs, J. Water Air & Soil Pollut. Focus 2(5-6), 1-16.

Hongisto M, Sofiev M., & S. JOFFRE, 2003. Hilatar - A limited Area Simulation Model of Acid Contaminants. Part II. Long-term simulations results. Atmos. Environ. 37(11) 1549-1560.

Piringer M. and JOFFRE S. (Eds.), 2005. The Urban Surface Energy Budget and the Mixing Height. Final Report of COST-715 WG2. Demetra Ltd Publ. (Sofia), 239 pp.

Fisher B., JOFFRE S., Kukkonen J., Piringer M., Rotach M., and M. Schatzmann (Eds.), 2005. COST 715 Final Report: Meteorology Applied to Urban Air Pollution Problems. Demetra Ltd Publ. (Sofia), 276 pp.

International committees

* COST Committee of "Earth System Science and Environmental Management": Chairman (2006-...)
* Finnish delegate in 2 GEO (Group on Earth Observations) Committees: Science & Technology, User Interface: (2005-...)
* COST Technical Committee for meteorology, Chairman (2000-2003), Vice-Chairman (1997-2000): Finnish representative (1994-2006);
* EUMETNET Working Group on Environment: Finnish delegate (2004-...), Chairman (2005-....);
* COST-European Science Foundation Synergy Working Group: Member and rotating chairman (2003>;
* Coordinator of Finnish contribution in the Nordic Network on Fine Scale Atmospheric Modelling and FMI coordinator in the Marie-Curie Excellence Chair project PBL-TMRES of Prof. S. Zilitinkevich;
* World Meteorological Organisation (Commission Atmospheric Sciences), Finnish delegate (1994-98);
* International Executive Committee (IEC) of the EUREKA projects EUROTRAC and EUROTRAC-2, Representative of the Finnish Ministry of the Environment (1988-2003);
* European Association for the Science of Air Pollution (EURASAP), Committee Member (2000-..);
* Geo- and Environmental Sciences Panel for Research Training Networks of the 5FP Human Potential Programme, Chairman (1999-2000); Vice-chairman (1997-1998): Member (1995-97)
* Management Committee of COST-Action 710: Finnish principal delegate (1994-97);
* Management Committee of COST-Action 715 (Meteorology applied to urban air pollution problems), Finnish principal delegate (1998-2002), Vice-Chairman of Working Group 2;
* Ozone & Climate Committee of the Nordic Council of Ministers, Finnish representative (1989-91);
* Expert Group Member, Nordic Council of Ministers, mapping of acidic deposition of to the Nordic countries as a basis for negotiations on critical loads held in Geneva (UN/ECE), 1990-91;
* 1987-91, Responsible of the meteorological program inside the sub-project TOR (Tropospheric Ozone Research) of the EUREKA project EUROTRAC;
* WMO/CAS Group of Rapporteurs on Boundary Layer Problems, Corresponding Member (1982-86);
* Member of the audit panel commissioned by the Norwegian Council for research to assess the Norwegian contribution on ozone research in the EUREKA /EUROTRAC-project (1991)

National Committees

Member of the Support Group to Finnish Programme Committee delegate for Priority/Key Action for Global change and Environment and Climate as well as Transport in FP6, FP5 and FP4 (1994-...);
* Finnish Global Change Support Group, Academy of Finland, Member (1997);
* Working Group on Research strategy of transport sector, Ministry of Transport, Member (1995);
* Working Group for Assessing sectoral research, Ministry of Transport, Member (1994-95);
* Council of the Dept. of Meteorology/University of Helsinki, Elected member (1983-85 & 1987-91);
* Editor-in-Chief of the international scientific journal Boreal Environment Research (1996-1999);
* Author of Assessment commissioned by Finnish Ministry of the Environment on "Prevailing situation and developing possibilities in the field of atmospheric physico-chemistry in Finland (1990)";
* Member of the Editorial Board of the Finnish Geophysical Society journal "Geophysica";
* Member of the Scientific Expert Board of the Nessling Foundation (Private funding; 1997-2003)INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEES
* COST Committee of "Earth System Science and Environmental Management": Chairman (2006-...)
* Finnish delegate in 2 GEO (Group on Earth Observations) Committees: Science & Technology, User Interface: (2005-...)
* COST Technical Committee for meteorology, Chairman (2000-2003), Vice-Chairman (1997-2000): Finnish representative (1994-2006);
* EUMETNET Working Group on Environment: Finnish delegate (2004-...), Chairman (2005-....);
* COST-European Science Foundation Synergy Working Group: Member and rotating chairman (2003>;
* Coordinator of Finnish contribution in the Nordic Network on Fine Scale Atmospheric Modelling and FMI coordinator in the Marie-Curie Excellence Chair project PBL-TMRES of Prof. S. Zilitinkevich;
* World Meteorological Organisation (Commission Atmospheric Sciences), Finnish delegate (1994-98);
* International Executive Committee (IEC) of the EUREKA projects EUROTRAC and EUROTRAC-2, Representative of the Finnish Ministry of the Environment (1988-2003);
* European Association for the Science of Air Pollution (EURASAP), Committee Member (2000-..);
* Geo- and Environmental Sciences Panel for Research Training Networks of the 5FP Human Potential Programme, Chairman (1999-2000); Vice-chairman (1997-1998): Member (1995-97)
* Management Committee of COST-Action 710: Finnish principal delegate (1994-97);
* Management Committee of COST-Action 715 (Meteorology applied to urban air pollution problems), Finnish principal delegate (1998-2002), Vice-Chairman of Working Group 2;
* Ozone & Climate Committee of the Nordic Council of Ministers, Finnish representative (1989-91);
* Expert Group Member, Nordic Council of Ministers, mapping of acidic deposition of to the Nordic countries as a basis for negotiations on critical loads held in Geneva (UN/ECE), 1990-91;
* 1987-91, Responsible of the meteorological program inside the sub-project TOR (Tropospheric Ozone Research) of the EUREKA project EUROTRAC;
* WMO/CAS Group of Rapporteurs on Boundary Layer Problems, Corresponding Member (1982-86);
* Member of the audit panel commissioned by the Norwegian Council for research to assess the Norwegian contribution on ozone research in the EUREKA /EUROTRAC-project (1991)