CV Tea Thum

Title Research Scientist

E-mail tea.thum@fmi.fi

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

Street address Erik Palménin Aukio 1

Fax +358-9-19293503

Fields of expertise

  • Greenhouse gas modeling

University and other degrees

  • 2002: M.Sc. (Physics), University of Helsinki
  • 2010 PhD (Meteorology), University of Helsinki

List of publications

"Aalto T., Hatakka J., Karstens U., Aurela M., Thum T., Lohila A., 2006. Modeling atmospheric CO2 concentration profiles and fluxes above sloping terrain at a boreal site. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 6, 303-314.


Juurola E., Aalto T., Thum T., Vesala T., Hari, P., 2005. Temperature dependence of leaf-level CO2 fixation: revising biochemical coefficients through analysis of leaf three-dimensional structure. New Phytologist 166, 205-216.


Laurila T., Tuovinen J.-P., Lohila A., Hatakka J., Aurela M., Thum T., Pihlatie M., Rinne J., Vesala T., 2005. Measuring methane emissions from a landfill using a cost-effective micrometeorological method. Geophysical Research Letters 32, LI9808, doi: 10.1029/2005GLO23462.


Lohila A., Laurila T., Tuovinen J.-P., Aurela M., Hatakka J., Thum T., Pihlatie M., Rinne J. and Vesala T., 2007. Micrometeorological measurements of methane and carbon dioxide at a municipal landfill. Environmental Science and Technology 41, 2717-2722.


Louis J., Ounis A., Ducruet J.-M., Evain S., Laurila T., Thum T., Aurela M., Wingsle G., Alonso A., Pedros R., Moya, I., 2005. Remote sensing of sunlight-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and reflectance of Scots pine in the boreal forest during spring recovery. Remote Sensing of Environment 96, 37-48.


Rinne J., Pihlatie M., Lohila A., Thum T., Aurela M., Tuovinen J.-P., Laurila T., Vesala T., 2005. Nitrous oxide emissions from a municipal landfill. Environmental Science and Technology 39, 7790-7793.


Thum T., Aalto T., Laurila T., Aurela M., Hatakka J., Lindroth A., Vesala T., 2009. Spring initiation and autumn cessation of boreal coniferous forest CO2 exchange assessed by meteorological and biological variables. Tellus 61B, 701-717.


Thum T., Aalto T., Laurila T., Aurela M., Kolari P., Hari P., 2007. Parametrization of two photosynthesis models at the canopy scale in a northern boreal Scots pine forest. Tellus 59B, 874-890.


Thum T., Aalto T., Laurila T., Aurela M., Lindroth A., Vesala T., 2008. Assessing seasonality of biochemical CO2 exchange model parameters from micrometeorological flux observations at boreal coniferous forest, Biogeosciences 5, 1625-1639.


Thum T., Räisänen P., Sevanto S., Tuomi M., Reick C., Vesala T., Raddatz T., Aalto T., Järvinen H., Altimir N., Pilegaard K., Nagy Z., Rambal S., Liski, J., 2011. Soil carbon model alternatives for ECHAM5/JSBACH climate model: Evaluation and impacts on Global carbon cycle estimates. Journal of Geophysical Research 116, G02028, doi:10.1029/2010JG001612

Tuomi M., Thum T., Järvinen H., Fronzek S., Berg B., Harmon M., Trofymov J. A., Sevanto S., Liski, J., 2009. Leaf litter decomposition – Estimates of global variability based on Yasso07 model. Ecological Modelling 23, 3362-3371.

Vehkamäki H., Dal Maso M., Hussein T., Flanagan R., Hyvärinen A., Lauros J., Merikanto J., Mönkkönen P., Pihlatie M., Salminen K., Sogacheva L., Thum T., Ruuskanen T. M., Keronen P., Aalto P. P., Hari P., Lehtinen K. E. J., Rannik Ü., Kulmala M., 2004. Atmospheric particle formation events at Värriö measurement station in Finnish Lapland 1998-2002. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 4, 2015-2023."