The main focus areas of our group

• We study impacts of climate change on the extreme weather phenomena, such as whirlwinds (small tornados), thunderstorms, storms, strong heatspells, and the probabilities for these harmful weather events to occur.

• We produce custom climate change assessments on demand in Finland and for different regions.

• We carry out quality assurance of climate change scenarios.

• We follow international attribution research and develop corresponding climate change communication and services for the Finnish Meteorological Institute.

• We enhance extreme weather research and services (e.g. Destination Earth) internationally.

Stakeholder cooperation

• We are represented in the Implementation Group of the National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (NAP2030).

• We participate in the Foresight network of the Ministry of Transport and Communications' administrative sector.

• Our expert belongs to the ArcRCC network (Arctic Regional Climate Centre) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Examples of notable outputs

Our experts have been involved in producing several research publications, and datasets:

Reports

• Climate change in Finland, Germany, Uruguay and China: observed changes and future projections derived from CMIP6 global climate models

• Applicability of CMIP6 models for building climate projections for northern Europe

Articles

• Summer 2024 in northern Fennoscandia was very likely the warmest in 2000 years

• Storm Lyly, the first storm with observed hurricane-force winds in Finland

• Extreme cold days and spells in Northern Europe at 0.5°C–2.0°C global warming levels

• Future snow scenarios for Northern Europe based on coupled model intercomparison project phase 6 data

• A method for estimating the effect of climate change on monthly mean temperatures: September 2023 and other recent record-warm months in Helsinki, Finland

• Damaging thunderstorms in Finland in June 2021

Datasets

• Climatological monthly mean temperature and precipitation for the SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0 and SSP5-8.5 scenarios for Finland over the period 1975–2085 (Paituli spatial data download service)

• Changes in the climatological monthly mean temperature and precipitation relative to the baseline period. Scenarios SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0 and SSP5-8.5 for Finland over the period 1975–2085 (Paituli spatial data download service)