the Jane and Aatos Erkko foundation granted a three-year project funding of the university of Helsinki’s atmospheric sciences center. This 2.9 million euro is the foundation of the history of the largest research project funding granted.
Academician Markku Kulmala , led by Quantifying the carbon sink, CarbonSink+ and their interaction with air quality-in the process of investigating carbon sequestration, other ecosystem and human activity impact on the climate as well as their interaction with the air quality with.
Research to improve the understanding of these phenomena as well as to measure and determine the phenomena numerically different ecosystems. Thus, determining carbon sinks and CarbonSink+, which means the ecosystem of the overall impact on the climate.
– Variety of ecosystems as well as human activities have a wide range of climate effects, says project leader academician Markku kulmala, helsinki university bulletin.
Environmental climate effects vary from
Kulmala describes how plants absorb carbon when they fixing. Photosynthesis by-product of airborne release of hydrocarbons such as mono terpenes.
Each of us can smell mono terpenes scent while walking in a summer forest in dry weather. These hydrocarbons are oxidized in the atmosphere and participate in aerosol formation of particulate matter, Markku Kulmala says.
Aeorosolit are the trees produced by atmospheric fine particles, which cool climate by reflecting solar radiation back into space, scattering the sun’s light to the use of plants and adding to the cloud born in the woods of the above.
in Addition, forests and other ecosystems affect how much solar radiation is reflected back into space. For example, light colored surfaces, like snow, reflect more light than dark surfaces.
a Complex whole understanding and measuring needs in various areas of cooperation.
– our funding enables this and we were so happy greatly the fact that the foundation wants to fund specifically for top-class basic research, including research needed for the measuring equipment, says Kulmala.
Funding of significant importance
Now received funding enables high-quality and long-term research, which is Kulmala, according to a major scientific impact.
the type of the basic research results applied research and further information and applications society. Funding, we will implement our ideas. Through it we can respond socially and environmentally significant issues, rejoices Kulmala.
at the university of Helsinki atmospheric sciences center is the university of Helsinki interdisciplinary unit, in which physicists, chemists, forest scientists and environmental scientists are tackling together climate change and air quality-related issues.
the unit has been together with the Finnish meteorological institute and university of Eastern Finland with the Finnish academy funded by the atmospheric science of excellence since 2002. The top unit is the amount of time and its the peak of the activity unit is ending the end of this year.
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