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In winter, driving safety is strongly weather dependent. Timely installation of winter tyres is essential when temperature falls to near 0 °C and the surface of the roads becomes slippery…
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FMI’s Climate Bulletin Research Letters spring issue provides 7 peer-reviewed short papers. Short papers in this issue: Record mild winter of 2019/2020 in most of Finland The exceptional Nordic forest…
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Climate change is caused not only by higher greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations, but a variety of natural and anthropogenic driving forces affecting the global energy balance, including e.g., land use…
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A number of large forest fires made headlines in Sweden during the exceptionally warm and dry summer of 2018. Also, in Finland, fire departments were busy with numerous wildfires. It…
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The winter of 2019/2020 saw unprecedented mild weather in most of Finland. The winter was moreover characterized by exceptionally thick snow cover in Lapland. At the same time, there was…
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Exposure to heat stress varies due to the large-scale weather pattern and local factors such as the urban heat island effect, type of built environment, and—like in Helsinki—impact of the…
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There is an increasing concern that climate change may have undermining impacts on security, all the way from global to the individual level. Both climate change impacts and the efforts…
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The most severe weather warnings are not given lightly, but when they are, everyone should take care and act. This case study presents warnings, forecasts and observations during Storm Aila…
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In densely forested countries such as Finland, windstorms are among the most significant natural hazards, causing the widest damages for society in the form of power outages, damages to forest…
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ERA4CS projects (European Research Area for Climate Services) are in the focus of this Special Issue. ERA4CS projects aim to support the research and development of climate services in Europe….
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Sand and dust storms (SDS) entail short- and long-term operational threats for aviation and solar energy production. The ERA4CS DustClim project is assisting these sectors in understanding and reducing SDS-related…
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