7 results on '"Olsson, Taru"'
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2. Natural hazards and extreme events in the Baltic Sea region
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Rutgersson, Anna, Kjellström, Erik, Haapala, Jari, Stendel, Martin, Danilovich, Irina, Drews, Martin, Jylhä, Kirsti, Kujala, Pentti, Larsén, Xiaoli Guo, Halsnæs, Kirsten, Lehtonen, Ilari, Luomaranta, Anna, Nilsson, Erik O., Olsson, Taru, Särkkä, Jani, Tuomi, Laura, Wasmund, Norbert, Rutgersson, Anna, Kjellström, Erik, Haapala, Jari, Stendel, Martin, Danilovich, Irina, Drews, Martin, Jylhä, Kirsti, Kujala, Pentti, Larsén, Xiaoli Guo, Halsnæs, Kirsten, Lehtonen, Ilari, Luomaranta, Anna, Nilsson, Erik O., Olsson, Taru, Särkkä, Jani, Tuomi, Laura, and Wasmund, Norbert
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A natural hazard is a naturally occurring extreme event that has a negative effect on people and society or the environment. Natural hazards may have severe implications for human life and can potentially generate economic losses and damage ecosystems. A better understanding of their major causes, probability of occurrence, and consequences enables society to be better prepared to save human lives as well as to invest in adaptation options. Natural hazards related to climate change are identified as one of the Grand Challenges in the Baltic Sea region. Here, we summarize existing knowledge about extreme events in the Baltic Sea region with a focus on the past 200 years as well as on future climate scenarios. The events considered here are the major hydro-meteorological events in the region and include wind storms, extreme waves, high and low sea levels, ice ridging, heavy precipitation, sea-effect snowfall, river floods, heat waves, ice seasons, and drought. We also address some ecological extremes and the implications of extreme events for society (phytoplankton blooms, forest fires, coastal flooding, offshore infrastructure, and shipping). Significant knowledge gaps are identified, including the response of large-scale atmospheric circulation to climate change and also concerning specific events, for example, the occurrence of marine heat waves and small-scale variability in precipitation. Suggestions for future research include the further development of high-resolution Earth system models and the potential use of methodologies for data analysis (statistical methods and machine learning). With respect to the expected impacts of climate change, changes are expected for sea level, extreme precipitation, heat waves and phytoplankton blooms (increase), and cold spells and severe ice winters (decrease). For some extremes (drying, river flooding, and extreme waves), the change depends on the area and time period studied.
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- 2022
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3. Natural hazards and extreme events in the Baltic Sea region
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Rutgersson, Anna, primary, Kjellström, Erik, additional, Haapala, Jari, additional, Stendel, Martin, additional, Danilovich, Irina, additional, Drews, Martin, additional, Jylhä, Kirsti, additional, Kujala, Pentti, additional, Larsén, Xiaoli Guo, additional, Halsnæs, Kirsten, additional, Lehtonen, Ilari, additional, Luomaranta, Anna, additional, Nilsson, Erik, additional, Olsson, Taru, additional, Särkkä, Jani, additional, Tuomi, Laura, additional, and Wasmund, Norbert, additional
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- 2022
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4. Statistics of sea-effect snowfall along the Finnish coastline based on regional climate model data
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Olsson, Taru, Luomaranta, Anna, Jylha, Kirsti, Jeworrek, Julia, Perttula, Tuuli, Dieterich, Christian, Wu, Lichuan, Rutgersson, Anna, Makela, Antti, Olsson, Taru, Luomaranta, Anna, Jylha, Kirsti, Jeworrek, Julia, Perttula, Tuuli, Dieterich, Christian, Wu, Lichuan, Rutgersson, Anna, and Makela, Antti
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The formation of convective sea-effect snowfall (i.e., snow bands) is triggered by cold air outbreaks over a relatively warm and open sea. Snow bands can produce intense snowfall which can last for several days over the sea and potentially move towards the coast depending on wind direction. We defined the meteorological conditions which statistically favor the formation of snow bands over the north-eastern Baltic Sea of the Finnish coastline and investigated the spatio-temporal characteristics of these snow bands. A set of criteria, which have been previously shown to be able to detect the days favoring sea-effect snowfall for Swedish coastal area, were refined for Finland based on four case study simulations, utilizing a convection-permitting numerical weather prediction (NWP) model (HARMONIE-AROME). The main modification of the detection criteria concerned the threshold for 10 m wind speed: the generally assumed threshold value of 10 ms 1 was decreased to 7 ms(-1). The refined criteria were then applied to regional climate model (RCA4) data, for an 11-year time period (2000-2010). When only considering cases in Finland with onshore wind direction, we found on average 3 d yr(-1) with favorable conditions for coastal sea-effect snowfall. The heaviest convective snowfall events were detected most frequently over the southern coastline. Statistics of the favorable days indicated that the lower 10 m wind speed threshold improved the representation of the frequency of snow bands. For most of the favorable snow band days, the location and order of magnitude of precipitation were closely captured, when compared to gridded observational data for land areas and weather radar reflectivity images. Lightning were observed during one third of the favorable days over the Baltic Sea area.
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- 2020
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5. Statistics of sea-effect snowfall along the Finnish coastline based on regional climate model data
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Olsson, Taru, primary, Luomaranta, Anna, additional, Jylhä, Kirsti, additional, Jeworrek, Julia, additional, Perttula, Tuuli, additional, Dieterich, Christian, additional, Wu, Lichuan, additional, Rutgersson, Anna, additional, and Mäkelä, Antti, additional
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- 2020
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6. Natural Hazards and Extreme Events in the Baltic Sea region.
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Rutgersson, Anna, Kjellström, Erik, Haapala, Jari, Stendel, Martin, Danilovich, Irina, Drews, Martin, Jylhä, Kirsti, Kujala, Pentti, Xiaoli Guo Larsén, Halsnæs, Kirsten, Lehtonen, Ilari, Luomaranta, Anna, Nilsson, Erik, Olsson, Taru, Särkkä, Jani, Tuomi, Laura, and Wasmund, Norbert
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ROGUE waves ,PRECIPITATION variability ,ATMOSPHERIC circulation ,HEAT waves (Meteorology) ,ALGAL blooms ,FOREST fires - Abstract
A natural hazard is a naturally occurring extreme event with a negative effect on people and society or the environment. Natural hazards may have severe implications for human life and they can potentially generate economic losses and damage ecosystems. A better understanding of their major causes, probability of occurrence, and consequences enables society to be better prepared and to save human lives and to invest in adaptation options. Natural Hazards related to climate change are identified as one of the Grand Challenges in the Baltic Sea region. We here summarise existing knowledge of extreme events in the Baltic Sea region with the focus on past 200 years, as well as future climate scenarios. The events considered here are the major hydro-meteorological events in the region and include wind storms, extreme waves, high and low sea level, ice ridging, heavy precipitation, sea-effect snowfall, river floods, heat waves, ice seasons, and drought. We also address some ecological extremes and implications of extreme events for society (phytoplankton blooms, forest fires, coastal flooding, offshore infrastructures, and shipping). Significant knowledge gaps are identified, including the response of large scale atmospheric circulation to climate change, but also concerning specific events, for example, occurrences of marine heat waves and small-scale variability of precipitation. Suggestions for future research includes further development of high-resolution Earth System models, and the potential use of methodologies for data analysis (statistical methods and machine learning). With respect to expected impact of climate change, changes are expected for sea-level, extreme precipitation, heat waves and phytoplankton blooms (increase) and cold spells and severe ice winters (decrease). For some extremes (drying, river flooding and extreme waves) the change depends on the area and time period studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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7. Intense sea-effect snowfall case on the western coast of Finland
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Olsson, Taru, primary, Perttula, Tuuli, additional, Jylhä, Kirsti, additional, and Luomaranta, Anna, additional
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- 2017
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