The research in the field of meteorology covers a range of topics including:

There is a strong emphasis on modelling, the core model being the numerical weather prediction model HIRLAM. Much of the other modelling work is coupled to HIRLAM. Important models and analysis systems include MESAN, the meso-scale meteorological analysis system, SCANDIA, the cloud classification model using satellite data, RAVE, the radar visualisation environment, and MATCH, the regional tracer transport and chemistry model. Further information can be found under the list of current activities.

Staff, Research and Development

Current activities

• Solar radiation and stratospheric ozone

• Mesan - an Operational Mesoscale Analysis System

• Atmospheric transport, chemistry and deposition

• HIRLAM - High Resolution Limited Area Model

• Verification

• Nowcasting

• Radar
  - Report from a COST 75 Short Term Scientific Mission to FMI

• Sky radiance distribution in the ultraviolet and its importance for correction of the cosine error

• SCANDIA - The objective cloud analysis model using AVHRR satellite data
  
  
• Improve and extend the measurements of the atmospheric aerosol content
  
  
• Cloud climate studies at high latitudes using NOAA AVHRR data
  
  
• Validation of cloud parameters in regional climate model simulations using NOAA AVHRR data