Manu Thomas
Ph.D., Air Quality researcher.
Manu Thomas
Fields of work
Modeling aerosol-cloud-climate interactions on different spatial scales and to understand how a better representation of the processes can result in accurate radiative forcing estimates. Understanding the intercontinental transport of pollutants, both natural and anthropogenic from satellites.
Research interests
- Aerosol-cloud-climate interactions and the radiative forcing effects
- Long range transport of pollutants and the role of meteorology
- Aerosols from explosive volcanic eruptions; their chemical transformations, long range transport and climate impact.
- Satellite analysis of optical properties of different aerosol species.
Special competences
Global and regional scale modeling, aerosol-cloud and aerosol-radiation interactions, satellite based monitoring of air pollutants and their coupling with meteorology in the high latitude regions including Arctic.
Latest publications
Treatment of Key Aerosol and Cloud Processes in Earth System Models - Recommendations from the FORCeS Project
Ilona Riipinen, Sini Talvinen, Anouck Chassaing, Paraskevi Georgakaki, Xinyang Li, Carlos Perez Garcia-Pando, Tommi Bergman, Snehitha M. Kommula, Ulrike Proske, Angelos Gkouvousis, Alexandra P. Tsimpidi, Marios Chatziparaschos, Almuth Neuberger, Vlassis A. Karydis, Silvia M. Calderon, Sami Romakkaniemi, Daniel G. Partridge, Theodore Khadir, Lubna Dada, Twan van Noije, Stefano Decesari, Oyvind Seland, Paul Zieger, Frida Bender, Ken Carslaw, Jan Cermak, Montserrat Costa-Suros, Maria Goncalves Ageitos, Yvette Gramlich, Ove W. Haugvaldstad, Eemeli Holopainen, Corinna Hoose, Oriol Jorba, Stylianos Kakavas, Maria Kanakidou, Harri Kokkola, Radovan Krejci, Thomas Kuhn, Markku Kulmala, Philippe Le Sager, Risto Makkonen, Stella E. I. Manavi, Thomas F. Mentel, Alexandros Milousis, Stelios Myriokefalitakis, Athanasios Nenes, Tuomo Nieminen, Spyros N. Pandis, David Patoulias, Tuukka Petaja, Johannes Quaas, Leighton Regayre, Susanne M. C. Scholz, Michael Schulz, Ksakousti Skyllakou, Ruben Sousse, Philip Stier, Manu Thomas, Julie T. Villinger, Annele Virtanen, Klaus Wyser, Annica M. L. Ekman
In: Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology, Vol. 78, No. 1
2026
Implementation of primary and secondary ice production in EC-Earth3-AerChem
Montserrat Costa-Suros, Maria Goncalves ageitos, Marios Chatziparaschos, Paraskevi Georgakaki, Manu Thomas, Gilbert Montane pinto, Stelios Myriokefalitakis, Twan Van noije, Philippe Le sager, Maria Kanakidou, Athanasios Nenes, Carlos Perez Garcia-Pando
Leveraging the satellite-based climate data record CLARA-A3 to understand the climatic trend regimes relevant for solar energy applications over Europe
Abhay Devasthale, Sandra Andersson, Erik Engström, Frank Kaspar, Joerg Trentmann, Anke Duguay-Tetzlaff, Jan Fokke Meirink, Erik Kjellström, Tomas Landelius, Manu Thomas, Karl-Göran Karlsson