Our consortium (led by Prof. Annele Virtanen) included people from UEF Aerosol Physics Group, UEF Aerosol physics, chemistry and toxicology research unit (ILMARI), UEF Biogeochemistry group and FMI (Kuopio), got the 4-year research grant (Climate and air quality impacts of boreal forest fires (BoFF, total budget 1.2M eur) from Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation. In […]

Boreal Forest Fire (BoFF 23) campaign will start soon! We will measure greenhouse gas and aerosol particle emissions from surface fire in Northern European boreal forest, and combine the info with the fire and combustion characteristics. We will use the prescribed/restoration fire performed by Metsähallitus in Kiviniemi (Leppävirta). The fire area is part of the […]