Mari Kauhaniemi

Research Scientist
Meteorology
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Finland

Biography

Mari Kauhaniemi has worked as a research scientist at the Finnish Meteorological Institute since 2002. Her expertise is on urban scale air quality modelling (particularly the dispersion of pollution from traffic). Kauhaniemi is currently working as a main scientist on a team developing local air quality forecasting system for operational use and the road dust emission model. Her experience in information technology is following: air quality modelling (CAR-FMI, OSPM), programming languages (FORTRAN, PHP), MATLAB, and GIS (MapInfo). Her MSc thesis (2003) dealt with the usability of the air quality model CAR-FMI in city planning. Currently she is a PhD student at the University of Eastern Finland (Kuopio), Department of Applied Physics.

Research Intrest

Her expertise is on urban scale air quality modelling (particularly the dispersion of pollution from traffic).