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Curriculum Vitae (short & extended) for Alexander Mahura

SHORT CV:

Alexander Mahura; PhD (Phys&Math., Atm.Sci.), MSc (Env.Mod., Atm.Sci.), BSc. (Atm.Sci.); more than 30 years of research experience; fields of research are modelling of atmospheric processes and transport of pollutants (including radionuclides) on local-meso-regional-hemispheric scales, on-line integrated meteorology-chemistry-aerosols modelling at regional-urban scales, impact of urban areas on meteorology and atmospheric composition, atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric boundary layer processes, environmental impact and risk assessment, fine-scale road weather forecasting, birch pollen modelling, numerical weather prediction, statistics; consulting/co-advising students BSc/MSc/PhD on relevant research projects/theses; co-author of over 400 sci.-tech. publications, incl. 5 books and more than 70 peer-reviewed papers; worked in Russia (Russian State Hydrometeorological University; Kola Science Center of Russian Academy of Sciences), USA (University of Alaska Fairbanks /UAF, University of Washington /UW), Austria (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), France (Ecole Centrale de Nantes), Denmark (Danish Meteorological Institute), and Finland (University of Helsinki); since 2000 has been involved in many international projects such as AR-NARP, FARECS, INTAS, FP5 FUMAPEX, FP6 Enviro-RISKS, FP7 (MEGAPOLI, TRANSPHORM, MACC, MarcoPolo), Horizon-2020 (ESCAPE, INTAROS, iCUPE, CRiceS, RI-URBANS), Horizon Europe (FOCI), Nordic (NordRISK, CEEH, RSF, NetFAM, fsRSF, MUSCATEN, CarboNord, CRAICC-PEEX, CRUCIAL, TRAKT-2018), TEMPUS QualiMet  & CombatMeteo, Erasmus+ (MODEST, ClimEd, CLUVEX), Interreg (REOPEN), FIRST+ PEEX-AC, TFK PEEX-FRESReN, EU COST Actions (-728, -EUPOL, -ENCWF, -EuMetChem), AoF (ClimEco, ACCC), HIRLAM, HARMONIE, EnviroChemistry/ EnviroAerosols/ Enviro-PEEX/ Enviro-PEEX(Plus)/ Enviro-PEEX(Next) on ECMWF HPC, PEEX-MP-Europa3 HPC, PEEX-MP at CSC, Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) programme, and other projects.

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Personal data:

Birthdate:       19 May 1967

Web-sites:    

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexander_Mahura

https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/alexander-mahura

Research employment, experience and positions

• May 2017-pres : university researcher/ senior scientist at Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR) / Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki (UHel, Helsinki, Finland) (research: participating with multi- and interdisciplinary tasks in PEEX Programme, EU Horizon-2020, EU Horizon Europe, NordForsk, AoF/RCoF, Erasmus+, FIRST+, TFK, COST, and other projects); more details at: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/alexander-mahura
• 2005-2017 : researcher/ senior scientist at Research and Development Department, Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI, Copenhagen, Denmark) (research: participating with multi- and interdisciplinary tasks in HIRLAM, EU FPs & Horizon-2020, NordForsk, COST Actions, and other projects)
• 2003-2004 : postdoctoral fellow at Lab. of fluid mechaniques, Ecole Centrale de Nantes (Nantes, France) (research: realization of the FP5 EU FUMAPEX project with urbanization of meso-meteorological models - SUBMESO and HIRLAM - for tasks of the numerical weather prediction)
• 2001-2002 : research fellow at International Institute for Applied System Analysis (Laxenburg, Austria) (research: realization of the FARECS-I & FARECS-II projects as the part of the “Radiation Safety of the Biosphere”  with tasks of atmospheric trajectory and dispersion modelling for probabilistic studies, statistical data analysis, etc.)
• 2000-2003 : research fellow at DMI (Copenhagen, Denmark) with NorFA scholarships (research: realization of the Arctic-Risk NARP project with tasks of atmospheric trajectory and dispersion modelling for probabilistic studies, stat.data analysis, GIS, risk assessment, etc.)
• 1998-2000 : res.assistant at Atmos. Sciences Department, University of Washington (Seattle, WA, USA) (research: atmospheric transport of chemical species in the Arctic and North Pacific regions; isentropic trajectory modeling; statistical analysis of data)
• 1995-1998 : res.assistant at Geophysical Institute, University Alaska Fairbanks (Fairbanks, AK, USA) (research:  atmospheric transport of radionuclides and chemical species in the Arctic and North Pacific regions; isentropic trajectory modeling; parametric and non-parametric stat., cluster, trend, two component, factor analyses)
• 1991-1995 : post-graduate researcher/ young scientist at Lab. of ecoinformatics and mathematical modelling, Institute of Northern Environmental Problems, Kola Science Center, Russian Academy of Sciences (Apatity, Murmansk region, Russia) (research: meso-scale modeling, transport of pollutants in complex terrain, radioactivity, meteorology, ecology, computer science, fieldwork in Sum 1992-1994 with EarthWatch; measurement of pollutants & meteorological observations)
• 1988-1991 : undergraduate student part-time employment at Russian State Hydrometeorlogical University (RSHU, St. Petersburg, Russia) (research: atmospheric mesoscale processes and air pollution modelling, numerical weather prediction, experimental measurements)

Education and grades:

• 2002 – Ph.D Atm.Sci., Phys&Math at Russian State Hydrometeorological University (Russia)
• 1998 – M.Sc. Environmental Modelling at Univ of Alaska Fairbanks with awards (USA)
• 1991 – B.Sc. Meteorology at Russian State Hydrometeorological University (Russia)
• 1984 – School diploma with honors (Russia)

Research profile and skills:

Research interests:

modelling of atmospheric processes and transport of pollutants (including radionuclides) on local-meso-regional-hemispheric scales, environmental impact and risk assessment, on-line integrated meteorology-chemistry-aerosols modelling at regional-urban scales, impact of urban areas on meteorology and atmospheric composition, atmospheric chemistry, numerical weather prediction, atmospheric boundary layer processes, fine-scale road weather forecasting, birch pollen modelling, statistics for data analysis and post-processing models output; actively involved in developing of multi-scale online integrated/ seamless modelling of meteorology-chemistry-aerosols processes with interactions and feedbacks considering the atmosphere as one interacting system; experience in using and contributing to development of numerical weather prediction and pollution models at different scales.

Skills in:

• Writing/ contributing proposals: for EU FPs, Horizon-2020, Horizon Europe, NordForsk, AoF/RCoF, Erasmus+, Interreg, national & others funding agencies;
• Work individually and/or as team member; leading team/ workpackage/ task, project management;
• Self-education approach, open-minded, hard-working, optimistic;
• Programming languages: Fortran, Python, Perl, C, Pascal;
• Operating systems: Atos BullSequana (X400, XH2000), CRAYs (XT5, XC30, XC40), UNIX/ SGI, NEC, DEC, VAX, DOS/Windows PCs;
• Using supercomputing facilities: Arctic Research Supercomputing Center, USA (1995-2000); NCAR, USA (1995-2003); DMI, Denmark (2002-2017); ECMWF, international - UK/Italy/Germany (2012-pres); Center for Science Computing, Finland (Sisu/Taito, Puhti/Mahti, Lumi; 2017-pres); European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking - EuroHPC (2022-pres)
• Advanced qualification courses for CRAY / Unix/Linux / HPC (1995, 1996, 1998, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024);
• Models: Enviro-HIRLAM, HIRLAM, HARMONIE, SURFEX models (previously SUBMESO, HYSPLIT, DERMA, MM5, ITM, and others);
• Advanced qualification courses for HARMONIE (2014), SURFEX (2013)
• Software: Metview, Panoply, CDO, NCO, NCView, WGrib, SPSS, MATLAB, IDL, SAS, S-PLUS, PHOENIX, GMT, NCAR Graphics, AVS, QUATTRO PRO, SYSSTAT, SPYGLASS, etc. – for statistical analysis, modeling, data visualization, etc.

Awards/ honors/ scholarships/ memberships:

• European Geosciences Union, EGU (2008-) & Finnish Association for Aerosol Research, FAAR (2018-) memberships
• Danish Meteorological Society (2014-2017) membership
• AGU (1996-2000, 2017-) & American Association for the Advancement of Science (1999-2000) memberships
• NorFA (Nordisk Forskerutdanningsakademi) scholarships (six; 2001-2003)
• Fellowship programme grant of the Research Council of Norway (2003)
• IIASA/ FORMAS grants for “Radiation Safety of the Biosphere” project (two; 2001-2002)
• Young Scientist Summer Program Honorable Mention, IIASA (2002)
• Award Phi Kappa Phi (1997)
• Award Sigma Xi - The Scientific Research Society (1998)
• Young scientist / Graduate student travel awards/ grants (nine; Russia – 1992-1994 & EU – 1995, 1997, 2002, 2003 & USA – 1997, 1998)

Research projects involvement during last years:

• Interreg REOPEN (2025-2028) – team member
• Enviro-PEEX on ECMWF(Next) (2025-2027) – PI, team leader, team member
• PEEX-MP at CSC (2024-2026) – PI, team leader, team member
• Erasmus+ CLUVEX (2023-2026) – WP leader, team member
• EU Digital Europe: Climate Adaptation Digital Twin (2022-2024) – team member
• Horizon Europe FOCI (2022-2026) - team member
• TFK PEEX-FRESReN (2022-2023) - team member
• Horizon-2020 CRiceS (2021-2025) - team member
• Horizon-2020 RI-URBANS (2021-2025) - team member, PCT
• AoF ACCC Flagship (2021-2025) - team member
• Enviro-PEEX on ECMWF(Plus) (2021-2023) – PI, member
• Russian MegaGrant MEGAPOLIS (2021-2023) - team member
• Erasmus+ ClimEd (2020-2023) - WP leader & team member
• PEEX-MP-Europa3 (2020-2022) - PI, member
• Erasmus+ MODEST (2018-2022) - national contact person, team leader & team member
• FIRST+ PEEX-AC (2019-2020) - project manager, team member
• AoF ClimEco (2018-2021) – WP leader, task leader & team member
• Enviro-PEEX on ECMWF (2018-2020) – PI, member
• NordForsk TRAKT-2018 (2018-2019) – task leader & team member
• Horizon-2020 iCUPE (2018-2021) – team member, data management
• Horizon-2020 INTAROS (2016-2021) – team member
• NordForsk CRUCIAL (2016-2018) – team leader & member
• Horizon-2020 ESCAPE (2015-2018) – team member
• EnviroAerosols on ECMWF (2015-2017) – co-PI, team leader & member
• FP7 MarcoPolo (2014-2016) – WP leader & team leader & team member
• NordForsk CarboNord (2014-2016) – team leader & member
• NordForsk CRAICC-PEEX (2014-2015) – team leader & member
• EnviroChemisty on ECMWF (2012-2014) – team member
• FP7 TRANSPHORM (2010-2014) – team member
• FP7 MEGAPOLI (2008-2011) – project manager & team member
• FP7 MACC (2009-2011) – team member
• FP6 Enviro-RISKS (2005-2008) – team member
• FP5 FUMAPEX (2002-2005) – team member
• NordForsk networking projects: NetFAM (2005-2009), MUSCATEN (2010-2012)
• COST: EuMetChem (2011-2015), ENCWF (2007-2011), -728 (2004-2009), -EUPOL (2007-2011)
• TEMPUS: Combat-Meteo (2007-2010), QualiMET (2010-2013)
• FARECS-I, -II (2001-2002), ArcticRisk NARP (2000-2003); NordRisk-I, -II (2005-2008)
• HIRLAM, -A, -B, -C (HIgh Resolution Limited Area Model research and development) (2000-2015)
• DK National: CEEH (Danish Centre for Energy, Environment and Health; 2005-2010), RSF (Road Segments Forecasting; 2006-2008), fsRSF (Fines-Scale Road Stretch Forecasting; 2009-2011), and others

All 70+ projects are listed at: http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/mahura/AM_projects_1.pdf

Organization of international meetings during last years:

• Co-organizer of Young Scientists Schools (YSS) on seamless/ integrated modeling (Sum of 2008, 2011, 2014, 2021, 2023)
• Co-organizer of Enviro-HIRLAM Research Training Weeks (Spr & Fal months of 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, Sum 2015&2017, Dec 2017, Mar 2018, Jun 2019) within Nordic networks NetFAM, MUSCATEN, & CRAICC-PEEX/ CRUCIAL, AoF ClimEco & a series of online/zoom Enviro-HIRLAM trainings (2020-2025) as part of the PEEX-MP-Europe3, PEEX-MP-at-CSC, and Enviro-PEEX(Plus) & Enviro-PEEX(Next) on ECMWF HPC projects
• Co-organizer of Erasmus+ MODEST PhD courses (Strand-A - Research, Strand-B - Teaching and Learning, Strand-C - Coommunicationa nd cooperation) development workshops (Dec 2020, Jan 2021), Traing on "Organization and Management of Doctoral Training and Research Methodology" (May 2020), Training on "Curriculum Development and Learning Outcomes" (Apr 2020)
• Co-organizer of Erasmus+ ClimEd trainings: online on ”Competence-Based Approach to Curriculum Development for Climate Education” (19 Apr - 12 May 2021); ”Adaptation of the Competency Framework for Climate Services to conditions of Ukraine” (29 Jun - 26 Aug 2021); ”Digital tools and datasets for climate change education” (26 Oct - 12 Nov 2021); and hybrid on ”Developing Learning Courses in Climate Services Considering Needs of Different Users” (6-10 May 2024), ”Applying Different Technologies of Blended/Online Learning in Education” (30 Sep – 4 Oct 2024), ”Mastering Technologies of Massive Open Online Courses Development for General Public” (10-14 Feb 2025).
• Co-organizer of Erasmus+ CLUVEX Virtual Exchanges (VE): 5 online Trainings-for-Moderators (in May-Sep 2024); 5 VE-Weeks-for-students (Oct 2024; May 2025)
• Co-organizer of PEEX research and educational collaboration online meetings/ seminars (3+ h) with Russian State Hydrometeorological University (Apr 2020); Saint-Petersburg State University (Apr 2020); Scientific Research Center for Ecological Safety of RAS (Jun 2020); Kola Science Center of RAS (Nov 2020, Feb 2021), University of Tyumen (Apr 2021), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Nov 2021), International Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (Mar 2022), Digital Belt and Road Programme (May 2022), Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Mar 2023), University of Jordan (Jun 2023), Yarmouk University (Mar 2023), Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems Problems, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Jun 2024).
• Co-organizer of the PEEX hybrid seminars at ACCC Impact Weeks (April of 2023, 2024, 2025)
• Co-organizer of the PEEX Special Sessions at EGU General Assembly in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• Co-organizer of FP7 EU MEGAPOLI project annual workshops/ meeting (Fal of 2009, 2010, 2011)
• Co-organizer of Horizon-2020 ESCAPE YSS on Energy-efficient Scalable Algorithms for Weather Prediction at Exascale (Aug 2017)
• Co-organizer of NordForsk CRAICC-PEEX (Aug 2015) and Horizon-2020 ESCAPE (Oct 2016) workshops on dissemination and training
• Co-organizer of several meetings within the FP6 Enviro-RISKS, COST Actions, etc.

Science education of new generation of researchers:

• Co-organizing Young Scientists Summer Schools, YSSS (2008 – with Nordic NetFAM - http://netfam.fmi.fi/YSSS08, 2011 – with Nordic MUSCATEN - http://www.ysss.osenu.org.ua, 2014 – with COST Action EuMetChem - http://aveirosummerschool2014.web.ua.pt), 2023 – with URSA MAJOR project – https://peexhq.home.blog/2023/11/08/ursa-major-yss on online integrated modelling for numerical weather prediction and atmospheric chemical transport modelling, teaching lectures and practical exercises (small-scale research projects) with the Enviro-HIRLAM (Environment – HIgh Resolution Limited Area Model) for environmental applications.
• Co-organizing the Enviro-HIRLAM Research Training Weeks and Introductory Courses (in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 – in Denmark, Russia, and Finland) with teaching lectures and practical exercises.
• Sci. supervision/ co-advising/ consulting – PhD, MSc, BSc students (> 20, as part of research thesis) on topics of atmospheric sciences, trajectory and dispersion modelling and data analysis, statistics, air pollution, numerical weather prediction and atmospheric chemical transport modelling, etc.

All students and science education activities are listed at: http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/mahura/AM_students_1.pdf

Reviewing manuscripts and editorial work:

• Reviewing papers (depending on requests from editors) for: Adv. Sci. Res., Atm. Env., Env. Mod. & Ass., J. Env. Monitor., Atm. Pol. Res., J. Air & Waste Manag., Atm. Chem. Phys., Clean Soil Air Water, Meteo. & Atmos. Phys., Natural Hazards, Urb. Climate, Big Earth Data
  
• Editorial work for Springer published books ”Urbanization of Meteorological and Air Quality Models” & “Integrated Systems of Meso-Meteorological and Chemical Transport”; for FP7 EU MEGAPOLI project NewsLetters http://megapoli.dmi.dk/nlet/MEGAPOLI_NewsLetters_Volume.pdf; for EGU Journal for PEEX Special Issue “Arctic-Boreal Atmospheric System”; Advisory Editor for the Environmental Modelling and Assessment journal

Selected peer-reviewed publications during last years:

See more details in separate file at: http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/mahura/AM_articles_chapters_books_1.pdf

Mahura A., Nuterman R. (2025): Theory of atmospheric pollution dispersion. Chapter 7 in Air Quality Science, Impacts, and Management (Editor Ranjeet S. Sokhi), Elsevier, 2025, 193-216, ISBN 9780128225912, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822591-2.00007-X

Mahura A., Baklanov A., Makkonen R., Boy M., Petäjä T., Lappalainen H.K., Nuterman R., Kerminen V-M., Arnold S.R., Jochum M., Shvidenko A., Esau I., Sofiev M., Stohl A., Aalto T., Bai J., Chen Ch., Cheng Ya., Drofa O., Huang M., Järvi L., Kokkola H., Kouznetsov R., Li T., Malguzzi P., Monks S., Poulsen M.B., Noe S.M., Palamarchuk Yu., Foreback B., Clusius P., Rasmussen T.A.S., She J., Sørensen J.H., Spracklen D., Su H., Tonttila J., Wang S., Wang J., Wolf-Grosse T., Yu Y., Zhang Q., Zhang W., Zhang We., Zheng S., Li S., Li Y., Zhou P., & Kulmala M. (2024): Towards seamless environmental prediction – development of Pan-Eurasian EXperiment (PEEX) modelling platform. Big Earth Data, 8(2), 189-230. https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2024.2325019 

Savenets M, Rybchynska V, Mahura A, Nuterman R, Baklanov A, Kulmala M, Petäjä T. (2024): Seamless Modeling of Direct and Indirect Aerosol Effects during April 2020 Wildfire Episode in Ukraine. Atmosphere. 2024; 15(5):550. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15050550

Foreback, B., Mahura, A., Clusius, P., Xavier, C., Baykara, M., Zhou, P., Nieminen, T., Sinclair. V., Kerminen, V.M., Kokkonen, T. V., Hakala, S., Aliaga, D., Makkonen, R., Baklanov, A., Nuterman, R., Xia, M., Hua, C., Liu, Y., Kulmala, M., Paasonen, P. & Boy, M: (2024): A new implementation of FLEXPART with Enviro-HIRLAM meteorological input, and a case study during a heavy air pollution event. Big Earth Data, 8(2), 397-434. https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2024.2316320 

Kulmala M., Kokkonen T., Ezhova E., Baklanov A., Mahura A., Mammarella I., Bäck J., Lappalainen H.K., Tyuryakov S., Kerminen V-M., Zilitinkevich S., Petäjä T. (2023): Aerosols, Clusters, Greenhouse Gases, Trace Gases and Boundary-Layer Dynamics: on Feedbacks and Interactions. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-022-00769-8

Dryukova, E. D., Nerobelov, G. M., Sedeeva, M. S., Kiselev, A. V., Mahura, A. & Gorny, V. I. (2023): Integration of Satellite Monitoring and Mathematical Modeling in Analyzing the Nature of Elevated Sulfur Dioxide Concentrations in the Surface Air of Northern Finland. Atmospheric and oceanic physics. 59, 390-399. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433823040047

Savenets, M., Pysarenko, L., Krakovska, S., Mahura, A., Petäjä, T. (2022): Enviro-HIRLAM model estimates of elevated black carbon pollution over Ukraine resulted from forest fires. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 15777–15791, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-15777-2022

Lappalainen, H. K., Petäjä, T., Vihma, T., Räisänen, J., Baklanov, A., Chalov, S., Esau, I., Ezhova, E., Leppäranta, M., Pozdnyakov, D., Pumpanen, J., Andreae, M. O., Arshinov, M., Asmi, E., Bai, J., Bashmachnikov, I., Belan, B., Bianchi, F., Biskaborn, B., Boy, M., Bäck, J., Cheng, B., Chubarova, N., Duplissy, J., Dyukarev, E., Eleftheriadis, K., Forsius, M., Heimann, M., Juhola, S., Konovalov, V., Konovalov, I., Konstantinov, P., Köster, K., Lapshina, E., Lintunen, A., Mahura, A., Makkonen, R., Malkhazova, S., Mammarella, I., Mammola, S., Buenrostro Mazon, S., Meinander, O., Mikhailov, E., Miles, V., Myslenkov, S., Orlov, D., Paris, J.-D., Pirazzini, R., Popovicheva, O., Pulliainen, J., Rautiainen, K., Sachs, T., Shevchenko, V., Skorokhod, A., Stohl, A., Suhonen, E., Thomson, E. S., Tsidilina, M., Tynkkynen, V.-P., Uotila, P., Virkkula, A., Voropay, N., Wolf, T., Yasunaka, S., Zhang, J., Qiu, Y., Ding, A., Guo, H., Bondur, V., Kasimov, N., Zilitinkevich, S., Kerminen, V.-M., and Kulmala, M.: (2022): Overview: Recent advances in the understanding of the northern Eurasian environments and of the urban air quality in China – a Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) programme perspective, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 4413–4469, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-4413-2022 

Noe S.M., K. Tabakova, A. Mahura, H.K. Lappalainen, M. Kosmale, J. Heilimo, R. Salzano, M. Santoro, R. Salvatori, A. Spolaor, W. Cairns, C. Barbante, F. Pankratov, A. Humbert, J.E. Sonke, K.S. Law, T. Onishi, J-D. Paris, H. Skov, A. Massling, A. Dommergue, M. Arshinov, D. Davydov, B. Belan, T. Petäjä (2022): Arctic observations and sustainable development goals – Contributions and examples from ERA-PLANET iCUPE data. Environmental Science & Policy, Vol 132, 323-336, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.02.034

Nuterman, R., Mahura, A., Baklanov, A., Amstrup, B., Zakey, A. (2021): Downscaling system for modeling of atmospheric composition on regional, urban and street scales, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 11099–11112.  https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-11099-2021

Ezhova E., Orlov D., Suhonen E., Kaverin D., Mahura A., Gennadinik V., Kukkonen I., Drozdov D., Lappalainen H.K., Melnikov V., Petäjä T., Kerminen V-M., Zilitinkevich S., Malkhazova S.M., Christensen T.R, Kulmala M. (2021): Climatic Factors Influencing the Anthrax Outbreak of 2016 in Siberia, Russia. EcoHealth, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-021-01549-5 

Hussein T, Löndahl J, Thuresson S, Alsved M, Al-Hunaiti A, Saksela K, Aqel H, Junninen H, Mahura A., Kulmala M. (2021): Indoor Model Simulation for COVID-19 Transport and Exposure, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(6), 2927. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18062927 

Esau I., Bobylev L., Donchenko V., Gnatiuk N., Lappalainen H. K., Konstantinov P., Kulmala M., Mahura A., Makkonen, R., Manvelova, A., Miles, V., Petaja, T., Poutanen, P., Fedorov, R., Varentsov, M., Wolf, T., Zilitinkevich, S., & Baklanov, A. (2021): An enhanced integrated approach to knowledgeable high-resolution environmental quality assessment. Environmental Science & Policy, 122, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.03.020 

Al-Kloub M.M., Mahura A., Baklanov A., Atashi N., Hussein T. (2020): Model Simulations of Local Meteorological Condition in the Vicinity of a Hypothetical Nuclear Power Plant in Jordan, Jordan Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 11, 26–37, 2020. http://jjees.hu.edu.jo/files/Vol11No1/JJEES_Vol_11_No_1_P4.pdf 

Petäjä, T., Duplissy, E.-M., Tabakova, K., Schmale, J., Altstädter, B., Ancellet, G., Arshinov, M., Balin, Y., Baltensperger, U., Bange, J., Beamish, A., Belan, B., Berchet, A., Bossi, R., Cairns, W. R. L., Ebinghaus, R., El Haddad, I., Ferreira-Araujo, B., Franck, A., Huang, L., Hyvärinen, A., Humbert, A., Kalogridis, A.-C., Konstantinov, P., Lampert, A., MacLeod, M., Magand, O., Mahura, A., Marelle, L., Masloboev, V., Moisseev, D., Moschos, V., Neckel, N., Onishi, T., Osterwalder, S., Ovaska, A., Paasonen, P., Panchenko, M., Pankratov, F., Pernov, J. B., Platis, A., Popovicheva, O., Raut, J.-C., Riandet, A., Sachs, T., Salvatori, R., Salzano, R., Schröder, L., Schön, M., Shevchenko, V., Skov, H., Sonke, J. E., Spolaor, A., Stathopoulos, V. K., Strahlendorff, M., Thomas, J. L., Vitale, V., Vratolis, S., Barbante, C., Chabrillat, S., Dommergue, A., Eleftheriadis, K., Heilimo, J., Law, K. S., Massling, A., Noe, S. M., Paris, J.-D., Prévôt, A. S. H., Riipinen, I., Wehner, B., Xie, Z., and Lappalainen, H. K. (2020): Overview: Integrative and Comprehensive Understanding on Polar Environments (iCUPE) – concept and initial results, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 8551–8592, 2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-8551-2020 

Pankratov, F., Mahura, A., Petäjä, T., Popov, V., Masloboev, V. (2018): Elevated atmospheric mercury concentrations at the Russian polar station Amderma during Icelandic volcanoes' eruptions, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2018-1228  

Nerobelov G., Sedeeva M., Mahura A., Nuterman R., Mostamandi S., Smyshlyaev S. (2018): Online integrated modeling on regional scale in North-West Russia: evaluation of aerosols influence on meteorological parameters. Geography, Environment, Sustainability; 2018, 11(2): 73-83, https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2018-11-2-73-83 

Mahura A., Gonzalez-Aparicio I., Nuterman R., Baklanov A. (2018): Seasonal impact analysis on population due to continuous sulphur emissions from Severonikel smelters of the Kola Peninsula. Geography, Environment, Sustainability; 2018, 11(1): 130-144. https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2018-11-1-130-144  

Lappalainen H.K., Altimir N., Kerminen V., Petäjä T., Makkonen R., Alekseychik P., Zaitseva N., Bashmakova I., Kujansuu J., Lauri A., Haapanala P., Mazon S.B., Borisova A., Konstantinov P., Chalov S., Laurila T., Asmi E., Lihavainen H., Bäck J., Arshinov M., Mahura A., Arnold S., Vihma T., Uotila P., de Leeuw G., Kukkonen I., Malkhazova S., Tynkkynen V., Fedorova I., Hansson H.C., Dobrolyubov S., Melnikov V., Matvienko G., Baklanov A., Viisanen Y., Kasimov N., Guo H., Bondur V., Zilitinkevich S., Kulmala M. (2018): Pan-Eurasian EXperiment (peex) program: An overview of the first 5 years in operation and future prospects. Geography, Environment, Sustainability; 2018, 11(1): 6-19, https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2018-11-1-6-19 

Lappalainen H.K., M. Kulmala, J. Kujansuu, T. Petäjä, A. Mahura, G. de Leeuw, S. Zilitinkevich, M. Juustila, V-M. Kerminen, B. Bornstein, Z. Jiahua, X. Yong, Q. Yubao, L. Dong, L. Jie, G. Huadong (2018): The Silk Road agenda of the Pan-Eurasian EXperiment (PEEX) program. Big Earth Data, 2:1, 8-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/20964471.2018.1437704

Lappalainen H.K., V.M. Kerminen, T. Petäjä, J. Bäck, T. Vesala, T. Vihma, T. Haapala, A. Mahura, A. Baklanov, R. Makkonen, A. Lauri, V-P. Tynkkynen, G. de Leeuw, P. Konstantinov, N. Kasimov, V. Bondur, V. Melnikov, S. Zilitinkevich,  M. Kulmala (2017): Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) – A Framework Program on the Land–Atmosphere–Ocean–Society Interactions of the Changing Arctic–Boreal Environments. In L. Heininen, H. Exner-Pirot, & J. Plouffe (Eds.), Arctic Yearbook 2017: Change & Innovation (pp. 188-206). (Arctic Yearbook; 2017). Northern Research Forum.

Baklanov, A., Smith Korsholm, U., Nuterman, R., Mahura, A., Nielsen, K. P., Sass, B. H., Rasmussen, A., Zakey, A., Kaas, E., Kurganskiy, A., Sørensen, B., and González-Aparicio, I. (2017): Enviro-HIRLAM online integrated meteorology–chemistry modelling system: strategy, methodology, developments and applications (v7.2), Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 2971-2999, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2971-2017, 2017.

Penenko A., Penenko V., Nuterman R., Baklanov A., Mahura A. (2015): Direct variational assimilation algorithm for atmospheric chemistry data with transport and transformation model. SPIE Vol 9680, Atmospheric and Ocean Optics: Atmospheric Physics, 968076, Nov 2015, 12p., doi: 10.1117/12.2206008

Baklanov, A., K.H. Schlünzen, P. Suppan, J. Baldasano, D. Brunner, S. Aksoyoglu, G. Carmichael, J. Douros, J. Flemming, R. Forkel, S. Galmarini, M. Gauss, G. Grell, M. Hirtl, S. Joffre, O. Jorba, E. Kaas, M. Kaasik, G. Kallos, X. Kong, U. Korsholm, A. Kurganskiy, J. Kushta, U. Lohmann, A. Mahura, A. Manders-Groot, A. Maurizi, N. Moussiopoulos, S.T. Rao, R.S. Sokhi, N. Savage, C. Seigneur, S. Solomos, B. Sørensen, G. Tsegas, E. Vignati, B. Vogel, Y. Zhang (2014): Online Coupled Regional Meteorology-Chemistry Models in Europe. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 14, 317-398;  doi:10.5194/acp-14-317-2014

Mahura A., R. Nuterman, I. Petrova, B. Amstrup (2013): Atmospheric Trajectory and Chemical Transport Modelling for Elevated Ozone Events in Denmark. Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, Vol. 3 No. 1, 2013, pp. 87-99. doi: 10.4236/acs.2013.31011.

Gonzalez-Aparicio I., J. Hidalgo, A. Baklanov, U. Korsholm, R. Nuterman, A. Mahura, O. Santa-Coloma (2013): Urban Boundary Layer Analysis in the Complex Coastal Terrain of Bilbao using Enviro-HIRLAM. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Vol13, Iss 3-4, pp. 511-527; DOI: 10.1007/s00704-012-0808-6

Pankratov F. F., A. V. Konoplev, A. Mahura, O. V. Kats (2013): Analysis of the data of long-term monitoring of atmospheric mercury content and meteorological parameters at Amderma polar station. Russian Meteorology and Hydrology, Vol 38, Iss 6, pp. 405-413; DOI:    10.3103/S1068373913060058

Penenko V., Baklanov A., Tsvetova E., Mahura A. (2012): Direct and Inverse Problems in a Variational Concept of Environmental Modelling. Pure and Applied Geophysics, Special Issue on “Data Assimilation and its Applications”, 169:447–465, 2012; doi 10.1007/s00024-011-0380-5

Baklanov A., Penenko V., Mahura A., Vinogradova A., Elansky N., Tsvetova E., Rigina O., Maksimenkov L., Nuterman R., Pogarskii F., Zakey A. (2012): Aspects of Atmospheric Pollution in Siberia, pp. 303-346; In “Regional Environmental Changes in Siberia and Their Global Consequences”, P.Ya. Groisman, G. Gutman (Eds), Springer, doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-4569-8, 360 p.

Baklanov, A., Aloyan, A., Mahura, A., Arutyunyan, V., Luzan, P., (2011): Evaluation of source-receptor relationship for atmospheric pollutants using approaches of trajectory modelling, cluster, probability fields analyses and adjoint equations. Atmospheric Pollution Research, Vol. 2 (4), pp. 400-529; doi:10.5094/APR.2011.045;

Baklanov A., A. Mahura, R. Sokhi (Eds). (2010): Integrated Systems of Meso-Meteorological and Chemical Transport. Springer, 242 p., ISBN 978-3-642-13979-6, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-13980-2

Baklanov A, M. Lawrence, S. Pandis, A. Mahura, S. Finardi, et al. (2010): MEGAPOLI: concept of multi-scale modelling of megacity impact on air quality and climate. Advances in Science and Research, Vol 4, pp. 115-120; doi:10.5194/asr-4-115-2010.

Mahura A., Baklanov A, J.H. Sørensen, (2009): Estimation of Potential Impact on Copenhagen, Denmark, due to Accidental Releases at Nuclear Risk Sites. International Journal of Environment and Pollution, Vol 39 (1-2), Jul 2009, pp. 159-167, DOI: 10.1504/IJEP.2009.027149

Baklanov A., S. Grimmond, A. Mahura, M. Athanassiadou (Eds) (2009): Urbanization of Meteorological and Air Quality Models. Springer Publishers, 169 p., ISBN 978-3-642-00297-7; DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-00298-4.

Mahura A., Baklanov A., Korsholm U. (2009): Parameterization of the Birch Pollen Diurnal Cycle. Aerobiologia, Vol. 25 (4), Dec 2009, pp. 203-208, DOI 10.1007/s10453-009-9125-7.

Baklanov A., Sorensen J.H., Mahura A. (2008): Methodology for Probabilistic Atmospheric Studies using Long-Term Dispersion Modelling. Environmental Modelling & Assessment, 13(4), 541-552, DOI: 10.1007/s10666-007-9124-4

Baklanov A., Korsholm U.S., Mahura A., Petersen C., Gross A., (2008): ENVIRO-HIRLAM: on-line coupled modelling of urban meteorology and air pollution. Advances in Science and Research, 2, 41-46, http://www.adv-sci-res.net/2/41/2008/asr-2-41-2008.pdf

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