| Expert Name | Mr. Ari Kalevi Venäläinen |
| Title | Research Scientist |
| Division | |
| Institution | Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) |
| City | Helsinki |
| Country | Finland |
| Telephone | 358 9 19294142 |
| Email | ari.venalainen(at)fmi.fi |
| Work Experience | From May 1988 to June 1991 I worked as a World Meteorological Organization regional data processing expert in southern Africa in a project known as FINNIDA/SATCC/WMO-meteorology project. I was based in Tanzania though all the other SADCC countries (Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe) also belonged to my area. My work was to install microcomputers to the national weather services in SADCC-countries, to teach the personnel of national weather services in the use of computers and to install a climatological database management system (CLICOM) in those countries.
My duties also included assisting in the initial entry of data to these newly established digital databases. Since August 1991 I have worked as a researcher in the Finnish Meteorological Institute. I have specialised in the energy balance components (solar radiation, sensible and latent heat I.e. evaportion) of the earth's surface. I have also done research work on issues related to |
| Qualifications | MSc. Meteorology, Univ. of Helsinki, 1983
Licentiate, Meteorology, Univ. of Helsinki, 1995. |
| Number of Publications | 20 |
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| Other Activities | Member of European Geophysical Society. |
| Publications | 1. Venäläinen, A. and Heikinheimo, M. 1997. The spatial variation of long-term mean global radiation in Finland, International Journal of Climatology, 17, pp. 415-426.
2. Venäläinen, A., 1986. A forecast method for potential evaporation. Finnish Meteorological Institute. Publications 2.
3. Venäläinen, A., Heikinheimo, M. and Tourula, T., 1997. Latent heat flux from small sheltered lakes. Submitted to Boundary layer Meteorology.
4. Mhita, M.S. and Venäläinen, A., 1992. The variability of rainfall in Tanzania. Finnish Meteorological Institute, 1992. Reports 1992:1.
5. Heikinheimo, M., Venäläinen, A. and Tourula, T., 1996. Microclimatic models-estimation of components of the energy balance over land surfaces. In "The Finnish research programme on climate change". Final report, pp. 62-67. |
| Discipline | Hydrology |
| Last updated | 09/05/2007 11:16:00 |
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