Jukka Käyhkö
Professor, PhD
jukka.kayhko@utu.fi +358 29 450 2402 +358 40 522 5212 Vesilinnantie 5 Turku Office: 430 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/orcid.org/0000-0002-3842-7355 |
Climatology; Urban climates; Geomorphology, Fluvial systems; Aeolian sedimentology; Wind erosion; Global change; Environmental change; Remote sensing; Socio-ecological systems. Regional expertise: Lapland, Iceland, Zanzibar, Namibia
TURCLIM - Turku Urban Climate Research Group
- Professor 2004-, Department of Geography, University of Turku
My areas of interest and expertise include broadly topics related to climatology, geomorphology, sedimentology, transdisciplinary human-environment processes (global change), and sustainablity, including sustainability education. In climatology, I am particularly interested in understanding the regional dynamics and general implications of climate change. Connections to geomorphology include aeolian processes (esp. sand dunes, wind erosion, and their climate connections) and hydrological-fluvial processes (esp. denudation, flooding). Most of my geomorphological studies take place in Lapland and Iceland. Regarding anthropogenic systems, urban climates are of particular interest, specifically spatio-temporal variations of climate and their implications to e.g., human comfort, health, road management and urban planning. My research areas span from Northern Fennoscandia to East- and South-West Africa.
My typical teaching year consists of the following courses taught either by myself or jointly with other teachers:
- Comprehensive compilation and quality assessment of street-level urban air temperature measurements across European networks (2026)
- Scientific Data
(A1 Refereed data article in a scientific journal) - Identifying and Overcoming Circular Economy Barriers in the Agriculture of Southwest Finland – a Gap Framework Approach (2026)
- Circular Economy and Sustainability
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Mapping heat-related risk in three mid-sized European cities (2026)
- City and Environment Interactions
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Cooling is a cost-efficient way to adapt to heatwaves even in high-latitude cities (2025)
- Climatic Change
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Economic viability of urban greening as a climate change adaptation measure in cool-climate cities (2025)
- Regional Environmental Change
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Factors explaining the differences in the adoption of circular economy measures among farms in Southwest Finland (2025)
- Agricultural and Food Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Gap filling of urban temperature time series by debiasing ERA5 (2025) ICUC12 : 12th International Conference on Urban Climate Jacobs, Amber; Top, Sara; Vergauwen, Thomas; Suomi, Juuso; Käyhkö, Jukka; Caluwaerts, Steven
(Abstract) - How to overcome local policy conflicts that hinder climate actions? A green roof planning dispute between politicization and de‑politicization (2025)
- Discover Cities
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Maa-äidin tarinat paljastuvat isänmaamme kasvoilla (2025)
- Terra: Maantieteellinen Aikakauskirja
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Comparison of Physically Based and Empirical Modeling of Nighttime Spatial Temperature Variability during a Heatwave in and around a City (2024)
- Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



