Sodankylä-Pallas super site of the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) (Sodankylä-Pallas)

Country

Finland

Media sampled/studied/modelled

Regions studied

Sodankylä-Pallas super site

Keywords

Updated 2012-08-28

Atmosphere monitoring, cryosphere monitoring, atmosphere-biosphere interaction. In situ monitoring with automatic and manual systems (e.g. synoptic meteorological observations since 1908), measurements with ground-based reference systems of space-borne remote sensing instruments Network type: In situ monitoring with automatic and manual systems (e.g. synoptic meteorological observations since 1908), measurements with ground-based reference systems of space-borne remote sensing instruments

http://fmiarc.fmi.fi/

Status: Ongoing
Project time span: 1908 -
Data collection: 1908 -
Data processing: 1908 -
Data reporting: 1908 -

Contact information

Contact person: - -
Address: Jouni Pulliainen
Email: if.imf@neniaillup.inuoj

Parameters and Media

Parameter groups measured/observed/modelled

Media sampled/studied/modelled

Air/aerosol

Ice/snowpack

Geography

Regions studied: Sodankylä-Pallas super site
Stations or areas where observations are made: Kenttärova spruce forest at Pallas, Sammaltunturi fjeld at Pallas, Lompolojänkä at Pallas, Sodankylä Scots pine forest at FMI-ARC, Pallas, Sodankylä

Data availability

Samples/specimens archived in specimen banks?: No

Methods & Procedures

Procedures and methodology used for, e.g., sampling and sample storage, sample pretreatment, extraction and analysis, including which laboratories are involved, references to methods employed, etc.: Weather, Solar radiation, Albedo, CO2 fluxes, Spectral reflectance, microwave brightness, ground based UV, ozone, water vapour and aerosol optical depth observations, balloon-borne monitoring of tropospheric and stratospheric profiles of various parameters, radioactivity measurements, distributed snow observations and other hydrological measurements and ionospheric electrodynamics observations.

Additional Information

Is this a bi- AND multi-lateral project (i.e. a project involving cooperation between different countries)?: No
Other institutes involved in the project: Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Arctic Research of the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI-ARC)
Is this project reporting to other organizations/programmes?: MIRACLE (MIRACLE), Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON), International Long Term Ecological Research (ILTER), ESA Envisat (ESA Envisat), Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW), NASA EOS (NASA EOS)
Indigenous AND traditional knowledge used in this project: No