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

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

Time frame

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

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