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Laboratory

Background

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Pallas Research Station

http://fmigaw.fmi.fi

Sub-Arctic

Open

Station

Finland

Station

1991

Year-Round

Introduction

The Pallas-Sodankylä Research Station consist of a clean air research station in Pallas and owned by the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI).

Pallas main station is located in western Lapland (67°58’ N, 24°07’ E) in Pallas fell. There are five measuring stations at the Pallas area: an automatic weather stations (AWS), Laukukero (68°04'N, 24°02'E, 765 m above sea level), and four stations measuring air composition. The main station, Sammaltunturi (67°58'N, 24°07'E, WMO index number 05821), is on a top of a fjeld (an Arctic hill), at the height of 565 m above sea level (a.s.l.), and ca. 300 m above the surrounding area. Matorova (68°00'N, 24°14'E) lies about six kilometres ENE of Sammaltunturi at of 340 m a.s.l. Kenättärova station (67°59'N, 24°15'E, 347 m a.s.l.) is situated 1.4 km south of the Matorova station. It lies with spruce forest, and is used to measure greenhouse gas fluxes. The newest station, Lompolojänkkä (68°00'N, 24°13'E, 269 m a.s.l.), is measuring green house gas fluxes in an aapa mire. The Laukukero and Sammaltunturi stations are within the Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park, inside the northern boreal forest

The area around Pallas Station is boreal forest. Willow grouse, rabbit, and reindeer are the most typical animals.

The Finnish Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) station Pallas has been operating since 1994. Facility operator visits the Sammaltunturi station weekly and is hired from outside the FMI.

The research team is working in FMI's headquarters in Helsinki.

Nearest village is Muonio (24 km). Sodankylä has c. 2300 inhabitants.

The distance to the nearest airport in Kittilä is 70 km. Travel time from the airport is typically one hour by car/bus.

Operator

Finnish Meteorological Institute

Government

Finnish Meteorological Institute

ahti.ovaskainen@metla.fi

Data Source

Partner Institution

No

Location

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67° 58' 0'' N

24° 7' 0'' E

European Arctic

565

250

800

7

24

24

Ice-free ground

Climate

None

Sub-Arctic

Snow and Rain

527

25

94

N

01/Jan/96 to 31/12/15

-0.6

-10.4

-11.2

-7.5

-2.7

2.7

8.8

12.3

10.4

5.2

-1.2

-5.9

-8.5

16/07/2003

27

26/01/1999

-33

None

May

May

June; July; August; September; October

Features

Lake; Rivers; Tree line; Other

Peatlands; Wetlands; Human settlements or resource use in the area;

Disciplines

Atmospheric chemistry and physics; Climatology; Climate change; Environmental sciences; Geophysics and seismology; GIS; Hydrology; Isotopic chemistry; Limnology; Microbiology; Paleolimnology; Pollution; Soil science; Terrestrial biology

Human Activities

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Infrastructure

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120

0

0

0

0

No

No

230

24

Staff Capacity

0

0

0

0

20

0

Scientific Equipment

Technical support

Ground weather observations

Air chemistry observations

Medical Facilities

No

0

0

24

0

0

0

0

VHF radio

First aid kits, defibrillator, foam extinguishers

No

No

Vehicles

*

*

Workshop facilities

ICTS (Staff available to assit with constructions)

*

Communications

Access

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Land

Aircraft landing facilities

0

0

0

Yes

Transport and freight

4WD; Car; Ski; Skidoo; Walking; Other

Bus

0

0

Access To The Facility

Pictures

Aerial view of station (Credits: Terhikki Manninen)

Measuring station - winter (Credits: Riika Ylitalo)

Measuring station and towers (Credits: Anna Kontu)

Measuring station in landscape (Credits: Juho Vehviläinen)

Measuring towers in forest - Winter (Credits: Timo Sukuvaara)

PallasSodankylä Station and measuring site (Credits: Rigel Kivi)

PallasSodankylä Station building (Credits: Riika Ylitalo)