Background
IN0804 | |
Pallas Research Station | |
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
IN0804 | |
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
IN0804 | |
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
IN0804 | |
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) |