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Background

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Sodankylä Research Station

http://fmiarc.fmi.fi

Sub-Arctic

Open

Station

Finland

Station

1949

Year-Round

Introduction

Sodankylä Research Station in Sodankylä is hosted and owned by the Finnish Meteorological Institute.

The Sodankylä facility (67°22’ N, 26°39’ E) is located in central Lapland within the boreal forest region. The station is not part of any national park, but the area (c. 2 km2) is dedicated to atmospheric and geological research, and therefore has limited public access. The area is surrounded by forest and swamps owned by the Finnish government.

Sodankylä Station is located at a river bank in the middle of a boreal forest. Black grouse, rabbit, and reindeer are the most typical animals.

The Sodankylä Station was established in 1949, but continuous homogenized synoptic weather records have been made since 1908.

The Sodankylä facility hosts programs exploring upper-air chemistry and physics, atmospheric column measurements, snow/soil hydrology, biosphere-atmosphere interaction, and satellite calibration-validation studies. A lot of data from the station is shared freely from litdb.fmi.fi.

Nearest village is Sodankylä (7 km). Sodankylä has c. 6000 inhabitants (8,500 in the municipality). Main employers are the military, mining industry, smaller industry, agriculture, reindeer farmers, and research institutes.

7 km from the research station is the bus station in Sodankylä. The distance to the nearest airport and railway station in Rovaniemi is 130 km. A helicopter station is located 4 km from the station. Travel time from the airport is typically less than 2 hours by car/bus.

Operator

Finnish Meteorological Institute

Government

Finnish Meteorological Institute

riitta.aikio@fmi.fi

Data Source

Leena Leppänen

leena.leppanen@fmi.fi

2018-02-02

Partner Institution

No

*

Location

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67° 22' 0'' N

26° 39' 0'' E

European Arctic

179

170

450

7

0

0

0

Ice-free ground

Climate

None

Sub-Arctic

Snow and Rain

527

9.7

0

S

01/Jan/81 to 31/12/10

-0.4

-13.5

-12.7

-7.5

-1.3

5.3

11.6

14.5

11.7

6.2

0.1

-7.1

-11.7

07/Jul/14

31.7

28/Jan/99

-49.5

None

May

May

June; July; August; September

Features

Lake; Rivers; Valley; 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; Limnology; Mapping; Microbiology; Paleolimnology; Soil science; Terrestrial biology

Land use change

Human Activities

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Infrastructure

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1500

250

Other

60

2000

25

Yes

Yes

230

24

Staff Capacity

30

15

20

12

60

0

Scientific Equipment

Advanced solar instruments, including FTS, satellite receivers, radiometers, lidars

Technical support

Ground weather observations (Temperature, air pressure, humidity, wind, precipitation, clouds, visibility, snow depth)

Soundings

Solar radiation observations

Soil and snow observations

Microwave observations

Air chemistry observations

Satellite reception

Medical Facilities

No

0

0

10

0

0

0

0

VHF radio

First aid kits, defibrillator, foam extinguishers

Yes

Vehicles

Cars, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles

Workshop facilities

ICTS (Staff available to assit with constructions)

Communications

Computer; E-mail; Internet; Printer; Scanner; Telephone

Access

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Land

Aircraft landing facilities

0

0

0

Asphalt

Yes

Transport and freight

Car; Walking; Other

Bus

0

None

0

None

Access To The Facility

No

Riitta Aikio

riitta.aikio@fmi.fi

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