Pallas-Sodankylä Atmosphere-Ecosystem Supersite, FI
Pallas-Sodankylä Atmosphere-Ecosystem Supersite, FI
Research station consist of a clean air research station in Pallas and the Arctic Space Centre in Sodankylä. The distance between the two sites is 125 km. Both of these units are hosted and owned by the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
Contact
Station manager Antti Hyvärinen (Pallas): antti.hyvarinen[at]fmi.fi
Station manager Leena Leppänen (Sodankylä) leena.leppanen[at]fmi.fi
Location
Pallas is located in western Lapland (67°58’ N, 24°07’ E) in Pallas fell. The station is part of a national park with limited access to the public.
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 wetland owned by the Finnish government.
Website
https://fmiarc.fmi.fi
https://www.interact-gis.org/Home/Station/22
Facilities
The Finnish Meteorological Institute has a long history of atmospheric monitoring at Pallas; the first weather station was established near Lake Pallasjärvi in 1935. The measurements of atmospheric composition were started in 1991, and the Sammaltunturi station was established as a node of the Pallas–Sodankylä Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) station in 1994.
The Pallas station consists of research infrastructure for monitoring and studying the atmosphere, ecosystems and their interactions. The research area hosts four sub-sites with different research programs within a 5 km radius, covering different micro-environments: top of an arctic fell, an elevated forest clearing, a forest site and a subarctic fen. The Pallas facility has 7×7 km airspace up to 2km AGL: permission to fly Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) – through clouds or long transects
The Sodankylä Station was established in 1949, but continuous homogenized synoptic weather records have been made since 1908. The facility consists currently of multiple buildings (1500 m2 in total). The Sodankylä facility hosts programs exploring upper-air chemistry and physics, atmospheric column measurements, snow/soil physics, biosphere-atmosphere interaction, and satellite calibration-validation studies.
Availability for access
Any, as per agreement.
Time frame for access preparation
Permits, licenses and training
Permits and licenses are needed for e.g. flying drones, installing instrumentation on private land or taking soil or vegetation samples from private land.
At Pallas, the airspace permit for flying UAV’s has been pre-arranged. Only the Operator- licence is needed for flying a UAV.
Medical guidelines
No medical guidelines.
