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Research | Polar research | Polar Year
Environmental research of polar regions in the Finnish Meteorological Institute during the Polar Year (2007-2009)
The fourth International Polar Year will take place during the period from March 2007 to March 2009. ICSU and WMO will coordinate this extensive campaign of multinational and interdisciplinary research of the environmental variability and its coupling with human activities in the polar regions. In Finland the Thule Institute and the Arctic Centre form the national IPY Secretariat which coordinates the finnish IPY activities.
The Finnish Meterological Institute (FMI) participates to several research projects which the IPY Project Office has endorsed as IPY core activities. The list of the IPY projects with significant FMI contributions is as follows:
Pan-Arctic Climate Variability Activity for the Past 50 to 150 years (PACLIVAP-50-150)
IPY reference:EoI#560
Topic: Analysis of long-term climate observations
Coordinator: R. Böhm, Austria
FMI contact: H. Tuomenvirta (Climate and Global Change)
Source and Fate of Atmospheric Nitrogen Delivery to Arctic Snowpacks (SANTAS)
IPY reference:EoI#309
Topic: Atmospheric chemistry and physics associated with the nitrogen transportation in Svalbard
Coordinator: A. Hodson, UK
FMI contact: J. Paatero (Air Quality)
A network to characterize the means, variability, and trends of the climate-forcing properties of aerosols in polar regions (POLAR-AOD)
IPY reference:ID#171
Topic: The coupling between aerosols and the climate change in the polar regions
Coordinator: C. Tomasi, Italy
FMI contacts: J. Paatero, H. Lihavainen, R. Hillamo, A. Virkkula, V. Aaltonen, K. Teinilä (Air Quality)
Ocean-Atmosphere-Sea Ice-Snowpack Interactions affecting Atmospheric Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems in the Arctic (OASIS)
IPY reference:ID#38
Topic: Ocean-atmosphere-sea ice-snow pack -interaction
Coordinator: H. Beine, Italy
FMI contact: K. Teinilä (Air Quality)
OASIS homepage
ICESTAR/IHY - Interhemispheric Conjugacy in Geospace Phenomena and their Heliospheric Drivers
IPY reference:ID#63
Topic: The effects of solar activity on geospace and polar upper atmospheric phenomena
Coordinator: K. Kauristie, Finland
FMI contacts: K. Kauristie, O. Amm, A. Viljanen (Space Research)
ICESTAR/IHY homepage
Ozone layer and UV radiation in a changing climate evaluated during IPY (ORACLE-O3)
IPY reference:ID#99
Coordinator: P. von der Gathen, Saksa
Topic: Ozone layer, UV-radiation, albedo, and aerosols in the polar regions. ORACLE-O3 gets support from the Academy of Finland.
FMI contacts: Several researcher from the Arctic Research Centre and Departments of Earth Observation, Climate and Global Change and Air Quality.
International Arctic System for Observing the Atmosphere (IASOA)
IPY reference:EoI#138
Coordinator: J. Calder, USA
Topic: Monitoring the Arctic atmosphere
FMI contacts: Y. Viisanen, J. Paatero, T. Laurila, H. Lihavainen ja E. Kyrö (Air Quality, Artic Research Centre)
The Arctic Summer Cloud-Ocean Study (ASCOS)
IPY reference:EoI#212
Coordinators: C. Leck ja M. Tjernström, Sweden
Topic: Interdisciplinary environmental research of polar regions (including topics e.g. from marine biochemistry and cloud and aerosol physics)
FMI contacts: R. Hillamo, V.-M. Kerminen, J. Paatero, H. Lihavainen, H. Hakola, J. Pulliainen, T. Vihma, M. Sofiev ja E. Kyrö (Air Quality, Arctic Research Centre)
POLar study using Aircraft, Remote sensing, surface measurements and modelling of Climate, chemistry, Aerosols and Transport (POLARCAT)
IPY reference:ID#32
Coordinator: A. Stohl, Norway
Topic: Atmospheric chemistry and aerosol transportation in polar regions
FMI contacts: J. Paatero, R. Hillamo (Air Quality)
Developing Arctic Modelling and Observing Capabilities for Long-term Environmental Studies (DAMOCLES)
IPY reference:ID#40
Coordinator: J.-C. Gascard, France
Topic: Development of the observation and modelling methods of polar climate change. DAMOCLES has EU-funding.
FMI contacts: T. Vihma, P. Tisler (Meteorological Research)
DAMOCLES homepage
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