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Continuous real-time measurements of plant pollen in the background sub-Arctic atmosphere. The measurements are conducted with in-situ observations (using the Swissens Poleno Jupiter automatic pollen analyzer).

Sodankylä: The Finnish Meteorological Institute’s (FMI) Sodankylä facility (67°22’ N, 26°39’ E) hosts programs exploring upper air chemistry and dynamics, atmospheric column and profile measurements, snow/soil hydrology, biosphere-atmosphere interaction and satellite calibration-validation studies. The Sodankylä station contributes to Aeronet, NDACC, TCCON, GRUAN and other networks.  

At Sodankylä infrastructure is available for various atmospheric measurements. The services include:

- support for in situ balloon borne measurements of atmospheric composition. Examples are balloon-borne observations of atmospheric trace gases and aerosol properties. Regular radiosonde profiles are taken twice per 24 hours, at noon and at midnight. It is also possible to increase frequency of automated sonde launches for special observational periods.

- auxiliary ground-based observations are performed by various spectrometers dedicated to atmospheric composition measurements. 

The service consists of:

- Investigations of atmospheric processes in the gas- and particle phase

- Investigations of emissions from different combustion emission sources

 - Investigations of atmospheric aging od emissions from different combustion emission sources

- Investigations on toxicological properties of aged and fresh emissions

- Provision of data from experiments

- technical service to use own instruments

- training for planning, evaluation and interpretation of experiments 

- Testing and validating instruments

TIME CONSTRAINTS: None, although access has to be coordinated with other activities in laboratory